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A Social Media Analytics Perspective on Australian Elections
by Gohar F. Khan 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

I thought some of you may like reading this short analytical piece on Turnbull and Shorten <https://gfkhan.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/a-social-media-analytics-perspectiv…>'s social media presence. The preliminary results seems interesting and can potentially be replicated in a large scale study? And could such analysis be used to predict election results? No doubt such questions may have been answered, but I am just trying to explore some fresh ideas. Cheers! -- Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea. Email: gohar.feroz(a)kmu.ac.kr; Ph: 82-53-580-6371 ---------- Check out my new book on social media analytics <http://7layersanalytics.com/>! ----------- Please consider submitting your work to the social media analytics track at PACIS201 <http://www.pacis2016.org/Page/Index/71>6. ----------- Social Identities: || Blog <http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter <https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre <http://centreforsocialtech.com/>||

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WG: A Social Media Analytics Perspective on Australian Elections
by Borkert, Maren 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Dear AoIR, Gohar F Khan just send a short analytical piece on the Australian Elections by comparing the Twitter profiles of two candidates with regard to - interactivity (measured by re-tweets, relies, user mentions) - influence and (measured by tweets favorited, re-tweets, user mentions) - popularity (measured by followers, following ratio, listed). **Is there an academic reference that someone can recommend regarding how to define/categorize and measure Twitter activities within an ego-centric network analysis??** >From a methodological point of view I find Khan's suggestion both interesting and difficult as he uses the same item to measure different characteristics. Hope someone can help with this! With best wishes, Maren ______________________ <http://www.entrepreneurship.tu-berlin.de/> Dr. Maren Borkert Technical University Berlin ________________________________________ Von: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> im Auftrag von Gohar F. Khan <gohar.feroz(a)gmail.com> Gesendet: Montag, 20. Juni 2016 16:19 An: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Betreff: [Air-L] A Social Media Analytics Perspective on Australian Elections I thought some of you may like reading this short analytical piece on Turnbull and Shorten <https://gfkhan.wordpress.com/2016/06/20/a-social-media-analytics-perspectiv…>'s social media presence. The preliminary results seems interesting and can potentially be replicated in a large scale study? And could such analysis be used to predict election results? No doubt such questions may have been answered, but I am just trying to explore some fresh ideas. Cheers! -- Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea. Email: gohar.feroz(a)kmu.ac.kr; Ph: 82-53-580-6371 ---------- Check out my new book on social media analytics <http://7layersanalytics.com/>! ----------- Please consider submitting your work to the social media analytics track at PACIS201 <http://www.pacis2016.org/Page/Index/71>6. ----------- Social Identities: || Blog <http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter <https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre <http://centreforsocialtech.com/>|| _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -- Gohar Feroz Khan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Business Administration Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea. Email: gohar.feroz(a)kmu.ac.kr<mailto:gohar.feroz@kmu.ac.kr>; Ph: 82-53-580-6371 ---------- Check out my new book on social media analytics<http://7layersanalytics.com/>! ----------- Please consider submitting your work to the social media analytics track at PACIS201<http://www.pacis2016.org/Page/Index/71>6. ----------- Social Identities: || Blog<http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter<https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre<http://centreforsocialtech.com/>||

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CfP: Ting – Making publics through provocation, conflict and appropriation (PDC2016 Workshop)
by Karin Hansson 20 Jun '16

