Common Literature Review
Mistakes UAE Students Make
— And How to Fix Them
A practical correction guide for postgraduate and MBA students at Khalifa University, UAEU, AUD, Zayed University, and University of Sharjah — covering the 2026 Turnitin AI Writing Indicator, synthesis failures, UAE contextual gaps, and APA 7th edition errors.
Most Chapter 2 revisions at UAE universities trace back to the same four mistakes. This guide identifies each one, explains why it fails under 2026 MoE and Turnitin Clarity standards, and provides a clear correction framework before your supervisor sees it.
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Why Chapter 2 Fails at UAE Universities in 2026
Literature review errors at UAE postgraduate institutions are concentrated, recurring, and largely preventable. The same structural failures appear across submissions at UAEU, Khalifa University, AUD, and Zayed University — and in 2026, the introduction of Turnitin's AI Writing Indicator has added a fourth layer of risk that most students are not yet accounting for.
The most penalised error across all UAE institutions. Reporting what each author found, in sequence, produces an annotated bibliography — not a literature review. Thematic grouping and critical argument are non-negotiable at postgraduate level.
Turnitin's AI Writing Indicator, active at UAE universities in 2026, flags AI-assisted phrasing independently of similarity scores. Students using AI paraphrasing tools such as QuillBot are being flagged even when similarity percentages appear acceptable.
Examiners at UAE federal universities expect Chapter 2 to connect the research to a local context — whether that is UAE Vision 2031, sector-specific industry data, or regional academic gaps. Global literature without UAE grounding is a consistent examiner criticism.
Mixing referencing styles within the same chapter — or applying APA 6th edition rules under an APA 7th edition requirement — generates formatting deductions that are entirely avoidable. This remains one of the most common submission errors at Zayed University and University of Sharjah.
The most common literature review mistakes UAE students make are: summarising instead of synthesising, triggering Turnitin's 2026 AI Writing Indicator through paraphrasing tools, failing to ground the review in UAE or regional context, and inconsistent APA 7th edition or Harvard referencing throughout Chapter 2.
What a Literature Review Actually Requires at UAE Universities
A literature review is not a collection of source summaries. It is a structured, critical argument that maps existing knowledge, exposes gaps, and justifies your research. The four mistakes below are not minor stylistic issues — they are structural failures that supervisors at UAEU, Khalifa University, AUD, and Zayed University identify as grounds for chapter revision.
Summarising Instead of Synthesising
The single most penalised error in UAE postgraduate literature reviews is descriptive writing. Students read 40, 60, or 100 papers and then report them individually — "Smith (2021) found that... Jones (2022) argued that..." — producing what is effectively an annotated bibliography with no analytical voice.
Synthesis requires grouping sources by argument or theme, comparing their positions, identifying where they agree or conflict, and building a cumulative point that advances toward your research gap. The writing must be yours — the sources serve as evidence, not as the content itself.
Students who need structural support for Chapter 2 at this level can access Labeeb's literature review support to rebuild the synthesis framework before supervisor submission.
"Al Mansoori (2021) found that employee engagement improved after remote work adoption. Hassan (2022) reported similar findings in the UAE banking sector. Al Zaabi (2023) also noted increased satisfaction scores."
"Across UAE financial services, remote work adoption has been consistently linked to improved engagement metrics (Al Mansoori, 2021; Hassan, 2022; Al Zaabi, 2023), though the mechanisms driving satisfaction gains remain insufficiently theorised in the local context."
Triggering the 2026 Turnitin AI Writing Indicator
In 2026, Turnitin's AI Writing Indicator operates independently of its similarity detection engine. A submission can register below the 20% similarity threshold and still receive a high AI writing score — triggering an academic integrity review at UAE institutions regardless of the student's actual writing process.
The most common trigger is AI paraphrasing tools. Students using QuillBot, Grammarly AI, or similar tools to rephrase source material produce text that Turnitin's AI detector flags with high confidence. The tool is trained specifically on this type of output and has been calibrated for 2026 UAE university submission standards.
Turnitin's AI Writing Indicator assigns a percentage score reflecting how much of a submission is estimated to be AI-generated. At Khalifa University, UAEU, and AUD, scores above the institutional threshold trigger mandatory academic integrity proceedings — separate from any similarity score outcome.
