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Diffusion Research in Rural Sociology: The Record and Prospects for the Future
by Frederick C. Fliegel. 138 pgs.

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Fliegel overviews and summarizes research on the spread of innovations through rural populations. The volume begins with a look at the discovery of diffusion as a patterned process in the 1940s and examines the creation of the classical model to explain diffusion as a transfer of information. Fliegel then notes how the classical model changed to accommodate the particular socioeconomic condition when the model was applied to developing countries after 1945. He concludes by commenting on the revival of interest in diffusion research, the further development and refinement of the classical model, and the modern emphasis on conservation-oriented innovations rather than on innovations that enhance production.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Sociology

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Figures and Tables

Foreword

Preface

I: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: FROM THE 1940s TO THE 1970s

1: The First Wave of Diffusion Research

2: Institutionalization of Diffusion Research

NOTES

3: Diffusion Research in the Third World

NOTES

II: RECENT TRENDS

4: Social Structure, Equity, and the Diffusion Model

5: Recent Diffusion Research: Some New Directions

Prospects for the Future

References

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Changing Rural Social Systems: Adaptation and Survival
by Nan E. Johnson, Ching-li Wang. 258 pgs.

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Can Structural-Functionalism be revised to account for adverse changes in these rural social systems? Can theoretical revisions then guide new forms of rural development in which communities rebuild familial and occupational systems so that social inequalities converge? In these essays, the answers to both questions invite new propositions on how rural social systems are organized.

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CONTRIBUTORS

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PART 1: Prologue

1: INTRODUCTION

PART 2: Changing Rural Social Systems: Focus on Familial and Occupational Systems

2: THE POOR IN NONMETROPOLITAN AMERICA

3: MECHANIZATION IN THE WESTERN UPPER PENINSULA PULP-LOGGING INDUSTRY

4: DEVELOPMENT, WOMEN'S WORK, AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IN RURAL TAIWAN

5: INEQUALITY AND THE EMERGENCE OF NONFARM EMPLOYMENT IN RWANDA

6: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN A GREEK FARMING VILLAGE

PART 3: Demographic Adaptation

7: RECENT POPULATION CHANGE IN MICHIGAN'S METROPOLITAN AND NONMETROPOLITAN AREAS

8: THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION REGARDING POPULATION CHANGE IN A RURAL COUNTY

9: FATAL FARM ACCIDENTS IN MICHIGAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND POLICY

10: IRISH RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION: POST-1960 CHANGES

PART 4: Ways to Survive and Thrive

11: CHANGING RURAL COMMUNITIES: RECONSTRUCTING THE LOCAL ECONOMY OF A NONMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY

12: SOCIAL CHANGE AND DRESS AMONG THE KALABARI OF NIGERIA

13: THE CALL OF THE SUGAR CANE: AGRICULTURAL CHANGE, COOPERATIVE-CAPITALISM, AND MIGRANTS IN NORTHWESTERN URUGUAY
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Rural Communities: Legacy & Change
by Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora, Jacqueline D. Spears, Louis E. Swanson. 334 pgs.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Part 1: The Evolution of Community Identity

1: The Rural Landscape

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2: Economy and Community

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3: Community and Culture

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4: Legacy and Social Class

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Part 2: Economy and Society

5: Capital and Community.

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6: The Global Economy

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7: Concumption in Rural America

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Part 3: Community Resources

8: The Character of Rural Governments

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9: Economic Infrastructure

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10: Social Infrastructure

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Part4: Toward Community Empowerment

11: Power in Communities

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12: Special Needs

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13: Generating Community Change

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The Community in Rural America
by Kenneth P. Wilkinson. 150 pgs.

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This study examines the critical state of rural life in America, its causes and possible cure. First reviewing existing research and theories on the subject, Wilkinson identifies characteristic rural conditions that block community development and the enhancement of economic, social, and educational opportunities for rural people. His analysis focuses on community interaction as a necessary basis for social well-being, pinpoints fruitful areas of research, and suggests policy initiatives needed to save a rural way of life.

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Preface

Introduction: Studying the Community in Rural America

1: The Community: An Interactional Approach

2: The Rural-Urban Variable in Community Research

3: The Community and Rural Well-Being

4: Rural Community Development

5: In Search of the Community in the Changing Countryside

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Rural Data, People, and Policy: Information Systems for the 21st Century
by James A. Christenson, Richard C. Maurer, Nancy L. Strang. 248 pgs.

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Rural Studies Series

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part One: The Politics of Data

1: Rural Data Needs: The Comparative Advantage of University Research

2: The Politics of Information

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3: Rural Data Needs in Rapidly Changing Times

Part Two: Data for Rural Information Systems

4: Multiple-Level Data Sets

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Notes

5: Longitudinal Data Sets for Rural Poverty Research

Notes

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6: Rural Family Studies: Multiple Wave, Multiple Indicator Data

Notes

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7: Sampling Frames for Rural Household Surveys

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8: Qualitative Insights to Enhance National Information Systems

Notes

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Part Three: Technologies for Rural Information Systems

Notes

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10: New Social Science Research Technologies

Conclusion

Notes

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Software Cited

11: Geographic Information Systems and Rural Data

Note

Conclusion

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Epilogue

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Rural Policies for the 1990s
by Cornelia B. Flora, James A. Christenson. 376 pgs.