20 Jun '16

Extended deadline July 1st Ting: Making publics through provocation, conflict and appropriation A workshop at The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) in Aarhus 2016, August 15. http://www.performingthecommon.se/ting/ <http://www.performingthecommon.se/ting/> Because of the importance of the role and embodiment of the designer/artist in making publics, this workshop calls attention to self-reflective practices in participatory design, and questions how these self-reflective practices can be embedded in the functionality of new publics and design practices. More specifically, the workshop aims to explore the following questions: How do the designer/artist create and maintain publics? How do we accommodate differences in these agonistic spaces? What is the role of the designer/artist in these contexts? How can we understand the tension between artistic control in speculative design and empowerment in participatory design? We invite researchers, designers, activists, artists, who in their work are exploring utopian, speculative, and critical design projects as well as designing for and with social movements, alternative societies and relational economies. The specific themes and topics we are interested to revisit and discuss in this workshop are: • Agonistic public spaces versus consensual decision-making • Role of the author/designer/creator/artist in speculative and critical design in relation to participatory design • Exclusion and inclusion in the design practice • Norms in speculative participatory design practices • Institutional conditions for the development and growth of speculative and critical design within a participatory design practice Workshop Participation and Key Dates Participants will be selected to participate in the workshop based on their submitted position-papers. The submission should be between 1,000 to 2,000 words long, and include an image or illustration of a design work or design process. Submission should follow the ACM ICPS format (http://pdc2016.org/formatting-guidelines/ <http://pdc2016.org/formatting-guidelines/>). • Position paper deadline: July 1, 2016 • Author Notification: July 13, 2016 Extended papers will be considered for a special issue in Design Issues. Organizers Karin Hansson, Stockholm University Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Queensland University of Technology Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Digital Media Program Tessy Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University Silvia Lindtner, School of Information, University of Michigan Shaowen Bardzell, Indiana University Somya Joshi, Stockholm University For submissions and further information contact: ting(a)performingthecommon.se <mailto:ting@performingthecommon.se>

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irb approach to data like panama papers / wikileaks / etc?
by kalev leetaru 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

Hi, for a study I'm doing I was wondering if people on this list might could contact me offline at (kalev.leetaru5(a)gmail.com) with any pointers or personal experiences of how their IRBs are addressing the issue of academic research using data from data breaches. Ie, the Panama Papers, Wikileaks, the Sony emails, Ashley Madison data, and any of the myriad other datasets now floating around. Researchers from several major US institutions I've spoken with thus far have shared IRB approval forms with me that show their particular IRBs accepting the argument that any data, no matter how sensitive, which can be downloaded openly from the web, is accepted as "public domain" and falls under an IRB exemption of existing public data. In particular, the IRB approvals I've seen accepted that any personally identifying information in the datasets, no matter how sensitive, is exempted due to its being public access now. I'm thus extremely curious whether this is a general trend and how other IRBs are treating the use of hacked datasets which are widely accessible online. In an era in which academic researchers can easily access with a few mouseclicks breached medical records to password archives to sexual preferences to financial statements to just about any kind of dataset you can imagine, there are all kinds of questions around whether those datasets should be available for academic research and I'm curious how IRBs are leaning right now. I realize there are a myriad professional ethics guidelines out there put forward by the various professional societies, but from browsing recent journal issues from a cross-section of fields including the social, information, and computer sciences, I've turned up countless papers using breached datasets, and those papers in fields that traditionally use IRBs have all claimed full IRB approval, while I've found in the computer sciences that few of the researchers I've spoken with thus far have either heard of the IRB or believe that their research is subject to IRB. Thus, my main interest is really at the institutional level - how are IRBs and universities handling the issue of their scholars using data from breaches like Wikileaks, Panama Papers, Sony emails, breaches from government agencies, etc? I'm also interested for those of you who are journal editors or who have gone through that process, how do you handle the issue of whether to publish a paper using something like Wikileaks data and, *in particular* how do you handle the issue of hosting portions of the breached data in the replication archive of your journal's website? I know this can be a deeply impassioned area of discourse and for my particular study I'm *solely* focused on how institutions, especially IRBs and also journals, are currently handling the issue of breached data like Wikileaks/Panama Papers/etc in academic publications. Thanks so much in advance! Kalev

