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Desultory (band) Desultory was part of the first wave of Swedish death metal bands, alongside Entombed, Dismember, and others. Into Eternity, their Metal Blade debut following a lesser-known EP release, is standard for the genre, energetic and forceful, straddling the line between the more brutal American death style and the melodic Gothenburg variety.
Desyat Negrityat Desyat Negrityat [Russian: Десять Негритят] is a 1987 Russian film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None (the title of this version translates as Ten Little Negroes, which was very close to Ten Little Niggers, Christie's original title for the book). It was directed by Stanislav Govorukhin, who also penned the script.
Desymmetrization Desymmetrization in stereochemistry is the modification of a molecule which results in the loss of one or more symmetry elements, such as those which rise to chirality (a mirror plane, center of inversion, rotation-reflection axis), as in the conversion of a prochiral molecular entity into a chiral one Basic Terminology of Stereochemistry, G.P.
DeSagana Diop DeSagana N'gagne Diop (Pronounced: Suh-GAH-nah JOP) (also known as simply Gana Diop) (born January 30, 1982 in Dakar) is a Senegalese professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. The seven-feet (213 cm), 280 lb (127 kg) Diop's natural position is center.
DeShawn Stevenson DeShawn Stevenson (born April 3 1981 in Fresno, California) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Washington Wizards of the NBA. He entered the NBA directly from Washington Union High School in his hometown of Fresno and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd overall selection of the 2000 NBA Draft.
DeSoto Adventurer The DeSoto Adventurer was an automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation and sold under its DeSoto automotive brand from 1956 through the 1960 model year. While in production, the Adventurer was DeSoto’s top-trim level car, and offered only as a hardtop coupe in 1956.
DeSoto Airflow The DeSoto Airflow was an automobile built by the Chrysler Corporation for sale through its DeSoto division during model years 1934, 1935 and 1936. DeSoto received the then-revolutionary Airflow model due to its price structure relationship to larger and more expensive Chrysler brand cars.
DeSoto Airstream The Desoto Airstream was an automobile built by the Chrysler Corporation and sold through its DeSoto division during model years 1935 and 1936. During both years, the car was sold along with the streamlined DeSoto Airflow.
DeSoto Custom The DeSoto Custom was an automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation and sold under its DeSoto automotive brand from 1946 through the 1952 model year. While in production, the Custom was DeSoto’s top-trim level car, and was offered in a full array of body styles, including the extended wheelbase Suburban sedans.
DeSoto Deluxe The DeSoto Deluxe (also known as the DeLuxe) was an automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation and sold under its DeSoto brand from 1946 through the 1952 model year. While in production, the Deluxe was DeSoto's entry-level car, and was offered primarily as two and four-door sedans.
DeSoto Diplomat The DeSoto Diplomat was a product of the Chrysler Corporation for sale in export markets outside of the United States. DeSoto Diplomats were essentially rebadged cars — brand cars that were badged as DeSotos and sold outside the United States.
DeSoto Falls (Georgia) The DeSoto Falls of Georgia are located in Lumpkin County, Georgia along Frogtown Creek. There are actually three waterfalls on Frogtown Creek, called Upper DeSoto Falls, Middle Desoto Falls and Lower DeSoto Falls.
DeSoto Firedome The DeSoto Firedome was a full-size automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation for its DeSoto brand vehicles from 1952 to 1959. Introduced as DeSoto's premium line of vehicles in 1953 and 1954, the Firedome also occupied the least expensive position in the model lineup during 1955 and 1956 model years before it was reclassified as a mid-range vehicle offered by DeSoto between 1957 and 1959.
DeSoto Fireflite The DeSoto Fireflite was introduced in 1955 as De Soto’s flagship model. The car was wider and longer than previous DeSoto models and it came equipped with a V8 engine producing 255 hp (190 kW) and PowerFlite automatic transmission.