Using AI to generate a first draft and then editing it manually does not reliably reduce the AI score. The structural and syntactic patterns of AI-generated text persist through light editing. The only reliable safeguard is original, human-authored writing from the planning stage — not at the editing stage.
Missing the UAE Contextual Gap
Global literature without regional grounding is a consistently noted examiner criticism at UAE federal universities. Examiners at UAEU and Khalifa University look for explicit connections between the body of global research and the UAE-specific environment in which the study is situated.
This means referencing UAE Vision 2031 objectives where relevant, citing UAE-based empirical studies from Scopus or local journals, and identifying the specific gap between global findings and the UAE or GCC regional context. A literature review that could apply to any country, without modification, does not satisfy this requirement.
APA 7th Edition vs Harvard Referencing Inconsistency
APA 7th edition is the dominant referencing standard at most UAE postgraduate programmes. However, students frequently apply APA 6th edition rules, mix Harvard formatting within the same chapter, or produce reference lists that do not match in-text citations. Each of these generates formatting deductions under examiner rubrics.
The most common APA 7th edition errors in UAE submissions include: incorrect DOI hyperlink formatting, missing running heads (now omitted in student papers under APA 7), improper handling of three-or-more-author citations, and reference list entries that omit the publisher location (correctly removed in APA 7). These are technically avoidable errors that accumulate across a 40–60 source chapter.
The Labeeb Synthesis Matrix & Fix Frameworks
Each of the four mistakes has a corresponding correction framework. These are not generic writing tips — they are structured methods used to rebuild Chapter 2 to the standard expected at UAE postgraduate institutions in 2026, including under active Turnitin AI detection and examiner rubrics that require UAE contextual grounding.
Framework 1: The Labeeb Synthesis Matrix
The Synthesis Matrix replaces source-by-source summarising with a structured thematic grouping method. Before writing a single paragraph, map your sources against the themes your chapter must address. Each cell captures the source's position on a given theme — enabling analytical writing across the group rather than about each source individually.
| Theme | Sources Supporting | Sources Challenging | Gap Identified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remote Work & Engagement | Al Mansoori (2021), Hassan (2022), Al Zaabi (2023) | Khalil (2022), Nour (2023) | UAE banking sector understudied |
| Leadership Style & Retention | Smith (2020), Park (2022) | Ahmed (2021) | GCC transformational leadership gap |
| Digital Transformation Impact | Liu (2021), Okafor (2022) | — | No UAE-specific empirical studies |
| Organisational Culture & Agility | Brown (2020), Ali (2023) | Youssef (2022) | Vision 2031 alignment not theorised |
Framework 2: Avoiding the 2026 AI Writing Indicator
The only reliable method for avoiding Turnitin's AI Writing Indicator is original, human-authored writing built from your synthesis map — not AI-generated text that has been lightly edited. Students who have already produced AI-assisted drafts should seek academic integrity editing before submission rather than attempting self-correction through paraphrasing tools, which compound the detection risk.
Open your synthesis matrix — not the source PDFs — when writing. Draft each thematic paragraph by synthesising the positions recorded in your matrix. This produces original analytical writing that reflects your own academic reasoning, not the language patterns of AI tools or individual sources.
QuillBot, Grammarly AI, and similar tools restructure sentence syntax without changing the AI-detectable patterns in the underlying text. Turnitin's 2026 AI Writing Indicator is specifically calibrated to detect this output. Using these tools increases, not decreases, your detection risk.
Where institutional access permits, run a Turnitin self-check via your university's student portal before the official submission. Review both the similarity report and the AI Writing Indicator score. Address any flagged sections through original rewriting — not paraphrasing tool output.
Framework 3: Grounding Your Review in UAE Context
UAE federal university examiners assess whether your literature review situates your research within a local or regional context. The following checklist ensures your Chapter 2 meets this requirement without requiring a structural rewrite.
- At least one explicit reference to UAE Vision 2031 or a directly relevant national strategy where the research topic intersects with government priorities
- Citation of UAE-based or GCC-based empirical studies sourced from Scopus, UAE university repositories, or peer-reviewed regional journals
- A clear statement identifying what is known globally and what remains unstudied or undertheorised specifically in the UAE or GCC context
- Avoidance of global literature review language that implies universal applicability without regional qualification (e.g., "organisations universally face...")
