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Research paper thumbnail of Night Out Task

PsycTESTS Dataset, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Comparison of floor aerobics and treadmill walking on cognitive changes and participant satisfaction

The FASEB Journal, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of The role of cognitive reserve and memory self-efficacy in compensatory strategy use: A structural equation approach

Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 2016

The use of compensatory strategies plays an important role in the ability of older adults to adap... more The use of compensatory strategies plays an important role in the ability of older adults to adapt to late-life memory changes. Even with the benefits associated with compensatory strategy use, little research has explored specific mechanisms associated with memory performance and compensatory strategies. Rather than an individual's objective memory performance directly predicting their use of compensatory strategies, it is possible that some other variables are indirectly influencing that relationship. The purpose of this study was to: (a) examine the moderating effects of cognitive reserve (CR) and (b) evaluate the potential mediating effects of memory self-efficacy on the relationship between objective memory performance and compensatory strategy use. Two structural equation models (SEM) were used to evaluate CR (latent moderator model) and memory self-efficacy (mediator model) in a sample of 155 community-dwelling older adults over the age of 55. The latent variable moderato...

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Research paper thumbnail of Effects of initial planning on task execution performance of older adults: A naturalistic assessment paradigm

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Medication Management Capacity and Its Neurocognitive Correlates in Huntington’s Disease

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2018

Objective Although medication management is a necessary daily activity for individuals with Hunti... more Objective Although medication management is a necessary daily activity for individuals with Huntington’s disease (HD), medication management abilities and their relation to cognitive functioning have not been evaluated. Method Twenty individuals with HD and 20 healthy adults (HA) completed the Medication Management Abilities Assessment (MMAA). Individuals with HD also completed a self-report medication management measure and neuropsychological tests assessing executive function, retrospective memory, and prospective memory. Results Individuals with HD performed significantly poorer and made more undertaking errors on the MMAA as compared to HA. No group differences were found in overtaking errors. In the HD group, significant associations were found between undertaking errors and perceived medication management ability as well as between MMAA task performance and measures assessing prospective memory and executive functions. Conclusions Medication management capacity was negatively ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Enriching the Lives of Older Adult Through Rapidly Advancing Multidisciplinary Work in Gerontechnology

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Comparing the Ability of Performance-Based Tasks to Predict Real-World Functioning

Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2019

indicated that the recommended cut-off scores of 26 and 18 did not give acceptable specificities ... more indicated that the recommended cut-off scores of 26 and 18 did not give acceptable specificities for detecting MCI (Sensitivity: 92%; specificity: 11) and dementia (Sensitivity: 92%; specificity: 55) respectively. The results may be related to the fact that some of the items were less culturally relevant to the Tanzanian population. Conclusions: Overall, the utility of K-MoCA for detecting MCI and dementia in this population was low due to less cultural relevance of some items. Modification to those items are recommended to improve its utility.

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Research paper thumbnail of Assessing Functional Ability in the Clinic with the Night Out Task

Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Compensation Strategies in Older Adults: Association With Cognition and Everyday Function

American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 2018

Compensation strategies may contribute to greater resilience among older adults, even in the face... more Compensation strategies may contribute to greater resilience among older adults, even in the face of cognitive decline. This study sought to better understand how compensation strategy use among older adults with varying degrees of cognitive impairment impacts everyday functioning. In all, 125 older adults (normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, dementia) underwent neuropsychological testing, and their informants completed questionnaires regarding everyday compensation and cognitive and functional abilities. Cognitively normal and mild cognitive impairment older adults had greater levels of compensation use than those with dementia. Higher levels of neuropsychological functioning were associated with more frequent compensation use. Most importantly, greater frequency of compensation strategy use was associated with higher levels of independence in everyday function, even after accounting for cognition. Use of compensation strategies is associated with higher levels of function...