DeSoto Powermaster The DeSoto Powermaster was an automobile built by the Chrysler Corporation for sale through its DeSoto division during model years 1953 and 1954. The car debuted during DeSoto's 25th anniversary, taking the place of both the entry-level DeSoto Deluxe and the DeSoto Custom.
DeSoto Suburban The DeSoto Suburban was an automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation and sold under its DeSoto automotive brand from 1946 through the 1954 model year. The Suburban was a continuation of DeSoto's long wheelbase models, first introduced in 1937.
Det gör ont en stund på natten men inget på dan Det gör ont en stund på natten men inget på dan is the 2004 studio album from Swedish pop music singer Lena Philipsson, led by the first single and #1 hit "Det Gör Ont" (“It Hurts”). The album was released on August 4, debuting at #1 in Sweden, and not falling until a few weeks thereafter.
Det Kongelige danske Søkortarkiv Det Kongelige danske Søkortarkiv (English: the Royal Danish Nautical charts archive) was a Danish Navy department, responsible for making accurate nautical charts for the Danish government, primary the Navy, for nearly 200 years.
Det Norske Studentersamfund Det Norske Studentersamfund ("The student society of Norway") is Norway's oldest student society. Established in 1813 in Oslo, it has been the centre of debate, culture and politics for over 200 years.
Det Røde Kapel Det Røde Kapel (Danish: The Red Orchestra) is a Danish television show on the Danish television channel DR2, about the fictional theatre group Det Røde Kapel, which consists of three Danish comedians, that wants to perform a show in North Korea. The show is notable for actually taking place in North Korea.
Det Sjungande Trädet Det Sjungande Trädet (The Singing Tree) is the third solo album of Swedish pop music artist Mauro Scocco. This album diverges from his other albums in that it consists of instrumental songs played on the piano, quite different from his reglar pop music.
Det vackraste Det vackraste is a song in Swedish about love, the title can be translated with The Most Beautiful Thing. The song was originally sung by Swedish pop singer Cecilia Vennersten and finished 2nd in the Melodifestivalen 1995, the Swedish selections for Eurovision Song Contest.
Detachable chairlift A detachable chairlift or high-speed chairlift is a type of passenger aerial lift, which, like a fixed-grip chairlift, consists of numerous chairs attached to a constantly moving steel cable (called a haul rope) that is strung between two (or more) terminals over intermediate towers. They are now commonplace at all but the smallest of ski areas.
Detached eddy simulation Detached eddy simulation (DES) is a modification of a RANS model in which the model switches to a subgrid scale formulation in regions fine enough for LES calculations. Regions near solid boundaries and where the turbulent length scale is less than the maximum grid dimension are assigned the RANS mode of solution.
Detached Solutions Detached Solutions is a software development company formed on May 1 2000 by Dan Englender, Jason Kovacs, Andrew Magness, Scott Dial, and Brandon Sterner, who were previously involved in a group of programmers called the TI-Calculator Programming Alliance (TCPA). Later, the staff would come to include Michael Vincent and Kirk Meyer.
Detachment Detachment is a state in which a person, theoretically, overcomes his or her attachment to desire for things, people or concepts of the world and thus attains a heightened perspective. Detachment as release from desire and consequently from suffering is an important principle in Biriantan and Kabbalah.
Detachment fault Detachment faulting is associated with large-scale lithospheric extensional tectonics. Detachment faults often have very large displacements (10s of km) and juxtapose unmetamorphosed hanging walls against medium to high-grade metamorphic footwalls.
Detailman Detailmen and detailwomen are salespeople employed by pharmaceutical companies to persuade doctors to prescribe their medical drugs to patients. Drug companies spend $5 billion annually sending representatives to doctors' offices.
Details (magazine) Details is an American monthly men's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Though the title has existed since the 1980s under various editors and publishers, its current format stems from an October 2000 relaunch of the title, following a transfer of the magazine from the Condé Nast Media Group division to sibling division Fairchild Publications.
Detained (Enterprise episode) Detained is the 20th episode (production #121) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. It may be noteworthy for reuniting Scott Bakula with Dean Stockwell for the first time since the series "Quantum Leap".
