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Da A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar

Da A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar

This fully revised second edition of Da! A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar is a concise and contemporary reference grammar and workbook for intermediate-level students. The book contains clear explanations of the core areas of Russian grammar. Each point is illustrated with examples of contemporary language usage showing you how grammar works in practice while at the same time enhancing your vocabulary and cultural knowledge. Every chapter ends with a variety of exercises to test your progress and consolidate your understanding. Now revised with more exercises and enhanced e-resources. Suitable for intermediate-level students Da! A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar is an invaluable resource for both classroom and self-study. | Da A Practical Guide to Russian Grammar

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Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa

Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa

Escrito inteiramente em português o Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa é uma obra que abrange todos os aspectos fonéticos e fonológicos desse idioma inclusive as questões de fonética acústica e auditiva fonotática e traços suprassegmentais que a maioria dos livros didáticos não aborda. Neste livro o estudante encontrará uma introdução detalhada e exata mas acessível à fonética e à fonologia da língua portuguesa. Inclui capítulos introdutórios que contextualizam essas disciplinas no campo geral da linguística e salientam o papel dos sons e sua representação na comunicação humana. Principais características: ● Escrito por fonetistas qualificados e versados nas questões atuais da ciência fonética. ● Não é preciso já saber linguística pois o livro expõe todos os termos e conceitos linguísticos necessários. ● Cada capítulo conta com um resumo uma lista de conceitos e termos perguntas de revisão e exercícios de pronúncia relevantes destinados à prática dos conselhos e sugestões específicos do capítulo. ● Os capítulos que abordam a produção física dos sons contêm seções de Dicas Pedagógicas Conselhos Práticos e Exercícios de Pronúncia que ligam a teoria aos aspectos práticos da boa pronúncia. ● Uma característica exclusiva deste livro é a exposição da fonética e fonologia das três principais normas cultas da língua portuguesa: a de São Paulo e do Rio de Janeiro para o português brasileiro (PB) e a de Lisboa para o português europeu (PE). ● Numerosas imagens gráficos e tabelas para ilustrar claramente cada conceito. ● Recursos eletrônicos disponíveis online nos materiais de eResource com a pronúncia dos sons frases e exercícios do livro. O Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa é uma introdução abrangente a esses campos escrita de modo a ser clara e acessível aos estudantes de português em nível avançado para ajudá-los a entender como melhorar a própria pronúncia. O livro é excelente também tanto para alunos de pós-graduação como para professores linguistas e profissionais de letras. Written entirely in Portuguese Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa presents an accurate yet accessible introduction to Portuguese phonetics and phonology. The book covers all phonetic and phonological aspects of the language including those often missing from other textbooks such as acoustic and auditory phonetics phonotactics and suprasegmentals. The book maintains a careful balance between the theoretical and practical aspects of the topic and is designed to help learners improve their pronunciation through an understanding of the linguistic principles of phonetics and phonology combined with the application of these principles through exercises and practice. Additional pronunciation resources are available online at www. routledge. com/9780367179915. Written in a clear and accessible manner the book is ideal for advanced students of Portuguese with no prior knowledge of linguistics.

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The Viola da Gamba

The Viola da Gamba

The viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late 15th century well into the late 18th. In this comprehensive study Bettina Hoffmann offers both an introduction to the instrument - its construction technique and history - for the non-specialist interweaving this information with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish. The book begins with a description of the instrument and here Hoffmann grapples with the complexity of various names applied to this and related instruments. Following two chapters on the instrument's construction and ancestry the core of the book is given to a historical and geographical survey of the instrument from its origins into the classical period. The book closes with a look at the revival of interest in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Brazil after Bolsonaro The Comeback of Lula da Silva