- A gap statement that explicitly names the UAE or regional context as the geographical scope of the identified research gap
APA 7th Edition Fixes & Scopus Sourcing Tips for UAE Students
Beyond synthesis and AI detection, the two most practically correctable failure points in UAE literature reviews are referencing errors and weak source selection. Both are fixable before submission — but only if addressed systematically rather than as a final proofreading pass.
APA 7th Edition — Most Common UAE Student Errors & Fixes
These are the APA 7th edition errors most frequently identified in Chapter 2 submissions at Zayed University, University of Sharjah, AUD, and UAEU. Each is technically avoidable with a reference manager set to APA 7th from the outset.
| Error Type | Incorrect (APA 6 or Mixed) | Correct (APA 7th Edition) |
|---|---|---|
| Three+ Authors | Smith, Jones, & Ali (2021) | Smith et al. (2021) — from first citation onward |
| DOI Formatting | DOI: 10.1000/xyz123 | https://doi.org/10.1000/xyz123 — as hyperlink |
| Publisher Location | London, UK: Sage Publications | Sage Publications. — location omitted in APA 7 |
| Running Head | RUNNING HEAD: TITLE included | Omitted — not used in student papers under APA 7 |
| Journal Volume/Issue | Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 45–67 | 12(3), 45–67. — volume italicised, issue in parentheses |
| Book Chapter (Edited) | In: Smith (Ed.) Book Title | In J. Smith (Ed.), Book title (pp. 12–34). Publisher. |
Scopus-Only Source Selection — Five Rules for UAE Dissertations
Source quality is assessed as part of the literature review evaluation at UAE postgraduate institutions. Supervisors expect the majority of citations to come from peer-reviewed, indexed journals — with Scopus and Elsevier as the primary sourcing databases. Students writing full dissertation chapters benefit from comprehensive dissertation support that covers both source selection and synthesis structure from Chapter 1 through to Chapter 5.
Set Scopus and Elsevier as your primary databases before using Google Scholar. Scopus-indexed journals carry the highest academic credibility at UAE institutions and are the standard expected in supervisor-reviewed source lists. Google Scholar results should be verified against Scopus indexing before citation.
Most UAE postgraduate programmes require the majority of sources to be published within the last five to seven years. Seminal works older than this threshold may be cited to establish theoretical foundations — but the bulk of your empirical evidence must reflect current research. Filter by publication date before shortlisting sources.
Search Scopus using UAE, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, GCC, and Gulf region as geographic filters alongside your topic keywords. Regional studies carry disproportionate weight in UAE examiner assessments — even a handful of UAE-specific citations significantly strengthens your contextual grounding argument.
UAE Master's dissertations typically require between 40 and 60 peer-reviewed sources in Chapter 2. PhD theses at Khalifa University and UAEU routinely exceed 80. Falling below 35 sources in a Master's literature review signals insufficient engagement with the field and will be noted in supervisor feedback.
Set up your reference manager with APA 7th edition selected before you save a single source. Export directly from Scopus into Zotero or Mendeley to preserve metadata accuracy. Manual reference entry at the end of Chapter 2 is the most reliable way to introduce the formatting errors listed in the table above.
1. Run a Turnitin self-check and review the AI Writing Indicator score first — this is the highest-risk element under 2026 UAE policies. 2. Verify your reference list matches every in-text citation. 3. Check that your gap statement is present and explicit at the end of Chapter 2. 4. Confirm thematic organisation — not chronological listing — is in place throughout. Do not attempt a full structural rewrite in 48 hours; focus corrections on the four highest-impact areas above.
When These Mistakes Are Found — And the Cost of Each Stage
The four literature review mistakes covered in this guide do not carry equal consequences at every stage of the dissertation process. A synthesis error caught during planning costs an afternoon. The same error identified after supervisor submission costs weeks. An AI Writing Indicator flag raised after final submission can cost a student their entire academic year. The timeline below maps each risk to its discovery point.
If caught here: correct by building a synthesis matrix and confirming review type with supervisor before writing begins. Cost: low — one to two hours of restructuring before any writing is committed.