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Research paper thumbnail of Provider Knowledge Regarding Assistive Technologies That Support Older Adults’ Independence

Innovation in Aging, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Detecting Smartwatch-Based Behavior Change in Response to a Multi-Domain Brain Health Intervention

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

In this study, we introduce and validate a computational method to detect lifestyle change that o... more In this study, we introduce and validate a computational method to detect lifestyle change that occurs in response to a multi-domain healthy brain aging intervention. To detect behavior change, digital behavior markers are extracted from smartwatch sensor data and a permutation-based change detection algorithm quantifies the change in marker-based behavior from a pre-intervention, 1-week baseline. To validate the method, we verify that changes are successfully detected from synthetic data with known pattern differences. Next, we employ this method to detect overall behavior change for n = 28 brain health intervention subjects and n = 17 age-matched control subjects. For these individuals, we observe a monotonic increase in behavior change from the baseline week with a slope of 0.7460 for the intervention group and a slope of 0.0230 for the control group. Finally, we utilize a random forest algorithm to perform leave-one-subject-out prediction of intervention versus control subjects ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Robot-enabled support of daily activities in smart home environments

Cognitive Systems Research, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Observation of Everyday Activity Completion Measure

PsycTESTS Dataset, 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Content Memory and Temporal Order Memory for Performed Activities After Severe Closed-Head Injury

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology (Neuropsychology, Development and Cognition: Section A), 2003

Thirty severe closed-head injured (CHI) participants (more than 1 year postinjury) and 30 matched... more Thirty severe closed-head injured (CHI) participants (more than 1 year postinjury) and 30 matched controls completed eight different cognitive activities. Participants' free recall and recognition of the activities provided a measure of content memory. Temporal order memory was assessed with a reconstruction task. CHI participants recalled and recognized fewer activities than did controls. However, the CHI and control groups did not differ in temporal order memory. For both groups, recognition memory was not correlated with temporal order memory. These results demonstrate intact temporal order memory for performed activities in a severe CHI population, and support the notion of separate processing of content memory and order information. Issues related to automaticity and the roles of the frontal lobes in temporal order memory are also discussed.

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Research paper thumbnail of Everyday memory failures reported by older and younger adults

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 1998

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Research paper thumbnail of Effectiveness of a Video-based Aging Services Technology Education Program for Health Care Professionals

Gerontology & geriatrics education, Jan 19, 2017

Health care professionals (HCPs) are a critical source of recommendations for older adults. Aging... more Health care professionals (HCPs) are a critical source of recommendations for older adults. Aging services technologies (ASTs), which include devices to support the health-care needs of older adults, are underutilized despite evidence for improving functional outcomes and safety and reducing caregiver burden and health costs. This study evaluated a video-based educational program aimed at improving HCP awareness of ASTs. Sixty-five HCPs viewed AST videos related to medication management, daily living, and memory. Following the program, participants' objective and perceived AST knowledge improved, as did self-efficacy and anticipated AST engagement. About 95% of participants stated they were more likely to recommend ASTs post-program. Participants benefitted equally regardless of years of experience or previous AST familiarity. Furthermore, change in self-efficacy and perceived knowledge were significant predictors of engagement change. Overall, the educational program was effect...

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Research paper thumbnail of Effectiveness of a Video-based Aging Services Technology Education Program for Health Care Professionals

Gerontology & geriatrics education, Jan 19, 2017

Health care professionals (HCPs) are a critical source of recommendations for older adults. Aging... more Health care professionals (HCPs) are a critical source of recommendations for older adults. Aging services technologies (ASTs), which include devices to support the health-care needs of older adults, are underutilized despite evidence for improving functional outcomes and safety and reducing caregiver burden and health costs. This study evaluated a video-based educational program aimed at improving HCP awareness of ASTs. Sixty-five HCPs viewed AST videos related to medication management, daily living, and memory. Following the program, participants' objective and perceived AST knowledge improved, as did self-efficacy and anticipated AST engagement. About 95% of participants stated they were more likely to recommend ASTs post-program. Participants benefitted equally regardless of years of experience or previous AST familiarity. Furthermore, change in self-efficacy and perceived knowledge were significant predictors of engagement change. Overall, the educational program was effect...