Detainee Detainee is a controversial term used by certain governments and their military to refer to individuals held in custody, such as those it does not classify and treat as either prisoners of war or suspects in criminal cases.
Detainer DETAINER (from detain, Latin detinere); in law, the act of keeping a person against his will, or the wrongful keeping of a persons goods, or other real or personal property. A writ of detainer was a form for the beginning of a personal action against a person already lodged within the walls of a prison; it was superseded by the Judgment Act 1838.
Detaining Power A Detaining Power is the country, state, government, or any other jurisdiction which detains, holds, or incarcerates those who are alleged to have committed an offence against this jurisdiction or others (which for whatever reason have not been or will be proven not to be fit to process the detainees in question). In short, anyone who prevents someone from leaving a country or state and may have lawfully arrested and held such persons for a length of time may be referred to as a Detaining Power.
Detalion Detalion was a Polish developer of computer software games, before closing due to financial difficulties in March of 2005. They developed such notable adventure games as Reah: Face the Unknown; Schizm: Mysterious Journey (published as Mysterious Journey: Schizm in North America); Mysterious Journey 2, and most recently, Sentinel: Descendants in Time (later renamed Realms of Illusion).
Detangler The detangler is an invention for the BMX bicycle allowing the handlebars to turn a complete 360° rotation without the brake cables getting tangled up. The correct name for this device is the "SST oryg".
Detarieae The tribe Detarieae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae, which includes the legumes. This tribe includes many tropical trees including some that are used for timber or that are ecologically important.
Detasemen Bravo Detasemen Bravo 90 (Bravo-90 Detachment) is the newest unit in the Indonesian Special Forces groups. Bravo, which means the best, was formed in limited ways within the Air Force Special Forces Corps (Kopaskhasau).
Detecon Detecon International GmbH is a consultancy in the field of information technology and communications (ICT). Detecon International emerged in July 2002 from the merger of the two consulting firms Diebold and Detecon.
Detectable warning Detectable warnings alert people who are blind or visually impaired of impending danger from vehicle impact or a grade change. These are made up of "truncated domes", which are small domes that have had their tops cut off, or truncated.
Detection In general, detection is the extraction of intelligence from a carrier signal in a communication system. Note that this may be either an overt signal, as in a conventional radio broadcast, or a covert signal, as in steganography.
Detection dog A detection dog is a dog that is trained to and works at using its senses (almost always the sense of smell) to detect substances such as explosives or illegal drugs. Hunting dogs that search for game and search dogs that search for missing humans are generally not considered detection dogs.
Detection limit In analytical chemistry, the detection limit, or LOD (limit of detection), is the lowest quantity of a substance that can be distinguished from the absence of that substance (a blank value) within a stated confidence limit (generally 1%). There are a number of different "detection limits" that are commonly used.
Detection Limits The amount of a single chemical element, a molecular fragment, chemical compound or molecular species that can be reliably (reproducibly) measured after processing a set of spectral data and its associated noise. Not all elements can be detected by all methods, and the level of detection limit depends on the element or species being measured.
Detective (novel) Arthur Hailey's Detective was written in 1997 and it is the author's last book. Hailey vividly depicts the work of the Homicide department, its background and investigation methods, all put into a thrilling plot with many unexpected turns and surprises.
Detective Comics Detective Comics is a comic book published by DC Comics since 1937. It is, along with Action Comics (the book that launched with the debut of Superman), one of the company's best-known titles - in fact, the "DC" in the company's name comes from "Detective Comics".
Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street is the 6th Detective Conan movie. It was first screened on April 20 2002, and was the first Detective Conan movie whose script was not written by Kazunari Furuuchi; it was written by Hisashi Nozawa, famed Japanese scriptwriter.
Detective denouement The detective denouement is a variant on the literary denouement common to mystery stories. It was first popularised by the Sherlock Holmes novels, but is present in many stories, such as the works of Agatha Christie.
