Peek Vision meets with Nigerian President Bola Tunubu

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Prof Andrew Bastawrous with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

Twenty-four million Nigerians are currently living with sight loss, yet less than 0.0002% of the country’s current health budget is spent on eye health. In an historic meeting last week, ICEH Professor Andrew Bastawrous met with Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the President of Nigeria, to tackle this inequality and further the issue of eye health within the country. 

Prof Bastawrous is the co-founder of Peek Vision, a social enterprise that focuses software, programme design and data intelligence platforms to help community and school eye health programmes become more efficient, more equitable and more effective. Peek have a number of highly successful partnerships in Africa and around the world, powering programmes and reaching over four million people to date.

At the meeting, President Tinubu made a proclamation to provide unwavering support for and improve access to eye health, especially for vulnerable people living with sight loss. He also recalled a personal connection to the initiative:

“My first experience was with my mother of blessed memory. She was ill and she could not recognise me. When I intervened, she was treated and given a pair of glasses. The next question she asked me was: ‘I have you, and you are able to do this for me. What about those other women and their children who may not have somebody like you to intervene for them?’ So I made a promise to her that I will pursue the mass provision of eye care vigorously and that I would provide free eye screenings and surgeries to people because of that question my mother asked me and because of her passion to see others healed.”

Also present at the meeting were ICEH professor Fatima Kyari, subregional Chair West Africa for the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness, and ICEH alumnus Dr Oteri Okolo, the coordinator of the National Eye Health Programme.

Speaking further about the potential for change in the country, Prof Bastawrous said: “President Tinubu has an excellent health team, and many of them have demonstrated tremendous leadership in the sector. What we would like to offer is to bring our Peek Vision methodology and platform to Nigeria to help unlock resources from multiple sources. In the countries where we have worked, Peek in Botswana unlocked 10 million dollars for the school programme, and in Kenya, 17 million Euros. Through the Vision Catalyst Fund, we have secured a donation of 200 million pairs of glasses, and we would like a significant proportion of that to come to Nigeria.” 

The Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, affirmed the commitment of the President, reiterating that good eyesight and vision is critical to economic development and growth of the nation. As a policy statement he declared that eye health will be made available, accessible and affordable to all through integration at all levels of healthcare – tertiary, secondary and primary. He also committted to the health budget being increased, with a good proportion provided for eye health and vision care.

 

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New UKRI Open Access policy – what you need to know, how to comply and how we can help

Newspaper with the headline, UKRI: "Monographs must be OA" "Make us open access too" says monographs.
Coming soon: Monographs join articles in UKRI policy update. Cries of, “Make us open access too!” can be heard from long-form outputs across the land. A blogpost by Alice Fodor.

A couple of months ago we got a policy update from UKRI: from 1st January 2024 UKRI’s open access policy will apply not only to research papers but also to monographs, book chapters and edited collections.


So what does this mean for researchers at LSHTM?

After 1st January 2024 the UKRI Open Access Policy will apply to:
– Peer reviewed research articles accepted after 1st April 2022.
Long-form publications including monographs, book chapters and edited collections published after 1st January 2024.

Not sure if this applies to you?

If you have received funding from UKRI and have acknowledged it in the work, you will need to comply with UKRI’s open access requirements.

How to make your long-form work open access?

If you are:
– currently applying for a research grant
AND
– you expect to publish a monograph, book chapter or edited collection before 31st December 2024 and within the lifetime of the award

You may include open access costs in your grant application.

If you will be publishing after 31st December 2024 or outside the lifetime of the award you must:

– deposit your Accepted Manuscript OR Version of Record into an online publication platform, publisher’s website, or institutional or subject repository within a maximum of 12 months of publication.

Many publishers offer an open access option. They may charge for open access (see below for details on accessing funds to pay these costs), have an agreement with LSHTM or offer free open access supported via alternative funding models, such as subscribe to open models, for example.

Some publishers may not offer open access but may permit you to deposit your Author’s Accepted Manuscript (a version of your accepted manuscript agreed between you and the publisher) in an institutional or subject repository, for example LSHTM Research Online.

