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Poster Abstract: Gender-Based Feature Analysis in Campus-Wide WLANs
May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Rapid WLAN deployment has led to various research challenges and scenarios. In this paper, the authors come up with a technique to classify users into social groups and then use this information...
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Mining Behavioral Groups Based on Usage Data in Large Wireless LANs
August 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wireless networks and personalized mobile devices are deeply integrated and embedded in the lives. Such wide adoptions of new technologies will impact user behavior and in turn will affect network...
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Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare: A Feasibility Study
March 19, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this feasibility study is to introduce wireless body area networks and also give an understanding of what possibilities and challenges there are when using short range wireless...
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RED Theory for QoS Provisioning in Wireless Communications
September 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the performance limit of a wireless communication system over a fading channel. The system under study consists of a finite-buffer discrete-time queueing system on...
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Improved Estimation of Transmission Distortion for Error-Resilient Video Coding
September 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an improved technique for estimating the end-to-end distortion, which includes both quantization error after encoding and random transmission error, after transmission in video...
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Rate-Distortion Optimized Cross-Layer Rate Control in Wireless Video Communication
July 10, 2011, 12:00am PDT
A wireless video communication system can be designed based on the Rate-Distortion (R-D) criterion, i.e., minimizing the end-to-end distortion (which includes quantization distortion and...
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An Efficient Data Structure for Network Anomaly Detection
December 14, 2007, 12:00am PST
Despite the rapid advance in networking technologies, detection of network anomalies at high-speed switches/routers is still far from maturity. To push the frontier, two major technologies need to...
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Hierarchical Queue-Length-Aware Power Control for Real-Time Applications Over Wireless Networks
November 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of optimal power control for quality-of-service-assured wireless communication. The Quality of Service (QoS) measures of their consideration are a triplet of data...
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Effective Capacity of a Correlated Rayleigh Fading Channel
November 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
The next generation wireless networks call for Quality of Service (QoS) support. The Effective Capacity (EC) proposed by the authors provides a powerful tool for the design of QoS provisioning...
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Image Representation by Compressive Sensing for Visual Sensor Networks
February 17, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper addresses the image representation problem in visual sensor networks. The authors propose a new image representation method for visual sensor networks based on Compressive Sensing (CS)....
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Queue Length Aware Power Control for Delay-Constrained Communication Over Fading Channels
March 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study efficient power control schemes for delay sensitive communication over fading channels. Their objective is to find a power control law that optimizes the link...
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On Optimal Power Control for Delay-Constrained Communication Over Fading Channels
October 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the problem of optimal power control for delay-constrained communication over fading channels. Their objective is to find a power control law that optimizes the...
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Experimental Study of Virtual Machine Migration in Support of Reservation of Cluster Resources
November 4, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Virtual Machines are becoming increasingly valuable to resource consolidation and management, providing efficient and secure resource containers, along with desired application execution...
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Towards Social-Aware Routing in Dynamic Communication Networks
September 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Many communication networks such as Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) involve in human interactions and exhibit properties of social networks. Hence, it is interesting to see how knowledge from...
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Effective Capacity of a Correlated Nakagami-M Fading Channel
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The grail of next-generation wireless networks is providing real-time services for delay-sensitive applications, which require that the wireless networks provide QoS guarantees. The Effective...
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A Resource Efficient Content Inspection System for Next Generation Smart NICs
August 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The aggregate power consumption of the Internet is increasing at an alarming rate, due in part to the rapid increase in the number of connected edge devices such as desktop PCs. Despite being left...
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Smart-NICs: Power Proxying for Reduced Power Consumption in Network Edge Devices
February 25, 2008, 12:00am PST
The number of edge devices connected to the Internet is increasing at a rapid rate. To maintain network connectivity, the majority of these devices remain completely powered on when idle, wasting...
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Performance Analysis With High-Level Languages for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing
March 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
High-Level Languages (HLLs) for FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) facilitate the use of reconfigurable computing resources for application developers by using familiar, higher-level syntax,...