Brazil after Bolsonaro The Comeback of Lula da Silva

Brazil after Bolsonaro captures and presents the voices of a wide range of stakeholders including academics and journalists in Brazil and abroad to produce the first systematic engagement with Lula’s latest presidency. Providing fair and balanced perspectives on Lula the authors examine the legacy of Lula’s previous presidency; what happened in the interim in the eras of Rousseff Temer and Bolsonaro; and what are the challenges facing a new Lula administration. This book is divided into three main sections (Background to change Context and issues and Foreign policy) and chapters detail the political social and economic dimensions of change in Brazil and its wider repercussions. A fourth section sees Luís Guillermo Solís Rivera President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018 offer reflections on Lula from the perspective of a fellow president. Assuming no prior knowledge and written in an accessible style this book is ideal for those seeking to further their understanding of contemporary politics in Brazil and to learn the context and consequences of the transfer of power from Jair Bolsonaro to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. | Brazil after Bolsonaro The Comeback of Lula da Silva

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Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

This book aims at providing further contributions inspired by Bion's paper Attacks on Linking (1959) by a distinguinshed group of scholars who have focused on different aspects of his propositions. Contributors: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur Rachel B. Blass Ronald Britton Catalina Bronstein Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros Elizabeth Lima da Rocha Barros Antonino Ferro Jay Greenberg Monica Horovitz Clara Nemas Edna O'Shaughnessy Rudi Vermote | Attacks on Linking Revisited A New Look at Bion's Classic Work

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The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself his portrayal has never been studied in depth before and this book presents a large number of new sources (first- and second-hand accounts) which allows us to reconstruct his performance scene by scene. The book confronts Bassi’s portrayal with a study of the opera’s early German reception and performance history demonstrating how Don Giovanni as we know it today was not only created by Mozart Da Ponte and Luigi Bassi but also by the early German adapters translators critics and performers who turned the title character into the arrogant and violent villain we still encounter in most of today’s stage productions. Incorporating discussion of dramaturgical thinking of the late Enlightenment and the difficult moral problems that the opera raises this is an important study for scholars and researchers from opera studies theatre and performance studies music history as well as conductors directors and singers.

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Television in Transition in East Asia

Television in Transition in East Asia

This book examines the development of television broadcasting in Japan Hong Kong and South Korea. It explores the policy regimes guiding the development of television broadcasting as a powerful institution and the extent to which new forms of television have become part of each country’s contemporary media mix. It analyses the interests involved in key policy decisions the institutional dynamics promoting or inhibiting new media markets and the relative importance in the different countries of cable satellite digital broadcasting and the use of the Internet for purposes associated with television broadcasting. The nature of television regimes in each of the three countries is very different and the contrasting situations provide great insights into how television is developing and how it could develop further both in East Asia and worldwide. | Television in Transition in East Asia

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Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history sociology and musicology of popular music in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book consists of chapters by leading scholars and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of music in the region that for most of the past century was known as Yugoslavia. Exploring the role played by music in Yugoslav art culture social movements and discourses of statehood this book offers a gateway into scholarly explanation of a key region in Eastern Europe. An introduction provides an overview and background on popular music in Yugoslavia followed by chapters in four thematic sections: Zabavna-Pop; Rock Punk and New Wave; Narodna (Folk) and Neofolk Music; and the Politics of Popular Music Under Socialism. | Made in Yugoslavia Studies in Popular Music

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Made in Nusantara Studies in Popular Music

Made in Nusantara Studies in Popular Music

Made in Nusantara serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history sociology ethnography and musicology of historical and contemporary popular music in maritime Southeast Asia. Each essay covers major figures styles and social contexts of genres of a popular nature in the Nusantara region including Malaysia Indonesia Brunei Singapore and the Philippines. Through a critical investigation of specific genres and their spaces of performance production and consumption the volume is organised into four thematic areas: 1) issues in Nusantara popular music; 2) history; 3) artists and genres; and 4) national vs. local industries. Written by scholars working in the region Made in Nusantara brings local perspectives to the history and analysis of popular music and critically considers conceptualisations developed in the West rendering it an intriguing read for students and scholars of popular and global music. | Made in Nusantara Studies in Popular Music