How to pay open access costs for monographs, book chapters and edited collections?

In 2024 UKRI are creating a fund of £3.5 million, ring-fenced for making long-form outputs open access.


Applications will be made by institutions, in two stages:

Stage 1: Research organization registers the output with UKRI. A publishing contract does not need to be signed at this point.

Stage 2: Research organization provides final confirmation of publication. UKRI releases funds.


The following information will be required at each stage:


At stage 1:

Name of research organisation
UKRI funding reference
Author name(s)
Title of publication
Name of publisher
Estimated cost (if known)
Statement about relationship of the output to the UKRI funded project or grant, including the authors role in this

At stage 2:

Date of publication
Confirmation of open access publication
Financial information
Any changes to the information provided at stage 1

UKRI will confirm if a publication is eligible for funding after a stage 1. Successful applications will need to demonstrate a substantial link between the publication and UKRI research funding, as well as between the author and UKRI research funding.

We will publicise details on how to get this information to us nearer the time the fund opens.

Policy exemptions


– Where you have signed a contract with the publisher before 1st January 2024 your publication will not need to comply with this policy. You can make your publication open access before this date if you include open access costs in your grant application, but it is not a UKRI requirement until after this date.
– Where the only appropriate publisher is unable to offer an open access option that complies with UKRI’s policy
– Where a monograph, book chapter or edited collection is the outcome of a UKRI training grant (open access is encouraged but not required)
– Reuse permissions for third-party materials cannot be obtained and there is no suitable alternative to enable open access publication

The following publication types are out of scope of the policy and so do not need to be made open access, and will not be eligible for the new funding.


Trade books, unless they are the only output from UKRI-funded research.
Scholarly editions.
Exhibition catalogues
– Scholarly illustrated catalogues
Textbooks
– All types of fictional works and creative writing.

More information can be found in the UKRI Open Access Policy or at UKRI’s dedicated webpages on making monographs open access and funding for open access.

We’d love to answer any questions. Comment below or contact us on Service Desk.

Book Display: World Humanitarian Day

19th August 2023 is World Humanitarian Day, a yearly day of observance established by the UN to recognise the contributions of humanitarian workers. Their theme this year is “the importance, effectiveness and positive impact of humanitarian work.” In recognition of the day, why not take a look at some of the books the Library has on humanitarian work and humanitarianism from a public health perspective? The latest Library book display should have you covered for these topics, but if you want to browse more, try shelf mark SQD for further volumes on disasters and emergencies, or search the Library catalogue on Discover

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Books on display

India’s thirty years of investing in research for health

Dr Eti Rajwar1 and Prof Sandy Oliver2

1Public Health Evidence South Asia, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India
2EPPI Centre, Social Research Institute, University College London, UK                  

August 2023

 

“Change is inevitable, growth is optional!”John C Maxwell

It is famously said that ‘Change is the only constant’ and it is the adaptation to this change that leads to growth and evolution. Over the years, we have witnessed many changes in health research that have led to huge accomplishments in the field of medical science and public health. Taking into account research findings before making decisions – evidence informed decision-making (EIDM) – is one such development. Another is systematically pooling the findings from multiple studies to create systematic reviews of research, a process also known as ‘evidence synthesis’. India’s history with evidence informed clinical decision-making dates back to the late 1990’s and since then, an increasing focus on systematic reviews to develop evidence-informed clinical guidelines has given evidence informed health decision making a strong foothold in India. Our research focuses on the potential for evidence informed policy decisions in India. We asked what has been achieved in terms of policy decisions and what might come next? To answer these questions, we studied Indian health policy documents to understand whether research evidence, specifically systematic review evidence, informed these health policies? This is what we found.

India has been using systematic review evidence to inform some high priority National Health Programme guidelines.

India has been using systematic review evidence, particularly for policies related to perinatal health and communicable diseases. These systematic reviews provided reliable information on policy options by comparing a range of diagnostic and treatment alternatives available for managing a public health problem (e.g. Tuberculosis). However, often missing in guidelines was a direct link between policy recommendations and the systematic review. We delved further to investigate why the use of systematic reviews was concentrated in a few programmes, and what opportunities there are to further advance evidence informed policymaking in Indian public health.

