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Ictio: Amazon fish biological records dataset of the Amazon Waters AllianceThis dataset brings together biological records of Amazonian freshwater fishes compiled through the Ictio System of the Amazon Waters Alliance. It integrates records contributed by fishers, monitors, local and Indigenous communities, management groups, associations, partner organizations, researchers, research institutions and technical teams across the Amazon Basin. The resource is prepared as a Darwin Core occurrence dataset for publication through GBIF/IPT, with EML metadata describing its collective origin, general protocols, geographic and temporal coverage, quality controls, rights, access rules and recommended citation. The open GBIF version is anonymized and spatially generalized to Basin Level 4. Access to the extended dataset, with greater spatial or management detail, must be requested from the Technical Secretariat of the Amazon Waters Alliance and requires data use authorization.
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Ictio: conjunto de registros biológicos de peces de la Alianza Aguas Amazónicas
Este conjunto de datos reúne registros biológicos de peces amazónicos de agua dulce compilados mediante el Sistema Ictio de la Alianza Aguas Amazónicas. Integra registros aportados por pescadores/as, monitores/as, comunidades locales y pueblos indígenas, grupos de manejo, asociaciones, organizaciones socias, investigadores/as, instituciones de investigación y equipos técnicos en la Cuenca Amazónica. El recurso se prepara como un conjunto de datos de ocurrencias en Darwin Core para publicación mediante GBIF/IPT, con metadatos EML que describen su origen colectivo, sus protocolos generales, cobertura geográfica y temporal, controles de calidad, derechos, reglas de acceso y citación recomendada. La publicación abierta en GBIF corresponde a una versión anonimizada y generalizada espacialmente a nivel de cuenca BL4. La base extendida, con mayor detalle espacial o de gestión, debe solicitarse a la Secretaría Técnica de la Alianza Aguas Amazónicas y requiere autorización de uso.
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Ictio: conjunto de registros biológicos de peixes da Aliança Águas Amazônicas
Este conjunto de dados reúne registros biológicos de peixes amazônicos de água doce compilados por meio do Sistema Ictio da Aliança Águas Amazônicas. Integra registros aportados por pescadores/as, monitores/as, comunidades locais, povos indígenas e comunidades tradicionais, grupos de manejo, associações, organizações parceiras, pesquisadores/as, instituições de pesquisa e equipes técnicas na Bacia Amazônica. O recurso é preparado como um conjunto de dados de ocorrências em Darwin Core para publicação por meio do GBIF/IPT, com metadados EML que descrevem sua origem coletiva, protocolos gerais, cobertura geográfica e temporal, controles de qualidade, direitos, regras de acesso e citação recomendada. A versão aberta no GBIF é anonimizada e generalizada espacialmente no nível de bacia BL4. O acesso ao conjunto de dados estendido, com maior detalhe espacial ou de gestão, deve ser solicitado à Secretaria Técnica da Aliança Águas Amazônicas e requer autorização de uso dos dados.