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Shamanism in Siberia Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

Shamanism in Siberia Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

The focus of this book is on the phenomenon of cursing in shamanic practice and everyday life in Tuva a former Soviet republic in Siberia. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork where the author interacted with a wide range of people involved in cursing practices the book examines Tuvans’ lived experience of cursing and shamanism thereby providing deep insights into Tuvans’ intimate and social worlds. It highlights especially the centrality of sound: how interactions between humans and non-humans are brought about through an array of sonic phenomena such as musical sounds sounds within words and non-linguistic vocalisations and how such sonic phenomena are a key part of dramatic cursing events and wider shamanic performance and ritual involving humans and spirits alike. Overall the book reveals a great deal about occult practices and about social change in post-Soviet Tuva. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Shamanism in Siberia Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

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Milestones in Dance in the USA

Milestones in Dance in the USA

Embracing dramatic similarities glaring disjunctions and striking innovations this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America. Designed for weekly use in dance history courses it traces dance in the USA as it broke traditional forms crossed genres provoked social and political change and drove cultural exchange and collision. The authors put a particular focus on those whose voices have been silenced unacknowledged and/or uncredited – exploring racial prejudice and injustice intersectional feminism protest movements and economic conditions as well as demonstrating how socio-political issues and movements affect and are affected by dance. In looking at concert dance vernacular dance ritual dance and the convergence of these forms the chapters acknowledge the richness of dance in today’s USA and the strong foundations on which it stands. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social cultural political and artistic development of foundational subject areas. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses that embrace culturally responsive pedagogy and seek to shift the direction of the lens from western theatrical dance towards the wealth of dance forms in the United States. | Milestones in Dance in the USA

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Made in Scotland Studies in Popular Music

Made in Scotland Studies in Popular Music

Made in Scotland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history politics culture and musicology of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music in Scotland. The volume consists of essays by local experts and leading scholars in Scottish music and culture and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of popular music in Scotland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book includes a general introduction to Scottish popular music followed by essays organized into three thematic sections: Histories Politics and Policies and Futures and Imaginings. Examining music as cultural expression in a country that is both a nation and a region within a larger state this volume uses popular music to analyse Scottishness independence and diversity and offers new insights into the complexity of cultural identity the power of historical imagination and the effects of power structures in music. It is a vital read for scholars and students interested in how popular music interacts with and shapes such issues both within and beyond the borders of Scotland. | Made in Scotland Studies in Popular Music

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Made in Ireland Studies in Popular Music

Made in Ireland Studies in Popular Music

Made in Ireland: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history sociology and musicology of 20th- and 21st-century Irish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars in the field and covers the major figures styles and social contexts of popular music in Ireland. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Irish popular music. The book is organized into three thematic sections: Music Industries and Historiographies Roots and Routes and Scenes and Networks. The volume also includes a coda by Gerry Smyth one of the most published authors on Irish popular music. | Made in Ireland Studies in Popular Music

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Qualitative Research in Criminology Advances in Criminological Theory

Qualitative Research in Criminology Advances in Criminological Theory

This volume investigates the significant role qualitative research plays in expanding and refining our understandings of crime and justice. It features seventeen original essays that discuss the relationship between methodology and theory. The result is a theoretically engaged volume that explores the approaches of qualitative scholars in the collection and treatment of data in criminological scholarship. Among the key issues addressed in the volume are methodological rigor in qualitative research; movement between method theory building theoretical refinement and expansion; diversity of qualitative methodologies from classic field research to contemporary innovations; and considerations of the future of qualitative criminological research. Qualitative research use has expanded rapidly in the last twenty years. This latest volume of Advances in Criminological Theory presents a cogent appraisal of qualitative criminology and the ways in which rigorous qualitative research contributes to theorizing about crime and justice. | Qualitative Research in Criminology Advances in Criminological Theory