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Research paper thumbnail of A Robot Activity Support (RAS) system for persons with memory impairment: Comparing older and younger adults' perceptions of the system

Gerontechnology

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Research paper thumbnail of Self-Reported Behavior Change and Predictors of Engagement With a Multidomain Brain Health Intervention for Midlife and Older Adults: A Pilot Clinical Trial

Journal of Aging and Health

Objectives This study evaluated the efficacy of a multidomain brain health intervention on health... more Objectives This study evaluated the efficacy of a multidomain brain health intervention on health behavior change and sought to understand whether health literacy or brain health knowledge predicted engagement with the intervention. Methods One-hundred thirty midlife and older adults were assigned to one of three intervention conditions: brain fitness (B-Fit) utilizing education and goal setting, education-only, or waitlist. Questionnaires were completed at baseline and post-intervention. Results Both B-Fit and education-only conditions reported improvements in health behaviors over time. Although effect size for the education-only condition was moderate, only the B-Fit condition differed significantly in health behaviors from the waitlist post-intervention. Lower baseline brain health knowledge predicted improvements in health behaviors for education-only condition. Discussion The multidomain brain health intervention was successful in helping participants change their behaviors, b...

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Research paper thumbnail of Executive function subcomponents and their relations to everyday functioning in healthy older adults

Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 2016

Everyday functioning and its executive functioning cognitive correlates (i.e., switching, inhibit... more Everyday functioning and its executive functioning cognitive correlates (i.e., switching, inhibition, and updating) were investigated in healthy older adults (HOAs) using multiple methods of functional status. In addition to whether computerized experimental tasks would better dissociate these subcomponents than neuropsychological measures of executive functioning, we were also interested in the contributions of both experimental and neuropsychological measures of executive function subcomponents to functional abilities. Seventy HOAs (45 young-old and 25 old-old) and 70 younger adults completed executive function and neuropsychological tests. In addition to self- and informant questionnaires of functional abilities, HOAs completed two performance-based measures. An aging effect was found on all executive function measures. Old-old older adults and their informants did not report more functional difficulties but demonstrated more difficulties on performance-based measures than did yo...

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Research paper thumbnail of Night Out Task

PsycTESTS Dataset, 2021

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Research paper thumbnail of Comparison of floor aerobics and treadmill walking on cognitive changes and participant satisfaction

The FASEB Journal, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of The role of cognitive reserve and memory self-efficacy in compensatory strategy use: A structural equation approach

Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 2016

The use of compensatory strategies plays an important role in the ability of older adults to adap... more The use of compensatory strategies plays an important role in the ability of older adults to adapt to late-life memory changes. Even with the benefits associated with compensatory strategy use, little research has explored specific mechanisms associated with memory performance and compensatory strategies. Rather than an individual's objective memory performance directly predicting their use of compensatory strategies, it is possible that some other variables are indirectly influencing that relationship. The purpose of this study was to: (a) examine the moderating effects of cognitive reserve (CR) and (b) evaluate the potential mediating effects of memory self-efficacy on the relationship between objective memory performance and compensatory strategy use. Two structural equation models (SEM) were used to evaluate CR (latent moderator model) and memory self-efficacy (mediator model) in a sample of 155 community-dwelling older adults over the age of 55. The latent variable moderato...

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Research paper thumbnail of Effects of initial planning on task execution performance of older adults: A naturalistic assessment paradigm

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Medication Management Capacity and Its Neurocognitive Correlates in Huntington’s Disease

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2018

Objective Although medication management is a necessary daily activity for individuals with Hunti... more Objective Although medication management is a necessary daily activity for individuals with Huntington’s disease (HD), medication management abilities and their relation to cognitive functioning have not been evaluated. Method Twenty individuals with HD and 20 healthy adults (HA) completed the Medication Management Abilities Assessment (MMAA). Individuals with HD also completed a self-report medication management measure and neuropsychological tests assessing executive function, retrospective memory, and prospective memory. Results Individuals with HD performed significantly poorer and made more undertaking errors on the MMAA as compared to HA. No group differences were found in overtaking errors. In the HD group, significant associations were found between undertaking errors and perceived medication management ability as well as between MMAA task performance and measures assessing prospective memory and executive functions. Conclusions Medication management capacity was negatively ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Enriching the Lives of Older Adult Through Rapidly Advancing Multidisciplinary Work in Gerontechnology