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Decimal latitude and longitude, exact locality descriptions, and any information that could identify individuals, communities, fishing sites, or other sensitive locations are removed, generalized, or obscured before publication.","boundingBox":{"minLatitude":-18.594719,"maxLatitude":3.765059,"minLongitude":-78.827747,"maxLongitude":-47.529212,"globalCoverage":false}}],"temporalCoverages":[{"@type":"range","start":"1905-07-10T00:00:00.000+00:00","end":"2025-10-03T00:00:00.000+00:00"}],"keywordCollections":[{"thesaurus":"GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml","keywords":["Occurrence"]},{"thesaurus":"n/a","keywords":["Amazon Basin; Cuenca Amazónica; Bacia Amazônica\n\nAmazon Waters Alliance; Alianza Aguas Amazónicas; Aliança Águas Amazônicas\n\nIctio; Ictio System; Sistema Ictio\n\ncitizen science; ciencia ciudadana; ciência cidadã\n\nparticipatory science; ciencia participativa; ciência participativa\n\nparticipatory monitoring; monitoreo participativo; monitoramento participativo\n\ncommunity-based monitoring; monitoreo comunitario; monitoramento comunitário\n\nfreshwater fish; peces de agua dulce; peixes de água doce\n\nAmazonian fishes; peces amazónicos; peixes amazônicos\n\nfish occurrence records; registros de ocurrencia de peces; registros de ocorrência de peixes\n\noccurrence dataset; conjunto de datos de ocurrencias; conjunto de dados de ocorrências\n\nbiodiversity data; datos de biodiversidad; dados de biodiversidade\n\nbiological records; registros biológicos; registros biológicos\n\nhuman observation; observación humana; observação humana\n\ninland fisheries; pesquerías continentales; pesca continental\n\nAmazonian fisheries; pesca amazónica; pesca amazônica\n\nfishers; pescadoras/es; pescadoras/es\n\nlocal knowledge; conocimiento local; conhecimento local\n\nIndigenous knowledge; conocimiento indígena; conhecimento indígena\n\naquatic ecosystems; ecosistemas acuáticos; ecossistemas aquáticos\n\nfreshwater ecosystems; ecosistemas de agua dulce; ecossistemas de água doce\n\nAmazonian aquatic ecosystems; ecosistemas acuáticos amazónicos; ecossistemas aquáticos amazônicos\n\ndata mobilization; movilización de datos; mobilização de dados\n\ndata governance; gobernanza de datos; governança de dados\n\ndata access; acceso a datos; acesso a dados\n\nspatial generalization; generalización espacial; generalização espacial\n\nBasin Level 4; cuenca BL4; bacia BL4\n\nDarwin Core; Darwin Core Archive; GBIF; GBIF/IPT"]}],"project":{"title":"Ictio System of the Amazon Waters Alliance","identifier":"https://aguasamazonicas.org/","contacts":[{"type":"ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT","primary":false,"userId":[],"firstName":"Secretaria","lastName":"Técnica","position":[],"email":[],"phone":[],"homepage":[],"address":[]}],"funding":"The development, operation and publication of the Ictio System and this dataset have been supported through contributions from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USAID, Wildlife Conservation Society and institutional, technical and in-kind contributions from partner and allied organizations of the Amazon Waters Alliance.","awards":[],"studyAreaDescription":"The project focuses on the Amazon Basin, including freshwater aquatic ecosystems, fisheries systems and riverine landscapes where fish observations and fisheries related information have been generated or mobilized through Ictio and associated partner workflows. The dataset includes records from multiple countries in the Amazon region, with uneven coverage across countries, sub-basins, periods and protocols.\n\nThe thematic scope includes Amazonian freshwater fishes, fish occurrence records, fisheries, participatory monitoring, citizen science, local knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, biodiversity data and aquatic ecosystem conservation. The open GBIF version of the dataset is spatially generalized and does not publish precise coordinates or personal information.","designDescription":"The project was designed to address the need for shared, basin scale information on Amazonian fishes and fisheries through a collaborative data system. Its strategy combines participatory data generation, historical data mobilization, partner-led monitoring, data standardization, technical review, access rules and publication through biodiversity data infrastructures.\n\nThe project does not follow a single uniform or probabilistic sampling design. Instead, it brings together records generated through different protocols and workflows, including observations during fishing, post-fishing reports, port or landing records, market records, bulk uploads, digitized forms and partner-led monitoring activities. These records vary in spatial precision, temporal coverage, protocol, source workflow and degree of associated effort information.\n\nFor this reason, the dataset is suitable for documenting reported presence, occurrence patterns, general distribution at basin scale, data mobilization processes and participatory biodiversity documentation. It should not be used directly to estimate abundance, fishing effort, catch per unit effort, population trends or fishing pressure without careful review of protocols, variables, filters, spatial and temporal coverage, and methodological limitations.\n\nThe project also includes data governance decisions intended to protect people, communities and sensitive locations. The open version published through GBIF is anonymized and spatially generalized. Access to extended data with greater spatial detail or restricted attributes requires authorization from the Technical Secretariat of the Amazon Waters Alliance and acceptance of data use terms.","relatedProjects":[{"title":"Citizen Science for the Amazon","identifier":"https://amazoniacienciaciudadana.org/en/home-english/","contacts":[{"type":"POINT_OF_CONTACT","primary":false,"userId":["https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=https://www.linkedin.com/company/aguasamazonicas/"],"firstName":"Ecoporé","lastName":"Alianza Aguas Amazónicas (AAA)","position":[],"email":[],"phone":[],"homepage":[],"address":[]}],"abstract":"Citizen Science for the Amazon was a regional knowledge network based on citizen science that brought together organizations from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the United States, France and Peru to support the conservation of the Amazon Basin. In the context of the Ictio dataset, this initiative provided the collaborative framework through which people and organizations across the basin collected and shared information to improve understanding of Amazonian fish migrations and the environmental factors that influence them.