  1. How has citing systematic reviews in policy guidance grown?

In the late 1990s and early 2000’s, when evidence use for policy decisions was growing globally, donor funding for international priorities, such as HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and mother and child health, was followed by systematic reviews appearing more frequently in official Indian guidelines. Growing national enthusiasm for evidence informed policy making, as seen by the establishment of new evidence synthesis centers (to produce systematic reviews) in India, may have also influenced increasing visibility of systematic reviews in Indian health guidelines from 2014 onwards, with noticeable spurts in 2016 and 2017, and a clear focus on evidence informed policy making in the 2017 National Health Policy.

  1. How is Indian research evidence informing these evidence-informed guidelines?

Health policies and guidelines drew on both international and Indian research evidence. Indian evidence largely explained the nature and scale of the health problems being addressed, while global evidence more often justified the policy options recommended. The global evidence often provided good estimates of treatment effects, while not necessarily taking into account how effects vary in particular contexts. India’s extrapulmonary tuberculosis or INDEX-TB guidelines, published by the central TB division of India, deftly mixed global and local Indian evidence to develop diagnostic and treatment policies.

  1. What sort of evidence informs these guidelines?

On exploring the data further, we found that most of the evidence informing health guidelines came from quantitative studies. These studies provided an approximation of the gravity of the health problem or a numerical estimate regarding a better policy option or solution. In contrast, qualitative evidence can help with understanding the underlying causes of problems, recognise why particular policy options perform well or poorly, or identify opportunities for local adaptation for better implementation. Yet, none of the guidelines drew on synthesis of qualitative research.

The way forward!

Based on our research findings, we listed factors we anticipate influencing India’s onward journey with evidence informed health policymaking. These factors include the health systems’ internal strengths and weaknesses and its external opportunities and threats, to create a SWOT analysis:

  • Strengths: Institutional commitment and the government’s positive approach towards evidence-informed decision making will shape India’s progress.
  • Weaknesses: Lack of a clear plan to address the challenges of a complex and fragmented health system, with little attention paid to the importance of context when developing specific non-clinical programmes will present barriers.
  • Opportunities: Capitalizing on the ample opportunities such as, a) use of more qualitative and Indian evidence, particularly in non-clinical systematic reviews where context is an especially important influence; b) access to global best practices (policy guidelines) that establish closer links between recommendations and underpinning evidence; c) availability of newer methodologies for better transfer of global evidence about policy options to local settings; d) procedures that routinely consider evidence when developing policy in India; e) and stronger collaborations with regional and international organizations for greater efficiency and balance in using global and Indian evidence. Appropriate use of these opportunities would help in achieving more consistent use of evidence across programmes and will increase the visibility of science and model the use of evidence in policy development.
  • Threats: Over reliance on international concerns and international specialists, at the expense of India’s priorities and expertise.

* EIDM=Evidence Informed Decision Making; External=External factors; Internal=Internal factors

Figure 1: SWOT Analysis of factors influencing evidence informed health policymaking in India

To conclude, over the years, India has already achieved remarkable success with evidence informed health decision making. With good use of its inherent strengths and opportunities, the country is sitting on another brink of change to define the future of evidence informed policy making in the country.

 Acknowledgement: We would like to thank the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, who funded the original research (grant number 1478).

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Cyril Cuthbert Barnard: a new poster display in the Library

Visit the Library’s Barnard Room to find out more about the first professional librarian at LSHTM – Cyril Cuthbert Barnard (1894-1959).

If you’ve ever taken a book out of the Library, chances are you will have noticed the shelf mark on the spine. All books in the Library are arranged by the classification scheme devised by Barnard in the 1930s (it’s been revised since!). However, there is much more to Barnard than classification.