✔ Low Cost — Correct NowIf caught here: requires section-by-section rewriting from the synthesis matrix. AI-assisted passages must be fully rewritten in human voice — paraphrasing tool output must not be used. Cost: moderate — three to five days of focused revision.
⚠ Moderate Cost — Act ImmediatelySupervisor returns Chapter 2 with revision required. At this stage, students at UAEU, Khalifa University, and AUD typically have one revision cycle before a formal resubmission deadline. Full structural corrections — synthesis, UAE context, referencing — must be completed within this window. Data analysis alignment issues discovered here also affect Chapter 4 data analysis planning, compounding the cost.
✖ High Cost — Full Revision RequiredAn AI Writing Indicator flag at final submission triggers mandatory academic integrity proceedings at most UAE universities. This is the highest-stakes outcome — it does not result in an automatic revision opportunity and may carry formal disciplinary consequences. Prevention at Stage 1 or 2 is the only reliable strategy.
✖ Critical Risk — Academic Integrity ProceedingsChapter 2 Correction Support — UAE-Aligned, Turnitin Clarity Compliant
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Deeper Patterns Behind Each Literature Review Failure
Each of the four mistakes has a root cause that sits earlier in the process than the error itself. Fixing the symptom without addressing the root cause produces Chapter 2 revisions that fail again. The cards below map each mistake to its underlying academic strategy gap — and the correction required at that level.
Students who summarise are treating sources as the content of Chapter 2. The strategic error is treating reading and writing as separate sequential tasks — read everything, then write about it. This produces a review that mirrors the sequence of reading, not the structure of an argument. The correction requires building the synthesis matrix before writing begins, so that sources become evidence for a pre-existing analytical framework rather than the framework itself.
Strategy Fix: Define your three to five thematic arguments before opening a single source PDF. Map sources to those arguments as you read. Write from your argument map — not from your reading notes.
The AI Writing Indicator trap is almost always a deadline management failure. Students who fall behind on Chapter 2 turn to AI generation or AI paraphrasing as a time-saving measure during the final writing push. The 2026 Turnitin AI Writing Indicator treats this output as a category of academic misconduct independent of whether the student wrote surrounding sections authentically. The strategic error is treating Chapter 2 as a final-week task rather than a structured multi-week writing process.
Strategy Fix: Allocate a minimum of three to four weeks to Chapter 2 writing — not sourcing. Build one thematic section per session from your synthesis matrix. Never allow deadline pressure to create a single high-volume AI-assisted writing session.
Students studying in UAE universities frequently frame their research as a global study that happens to be conducted in the UAE — rather than a study whose findings are shaped by, and contribute to, the UAE-specific academic and policy environment. Examiners at federal universities treat this as an insufficient contextualisation of the research problem. UAE Vision 2031, sector-specific local data, and GCC-region empirical studies are not optional additions — they are structural requirements for contextual credibility at UAE institutions.
Strategy Fix: Write a dedicated UAE/GCC contextualisation section within Chapter 2 — separate from your global literature synthesis. This section should explicitly name the local gap your research addresses and reference UAE Vision 2031 or relevant national strategies where applicable.
APA 7th edition errors accumulate when referencing is treated as a formatting task to be completed after writing rather than a live documentation process maintained throughout. Students who manually build reference lists at the end of a 50-source chapter introduce errors at scale — mismatched in-text citations, incorrect DOI formats, and mixed APA 6/7 conventions that persist undetected until examiner review. Academic formatting support at the pre-submission stage is the most efficient correction for accumulated referencing errors across a full dissertation chapter.
Strategy Fix: Configure Zotero or Mendeley with APA 7th edition on the first day of sourcing. Export directly from Scopus. Never manually type a reference list entry. Cross-check every in-text citation against the reference list before supervisor submission — not after.
Four Strategy Shifts That Prevent All Four Mistakes
Build your thematic argument map before sourcing begins. Let the argument determine which sources to find — not the other way around.
Write every Chapter 2 paragraph directly from your synthesis matrix in your own voice. No AI generation. No AI paraphrasing. No exceptions under 2026 UAE policies.
Include at least one dedicated UAE/GCC contextualisation section. Reference national strategies, Scopus-indexed UAE studies, and a named local research gap.
