Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Coastal Studies, East Carolina University
My research investigates coastal ecosystems in small island developing states, including the Maldives, with a focus on mangroves. I am particularly interested in examining the impacts of climate change on their health and carbon storage dynamics. By employing a multidisciplinary approach that combines remote sensing and sediment geochemistry, I aim to develop a deeper understanding of these critical ecosystems and how they may respond to climatic changes in the coming decades.
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Research Fellow, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes, School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham
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Senior lecturer in History and History of Art, University of Bristol
I work within and between the disciplines of History and History of Art, specialising in visual and material culture. My research interests lie in medieval perceptions of place, with particular reference to Italy and its relationships with the wider Mediterranean region and transalpine Europe.
My previous research primarily focused on sacred space, especially the creation, use, and decoration of holy ground. My book Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press / Combined Academic Publishers) examines themes such as the phenomenon of holy footprints, the liturgical shaping of consecrated space, and the design and function of ecclesiastical floor decoration. I have a related interest in medieval cartography and co-edited with Dr Hanna Vorholt (University of York) a volume of essays on maps of Jerusalem: Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West. I have also published on the representation of subterranean environments in religious art from regions specialising in mining and have been involved in collaborative research on cultural responses to seismic activity.
My current research explores the materiality and portability of place as this was exemplified by the symbolic movement of soil. The main project explores spiritual, political, and environmental connotations of moving earth to and from the city of Rome during the Middle Ages and early modern period. I am also interested in understandings of soil and the environment within the medieval Islamic world and in modern uses of earth in contexts of commemoration and migration.
I am a member of the University of Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies, the Centre for Environmental Humanities, and Migration Mobilities Bristol.
My research interests inform my teaching for the History and History of Art departments. I contribute to a number of team-taught units including Episodes in Global Visual Culture, The Medieval World, Crusading Cultures, and Wild Things. I teach History of Art units on Artistic Exchange in the Mediterranean and Vision, and a History unit on Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages. I also co-teach an interdisciplinary unit on The Italian City with colleagues from History of Art and the Department of Italian.
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Research Associate in Compassion, University of the Witwatersrand
I am a retreat facilitator, mindfulness mentor and researcher-practitioner, with a PhD in mindfulness and teacher education. I lead courses in mindfulness and compassion and run retreats throughout southern Africa. As a research associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, with Drama for Life, I supervise postgraduate students. My current focus on compassionate activism for a life-sustaining society aims to offer changemakers the skills they need to alleviate burnout, increase resilience, and cultivate wise, compassionate action. I have taken refuge in the Karma Kagyu School of Buddhism and the Engaged Buddhism tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. By attending regular retreats to deepen my own meditation practice, I am learning how ancient wisdom traditions can offer support as we address the many crises of modern life.
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NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, The University of Western Australia
Dr Furfaro is a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow within the Medical School, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. As a microbiologist, she is interested in microbes in the context of pregnancy and early life. Her research explores targeted antibiotic alternatives such as bacteriophage therapy to treat leading neonatal pathogens such as Group B Streptococcus. Lucy has a strong discovery to translation focus to her research and is an active science communicator.
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader BA in Interior Design, Manchester Metropolitan University
Lucy Gannon is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader BA (Hons) Interior Design at Manchester School of Art, where she predominately teaches final year students in realizing their ambitions. The course is concerned with the occupation of space, how it is used and importantly, how it is experienced. The course promotes the understanding and subsequent remodelling of existing spaces, in order to create meaningful interventions.
Lucy shares her time between academia and the creative practice Broadbent Studio, where she forms part of a small design team. Broadbent Studio has a strong design philosophy with a varied and rewarding portfolio. Lucy has significantly contributed to a number of projects surrounding placemaking and storytelling such as Seeds of Hope, Daresbury Linear Park: Light Gardens, Bradford Pit Memorial, Propellors of the City, and most recently Pilgrim Porch in Chester Cathedral.