Detective Drone Detective Edward Drone was a recurring character in many late Victorian era British crime novels. He was characterised by his "lack of manners and general decency" as one anonymous critic put it, and his "boorishness which bordered on social illiteracy".
Detective fiction Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. Detective fiction is the most popular form of both mystery fiction and hardboiled crime fiction.
Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is a recurring literary character created by Michael Connelly. "Harry", as he is commonly known by his associates, is a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Detective Chimp In the fictional DC Universe, Detective Chimp (alias Bobo T. Chimpanzee) is a chimpanzee wearing a deerstalker (in honor of Sherlock Holmes) with human-level intelligence who solves crimes, often with the help of the Bureau of Amplified Animals, a group of intelligent animals, like Rex the Wonder Dog.
Detective Inspector John Rebus Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series of detective novels by the Scottish writer Ian Rankin, 10 of which have so far been televised as Rebus. The novels are mostly set in and around Edinburgh.
Detective Kalita Detective Kalita is a Canadian indie rock band, consisting of singer, songwriter and guitarist Andy Swan, guitarist and lap steel player Sandro Perri, bassist Greg Smith and drummer Shayne "The Velvet Fog" Cox.
Detective Mahoney Detective Mahoney (first name unknown) is a recurring character in Tim Dorsey's series of novels. He first appeared in Orange Crush, although he later appeared in Triggerfish Twist (which was set in 1997, before the events of Crush).
Detective Moochwala Detective Moochwala was a fictional detective who appeared in a youth magazine called Target in India during the 80's and the 90's. He and his dog Pooch solved numerous crimes using high tech equipment and chutzpah.
Detective Story Detective Story is a 1951 film which tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detectives squad. It stars Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell and Lee Grant.
Detector (radio) A detector is a device that recovers information of interest contained in a modulated wave. The term dates from the early days of radio when all transmissions were in Morse Code, and it was only necessary to "Detect" the presence (or absence) of a radio wave using a device such as a coherer; not necessarily making it audible.
Detector of internally-reflected Cherenkov light The Detector of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light (DIRC) was first proposed by Blair Ratcliff as a tool for particle ID at a B-Factory. As a particle travelling close to the speed of light passes through the quartz it emits cherenkov radiation and this radiation is transmitted to a stand-off box which contains photomultipliers.
Detelin Dalakliev Detelin Dalakliev () (born 19 February 1983) is a boxer from Bulgaria. He is competing in the Bantamweight (– 54 kg) division, and won bronze medals at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships and 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships and a gold medal at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
Detent Detent is the term for a method and the actual device used to mechanically resist the rotation of a wheel or shaft. It can be used to intentionally divide a rotation into discreet increments, or as in perhaps its original concept and most rudimentary form, to simply arrest rotation in one direction.
Detention (imprisonment) Detention generally refers to a state or government holding a person in a particular area, either for interrogation, as punishment for a wrong, or as a precautionary measure while investigating a potential threat posed by that person. The term can also be used in reference to the holding of property, for the same reasons.
Detention basin A Detention basin is an artificial flow control structure that is used to contain flood water for a limited period of a time. A detention basin provides protection for areas below it by containing flood water for a short period of time.
Deteriorata Deteriorata is a famous parody of San Francisco] radio and television personality [[Les Crane's spoken word recording of Desiderata . It was recorded by National Lampoon as part of their National Lampoon Radio Dinner album of 1972.
Determinacy In set theory, a branch of mathematics, determinacy is the study of under what circumstances one or the other player of a game must have a winning strategy, and the consequences of the existence of such strategies.
Determinans In linguistics, determinans (from the Latin determinare, to fix the limits of something) is a part of speech that modifies another part of speech. In the noun phrase noun phrase, for example, noun is the determinans and phrase is the determinatum, i.
Determinant In algebra, a determinant is a function depending on n that associates a scalar, det(A), to every nĂ—n square matrix A. The fundamental geometric meaning of a determinant is as the scale factor for volume when A is regarded as a linear transformation.
Determinative A determinative is an ideogram used to mark classes of words in pictographic languages; example classes include "dead people", "lifting", "things made of wood", and "swords". Determinatives are often, but not always, words of their own.