Maintain your APA 7th edition reference manager throughout the writing process — not as a final task. Every citation added to the text must be added to the reference manager simultaneously.
Fix These Mistakes Before Your Supervisor Does
The four literature review mistakes covered in this guide are not isolated errors — they are the most consistently penalised structural failures in UAE postgraduate Chapter 2 submissions. Each has a root cause that sits earlier in the process than the visible error, and each has a correction strategy that is significantly less costly when applied before supervisor feedback than after it.
In 2026, the introduction of Turnitin's AI Writing Indicator as a separate detection layer has raised the stakes for UAE students beyond similarity percentages alone. A chapter that passes the similarity threshold can still trigger an academic integrity review. The only reliable protection is original, human-authored synthesis built from a structured thematic framework — not an AI-assisted draft edited for surface-level compliance.
If your Chapter 2 is already written, apply the four-point strategy checklist below before your next submission. If you are at the planning stage, build your synthesis matrix now and confirm your review type with your supervisor before a single paragraph is committed to the page.
- Summarising sources individually is an annotated bibliography — not a literature review. Thematic synthesis is required at all UAE postgraduate institutions without exception.
- Turnitin's 2026 AI Writing Indicator is separate from similarity scoring. A low similarity percentage does not protect against an AI detection flag at UAEU, Khalifa University, or AUD.
- AI paraphrasing tools including QuillBot increase, not decrease, your AI Writing Indicator score. They must not be used in any Chapter 2 submitted under 2026 UAE MoE policies.
- UAE federal university examiners require explicit local contextualisation in Chapter 2 — global literature without UAE or GCC grounding is consistently flagged in supervisor feedback.
- APA 7th edition errors accumulate when referencing is left until the end of writing. Configure your reference manager on day one and maintain it throughout the drafting process.
- Master's level Chapter 2 submissions at UAE universities are expected to include 40–60 peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed sources. Falling below 35 signals insufficient engagement with the field.
- A synthesis matrix built before writing begins prevents all four mistakes simultaneously — it is the single highest-impact preparation step for Chapter 2 at UAE postgraduate level.
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Literature Review Mistakes — Questions UAE Students Ask
These questions reflect the most common points of confusion raised by postgraduate and MBA students at UAE universities when correcting or rebuilding their Chapter 2 literature reviews.
Yes. Turnitin's AI Writing Indicator, active at UAE universities in 2026, is specifically calibrated to detect AI-generated and AI-paraphrased text. This includes output from tools such as QuillBot, Grammarly AI, and similar paraphrasing platforms. The indicator operates independently of the similarity score — a submission can register below the 20% similarity threshold and still receive a high AI writing score, triggering an academic integrity review. Light manual editing of AI-generated text does not reliably reduce the AI score, as the structural and syntactic patterns of AI output persist through surface-level changes.
A summary reports what a single source argues or found — it is source-focused and descriptive. A synthesis groups multiple sources around a shared theme or argument, compares their positions, identifies where they agree or conflict, and builds a cumulative analytical point that advances toward the research gap. In a UAE postgraduate literature review, every paragraph should be synthetic — meaning it draws on multiple sources to construct an argument — rather than a series of individual source reports. Supervisors at UAEU, Khalifa University, AUD, and Zayed University consistently penalise descriptive summarising as insufficient for postgraduate academic writing.
Most UAE Master's programmes expect between 40 and 60 peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed sources in Chapter 2. PhD theses at institutions including Khalifa University and UAEU routinely require 80 or more. Falling below 35 sources in a Master's literature review signals insufficient engagement with the existing body of knowledge and will typically be flagged in supervisor feedback. The majority of sources should be published within the last five to seven years, with seminal older works cited sparingly to establish theoretical foundations. Geographic relevance also matters — UAE and GCC-region studies carry particular weight with examiners at federal universities.
Not as a checklist item — but examiners at UAE federal universities assess whether your literature review contextualises the research within the UAE environment. Where your topic intersects with national development priorities, economic diversification, education reform, or sector-specific strategies, examiners expect this to be acknowledged explicitly. UAE Vision 2031 is the most commonly relevant national framework, but references to ADEK policies, Dubai Integrated Economic Plan, or sector-specific UAE regulatory frameworks are equally valid depending on your research area. A literature review that presents global findings without any local or regional grounding is consistently noted as a contextualisation weakness in UAE examiner feedback.