Lucy’s practice by nature is cross-disciplinary, and she takes on a range a roles from facilitator, listener, mentor and researcher to designer, visualiser, communicator and maker. She is a member of the Manchester School of Art, Design Research Hub, and sits under the theme of Community, Culture and Heritage.
Re-occuring themes through her research and outcomes surround memory in the everyday and the physical act of remembrance. Lucy is interested in the notion of memory, the materiality of memory and the link to environments and identity. She is concerned with how our living identity is informed and how it defines or affects future living. Through analysing the act of movement and dwelling, she intends to create environments that encourage an investment of time and a sense of enquiry or promote activity. She recently spoke at a AMPS conference with Stephen Broadbent on the paper 'Encapsualting memorry to forge future identities.'
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Professor and Head, Health Policy and Systems Division, School of Public Health, University of Cape Town
Dr Lucy Gilson is Professor and Head, Health Policy and Systems Division, School of Public Health, University of Cape Town. Her research addresses the political, social and ethical dimensions of health policies and health systems, with a particular focus on decision-making, leadership and governance. Her work of conceptualizing and investigating health system resilience began before COVID, but has continued over time. She also supports a range of capacity strengthening and system support activities.
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PhD Candidate, Literature and Languages, University of Stirling
I have an MA in Modern History (University of Glasgow, 1995) and an MSc in Information Management and Preservation (University of Glasgow, 2021)
For my PhD research I am investigating and contextualising the cultural and social history of swimming as a popular leisure pursuit in Glasgow for 100 years from 1850 to 1950,
I'm using archive, literary and historical sources to uncover the intangible history of swimming culture, as well as investigating the surviving built heritage of sites of swimming
The work is exploring the experiences of diverse men, women and children who swam in the River Clyde, private baths and clubs and public swimming pools.
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Associate Professor in Education, University of Bristol
Dr Lucy Kelly is an Associate Professor in Education at the University of Bristol, primarily working with PGCE English trainee teachers. She advocates that trainee teachers see themselves as their own biggest resource in the classroom, and that they prioritise their wellbeing from the outset. Her main research interest is reflective practice as a positive tool for educator wellbeing, and she is Principal Investigator for the 'Reimagining the Diary' project, which uses a multimodal Diary Toolkit and ongoing wellbeing CPD to support educators across the country. The team have now launched a student Diary Toolkit, which is currently being tested by 250 Year 12 pupils. Lucy has written numerous articles on educator wellbeing and reflective practice, and presented her work on podcasts, at conferences and on the radio. 'Reimagining the Diary: reflective practice as a positive tool for educator wellbeing' is Lucy's first book.
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Dr Lucy Lu spent 20 years in the NSW Department of Education leading multidisciplinary teams responsible for large-scale data collections, reporting, data policy and standards, and statistical and psychometric analysis to enhance decision-making. Lucy has also led multiple research projects in areas of practice, measurement and funding modelling, including expanding the evidence base to support the NSW Department’s resource allocation model and School Excellence Framework.
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Lecturer in Politics and Communication , RMIT University
I am interested in communication, journalism, news and politics (in the broadest sense). My PhD thesis addressed the development of online news in Australia and the changing professional journalistic roles and standards that were negotiated through that transition.
For a brief period before returning to university to get my PhD, I worked with Misha Ketchell at Crikey, and maintain a keen interest in local news. I also spent 5 years (2015-2020) living in the US, and so have expanded my knowledge and research interests to include the American political and media landscapes.
At RMIT, I teach courses about politics and economies to communication students. I'm currently working on a number of papers: about factchecking and its place in HASS teaching; on Stephen Colbert's shift from late night entertainer to political watchdog; and on the view from Australia of the mediatization of the US election.
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Associate professor Sexualities and Genders / Sociology, Western Sydney University
I am a researcher and university lecturer in gender, sexuality, sociology and politics. I work at Western Sydney University in the School of Social Sciences, and am director of Sexualities and Genders Research.