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Foreword

1: Critical Times for Rural America: The Challenge for Rural Policy in the 1990s

2: Rural America and the Industrial Policy Debate

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3: Financing Rural Businesses

Notes

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4: Rural Banking

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5: Small Business

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6: Issues Facing Agricultural Policy

Notes

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7: Agricultural Labor

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8: Rural Poor: The Past as Prologue Kenneth L. Deavers and Robert A. Hoppe

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9: Work and Poverty In Rural America

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10: Meeting Rural Family Needs

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11: The Aged in Rural America

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12: Health Care in Rural America

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13: Rural Education

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14: American Indian Development Policies

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15: The Doubly Jeopardized: Nonmetropolitan Blacks and Mexicans

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16: Capacity Building and Rural Government Adaptation to Population Change

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17: Rural Transportation

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18: Family Planning and Fertility in International Context

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19: Water Quality and Agriculture

Conclusion

20: Soil Conservation

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Notes

21: Farmland Tenure Policy

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22: Forest Resource Policy

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23: The Waste Management Problem

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24: Telematics and Rural Development

Notes

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25 Rethinking Biotechnology Policy

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26: International Development

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27: A Rural Policy Agenda for the 1990

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The Sociology of Agriculture (Includes discussion of rural sociology in multiple chapters)
by Frederick H. Buttel, Olaf F. Larson, Gilbert W. Gillespie Jr. 292 pgs.

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Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rural Sociological Society, this monograph analyzes the nearly 90 years of rural sociological research on agriculture. The authors' aim throughout is to convey both continuities and discontinuities in theory, method, and approach that have characterized the field as it has developed. Intended primarily as a straightforward exposition of major scholarly themes, the study is organized around the three major eras of rural sociological research identified by the authors: the initial period from 1900 through the early 1950s; the social psychological/behaviorist emphasis between the early 1950s and the early 1970s, and the "new rural sociology" of the past decade.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Preface

Introduction: Three Eras of Rural Sociological Research on Agriculture

1: Rural Sociological Research on the Structure of Agriculture, 1900 to the Early 1950s

2: Rural Sociological Research on the Structure of Agriculture, the Early 1950s to the Early 1970s: Behaviorism and the Social Psychology of Agricultural Activities

3: The New Sociology of Agriculture, I: The Political Economy and Social Structure of Farms, Farm Households, and Farm Labor

4: The New Sociology of Agriculture, II: The Environment of Agriculture

5: The New Political Economy of Agriculture: An Evaluation

NOTES

6: Rural Sociological Research on Agriculture: A Backward Glance Toward the Future

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Name Index

Subject Index

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Long Time Coming: Racial Inequality in the Nonmetropolitan South, 1940-1990
by Mark A. Fossett, M. Therese Seibert. 285 pgs.

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Preface

1: Introduction

Notes

2: Determinants of Racial Inequality in Nonmetropolitan Areas

Notes

3: Measurement Issues

Notes

4: Trends in Inequality

Notes

5: Cross-Sectional Analyses

Notes

6: Longitudinal Analyses

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7: Overview and Discussion

Appendix A: Measuring Inequality

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Appendix B: Measuring Inequality with Census Occupation Data

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Appendix C: Measures

Notes

References

Index

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Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963
by Katherine Jellison. 240 pgs.

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Introduction

1: To "Lessen Her Heavy Burdens" the Country Life Movement and the Smith-Lever Act

2: "Mother Must Have Every Labor-Saving Convenience " the Modernization Message of the 1920s

3: "A Chance to Live as the City Sisters" the Great Depression and the New Deal

4: "The Man Operating the Farm and the Wife Operating the Household and the Garden" Technology and Gender Roles, 1940

5: "A Call to Farms" "Tractorettes" Go to War

6: "They Figured I Didn't Have a Part in the Farming" the Postwar Era

Conclusion

Notes

Index
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A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society (Chap. Eight "Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy")
by Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster-McClain, Henry A. Walker. 348 pgs.

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Leading social scientists explore the potentially explosive combination of diversity & inequality in our society. Using the latest theory & research, the authors show how different groups become socially & economically unequal & how such patterns of "durable inequality" affect national.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Diversity and Inequality

Chapter One: Durable Inequality

Chapter Two: Two Visions of the Relationship between Individual and Society:The Bell Curve versus Social Structure and Personality

Chapter Three: Two Faces of Diversity: Recreating the Stranger Next Door?"

Chapter Four: Gender, Sexuality, and Inequality: When Many Become One,Who Is the One and What Happens to the Others?