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Similarity Analysis and Modeling in Mobile Societies: The Missing Link
June 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A new generation of "Behavior-aware" delay tolerant networks is emerging in what may define future mobile social networks. With the introduction of novel behavior-aware protocols, services and...
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Detecting Separation in Robotic and Sensor Networks
February 17, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors consider the problem of monitoring detecting separation of agents from a base station in robotic and sensor networks. Such separation can be caused by mobility and/or...
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Traffic-Aware Multiple Mix Zone Placement for Protecting Location Privacy
December 29, 2011, 12:00am PST
Privacy protection is of critical concern to Location-Based Service (LBS) users in mobile networks. Long-term pseudonyms, although appear to be anonymous, in fact empower third-party service...
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Trailing Mobile Sinks: A Proactive Data Reporting Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
March 9, 2011, 12:00am PST
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), data gathering using mobile sinks typically incurs constant propagation of sink location indication messages to guide the direction of data reporting. Such...
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On Approximation Algorithms for Interference-Aware Broadcast Scheduling in 2D and 3D Wireless Sensor Networks
April 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a set of nodes deployed to sense some phenomena, collect information and send it to the base station for further processing on multi-hop paths. The sensor nodes...
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Autonomic Resource Management for Virtualized Database Hosting Systems
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The hosting of databases on Virtual Machines (VMs) has great potential to improve the efficiency of resource utilization and the ease of deployment of database systems. This paper considers the...
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VPFS: Bandwidth Virtualization of Parallel Storage Systems
September 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents vPFS, a new parallel file system performance management approach to support the allocation of shared storage bandwidth on a per-application basis. Existing parallel file...
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Fuzzy Modeling Based Resource Management for Virtualized Database Systems
May 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The hosting of databases on Virtual Machines (VMs) has great potential to improve the efficiency of resource utilization and the ease of deployment of database systems. This paper considers the...
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Adaptive Virtual Resource Management With Fuzzy Model Predictive Control
April 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Virtualized systems such as utility datacenters and clouds are emerging as important new computing platforms with great potential to conveniently deliver computing across the Internet and...
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Towards Simulation of Parallel File System Scheduling Algorithms With PFSsim
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Many High-End Computing (HEC) centers and commercial data centers adopt parallel file systems (PFSs) as their storage solutions. As the number of applications concurrently accessing a PFS grows in...
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Complexity-theoretic Modeling of Biological Cyanide Poisoning as Security Attack in Self-organizing Networks
August 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors draw an analogy of biological cyanide poisoning to security attacks in self-organizing mobile ad hoc networks. When a circulatory system is treated as an enclosed network space, a...
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IncMR: Incremental Data Processing Based on MapReduce
May 5, 2012, 12:00am PDT
MapReduce programming model is widely used for large scale and one-time data-intensive distributed computing, but lacks flexibility and efficiency of processing small incremental data. IncMR...
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MagicLink: Weaving Multi-SiteWireless Sensor Networks for Large-Scale Experiments
May 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Despite the promising vision of pervasive sensor networks of thou-sands of nodes, conducting such large-scale experiments on demand is still far from reality due to the limitations of resources,...
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Optimal Resource Rental Planning for Elastic Applications in Cloud Market
July 5, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the optimization problem of minimizing resource rental cost for running elastic applications in cloud while meeting application service requirements. Such a problem arises when...
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Privacy-Preserving RFID Authentication Based on Cryptographical Encoding
January 13, 2012, 12:00am PST
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology has been adopted in many applications, such as inventory control, object tracking, theft prevention, and supply chain management....
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Origin-Destination Flow Measurement in High-Speed Networks
January 13, 2012, 12:00am PST
An Origin-Destination (OD) flow between two routers is the set of packets that pass both routers in a network. Measuring the sizes of OD flows is important to many network management applications...
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Leadership Styles And Leadership Change In Human And Community Service Organizations.