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CfPs: Health RecSys Workshop @ ACM RECSYS'16 (Deadline: June, 24th, 2016)
by Christoph Trattner 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Engendering Health with RecSys (HealthRecSys 2016) to be held in Boston, USA co-located with ACM RECSYS 2016 (https://recsys.acm.org/) Website: http://healthrecsys.ur.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: ================ ** June, 24th, 2016 Paper submission deadline ** July, 15th, 2016 Notification to authors ** July, 29th, 2016, Camera-Ready Version ** September, 15th-19th, 2016 Recsys conference Workshop Organizers: ==================== David Elsweiler (University of Regensburg, Germany) Bernd Ludwig (University of Regensburg, Germany) Alan Said (Recorded Future, Sweden) Hanna Schaefer (TU-Muenchen, Germany) Christoph Trattner (Know-Center, Austria) Program Committee: ==================== Francesco Ricci - University of Bolzano Morgan Harvey - Northumbria University Ge Mouzhi - University of Bolzano Georg Groh - TU Munich Jill Freyne - CSIRO Marko Tkalcic - University of Bolzano Shlomo Berkovsky - CSIRO Neal Lathia - University of Cambridge Cathal Gurrin - Dublin City University Mark Dunlop - University of Strathclyde Andreas Komninos - University of Strathclyde Aiden Doherty - University of Oxford Christoph Palm - OTH Regensburg Eelco Herder - L3S Robert West - Stanford Munmun De Choudhury - Georgia Tech Ingmar Weber - Qatar Computing Research Institute Kjetil Norvag - NTNU Objectives & Topics: ==================== Busy lifestyles, abundant options, lack of knowledge ... there are many reasons why people make poor decisions relating to their health. Yet these poor decisions are leading to epidemics, which represent some of the greatest challenges we face as a society today. Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs), which include cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, account for approx. 60% of total premature deaths worldwide. These diseases share the same four behavioural risk factors: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful consumption of alcohol and can be prevented and sometimes even reversed with simple lifestyle changes. Eating more healthily, exercising more appropriately, sleeping and relaxing more, as well as simply being more aware of one's state of health are all things that would lead to improved health. Yet knowing exactly what to change and how, implementing changes and maintaining changes over long time periods are all things people find challenging. These are also problems, for which we believe recommender systems can provide assistance by offering specific, tailored suggestions for behavioural change. In recent years recommender systems for health has become a popular topic within the RecSys community and a selection of empirical contributions and demo systems have been published. Efforts to date, however have been sporadic and lack coordination. We lack shared infrastructure such as datasets, appropriate cross-disciplinary knowledge, even agreed upon goals. It is our aim to use this workshop as a vehicle to: ** Establish the problem as a prominent RecSys topic ** Create a community of researchers who will determine a concrete research agenda for health in RecSys ** Attract scientists from other domains to RecSys: health (e.g. sports, nutrition, medicine), psychology, signal processing, wearables, HCI, etc. ** Create new ideas for collaboration, particularly cross-domain collaborations ** Establish shared infrastructure (datasets and tools) We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are not limited to: ** Motivation - increasing motivation, understanding motivation, utilising psychological models, gamification ** Algorithms for Health Recommendations ** Interfaces - Explanations/Presentation, Feedback, Usability ** Persuasive Design ** Sensors - e.g. activity tracking, context detection, quantified self, motivation by self assessment ** Mobile devices ** Gamification - e.g. Making exercise or diet fun ** Social Motivation - Inclusion of Social Context, Coactivity and Group Recommenders ** Knowledge representation - Transfer of domain knowledge to digital systems ** Ethics - Gap between recommendations and medical advice ** Ease of use - embedding systems into everyday life Learning about health ** User modelling, behavioural analytics and behavioural change Submissions: ============ We solicit short research papers (up to 4 pages) & short postion papers (up to 2 pages), both in the ACM conference paper style. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healthrecsys2016 Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; All papers will be peer-reviewed, must not be under review in any other conference, workshop or journal (at the time of submission), and must contain novel contributions. Accepted papers will be published according to the ACM RECSYS 2016 WS publication rules. Location: ========= The workshop will take place at the IBM Research campuses in Boston, MA, USA and will be held in conjunction with the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Further information of this location can be found on the ACM RecSys website: https://recsys.acm.org/. Contact: ======== David Elsweiler - david.elsweiler(a)ur.de Bernd Ludwig - bernd.ludwg(a)ur.de Alan Said - alan(a)alans.se Hanna Schaefer - hanna.schaefer(a)tum.de Christoph Trattner - trattner.christoph(a)gmail.com -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Know-Center Research Center for Big Data Analytics & Data Driven Business Graz University of Technology, Austria E-mail: ctrattner(a)know-center.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info ------------------------------------------------------- New book: Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media* by M. Atzmueller, A. Chin, C. Scholz, C. Trattner (eds.) http://link.springer.com/978-3-319-14723-9 -------------------------------------------------------