\n\nCitizen Science for the Amazon promoted a basin scale approach, recognizing that Amazonian freshwater ecosystems are interconnected and that data should be available at multiple scales to inform conservation and management decisions in communities, social organizations, sub-basins, political jurisdictions and the Amazon Basin as a whole. Its priorities focused on freshwater ecosystems, starting with water and fishes, and their interrelationship with people.\n\nThe initiative also shaped the principles behind Ictio as a participatory data system: collaboration between scientists and civil society, respect for human rights, territories, knowledge and cultures, development of context sensitive technological solutions, responsible openness in data sharing, and recognition of diverse forms of knowledge, including local and Indigenous knowledge. Within this historical process, Ictio became one of the main tools and data systems for mobilizing citizen generated and partner contributed information on Amazonian fishes and fisheries."}],"abstract":"The Ictio System of the Amazon Waters Alliance is a regional sociotechnical system for generating, organizing, validating, managing, publishing and using information on fishes, fisheries and aquatic ecosystems of the Amazon Basin. It brings together tools, data, protocols, agreements, capacities and governance processes that support citizen science, participatory monitoring, data mobilization and evidence-based decision-making at basin scale.\n\nIctio is not limited to a mobile application. Its historical development included the Ictio mobile application and original web platform, developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with Wildlife Conservation Society and partners of Citizen Science for the Amazon. These tools were central to the first phase of data collection but are no longer available for new data capture. The current Ictio System recognizes that historical contribution while expanding toward additional data capture, upload, management and publication mechanisms adapted to the needs of partner organizations, local monitoring processes and technical teams.\n\nThe project integrates contributions from fishers, monitors, citizen scientists, local and Indigenous communities, management groups, fishers’ associations, partner organizations, researchers, research institutions and technical teams. The information generated through this system supports the documentation of Amazonian freshwater fish occurrences, the mobilization of biodiversity data, the strengthening of fisheries governance and the conservation of aquatic ecosystems."},"samplingDescription":{"studyExtent":"The dataset integrates records generated through different approaches to data collection and data mobilization across the Amazon Basin. First, it includes participatory records contributed by fishers and monitors in the context of citizen science and local monitoring activities, especially through protocols associated with fishing events or post-fishing reports. Second, it includes records derived from participatory monitoring of fish landings at ports, where information may be collected through interaction with fishers or other actors involved in landing activities. Third, it may include data from scientific fishing or technical monitoring carried out by research institutions or partner organizations, when these data have been adapted to the upload, review and standardization workflows of the Ictio System. The dataset also includes opportunistic market observations, which record fishes that are available, sold or reported in commercial settings, although these records do not always allow the precise capture location to be identified.\n\nThe data collection effort is not uniform across space, time or method. Records reflect diverse initiatives, capacities, protocols and local contexts. For this reason, the resource is suitable for documenting reported presence, general distribution, recording patterns and data mobilization processes. Its use for analyses of abundance, fishing effort or fisheries dynamics should carefully consider differences among protocols and the availability of effort related variables.","sampling":"The dataset combines observations generated through the Ictio System and historical data mobilized by partner organizations. Data collection and mobilization take place through participatory processes involving fishers, monitors, communities, management groups, fishers’ associations, scientists and technical teams.\n\nRecords may originate from fishing events, post-fishing reports, port surveys, market surveys, digitized paper forms, bulk uploads or other data workflows associated with the Ictio System. For this first publication, the protocols are documented at a general level, without describing each protocol in detail or treating them as separate citation units.","qualityControl":"Quality control is carried out through a multi step process within the Amazon Waters Alliance. Data are first supported and documented through local organizations, partner teams, fishers, monitors and community-based processes that contribute to data collection, contextual interpretation and follow-up when clarification is needed.