I did my MPhil at Griffith University, QLD, Australia, and my PhD at University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, before working at Portsmouth University, UK, Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia, and finally to WSU in 2019.
My research is interested in diversity broadly, focusing on genders and sexualities, social theory, feminisms, and whiteness. I am committed to research that improves the lives of those who are othered and subordinated.
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PhD student, University of East Anglia
I am currently a PhD student at University of East Anglia, in the school of Global Developement. My research and work cuts across various issues in development including, climate change, gender and social inclusio, education and food systems sustainability.
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Professor of Modern History, University of Essex
I am a historian of modern Britain, who works on the experience and memory of the two World Wars. My research has included studies of the ways that both wars are remembered in Britain (and what gets forgotten) such as 'War and the British' (1998 and 2023) and studies of the experience of war (Dying for the Nation, 2020). My interest in the social and cultural history of war was shaped by my grandparent's stories of life in wartime London and Coventry and I enjoy finding untold stories and working with students and colleagues to explore the uses that the memory of war is out to in modern Britain.
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Head of Public Policy & Partnerships, UCL European Institute, UCL
As Head of Public Policy and Partnerships, Lucy works to develop and manage activities which ensure UCL research on Europe has a tangible impact in informing public policy-making in the UK and internationally.
This includes building relationships between UCL academics and public policy stakeholders in the UK and across Europe; identifying and delivering key strategic partnerships and projects; and contributing to the university’s strategic positioning in Europe.
Lucy has a professional background in higher education policy and public affairs. She led European engagement at Universities UK, working to represent UK universities in Brussels and across Europe, including throughout the EU referendum period and its aftermath. She has also held positions as Director of London Engagement at King’s College London, and as Executive Officer to the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, Baroness Minouche Shafik.
Lucy has co-authored research into the impact of Covid on the digital divide in universities. She has also produced corporate strategy documents and written articles for senior leaders in the FT, the Guardian, the Economist, Le Figaro and the Times Higher.
She holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature from the University of Bristol and a Masters in European Politics, Policy and Society from the University of Bath, Sciences Po and Charles University in Prague.
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Lecturer Sport and Event Management, Bournemouth University
Dr Lucy Sheppard-Marks is a Lecturer in Sport and Event Management, and the Programme Leader for BA Event Management. Lucy currently teaches across the sports and event management programmes and specialises in leadership, organisational behaviour and professional development. Lucy previously served as an officer within the Royal Air Force and during her 12 years service specialised in counter intelligence, crime analysis and more latterly training and development. Her research focuses on sport and criminality, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of those athletes who commit crimes.
Dr Sheppard-Marks’ research interests and thought leadership focus on sport criminality. By exploring the experiences of athletes who commit crimes, she believes it is possible to not only improve the treatment of athletes following transgressions, but also to use these insights to educate athletes and players associations to reduce future criminality. Her thesis, and 2020 publication, considered the experiences of elite male athletes who committed criminal offences either during or at the end of their sporting careers. Current research activity continues to develop a number of themes that emerged from her PhD, while also exploring the issue of spot fixing across all sports.
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Chancellor's Fellow in History of Art, The University of Edinburgh
I specialise in performance, from dance and experimental theatre to live art.
After completing my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Glasgow, I taught at Glasgow School of Art for several years. I am currently Chancellor's Fellow in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. I was named an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker in 2020.
I am the author of Pina Bausch’s Dance Theatre (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and co-editor of Performance in a Pandemic (Routledge, 2021). I am completing a book for Routledge that explores the relationship between masculinity and self-injury in performance art. 'What Moves Them,' my global history of modern dance, will be published by Allen Lane in 2025.
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Senior Lecturer in Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, University of Portsmouth
I study animal behaviour, and am particularly interested in understanding the social skills and intelligence of large mammals. Most of my research is about African savannah elephants and, with my international collaborators, I’m investigating how best to conserve and manage elephant populations. I try to use my knowledge of elephant behaviour to encourage sustainable, fair and effective conservation practices.