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Participation in Industry

Participation in Industry

This book first published in 1973 analyses and sets in context one of the major issues in the growth of the European economy. Workers’ participation played an increasingly vital role in industrial relations. This book looks at the background and development of different types of participation in Britain ranging from workers’ attempts at co-operative production through the schemes in the nationalised industries of mining and steel to the Fairfields Experiment and the Upper Clyde ‘work-in’ in shipbuilding. This book concludes with an account of the developments in worker councils and worker directors in nine other European countries. | Participation in Industry

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Climate Change Law in China in Global Context

Climate Change Law in China in Global Context

In Climate Change Law in China in Global Context seven climate change law scholars explain how the country’s legal system is gradually being mobilized to support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China and achieve adaptation to climate change. There has been little English scholarship on the legal regime for climate change in China. This volume addresses this gap in the literature and focuses on recent attempts by the country to build defences against the impacts of climate change and to meet the country’s international obligations on mitigation. The authors are not only interested in China’s laws on paper; rather the book explains how these laws are implemented and integrated in practice and sheds light on China’s current laws laws in preparation the changing standing of law relative to policy and the further reforms that will be necessary in response to the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This comprehensive and critical account of the Chinese legal system’s response to the pressures of climate change will be an important resource for scholars of international law environmental law and Chinese law.

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Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture Designing in Mixed Realities

Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture Designing in Mixed Realities

Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture: Designing in Mixed Realities presents a curated selection of projects and texts contributed by leading international architects and designers who are using virtual reality technologies in their design process. It triggers discussion and debate on exploring the aesthetic potential and establishing its language as an expressive medium in architectural design. Although virtual reality is not new and the technology has evolved rapidly the aesthetic potential of the medium is still emerging and there is a great deal more to explore. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the current use of virtual reality technologies in the architectural design process. Contributions are presented in six parts fully illustrated with over 150 images. Recent projects presented are distributed in five themes: introduction to mixed realities; space and form; context and ambiguity; materiality and movement; body and social. Each theme includes richly illustrated essays by leading academics and practitioners including those from Zaha Hadid Architects and MVRDV detailing their design process using data-driven methodologies. Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture expands the use of technology per se and focuses on how architecture can benefit from its aesthetic potential during the design process. A must-read for practitioners academics and students interested in cutting-edge digital design. | Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture Designing in Mixed Realities

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Spirituality in Education in a Global Pluralised World

Spirituality in Education in a Global Pluralised World

A particular problem associated with international research in the field of spirituality and education is the reluctance of scholars to agree on what spirituality means with numerous descriptions increasing ambiguity and reducing the impact of research in the discipline. This book argues that it is important to understand spirituality as a unifying concept that has the potential to be meaningful in its application to the lives of children and young people in areas of learning and wellbeing. Chapters show why and how spiritual learning should be addressed across the curriculum with implications for the design of learning programs and environments. | Spirituality in Education in a Global Pluralised World

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Explorations in Reconciliation New Directions in Theology

Explorations in Reconciliation New Directions in Theology

Theologians and scholars of religion draw on rich resources to address the complex issues raised by political reconciliation in the Middle East the former Yugoslavia South Africa Northern Ireland and elsewhere. The questions addressed include: Can truth set a person or a society free? How is political forgiveness possible? Are political personal and spiritual reconciliation essentially related? Explorations in Reconciliation brings Catholic Protestant Mennonite Jewish and Islamic perspectives together within a single volume to present some of the most relevant theological work today. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/ISBN has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. The support of the Irish School of Ecumenics Trust in making this OA version possible is gratefully acknowledged. | Explorations in Reconciliation New Directions in Theology

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Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe

Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe

This volume addresses the question of ‘identity’ in East-Central Europe. It engages with a specific definition of ‘sub-cultures’ over the period from c. 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways in which the term can be used with the purpose of understanding identities that do not conform to the fixed standard categories imposed from the top down such as ‘ethnic group’ ‘majority’ or ‘minority’. Instead a ‘sub-culture’ is an identity that sits between these categories. It may blend languages e. g. dialect forms cultural practices ethnic and social identifications or religious affiliations as well as concepts of race and biology that similarly sit outside national projects. | Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe

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Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception

Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes’ philosophy. According to the standard account Descartes modified the objects of metaphysics and physics and inverted the order in which these two disciplines were traditionally studied. This book challenges the standard account in which Descartes prioritizes metaphysics over physics. It does so by taking into consideration the historical reception of Descartes and the ways in which Descartes himself reacted to these receptions in his own lifetime. The book stresses the diversity of these receptions by taking into account not only Cartesianisms but also anti-Cartesianisms and by showing how they retroactively highlighted different aspects of Descartes’ works and theoretical choices. The historical aspect of the volume is unique in that it not only analyzes different constructions of Descartes that emerged in the 18th 19th and 20th centuries but also reflects on how his work was first read by philosophers across Europe. Taken together the essays in this volume offer a fresh and up-to-date contribution to this important debate in early modern philosophy. | Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception

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Man in His Original Dignity Legal Ethics in France

Man in His Original Dignity Legal Ethics in France

This title was first published in 2001. This work explores the professional standards of the French bar as it moves rapidly but with misgivings into a world of competition organization and globalism. It focuses on the ideology of French legal ethics in its historical and social contexts rather than the details of the rules governing avocats. Those rules are technical and in many respects similar to the rules in effect in the USA. But lawyers in France and the United States base their rules on strikingly different pictures of lawyers. French avocats classify their duties as a series of virtues - probity honour and delicacy - to follow one official formulation. By contrast lawyers in the USA to judge from the way they justify their rules consider their fellows scoundrels who without regulation would cheat their clients opposing parties and other lawyers. The author's goal is to describe in their cultural and institutional contexts the professional ideals of the French bar as it remembers its past and faces its future. | Man in His Original Dignity Legal Ethics in France

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Ageing in Place in Urban Environments Critical Perspectives

Ageing in Place in Urban Environments Critical Perspectives

Ageing in Place in Urban Environments considers together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side and urbanisation on the other. Both have been identified as dominant demographic trends of the twenty-first century. Cities are where the majority of people of all ages now live and where they will spend their old age. Nevertheless cities are typically imagined and structured with a younger working-age population in mind while older people are rarely incorporated into the mainstream of thinking and planning around urban environments. Cities can contribute to vulnerability arising from high levels of population turnover environmental problems gentrification and reduced availability of affordable housing. However they can also provide innovative forms of support and services essential to promoting the quality of life of older people. Policies in Europe have emphasised the role of the local environment in promoting “ageing in place” a term used to describe the goal of helping people to remain in their own homes and communities for as long as they wish. However while this has been the dominant approach the places in which older people are ageing have often proved to be challenging environments. The book explores the forces behind these developments and how older people have responded. Drawing upon approaches from social gerontology urban studies geography and sociology this book will be essential reading for researchers policymakers and practitioners searching for innovative ways to improve the lives of older people living in urban environments. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Ageing in Place in Urban Environments Critical Perspectives

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Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt

Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt

In this new edition of Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology Denys A. Stocks introduces further experimental research on stoneworking in Ancient Egypt through archaeological and pictorial evidence. A further 20 years of research has been added to the original publication and the book now includes the results of experiments that test and evaluate over 250 reconstructed and replica tools bringing alive the methods and practices of Ancient Egyptian craftworking. This practical approach to understanding the fundamentals of Ancient Egyptian stoneworking highlights the evolution of tools and techniques and how these come together to produce the wonders of Egyptian art and architecture. A new chapter on Predynastic industrial transitions and convergence explores how the surge in technology particularly in the expanding production of stone vessels and in the production of faience artifacts drove the expansion of the economy of the Late Predynastic period in Egypt. Introducing the results of new research to enrich our understanding of the fundamental development of stoneworking and other supporting technologies in Ancient Egypt this book remains an important volume for students and researchers wishing to understand Ancient Egyptian technology and development. | Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt

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