\n\nAfter data are mobilized into the Ictio System, a group of participants and technical contributors reviews and curates the dataset. This includes checks on data structure, taxonomic names, geographic information, dates, protocols, duplicate or inconsistent values, and the interpretation of source fields before publication. The Technical Secretariat of the Amazon Waters Alliance also reviews and curates the data, coordinating internal validation and ensuring that publication rules are applied.\n\nBefore publication through GBIF/IPT, the dataset goes through an internal validation process to verify that the open version is suitable for public access. This includes checking that personal information, precise coordinates and restricted or sensitive attributes are not included in the published file. Access rights, data generalization, information withheld and citation requirements are reviewed as part of the publication workflow.\n\nThese quality control procedures are intended to improve the consistency, interpretability and responsible publication of the dataset. However, users should consider that the records come from different protocols, local contexts, data capture mechanisms and levels of sampling effort. Analytical use should therefore take into account the source workflow, protocol, spatial and temporal coverage, and any filters or transformations applied.","methodSteps":["Data were collected or mobilized through different workflows associated with the Ictio System, including the former Ictio mobile application and web platform, bulk uploads, digitized field forms and contributions from partner organizations. Participating fishers, monitors, community collaborators, scientists and technical teams recorded or submitted information on fish species or taxonomic groups, number of individuals, total weight, price when applicable, date, general location and recording protocol.\n\nThese workflows reflect different phases of Ictio’s development and use. Some records were generated directly through participatory data capture during or after fishing activities, while others were mobilized from partner-led monitoring, historical datasets, port or market surveys, and other locally adapted data collection processes.","Data production is supported by training, technical assistance, knowledge dialogue and collaboration with fishers, local and Indigenous communities, management groups, fishers’ associations, partner organizations and technical teams. These processes help adapt data collection to local contexts, clarify protocols, improve documentation and support the social use of information.\n\nLocal organizations and technical teams play an important role in accompanying participants, facilitating data collection, interpreting records when clarification is needed, and connecting the information generated through Ictio with local monitoring, fisheries management and conservation processes.","Source fields were mapped to Darwin Core Occurrence terms to prepare the dataset for publication through GBIF/IPT. Core occurrence fields were used to describe the biological record, including taxonomic, temporal, geographic and record level information.\n\nAdditional variables that provide measurement, effort, fisheries or contextual information may be mapped to Darwin Core extensions such as MeasurementOrFact when appropriate. Media related information, when available and suitable for publication, may be mapped to SimpleMultimedia. Methodological context that does not correspond directly to Darwin Core occurrence terms is documented in the EML metadata, including protocol descriptions, data capture workflows, access rules and interpretation notes.","Consolidated data are reviewed by technical teams, Alliance participants and subject matter experts to improve taxonomic, geographic, structural and consistency quality before publication. This review includes field normalization, assessment of scientific names, verification of coordinates or basin level geographic layers, review of recording protocols, detection of duplicate or inconsistent values, and identification of temporal, geographic or taxonomic outliers.\n\nThe review process supports internal validation of the dataset and helps ensure that the open version prepared for GBIF/IPT is interpretable, standardized and aligned with the access and publication rules of the Amazon Waters Alliance.","The open version of the dataset is published as a Darwin Core Archive through GBIF/IPT, with EML metadata, versioning and a DOI assigned or recorded at the time of publication. The publication file is prepared as an open occurrence dataset to support discovery, citation and responsible reuse.\n\nBefore publication, the open file is anonymized and spatially generalized or obscured to Basin Level 4 (BL4). Precise coordinates, personal information, direct user identifiers and restricted or sensitive attributes are excluded from the public version. Access to data with greater spatial detail or restricted attributes must follow the authorization procedures defined by the Technical Secretariat of the Amazon Waters Alliance."]},"countryCoverage":[],"collections":[],"dataDescriptions":[],"dataLanguage":"eng","purpose":"This dataset aims to mobilize, document and publish an open, anonymized and spatially generalized version of biological records of Amazonian fishes compiled through the Ictio System of the Amazon Waters Alliance. Its publication seeks to support discovery, citation and responsible reuse of information on fishes, fisheries and aquatic ecosystems of the Amazon Basin, contributing to open science, participatory monitoring, freshwater ecosystem conservation and decision making at basin scale.The dataset makes visible the collective contribution of fishers, monitors, local and Indigenous communities, partner organizations, research institutions, technical teams and users who have shared information through Ictio and related data upload workflows. The version published through GBIF is an occurrence dataset prepared for open access, without names, email addresses, personal identifiers or precise coordinates. Access to information with greater spatial detail or restricted attributes must be requested from the Technical Secretariat of the Amazon Waters Alliance and is subject to authorization and acceptance of the terms of use.