Determinatum In linguistics, determinatum (from the Latin determinare, to fix the limits of something) is a part of speech that is modified by another part of speech. In the noun phrase noun phrase, for example, phrase is the determinatum, and noun is the determinans or modifier.
Determining emf of primary cells using potentiometer The determination of the emf of a cell using a potentiometer is a classic experiment which is sometimes done at A-level in physics. This experiment has the advantage that the emf of a cell can be measured without drawing any current from the cell, in short the measurement can be done as if it was done with a voltmeter of infinite resistance.
Determinism Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences. It holds that no random, spontaneous, mysterious, or miraculous events occur.
Deterministic algorithm In computer science, a deterministic algorithm is an algorithm which, in informal terms, behaves predictably. Given a particular input, it will always produce the same correct output, and the underlying machine will always pass through the same sequence of states.
Deterministic context-free language A deterministic context-free language is a formal language that is a proper subset of languages defined by context-free grammars. The set of deterministic context-free languages is identical to the set of languages accepted by a deterministic pushdown automaton.
Deterministic encryption A deterministic encryption scheme (as opposed to a probabilistic encryption scheme) is a cryptosystem which always produces the same ciphertext for a given plaintext and key, even over separate executions of the encryption algorithm. Examples of deterministic encryption algorithms include the RSA cryptosystem (without encryption padding), and many block ciphers when used in ECB mode or with a constant initialization vector.
Deterministic finite state machine In the theory of computation, a deterministic finite state machine or deterministic finite automaton (DFA) is a finite state machine where for each pair of state and input symbol there is one and only one transition to a next state. DFAs recognize the set of regular languages and no other languages.
Deterministic garbage collector Deterministic garbage collector is a garbage collector optimized to ensure extremely short pause times and limit the total number of those pauses within a prescribed window. In real time applications, stringent requirements are placed on transaction latency (e.
Deterministic parsing In natural language processing, deterministic parsing refers to parsing algorithms that are deterministic in the sense that given the input, the parser always knows which action to take. The LR-parsers, such as the Shift-Reduce Parser are an example.
Deterministic system (mathematics) In mathematics, a deterministic system is a system in which no randomness is involved in the development of future states of the system. Deterministic models thus produce the same output for a given starting condition.
Deterministic system (philosophy) A deterministic system is a conceptual model of the philosophical doctrine of determinism applied to a system for understanding everything that has and will occur in the system, based on the physical outcomes of causality. In a deterministic system, every action, or cause, produces a reaction, or effect, and every reaction, in turn, becomes the cause of subsequent reactions.
Deterrence (film) Deterrence is a low-budget 1999 movie by director Rod Lurie depicting fictional events about nuclear brinksmanship. The movie marks the feature directorial debut of Lurie, who was previously a prominent film critic for The New York Daily News, Premiere Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and Movieline, among others.
Deterrence (legal) Deterrence is a theory of justice whereby the aim of punishment is to prevent or deter future mischief. It is often contrasted with retributivism, which holds that punishment is a necessary consequence of a crime and should be calculated based on the gravity of the wrong done.
Deterrence (psychological) Deterrence is a theory from behavioural psychology about preventing or controlling actions or behavior through fear of punishment or retribution. This theory of criminology is shaping the criminal justice system of the United States and various other countries.
Deterrence theory Deterrence theory is a military strategy developed after say and used throughout the Cold War and current times. It is especially relevant with regard to the use of nuclear weapons, and figures prominently on current United States foreign policy regarding the development of nuclear technology in North Korea and Iran.
Deterring Democracy Deterring Democracy is a book published in 1992 by Noam Chomsky, which explores the differences between the humanitarian rhetoric and alleged imperialistic reality of United States foreign policy and how it affects various countries around the world.