Part Two: The New Demography of Durable Inequality

Chapter Five: The State of the American Dream: Race and Ethnic Socioeconomic Inequality in the United States, 1970-90

Chapter Six: Strangers Next Door: Immigrant Groups and Suburbs in Los Angeles and New York

Chapter Seven: Jobless Poverty: a New Form of Social Dislocation in the Inner-City Ghetto

Chapter Eight: Persisting Inequality between Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Implications for Theory and Policy

Part Three: Durable Inequality in American Institutions

Chapter Nine: Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Enhance the College Attendance of African American Youths?

Chapter Ten: Overcoming Race: Army Lessons for American Society

Chapter Eleven: War's Legacy in Men's Lives

Chapter Twelve: Diversity and Consensus: What Part Does Religion Play?

Chapter Thirteen: Diversity in American Families

Chapter Fourteen: Television and Diversity: the Quantum Leap Model

Part Four: Afterword

Chapter Fifteen: The Reduction of Intergroup Tensions

Chapter Sixteen: Long Time Passing: Race, Prejudice, and the Reduction of Intergroup Tensions

Bibliography

Contributors

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Gender and the Family Labor System: Defining Work in the Rural Midwest
by Mary Neth. 15 pgs.

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Rural Sociology: The Strategy of Change (1957)
by Charles P. Loomis, J. Allan Beegle. 494 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Table of Contents

1: Social Systems and Social Change

Selected References

2: Locality Systems

Selected References

3: Family and Kinship Systems

Selected References

4: Informal Social Systems

Selected References

5: Regional Social Systems

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6: Hierarchical Social Systems

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7: Religious Social Systems

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8: Educational Social Systems

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9: Governmental Social Systems

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10: Farmers' Organizations as Social Systems

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11: Social Systems in Health

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12: Federal Agency Systems

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13: Library and Mass Media Systems

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14: Direction and Strategy of Change

Selected References

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Rural Social Systems: A Textbook in Rural Sociology and Anthropology (1950)
by Charles P. Loomis, J. Beegle Allan. 878 pgs.

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FOREWORD

CONTENTS

List of Figures

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: THE NATURE OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS-- FRAMES OF REFERENCE

PART I: FAMILY AND INFORMAL GROUPS AS SOCIAL SYSTEMS

Chapter 2: THE RURAL FAMILY: INTERACTION, FUNCTIONS, AND TYPES

Chapter 3: THE RURAL FAMILY: VARIATIONS IN VALUE ORIENTATION

Chapter 4: THE RURAL FAMILY: SIZE AND COMPOSITION

Summary

PART II: LOCALITY GROUPS AS SOCIAL SYSTEMS

Chapter 6: THE HAMLET, NEIGHBORHOOD, AND TRADE-CENTER COMMUNITY

Chapter 7: SETTLEMENT PATTERNS

Chapter 8: RURAL REGIONS AND THEIR ECONOMIC ASPECTS

PART III: SOCIAL STRATA AS SOCIAL SYSTEMS

Chapter 9: THE FORMS OF TENANCY

Chapter 10: THE BASIS AND MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL STRATA

Chapter 11: THE NATURE OF RURAL SOCIAL STRATA

PART IV: RELIGIOUS GROUPS AS SOCIAL SYSTEMS

Chapter 12: THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF RELIGION

Chapter 13: THE CHARACTER OF RURAL RELIGION

PART V: EDUCATIONAL GROUPS AS SOCIAL SYSTEMS

Chapter 14: THE PERFORMANCE OF THE RURAL SCHOOL

Chapter 15: THE RELATION OF THE SCHOOL TO OTHER SYSTEMS

Chapter 16: EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS OTHER THAN THE SCHOOL

ART VI: POLITICAL AND OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS AS SOCIAL SYSTEMS

Chapter 17: THE FUNCTION AND OPERATION OF RURAL GOVERNMENT

Chapter 18: THE RELATION OF RURAL GOVERNMENT TO OTHER SYSTEMS

Chapter 19: THE FARMERS' MOVEMENTS

PART VII: RURAL SERVICE AGENCIES AS SOCIAL SYSTEMS

Chapter 20: THE EXTENTION, SOIL CONVERSATION, AND RELATED SERVICES

Chapter 21: RURAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL CARE

Chapter 22: RURAL WELFARE AND SECURITY

GLOSSARY

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX B: RURAL COLLECTIVITIES

INDEX
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Reflexivity, Sociology and the Rural-Urban Distinction in Marx, Tonnies and Weber, in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
by Kieran Bonner. 25 pgs.

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Gendered Fields: Rural Women, Agriculture, and Environment
by Carolyn E. Sachs. 224 pgs.

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Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society

Rural Studies Series

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Tables and Photographs

Acknowledgments

1: Situating Rural Women in Theory and Practice

2: Feminist Theory and Rural Women

3: Rural Women and Nature

4: Rural Women's Connections to the Land

5: Women's Work with Plants

6: Women's Work with Animals

7: Women on Family Farms: A Reappraisal

8: Global Restructuring, Local Outcomes, and the Reshaping of Rural Women's Work

9: Conclusion

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