","introduction":"The Amazon Basin supports exceptional diversity of freshwater fishes, fisheries systems, local knowledge and management practices that are essential for the conservation of aquatic ecosystems and for the well being of the populations that depend on them. However, information on fishes, fisheries and Amazonian aquatic ecosystems is often dispersed across local initiatives, research projects, participatory monitoring efforts, community records, partner organizations and digital platforms. The Ictio System emerged as a collaborative response to the need to bring together, organize and circulate relevant information at basin scale.For this resource, the Ictio System is understood as the articulated set of tools, data, protocols, agreements, capacities and governance processes that makes it possible to generate, organize, validate, manage, publish and use information on fishes, fisheries and aquatic ecosystems of the Amazon Basin. It is not limited to a mobile application: it integrates the historical experience of Ictio as an application and web platform, the database of fish observations, data upload and access mechanisms, and the communities of citizen scientists, fishers, partner organizations and technical teams.The historical Ictio mobile application and web platform, developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with Wildlife Conservation Society and partners of Citizen Science for the Amazon, were central to the first phase of data collection. These tools are no longer available for new data capture. In the current stage, the Amazon Waters Alliance recognizes that historical contribution while expanding Ictio into a broader system that includes additional data capture, upload, management and publication mechanisms adapted to the needs of partner organizations and local monitoring processes.In this context, Ictio is recognized as a sociotechnical system of the Amazon Waters Alliance, aimed at strengthening the management, publication, access and responsible use of data on Amazonian fishes and fisheries. This publication through GBIF/IPT helps consolidate a citation unit for Ictio’s biological fish records, improve traceability of data use and make it easier to interpret the data in relation to their production conditions, access levels, privacy restrictions and recognition processes.The records included in this dataset come from different approaches to data collection and mobilization. They include participatory observations made by fishers and monitors during or after fishing trips, records associated with ports and fish landings, market observations, historical data contributed by partner organizations and records mobilized through digital workflows or bulk uploads. For this reason, the dataset should not be interpreted as a uniform, probabilistic or equivalent sampling effort across countries, sub-basins, time periods or protocols. Its main value is to document occurrences, reported presence, recording patterns and data mobilization processes for Amazonian fishes at regional scale.The open version of this dataset has been prepared with privacy and territorial sensitivity safeguards. It does not publish personal data or precise coordinates. Record locations are presented in a generalized form, according to the publication rules defined for this resource. Any analytical use should consider these generalizations, differences among protocols, possible variation in recording effort and the limitations of data generated in participatory and multi-actor contexts.