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Comparing the Ability of Performance-Based Tasks to Predict Real-World Functioning

Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2019

indicated that the recommended cut-off scores of 26 and 18 did not give acceptable specificities ... more indicated that the recommended cut-off scores of 26 and 18 did not give acceptable specificities for detecting MCI (Sensitivity: 92%; specificity: 11) and dementia (Sensitivity: 92%; specificity: 55) respectively. The results may be related to the fact that some of the items were less culturally relevant to the Tanzanian population. Conclusions: Overall, the utility of K-MoCA for detecting MCI and dementia in this population was low due to less cultural relevance of some items. Modification to those items are recommended to improve its utility.

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Research paper thumbnail of Assessing Functional Ability in the Clinic with the Night Out Task

Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Compensation Strategies in Older Adults: Association With Cognition and Everyday Function

American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 2018

Compensation strategies may contribute to greater resilience among older adults, even in the face... more Compensation strategies may contribute to greater resilience among older adults, even in the face of cognitive decline. This study sought to better understand how compensation strategy use among older adults with varying degrees of cognitive impairment impacts everyday functioning. In all, 125 older adults (normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, dementia) underwent neuropsychological testing, and their informants completed questionnaires regarding everyday compensation and cognitive and functional abilities. Cognitively normal and mild cognitive impairment older adults had greater levels of compensation use than those with dementia. Higher levels of neuropsychological functioning were associated with more frequent compensation use. Most importantly, greater frequency of compensation strategy use was associated with higher levels of independence in everyday function, even after accounting for cognition. Use of compensation strategies is associated with higher levels of function...

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Research paper thumbnail of Provider Knowledge Regarding Assistive Technologies That Support Older Adults’ Independence

Innovation in Aging, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Detecting Smartwatch-Based Behavior Change in Response to a Multi-Domain Brain Health Intervention

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare

In this study, we introduce and validate a computational method to detect lifestyle change that o... more In this study, we introduce and validate a computational method to detect lifestyle change that occurs in response to a multi-domain healthy brain aging intervention. To detect behavior change, digital behavior markers are extracted from smartwatch sensor data and a permutation-based change detection algorithm quantifies the change in marker-based behavior from a pre-intervention, 1-week baseline. To validate the method, we verify that changes are successfully detected from synthetic data with known pattern differences. Next, we employ this method to detect overall behavior change for n = 28 brain health intervention subjects and n = 17 age-matched control subjects. For these individuals, we observe a monotonic increase in behavior change from the baseline week with a slope of 0.7460 for the intervention group and a slope of 0.0230 for the control group. Finally, we utilize a random forest algorithm to perform leave-one-subject-out prediction of intervention versus control subjects ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Robot-enabled support of daily activities in smart home environments

Cognitive Systems Research, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Observation of Everyday Activity Completion Measure

PsycTESTS Dataset, 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Content Memory and Temporal Order Memory for Performed Activities After Severe Closed-Head Injury

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology (Neuropsychology, Development and Cognition: Section A), 2003

Thirty severe closed-head injured (CHI) participants (more than 1 year postinjury) and 30 matched... more Thirty severe closed-head injured (CHI) participants (more than 1 year postinjury) and 30 matched controls completed eight different cognitive activities. Participants' free recall and recognition of the activities provided a measure of content memory. Temporal order memory was assessed with a reconstruction task. CHI participants recalled and recognized fewer activities than did controls. However, the CHI and control groups did not differ in temporal order memory. For both groups, recognition memory was not correlated with temporal order memory. These results demonstrate intact temporal order memory for performed activities in a severe CHI population, and support the notion of separate processing of content memory and order information. Issues related to automaticity and the roles of the frontal lobes in temporal order memory are also discussed.