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Culture and politics of data visualisation: a one-day conference, 11th October 2016, University of Sheffield
by Helen 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

*Culture and politics of data visualisation: a one-day conference, 11th October 2016, University of Sheffield* * *As data become more and more abundant, the main way that most people get access to them is through their visualisation. To date, much academic research about data visualisation has focused on individualistic and micro-level factors like memorability and speed of comprehension and has not attended to the social, cultural, political work that visualisations do, the contexts in which they circulate, and the mutually constitutive relationships between visualisations and their contexts. More recently, critical perspectives have begun to emerge, which point to the ways in which visualisations can privilege certain viewpoints, perpetuate existing power relations or create new ones, and play a role in the generation and modification of knowledge, cognition, perceptions of objectivity and opaque forms of governance and control. These critiques exist alongside the apparently contradictory belief that data visualisations are a way of 'doing good with data', making data transparent and accessible and so enabling greater inclusion in data-driven conversations and societies. This one-day conference addresses the culture and politics of data visualisation, brings critical thought into dialogue with the practice and potential of visualising data and considers how they might inform each other. In this way, it is neither a 'show & tell' nor a critique of datavis as ideologically implicated, but a space for productive exchange between critical thinking and datavis practice. We invite you to join us to consider these questions: * How do data visualisations get made, used, circulated and consumed, and what are the implications of these processes for society, culture and politics? * What problems and opportunities does the spread of data visualisation bring with it? * To what extent do data visualisations get used in the interests of power or to act against power? * How can the belief that visualisation makes data transparent and accessible be brought together productively with critiques of visualisation-as-control? * How should we account for the affective dimensions of data visualisation? * How can visualisation be used in socially useful ways? * What does critically-informed, reflective data visusalisation look like? We invite participants to submit their own visualisations for presentation in an exhibition at the conference. Participants who wish to do so should indicate this on their paper proposals; organisers will then select visualisations from those proposed to exhibit. Confirmed keynote/plenary speakers include: * Catherine D'Ignazio, MIT Center for Civic Media/Emerson Engagement Lab, USA * Cath Sleeman, Quantitative Research Fellow, NESTA. * Important information* * Conference website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/events/culturedatavis * Submit 200 word paper proposals by 15^th June 2016 at http://datapower.group.shef.ac.uk/submission/index.php * Decisions will be communicated by 30^th June 2016. * The conference fee is £40 waged, £25 unwaged/student. * The conference is sponsored by the University of Sheffield's Digital Society Network (DSN). Find out more about the DSN here: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/social-sciences/digital-society-network. * For more information, please contact scs-events(a)sheffield.ac.uk <mailto:scs-events@sheffield.ac.uk>. * Registration will open at the end of May - return to this page for further details at that time. * The conference organisers are: Professor Helen Kennedy, Dr Annamaria Carusi and Dr Mark Taylor at the University of Sheffield. -- Professor Helen Kennedy Department of Sociological Studies / Faculty of Social Sciences Elmfield, Northumberland Road Sheffield S10 2TU T: 0114 2226488 E:h.kennedy@sheffield.ac.uk

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Hiring a Lecturer in Games Design @ Brunel University London
by kelly boudreau 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

*Lecturer in Game Design - Full time, permanent* For full application details - https://jobs.brunel.ac.uk/wrl/pages/vacancy.jsf?latest=01006622 The highly regarded, expanding and well established Games department at Brunel University London is seeking to recruit a new lecturer. The appointee will be expected to teach across a range of games modules that are all practice facing, but with strong theoretical integration. There will be an expectation that the appointee brings a games focused research interest to the department with the clear potential to produce world class outputs. The department prides itself on the excellence of its teaching, close relationships with its students and an extremely proactive, hardworking, collegial atmosphere that is all built around a love of and passion for games. The department has just launched three new strands to its undergraduate games programme (art, technology and games studies) and the extra role is needed to help support the art and/or technical strand. However, the teaching focus of the department is on experiential design for entertainment purposes and not on software training or programming. There is an expectation that any appointee will have software and/or art skills, but not necessarily highly developed technical capacities. The key attributes of the successful candidate will be the ability to engage with and teach practical skills whilst also adding to the research portfolio of the department. Closing date for applications: 18 July 2016 _________________________________________ Lecturer, Game Studies & Design Programme Director, MA Digital Games Theory & Design Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom kelly.boudreau(a)brunel.ac.uk