The five most frequently identified APA 7th edition errors in UAE postgraduate submissions are: using three or more author names in-text instead of et al. from the first citation; incorrect DOI formatting(should be a full hyperlink: https://doi.org/..., not "DOI:"); including publisher location in reference list entries (removed in APA 7); mixing APA 6th and 7th edition rules within the same chapter; and reference list entries that do not match in-text citations. All five are preventable by configuring Zotero or Mendeley to APA 7th edition from the start of sourcing and exporting references directly from Scopus rather than entering them manually.
It depends on which mistakes are present. Referencing errors and UAE contextualisation gaps can often be corrected without restructuring the full chapter — they require targeted additions and formatting corrections rather than a rebuild. Descriptive summarising, however, is a structural problem that typically requires section-level rewriting to convert source-by-source reporting into thematic synthesis. AI Writing Indicator flags require the affected passages to be fully rewritten in original human voice — there is no formatting correction that resolves this. The earlier in the process these mistakes are identified, the lower the cost of correction. A chapter returned by a supervisor for revision has a narrower correction window than one reviewed before first submission.
أبرز أخطاء مراجعة الأدبيات التي يقع فيها طلاب الإمارات
دليل تصحيحي شامل لطلاب الدراسات العليا وطلاب الماجستير في إدارة الأعمال بالجامعات الإماراتية — يتناول الأخطاء الأربعة الأكثر شيوعًا في الفصل الثاني، ومؤشر Turnitin للكتابة بالذكاء الاصطناعي 2026، وإطار التركيب الموضوعي، وأخطاء توثيق APA الإصدار السابع، والفجوة السياقية الإماراتية.
الخطأ الأول: التلخيص بدلًا من التركيب: يُعدّ هذا الخطأ الأكثر شيوعًا وعقوبةً في الجامعات الإماراتية. إعداد قائمة بما قاله كل مصدر على حدة يُنتج قائمة ببليوغرافية لا مراجعةً أدبية. المطلوب هو تنظيم المصادر حسب الموضوعات وبناء حجج تحليلية تتجاوز المحتوى الوصفي.
الخطأ الثاني: مؤشر Turnitin للكتابة بالذكاء الاصطناعي 2026: يعمل المؤشر بشكل مستقل عن درجة التشابه. استخدام أدوات إعادة الصياغة كـ QuillBot يرفع درجة الذكاء الاصطناعي لا يخفضها. في جامعة خليفة وجامعة الإمارات وجامعة الأمريكية في دبي، تؤدي الدرجة المرتفعة إلى فتح إجراءات النزاهة الأكاديمية بصرف النظر عن نسبة التشابه.
الخطأ الثالث: غياب السياق الإماراتي: يتوقع المحكمون في الجامعات الاتحادية الإماراتية أن يربط الفصل الثاني البحث بالسياق المحلي — سواء أكان رؤية الإمارات 2031، أو الدراسات الإقليمية المفهرسة في Scopus، أو الفجوة البحثية المحددة في منطقة الخليج. لا تكفي الأدبيات العالمية وحدها.
الخطأ الرابع: التوثيق غير المتسق وفق APA الإصدار السابع: خلط قواعد APA الإصدار السادس بالسابع، وأخطاء تنسيق DOI، وتضمين موقع الناشر (الذي أُلغي في APA 7)، وعدم تطابق الاستشهادات داخل النص مع قائمة المراجع — هذه كلها أخطاء تُدرّ خصومات تقييمية في جامعة زايد والجامعة الأمريكية في دبي وجامعة الشارقة.
إطار التصحيح — مصفوفة التركيب: ابنِ مصفوفة موضوعاتية قبل البدء في الكتابة، واكتب من الحجج لا من الملاحظات. خصص ثلاثة إلى أربعة أسابيع للكتابة الأصلية، وأعدّ برنامج Zotero أو Mendeley وفق APA 7 منذ اليوم الأول. يُقدّم Labeeb Writing & Designs دعمًا أكاديميًا تكوينيًا لجميع هذه المراحل للطلاب في جميع أنحاء الإمارات.
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