March 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper deals with leaders who must be able to adapt their style to the changing environment of the organization and understand the circumstances that are occurring in each phase of the...
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A Simulation Analysis of Shared TLBs With Tag Based Partitioning in Multicore Virtualized Environments
March 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
The current paradigm of computing in the server industry is undergoing rapid changes. Two of the most important changes are the emergence of multicore architectures with an increasing number of...
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Fault-Resilient Pervasive Service Composition
October 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The introduction of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provided a clean and expressive interface that allowed easy application composition and dynamic self-integration. However, pervasive...
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Cooperative Transmission in a Wireless Relay Network Based on Flow Management
November 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a cooperative transmission design for a general multi-node half-duplex wireless relay network is presented. It is assumed that the nodes operate in half-duplex mode and that channel...
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On the Design and Implementation of Structured P2P VPNs
January 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
Centralized Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) when used in distributed systems have performance constraints as all traffic must traverse through a central server. In recent years, there has been a...
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Virtual Private Overlays: Secure Group Communication in NAT-Constrained Environments
January 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
Structured P2P overlays provide a framework for building distributed applications that are self-configuring, scalable, and resilient to node failures. Such systems have been successfully adopted...
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iBLOB: Complex Object Management in Databases Through Intelligent Binary Large Objects
July 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
New emerging applications including genomic, multimedia, and geospatial technologies have necessitated the handling of complex application objects that are highly structured, large, and of...
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Mining Behavioral Groups in Large Wireless LANs
June 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
One vision of future wireless networks is that they will be deeply integrated and embedded in the lives and will involve the use of personalized mobile devices. User behavior in such networks is...
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ROW-FS: A User-Level Virtualized Redirect-on-Write Distributed File System for Wide Area Applications
August 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a virtualization approach to implement redirect-on-write capabilities that overlay a traditional distributed file system. The Redirect-On Write distributed File System (ROW-FS)...
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On the Use of Social Networking Groups for Automatic Configuration of Virtual Grid Environments
October 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Social networking sites have enhanced the Web by providing online "Communities" where users can easily create identities; establish relationships between identities, and share resources with one...
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Social VPNs: Integrating Overlay and Social Networks for Seamless P2P Networking
June 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring,...
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Middleware Integration and Deployment Strategies for Cyber Infrastructures
March 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Virtual Organizations require infrastructure that meets their scientific needs. Traditionally, a VO can require access to computational back-ends that are suited for interactive applications,...
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Archer: A Community Distributed Computing Infrastructure for Computer Architecture Research and Education
November 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces Archer, a community-based computing infrastructure supporting computer architecture research and education. The Archer system builds on virtualization techniques to provide a...
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Protection Against Mobile Tracing Through Motion-MIX for Mobile Wireless Nodes
September 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobile wireless networks, such as Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs), are vulnerable to passive attacks that threat the privacy of communications. Moreover, threats can now be launched from mobile...
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A Security Architecture Achieving Anonymity and Traceability in Wireless Mesh Networks
February 29, 2008, 12:00am PST
Anonymity has received increasing attention in the literature due to the users' awareness of their privacy nowadays. Anonymity provides protection for users to enjoy network services without being...
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Virtualization-Based Bandwidth Management for Parallel Storage Systems
November 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a new parallel storage management approach which supports the allocation of shared storage bandwidth on a per-application basis. Existing parallel storage systems are unable to...
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Comparing Mobility and Predictability of VoIP and WLAN Traces
September 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Realistic modeling of user mobility is one of the most critical research areas in wireless networks. Mobility data based on real human behaviors may give them the opportunity to improve wireless...
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Gender-Based Feature Analysis in Campus-Wide WLANs
June 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
WLAN deployment across university campuses has risen rapidly in recent years. There has been a marked increase in mobile users and traffic as a result. Analyzing usage of WLAN is currently a major...