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PhD Researcher, University of Amsterdam
Lucy Wanjiku Mung’ala is a queer feminist with over 20 years of work experience combining programme design, research and management in international development. Her work focuses on community organising around gender justice, sexual and reproductive rights, and LGBTIQ+ activism. As of 2023, she is in the final year of her PhD in medical anthropology at the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral thesis explores the political and practical configurations of sexual and gender minorities through their everyday encounters with the global development apparatus in 21st-century Kenya. A summary of her research project can be accessed here: https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/ASC-community/members/lucy-wanjiku-mungala
Lucy also works for Hivos as the Strategy and Impact Lead for Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. She holds graduate degrees in Gender and Development Studies from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a Master of Public Health in International Health Development from the Royal Tropical Institute and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Associate Dean, Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship, EDHEC Business School
Docteur en histoire, titulaire d'une Habilitation à diriger des recherches en sciences de gestion, Professeur agrégé des universités en sciences de gestion j'ai enseigné au Royaume-Uni, en France et au Japon. J'ai été chercheur invité à Harvard Business School et à la Copenhagen Business School.
A l'EDHEC j'enseigne la stratégie et l'histoire. Depuis 2022 je suis Doyen Associé du Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship (https://www.edhec.edu/fr/a-propos/entreprendre-a-l-edhec/edhec-centre-for-responsible-entrepreneurship)
Je m'intéresse aux micro-pratiques des stratèges, aux rapports entre la stratégie des firmes et leur histoire, et à l'usage qu'elle font du passé.
J'ai présidé la European Business History Association (EBHA) et siégé au conseil d'administration de l'Association française d'histoire du management et des organisations (AHMO)
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Postdoctorant en biogéochimie marine, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)
Je suis spécialisé en écologie et biogéochimie benthique. Plus précisément, je m'intéresse à l'influence du comportement des organismes vivant dans le sédiment sur les cycles biogéochimiques du carbone et de l'azote.
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I am an environmental and health economist researching policy-relevant issues. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, a theme leader at the CAGE Research Center, and an invited researcher at JPAL.
Conserving resources and reducing pollution are among the most pressing challenges facing society. Designing programs to achieve these goals requires an understanding of 1) pollution damages and 2) individuals' and firms' compliance behavior. I investigate these issues using large administrative datasets and experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
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External Lecturer of Economics, University of Copenhagen
My research and teaching relates to taxation, development and inequality. I hold a PhD in economics from the University of Copenhagen. Currently I work as Head of Secretariat at the Danish Ministry of Finance (writing for the Conversation in my own capacity). Prior to that I was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at UC Berkeley. I have also worked as a consultant to the Boston Consulting Group and IMF. Finally, I am the founder of Economists Without Borders.
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Lecturer in EU law, University College Cork
Luigi Lonardo is the Acting Director of the Centre for European Integration at University College Cork, and adjunct faculty at Sciences Po Paris. He is the author of books on the foreign policy of the EU, including Russia’s 2022 war against Ukraine and the Foreign Policy Reaction of the EU (Palgrave 2023); EU Common Foreign and Security Policy after Lisbon: Between Law and Geopolitics (Springer 2022). His areas of expertise relate to EU constitutional law.
Previously, Luigi was a lecturer at King's College London, where he obtained his PhD in 2020.
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Professor of Sociology, York University, Canada
Luin Goldring is a Professor of Sociology at York University. Her research interests include non-citizenship, citizenship and belonging; social inequality; immigrants and precarious work; and critical and transnational migration studies. Goldring's current research examines the multi-level production and negotiations of precarious legal status, and the long-term implications of precarious legal status for social inequality. She is involved in collaborative research on the relationship between precarious immigration trajectories and precarious work, and the experiences of illegalized migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recent co-authored articles include “From illegalised migrant toward permanent resident: assembling precarious legal status trajectories and differential inclusion in Canada” (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies) and “Decentering methodological nationalism to survey precarious legal status trajectories” (International Journal of Social Research Methodology). She is the co-editor, with Patricia Landolt, of Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizen Precarious Legal Status in Canada (University of Toronto Press).