Deterritorialization Deterritorialization is a concept created by Gilles Deleuze and FĂ©lix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus (1972), which, in accordance to Deleuze's desire and philosophy, quickly became used by others, for example in anthropology, and transformed in this reappropriation. Deleuze and Guattari encouraged this use of their concepts in other senses than that they were "originally created for", since they didn't believe in this conception of an "original sense", which could be more or less related with phenomenology.
Detheroc Detheroc is the name of a member of a demonic race known as the Dreadlords that appears in the Warcraft III expansion pack, The Frozen Throne. Along with his brothers Balnazzar and Varimathras, Detheroc was charged by his masters within the Burning Legion to oversee the Undead Scourge, particularly in the regions that once comprised the kingdoms of Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas, now referred to as the Plaguelands.
Detlef Kästner Detlef Kästner (born March 20, 1958) is a retired boxer, who represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the bronze medal in the light middleweight division (– 71 kg), after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual silver medalist Aleksandr Koshkyn of the USSR.
Detlef Lienau Detlef Lienau (February 17 1818 – August 29, 1887) was a Danish architect. He is credited with having introduced the French style to American building construction, notably the mansard roof and all its decorative flourishes.
Detlef Quadfasel Detlef Rudolf Quadfasel is a professor of Geophysics at Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics at Copenhagen University and Oceanography at the Institut fĂĽr Meereskunde, Hamburg. He is joint editor of Progress in Oceanography.
Detlev Mehlis Detlev Mehlis (born 1949) is currently the Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin. He has 25 years of prosecutorial experience and has led numerous investigations into serious, complex transnational crimes.
Detlev Peukert Detlev Peukert (1950-1990) was a left-wing German historian, noted for his studies of the relationship between what he called the "spirit of science" and the Holocaust and in social history. Peukert taught modern history at the University of Essen and served as director of the Research Institute for the History of the Nazi Period.
Detling Hill Detling Hill is a hill forming part of the North Downs in Kent, north-east of Maidstone, and is situated in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The typical southern escarpment of the North Downs is found here, and produces dramatic views over the Low Weald.
Detmar Blow Detmar Blow (1867 - 1939) was a British architect of the early 20th century, who designed principally in the arts and crafts style. He clients belonged chiefly to the British aristocracy, he later became estates manager to the Duke of Westminster.
Detmold Chamber Orchestra Detmold Chamber Orchestra was formed in 1989 by Eckard Fisher. Among the famous performers who have been accompanied by the chamber orchestra include Wolfgang Meier, Markus Stockhausen, Gary Hoffman, Catherine Michel, among others.
Detonation Detonation is a process of supersonic combustion in which a shock wave is propagated forward due to energy release in a reaction zone behind it. It is the more powerful of the two general classes of combustion, the other one being deflagration.
Detonation (band) Detonation is a technical and melodic death / thrash metal band, with members from the Netherlands and the United States. The members of the in 1997 founded band are Koen Romeijn (Guitar and Vocals), Mike Ferguson (Guitar), Thomas Kalksma (Drums) and Otto Schimmelpenninck (Bass Guitar).
Detonator (Worlds of Fun) Detonator made history when it first appeared in the Americana section of Worlds of Fun as being the first "space shot" ride of its type in the United States. Also it was the first to have a twin-tower form.
Detonics USA Detonics USA is a firearm manufacturing company based in Pendergrass, Georgia. Detonics USA began operation in the summer of 2004 as the third incarnation of the original Detonics company based in Seattle, Washington.
Detournement In detournement, an artist reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original. The term "detournement", borrowed from the French, originated with the Situationist International; a similar term more familiar to English speakers would be "turnabout", although this term is not used in academia and the arts world.
Detox Detox, short for detoxification, in general is the removal of toxic substances from the body. It is one of the major functions of the liver, lower gastrointestinal tract and kidneys, but can also be achieved artificially by techniques such as dialysis and (in a very limited number of cases) chelation therapy.
Detox diet A detox diet is a dietary regimen involving a change in consumption habits in an attempt to detoxify the body by removal of toxins or other contaminants. It is claimed to improve health, energy, resistance to disease, mental state, digestion, as well as aiding in weight loss.

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