<div dir="ltr"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;max-height:1e +06px;font-family:Arial"><h1 style="font-size:26px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;color:rgb(26,26,26);line-height:1.5;max-height:1e +06px">Special Issue "Bayesian Time Series Forecasting"</h1><div style=""><font size="4"><i style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgba(193,35,115,0.75);line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;max-height:1e +06px;font-weight:700">Journal <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forecasting" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgba(193,35,115,0.75);line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;max-height:1e +06px;font-weight:700">Forecasting</a></i> (ISSN 2571-9394)  </font><br></div><div style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><p style="font-size:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.6;max-height:1e +06px">Dear Colleagues,</p><p style="font-size:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.6;max-height:1e +06px">We invite you to submit your latest research to this Special Issue on the topic of Bayesian Time Series Forecasting.</p><p style="font-size:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.6;max-height:1e +06px">Since the early 1990s, the importance of Bayesian methods to the study of time series has increased rapidly. This has, no doubt, been ignited by an increase in appreciation for the advantages that Bayesian inference provides. It provides us with a formal way to incorporate the prior information before seeing the data in a natural manner, it fits perfectly with sequential learning and decision-making, and it directly leads to exact results from small samples. In addition, the Bayesian paradigm is particularly suited to prediction, since it takes into account all parameters and even model uncertainty. Nowadays, with the availability of large amounts of data, Bayesian analysis remains suitable for solving forecasting problems by combining all of the information and sources of uncertainty into a predictive distribution for future values.</p><p style="font-size:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.6;max-height:1e +06px">Dr. Cristian Rodriguez Rivero<br style="box-sizing:border-box;max-height:1e +06px">Dr. Leonardo Franco<br style="box-sizing:border-box;max-height:1e +06px">Dr. Julian Antonio Pucheta<br style="box-sizing:border-box;max-height:1e +06px">Dr. Hector Daniel Patino<br style="box-sizing:border-box;max-height:1e +06px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:inherit;max-height:1e +06px">Guest Editors</em></p><p style="font-size:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.6;max-height:1e +06px"></p><p style="font-size:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.6;max-height:1e +06px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit;max-height:1e +06px">Manuscript Submission Information</span></p><p style="font-size:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.6;max-height:1e +06px"></p><p style="font-size:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.6;max-height:1e +06px">Manuscripts should be submitted online at <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgba(193,35,115,0.75);line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;max-height:1e +06px;font-weight:700">www.mdpi.com</a> by <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/user/register/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgba(193,35,115,0.75);line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;max-height:1e +06px;font-weight:700">registering</a> and <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/user/login/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgba(193,35,115,0.75);line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;max-height:1e +06px;font-weight:700">logging in to this website</a>. Once you are registered, <a href="https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=forecasting" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgba(193,35,115,0.75);line-height:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;max-height:1e +06px;font-weight:700">click here to go to the submission form</a>. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.</p><p style="font-size:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.6;max-height:1e +06px">Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be und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in Computational Intelligence for applied Time Series Forecasting (ACIATSF)</font></font></span></b><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,80,77)"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Special Session on “Advances in Computational Intelligence for applied Time

Series Forecasting” (ACIATSF)</font></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#ff00ff"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Link: </font></font><a href="http://www.inv.limac.efn.uncor.edu/?page_id=485" target="_blank"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">http://www.inv.limac.</font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">efn.uncor.edu/?page_id=485</font></font></a></font><span style="font-size:11pt">  </span><b style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,80,77)"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020).</font></font><br></b><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">19 - 24th July, 2020, Glasgow (UK) </font></font></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,80,77)"><br></span></b></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://wcci2020.org/ijcnn-sessions/" target="_blank"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">https://wcci2020.org/ijcnn- </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">sessions /</font></font></a>  </font><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><b><br></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,80,77)"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Motivation</font></font></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Over the past

few decades, application of simple statistical procedures with considerable

heuristic or judgmental input was the beginning of forecasting, then in the

80’s, sophisticated time series models started to be used by some of the

dynamic system operators, and these approaches, were to become pioneering works

in this field.</font></font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Soft computing

methods including support vectors regression (SVR), fuzzy inference system

(FIS) and artificial neural networks (ANN) to time-series forecasting (TSF) has

been growing rapidly in order to unify the field of forecasting and to bridge

the gap between theory and practice, making forecasting useful and relevant for

decision-making in many fields of the sciences.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The purpose of

this session is to hold smaller, informal meetings where experts in a

particular field of forecasting can discuss forecasting problems, research, and

solutions in the field of automatic control. There is generally a nominal

registration fee associated with attendance.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">This session

aims to debate in finding solutions for problems facing the field of

forecasting. We wish to hear from people working in different research areas,

practitioners, professionals and academicians involved in this problematic.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,80,77)">Scope</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The session

seeks to foster the presentation and discussion of innovative techniques,

implementations and applications of different problems that are Forecasting

involved, specially in real-world problems applied to control and automation.</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Time Series Analysis</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Time Series

Forecasting</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Evaluation of

Forecasting Methods and Approaches</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Forecasting

Applications in Business, Energy and Price Demand, Hydrology and Rainfall</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Impact of

Uncertainty on Decision Making</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Seasonal

Adjustment</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Multivariate

Time Series Modelling and Forecasting</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Marketing

Forecasting</span></p>

<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Economic and

Econometric Forecasting</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,80,77)">Organizers:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Cristian

Rodriguez Rivero, University of Amsterdam, <a href="mailto:c.m.rodriguezrivero@uva.nl" target="_blank">c.m.rodriguezrivero@uva.nl</a>, IEEE

CIS, Co-Founder LA-CIS.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Alvaro

Orjuela Cañón, Universidad del Rods, <a href="mailto:dorjuelaco@ieee.org" target="_blank">dorjuelaco@ieee.org</a>, IEEE CIS, Co-Founder

Board of Directors of LA-CIS.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Héctor Daniel Patiño, Universidad

Nacional de San Juan, Argentine,<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:dpatino@inaut.unsj.edu.ar" target="_blank">dpatino@inaut.unsj.edu.ar</a><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">. IEEE CIS. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Julián Antonio Pucheta,

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentine, </span><span><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jpucheta@efn.uncor.edu" target="_blank">jpucheta@efn.uncor.edu</a></span></span><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Gustavo Juarez, Universidad

Nacional de Tucumán, Argentine,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:juarez.gustavo@ieee.org" target="_blank">juarez.gustavo@ieee.org</a>, IEEE CIS. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Prof. Leonardo

Franco, School of  Engineering in

Informatics, University of Malaga, Spain. </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:lfranco@lcc.uma.es" target="_blank">lfranco@lcc.uma.es</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">. IEEE CIS. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,80,77)">Submission guidelines and special issue:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Manuscripts

should be prepared according to the standard format and page limit of regular

papers according to the IEEE format. All submissions should follow the

specifications of 2020 WCCI. Manuscripts will be submitted through the 2020 IEEE

WCCI  paper submission website and will

be subject to the same peer-review procedure as the WCCI regular papers.

Accepted contributions will be part of conference proceedings, which will be

available in IEEEXplore.</span></p><h2 style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:top;line-height:115%;break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(54,95,145);font-weight:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(192,80,77)">Important Dates</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:19pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(116,31,138)"></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Paper

submission due: <span style="background:yellow">15th Jan.

2020</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Notification of

acceptance: 15th Mar. 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Camera-ready

deadline: 15th Apr. 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Author

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