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Catedrático de Derecho Administrativo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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Researcher in Data Science and Immersive Technologies, Stockholm University
Luis Quintero is a researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden. His current scientific interest lies at the intersection of human-centered AI and immersive technologies. He holds a PhD degree in Computer and Systems Sciences, with a thesis exploring how future digital services may offer personalization based on virtual reality (VR) technologies and body data from wearables.
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Docente e Investigador en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte, Universidad San Jorge
Licenciado en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte por la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla. Máster oficial en Rendimiento Físico y Deportivo (Universidad Pablo de Olavide). Doctor en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte por la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla.
Docente e Investigador en la Universidad San Jorge de Zaragoza. Director del Grado en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte de la Universidad San Jorge.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Brain & Mental Health Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Luis M. García-Marín is a doctoral candidate at The University of Queensland and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia. He holds a B.Sc. in Biotechnology Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Guadalajara, Mexico. His research focuses on identifying genetic biomarkers for complex neurological and psychiatric disorders. He has been recognized for his work with the Lindon Eaves Award from the Institute of Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the Enrico Greppi Award from the Italian Society for the Study of Headaches.
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Chancellor's Fellow Sociology and History of Biomedicine, The University of Edinburgh
I am a Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the History and Sociology of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh. I lead the Epidemy Lab (http://epidemy.org), which is concerned with the history and present of epidemiological reasoning in the twentieth century. The lab's research activities are funded by an ERC Starting Grant since 2020 and by the British Academy since 2022. My first book, Mapping AIDS, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2018 and considers the visual and medical history of AIDS/HIV. I also published a co-authored monograph with Christos Lynteris, Sulphuric Utopias, with MIT Press 2020, which tells the technological history of fumigation and the political history of maritime sanitation at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Head of Policy and Engagement, Climateworks Centre
Luke Brown is Head of Policy and Engagement at Climateworks, overseeing teams in Australia, Indonesia and South East Asia. Prior to joining Climateworks, Luke spent 15 years in Government, including 12 years at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), completing diplomatic assignments in Indonesia, Samoa, and Fiji. Most recently, Luke ran the Public Affairs team at Australia’s largest embassy in Jakarta. Luke also worked in economic research at the Reserve Bank and in renewables investment generation at the Australian Trade Commission in San Francisco.
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Lecturer in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds
Luke Brunning is Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds where he co-established the Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships. He previously worked at the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford. He works on topics in the philosophy of love, sex, and relationships, the emotions, and ethics and applied ethics. His previous books include the trade book Does Monogamy Work? (Thames & Hudson) and the book Romantic Agency (Polity). He has written widely on intimacy with articles on nonmonogamy, asexuality, jealousy and compersion, envy and loving admiration, as well as several articles exploring the ways we stop blaming each other. His other writings have featured in the Times Literary Supplement, the Times Higher Education, The Independent, Aeon, and a range of independent publications.
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Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiologist, The University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Luke Burchill is a proud Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung man, adult congenital heart disease specialist and lead of the Cardiovascular Health Equity Group at University of Melbourne.
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PhD Student. Neurologist, Lund University
Luke Harper is a Neuroscience PhD student at Lund University, Sweden. His research focus is on the identification of brain reserve factors in frontotemporal dementia. He also works as a Consultant Neurologist at Malmö University Hospital, Sweden with a interest in Multiple sclerosis and associated diseases.
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Associate Professor and Academic Director Executive Education, Griffith University
Luke is actively engaged in research in management problem solving with over 80 publications in this field. His research follows three key streams. The first stream looks at how framing and sensemaking influence problem-solving in messy management environments. The second stream is the feral information systems project which looks at the social, technical, and organisation impacts of workarounds. The third stream involves a study of communities of practice and technology use as well as the practices of blended learning in higher education contexts. His main passion is thinking about how cognitive models (thinking patterns) affect the way we solve problems and make decisions.
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