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Research paper thumbnail of Everyday memory failures reported by older and younger adults

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 1998

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Research paper thumbnail of Effectiveness of a Video-based Aging Services Technology Education Program for Health Care Professionals

Gerontology & geriatrics education, Jan 19, 2017

Health care professionals (HCPs) are a critical source of recommendations for older adults. Aging... more Health care professionals (HCPs) are a critical source of recommendations for older adults. Aging services technologies (ASTs), which include devices to support the health-care needs of older adults, are underutilized despite evidence for improving functional outcomes and safety and reducing caregiver burden and health costs. This study evaluated a video-based educational program aimed at improving HCP awareness of ASTs. Sixty-five HCPs viewed AST videos related to medication management, daily living, and memory. Following the program, participants' objective and perceived AST knowledge improved, as did self-efficacy and anticipated AST engagement. About 95% of participants stated they were more likely to recommend ASTs post-program. Participants benefitted equally regardless of years of experience or previous AST familiarity. Furthermore, change in self-efficacy and perceived knowledge were significant predictors of engagement change. Overall, the educational program was effect...

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Research paper thumbnail of Effectiveness of a Video-based Aging Services Technology Education Program for Health Care Professionals

Gerontology & geriatrics education, Jan 19, 2017

Health care professionals (HCPs) are a critical source of recommendations for older adults. Aging... more Health care professionals (HCPs) are a critical source of recommendations for older adults. Aging services technologies (ASTs), which include devices to support the health-care needs of older adults, are underutilized despite evidence for improving functional outcomes and safety and reducing caregiver burden and health costs. This study evaluated a video-based educational program aimed at improving HCP awareness of ASTs. Sixty-five HCPs viewed AST videos related to medication management, daily living, and memory. Following the program, participants' objective and perceived AST knowledge improved, as did self-efficacy and anticipated AST engagement. About 95% of participants stated they were more likely to recommend ASTs post-program. Participants benefitted equally regardless of years of experience or previous AST familiarity. Furthermore, change in self-efficacy and perceived knowledge were significant predictors of engagement change. Overall, the educational program was effect...

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Research paper thumbnail of A Robot Activity Support (RAS) system for persons with memory impairment: Comparing older and younger adults' perceptions of the system

Gerontechnology

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Research paper thumbnail of Self-Reported Behavior Change and Predictors of Engagement With a Multidomain Brain Health Intervention for Midlife and Older Adults: A Pilot Clinical Trial

Journal of Aging and Health

Objectives This study evaluated the efficacy of a multidomain brain health intervention on health... more Objectives This study evaluated the efficacy of a multidomain brain health intervention on health behavior change and sought to understand whether health literacy or brain health knowledge predicted engagement with the intervention. Methods One-hundred thirty midlife and older adults were assigned to one of three intervention conditions: brain fitness (B-Fit) utilizing education and goal setting, education-only, or waitlist. Questionnaires were completed at baseline and post-intervention. Results Both B-Fit and education-only conditions reported improvements in health behaviors over time. Although effect size for the education-only condition was moderate, only the B-Fit condition differed significantly in health behaviors from the waitlist post-intervention. Lower baseline brain health knowledge predicted improvements in health behaviors for education-only condition. Discussion The multidomain brain health intervention was successful in helping participants change their behaviors, b...

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Research paper thumbnail of Executive function subcomponents and their relations to everyday functioning in healthy older adults

Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 2016

Everyday functioning and its executive functioning cognitive correlates (i.e., switching, inhibit... more Everyday functioning and its executive functioning cognitive correlates (i.e., switching, inhibition, and updating) were investigated in healthy older adults (HOAs) using multiple methods of functional status. In addition to whether computerized experimental tasks would better dissociate these subcomponents than neuropsychological measures of executive functioning, we were also interested in the contributions of both experimental and neuropsychological measures of executive function subcomponents to functional abilities. Seventy HOAs (45 young-old and 25 old-old) and 70 younger adults completed executive function and neuropsychological tests. In addition to self- and informant questionnaires of functional abilities, HOAs completed two performance-based measures. An aging effect was found on all executive function measures. Old-old older adults and their informants did not report more functional difficulties but demonstrated more difficulties on performance-based measures than did yo...

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