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Profile-Cast: Behavior-Aware Mobile Networking
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper advocates a service paradigm, profile-cast, within the communication framework of Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN). This novel approach leverages the behavioral patterns of mobile network...
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Human Behavior and Challenges of Anonymizing WLAN Traces
October 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the wide spread deployment of Wireless LANs (WLANs), it is becoming necessary to conduct analysis of libraries of measurements taken from such operational networks. The availability of these...
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CSI: A Paradigm for Behavior-Oriented Profile-Cast Services in Mobile Networks
November 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes profile-cast, a novel behavior-oriented service representing a new paradigm of communication in mobile networks. The study is motivated by the tight user-network coupling in...
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How Do Large Banking Organizations Manage Their Capital Ratios?
February 27, 2008, 12:00am PST
Large banking organizations in the U.S. hold significantly more equity capital than the minimum required by bank regulators. This capital cushion has built up during a period of unusual...
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Conducting A Customer Satisfaction Survey
August 20, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A survey of customers' satisfaction can help county agents find ways to improve program quality and information delivery and, more importantly, can help in the ongoing process of program...
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SIP-Based IMS Registration Analysis ForWiMax-3G Interworking Architectures
January 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and 3GPP2 have standardized the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to provide ubiquitous and access network independent IP-based services for next...
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Analyzing Telecommunications Market Competition: A Comparison Of Cases
November 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper examines three case studies regarding the assessment of market competition in telecommunications: the finding by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that AT&T was non-dominant in...
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The Marginal Effects Of The Price For Carbon Dioxide: Quantifying The Effects On The Market For Electric Generation In Florida
November 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
Greater emphasis on public policy aimed at internalizing the societal cost of carbon dioxide emissions leads to more questions about the economic impacts of that policy. The United States...
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The Regulator's Challenge: Providing Stability While Leading Change
October 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It is a paradox of our time that utility regulators are confronted with two seemingly conflicting challenges. On the one hand, regulators have their traditional and central responsibility of...
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Macs: A Minimal Adaptive Routing Circuit-Switched Architecture for Scalable and Parametric NoCs
June 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Networks-on-Chips (NoCs) are an emerging communication topology paradigm in single chip VLSI design, enhancing parallelism and system scalability. Processing Units (PUs) connect to the...
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PEMOCO: An Infrastructure for Personal Mobile Commerce Using Java Enabled Smart Phones
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper explains the architecture of PEMOCO which is a middleware infrastructure developed on Java enabled smart phones for the emerging field of Mobile Commerce. Authors developed a micro HTTP...
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Twombly and the Evolution of Telecom Regulation
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The plaintiffs in Twombly v. Bell Atlantic alleged that the nation's largest incumbent telephone service providers violated ยง 1 of the Sherman Act by conspiring to hinder competition in their...
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The Self Renewing Organization
October 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides the introduction for the study of nonprofit organizations, their management and governance in the present and the future. The author discusses the concept of excellence in...
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WiMAX-RBDS-Sim: An OPNET Simulation Framework for IEEE 802.16 Mesh Networks
January 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
The problem of data scheduling in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) has received special attention during the last few years due to its effects on key performance characteristics of WMNs. This paper...
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Assessment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Firm Using a Difference-in-Difference Estimator
September 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 which is also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act promulgates the importance of effective internal control systems after...
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The Deployment of Third-Generation Mobile Services: A Multinational Analysis of Contributing Factors
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Successful diffusion of 3G mobile is necessary for the provision of many advanced applications via the mobile platform such as mobile broadband Internet and video. The current deployment of 3G...
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Leadership Styles And Leadership Change In Human And Community Service Organizations.
March 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper deals with leaders who must be able to adapt their style to the changing environment of the organization and understand the circumstances that are occurring in each phase of the...
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Performance Analysis With High-Level Languages for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing
March 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
High-Level Languages (HLLs) for FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) facilitate the use of reconfigurable computing resources for application developers by using familiar, higher-level syntax,...
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