","gettingStarted":"This resource is published as a Darwin Core Archive occurrence dataset through GBIF/IPT. The main file contains biological records of Amazonian fishes organized as occurrences, with standardized Darwin Core fields and contextual variables derived from Ictio System recording workflows. Technical field names are kept in English, following Darwin Core, while contextual documentation for the resource is provided in English and may have informative equivalents in Spanish and Portuguese.Each record represents a biological observation or report associated with fishes or taxonomic groups linked to Amazonian fishes and fisheries. Depending on the availability of the source data and the protocol of origin, records may include information on scientific name or taxonomic group, date, country, general geography, basin or sub-basin, recording protocol, submission method and other attributes related to the observation. The open version does not include names, surnames, email addresses, personal identifiers or precise coordinates.Users should note that this dataset is not limited to records collected through the former Ictio mobile application. The Ictio app and web platform were central to the historical generation of many records, but they are no longer available for new data capture. The dataset also includes records mobilized through additional workflows, such as bulk uploads, digitized field forms, partner led monitoring activities and other tools or platforms adopted according to the needs of the Amazon Waters Alliance and its collaborators.The dataset should be interpreted with attention to the fact that records come from multiple sources and collection contexts. Some records were generated directly by fishers, monitors or Ictio users; others come from bulk uploads, digitized forms or historical data mobilization processes coordinated by partner organizations and technical teams. The recorded protocols may correspond to observations during fishing, post fishing reports, market records or port/landing records. These protocols do not represent the same type of effort or the same level of precision regarding the capture site.The dataset is suitable for exploring reported presence of Amazonian fishes, general distribution at basin scale, data mobilization patterns, geographic and temporal coverage, and questions related to citizen science, participatory monitoring and aquatic biodiversity documentation. It should not be used directly to estimate abundance, fishing effort, catch per unit effort, population trends or fishing pressure without first reviewing the protocols, available variables, applied filters, spatial and temporal coverage, and methodological limitations of the subset used.When citing or reusing this resource, users should record the dataset version, DOI, access date, applied filters, number of records used, selected variables and any transformations performed. Derived products should recognize the Ictio System, the Amazon Waters Alliance and the actors who made the generation and management of the data possible, according to the recommended citation and the terms of use of the resource defined in the license. Also, the Amazon Waters Alliance citation guidelines for datasets, biological records and other asociated resources avalaible at: https://aguasamazonicas.org/
","acknowledgements":"This dataset recognizes the contribution of the people, communities, organizations and institutions that have made the Ictio System and the generation of information on fishes, fisheries and aquatic ecosystems of the Amazon Basin possible. We especially thank fishers, monitors, citizen scientists, local and Indigenous communities, fishers’ associations, management groups, Ictio users, research institutions, partner organizations and technical teams that contributed records, territorial support, training, curation, validation, communication and local knowledge.
This publication recognizes the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for the historical development of the Ictio app and web, the initial technological management of the data collection and management systems, and the terms of use that guided access, citation and recognition of Ictio data. It also recognizes Wildlife Conservation Society as the host organization of the Amazon Waters Alliance, coordinator of the Technical Secretariat and a key actor in the development, operation, mobilization, communication and support of Ictio and the Alliance.This resource is developed within the framework of the Amazon Waters Alliance, a regional network composed of non-governmental organizations, universities, research centers, governmental research institutions, grassroots organizations and international partners.
The institutional and collaborative framework of its partner organizations is recognized: Amazon Fish; CIBIOMA; CINCIA; Conservation Strategy Fund; Conservation X Labs; Ecoporé; FAUNAGUA; Florida International University; Instituto del Bien Común; Department of Ichthyology of the Natural History Museum of the National University of San Marcos; Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana; INABIO; Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá; Instituto Fronteiras; Instituto Juruá; Instituto Sinchi; IPIAP; IRD Perú – Institut de recherche pour le développement; Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Mississippi State University; Museo Ictícola Dr. Jorge Estívarez Justiniano CIRA-UABJB; NEAP; OPAN – Operação Amazônia Nativa; ProNaturaleza; Projeto Saúde e Alegria; Sapopema; San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance-Peru; The Nature Conservancy; Universidade Federal do Amazonas; Universidade Federal de Rondônia; Universidad San Francisco de Quito; and Wildlife Conservation Society. This mention recognizes the Alliance’s collaboration framework and does not replace the specific attribution of roles, authorship, data contributions or institutional responsibilities documented in the creator, associated parties, funders, contacts or project personnel fields.
This publication has been made possible thanks to the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USAID, Wildlife Conservation Society and other institutional, technical and in kind contributions made by partner and allied organizations at different stages of the development of Ictio and the Amazon Waters Alliance. Award numbers, where applicable, should be recorded in the structured award or funding section of the metadata. The contents, data and metadata are the responsibility of the publishing entity and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding entities.
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