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reSense: Call For Proposals @ Spektrum Berlin
by wallace 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

reSense [movement, performance, technology, art] Festival - 25-31 July 2016, SPEKTRUM  including the METABODY Forum Berlin with the artists Jonathan Reus + Sissel Marie Tonn reSense.MOV is a festival that will debate current questions of the intersections of motion, sensing, performance and technologies in art and sciences curated by Byrke Lou and Marcello Lussana in collaboration with SPEKTRUM. Deadline is soon, we are looking forward for your applications! http://spektrumberlin.de/open-calls/detail/call-for-participation-resensemo…

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Silvestri wins 2016 James Carey Award
by Mark D. Johns 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- June 15, 2016 IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Lisa Ellen Silvestri, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA is the winner of the 2016 James W. Carey Media Research Award competition sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.com) Silvestri is author of the book, Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American War Zone, published in November 2015 by the University Press of Kansas. The Carey Award, established in 2004, is presented annually from among nominated or submitted books or journal articles accepted for publication in the previous year. The award honors the late Dr. James W. Carey (1934-2006). Dr. Carey was recognized as one of the North American pioneers in applying cultural approaches to the study of media technologies. To be worthy of the award, work must be of highest quality and employ Carey's theories to focus on communication and public life, journalism, or popular culture. The winning entry this year was chosen from an exceptionally strong field of works submitted by a long list of outstanding scholars. The book examines how social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, have altered the relationships between military personnel and their families and friends at home. Historically, troops in a war zone were exempt from home front relational commitments. In previous U.S. conflicts, and even earlier in Iraq and Afghanistan, a lack of communication with the home front was not only accepted but also expected. Today, U.S. troops have direct, instantaneous connection to civilian life back home and this communication is changing what it’s like to be “at war.” The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is a non-profit organization established to promote the scholarship of the late Carl J. Couch and his academic associates. Couch is recognized as the founder of The New Iowa School in sociological and communication inquiry, and was a pioneer in the qualitative research of information technologies. The Center provides networking opportunities for students and scholars who conduct social and Internet research, inspired by Couch's work. - 30 - Contact: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Executive Director Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research c/o Department of Communication Studies, Luther College Decorah, Iowa 52101 USA Tel: (563) 387-1347 email: mjohns(a)luther.edu

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Final Call for Workshops and Tutorials: ICITST-2016 || December 5-7, 2016, Barcelona, Spain
by Yi-Ju Zhao 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

Kindly email this Call for Workshops and Tutorials to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. FINAL CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *********************************************************************** ************************* The 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2016) Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spanish Section and IEEE Spanish Computer Chapter December 5-7, 2016 Barcelona, Spain www.icitst.org *********************************************************************** ************************* Important Dates: *Workshop or Tutorial Proposal Submission: June 15, 2016 *Notification of Workshop or Tutorial Acceptance: June 25, 2016 The organisers of the the 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2016) cordially invite you to submit a workshop or tutorial proposal. The ICITST has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice, Internet Technologies, Secured Transactions, Application of Agents, Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com, Cybernetics, Data Mining, E-Society, Web Services, Semantic Web and Ontology, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security, Digital Information Management and identify emerging research topics. The workshops and tutorials provide researchers the opportunity for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way. It offers a good opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community. All the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. The proposal must include: 1. The name of the workshop/tutorial. 2. A statement of goals for the workshop/tutorial. 3. The names and addresses of the organisers/tutorial. 4. The names of potential participants, such as program committee members. 5. A description of the plans for call for participation (e.g., call for papers). 6. The expected number of attendees and the planned length of the workshop/tutorial. 7. The topic of the workshop/tutorial should be relevant to the main conference and details of any previous workshops/tutorials. 8. The URL of the workshop/tutorial web site. If you are interested in organising workshop or tutorial for the ICITST-2016, please email your proposal to workshop-tutorial(a)icitst.org. Your proposal will be reviewed by the Steering Committee.

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