As Librarian, Barnard oversaw the amalgamation of the libraries of the Tropical Diseases Bureau and the former London School of Tropical Medicine, and had input into the design of the LSHTM Library which opened in 1929. Barnard reclassified the Library’s book collection to his scheme and compiled a card catalogue for readers to find items. He was also a pioneer in providing library instruction, giving tours of the Library, guidance on finding resources and the compilation of reference lists. Barnard was proactive in collection development, evaluating usage of periodicals to inform collection decisions and keeping stock up-to-date with scientific advances. During his time as Librarian, Barnard managed a significant expansion in resources, an increase in Library staff and number of staff and students using the Library. Barnard made the Library integral to LSHTM.

Barnard believed in library co-operation, promoting the sharing of knowledge and resources. He supported several professional library associations and organisations, travelling widely to attend conferences and meetings. The correspondence and papers relating to Barnard are held in the LSHTM Archives, and they reveal Barnard to have been a prolific author, writing articles, reviews, reports, papers and translations.

Another theme which ran throughout Barnard’s time as Librarian, was advocating for librarianship and ensuring that the impact of the Library and Library staff at LSHTM was recognised and properly remunerated. He negotiated for extra Library staff posts and for higher salaries both for himself and his staff.  Barnard encouraged and supported staff who wished to qualify as librarians and promoted attendance at conferences and meetings. 

The Barnard Room, LSHTM Library, Keppel Street

This exhibition has 3 sets of posters:

  • A timeline combining Barnard, LSHTM, and science & technology
  • Professional identity in librarianship
  • A Classification for Medical and Veterinary Libraries

The posters are in display cabinets in the Barnard Room and are viewable during Library opening hours.

Display cabinets, Barnard Room

The Library, Archive & Open Research Services would especially like to thank Phil Chapman for designing and making the display cabinets. Phil was the Instrument Maker at LSHTM, often building instruments not readily available. If you would like to learn more, please visit Changing Face of Keppel Street: Oral History Project

Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness launches new programme for trainers 

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Image: © Rolex / Joan Bardeletti. The Peek visual acuity test, part of the RAAB7 software

Efforts to improve eye health globally requires an evidence base on the prevalence and type of vision impairment in a particular area. This data is essential in planning services accurately and efficiently, to ensure that those who need care receive timely, appropriate and cost-effective treatment and support.  

The Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) is the most widely used eye health survey method globally and RAAB data is the largest contributor to estimates of the prevalence of blindness and vision impairment worldwide. RAAB data contributes to GBD figures on vision impairment and has helped make the case for national and international policy change in eye health.  

 As part of the roll out of RAAB7 (the latest survey methodology and software), the team at the International Centre for Eye Health are launching a new ‘Training of Trainers’ Programme to develop the next cohort of qualified trainers.  

Trainers are instrumental in ensuring the accuracy and reliability of survey data. They provide high-quality support to those undertaking surveys globally, assisting in survey planning, data collection, analysis and use of results.   

The organisers aim to identify 8 – 10 applicants who are passionate about global eye health and RAAB’s role within it to complete this first intake, taking place in October 2023. The deadline for applications is 28th August 2023. 

By the end of the programme, trainees should be able to:  

  • Articulate the rationale for RAAB, its history, methodology and role in the global epidemiology of vision impairment 
  • Explain the RAAB sampling strategy and examination protocol 
  • Recognise the minimum requirements for completing a high quality RAAB survey, and apply gained skills to appropriately support RAAB survey planning 
  • Demonstrate strong technical knowledge of RAAB survey implementation and interpretation of results
  • Engage confidently with RAAB software, demonstrating setting up a training week and managing survey data collection on the Peek RAAB7 platform 

As well as providing professional development and contributing to improving global eye health, being a RAAB trainer is a fulfilling experience: 

With every survey, the RAAB trainer assists to build a stronger and more up to date picture of the avoidable blindness landscape — like a jigsaw puzzle. Personally, being a RAAB trainer has facilitated a deeper understanding of the structure and function of eye services for me, and it is so gratifying to be able to effect real change through supporting partners to complete surveys. Getting to know the survey team members has been wonderful, and the support from the RAAB team is also excellent! 

For further information on how to apply, detailed course content and trainer testimonials, please visit www.raab.world/raab-trainers 

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International Society of Ocular Oncology (ISOO) Africa Meeting this August

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The first International Society of Ocular Oncology (ISOO) Africa meeting will be held live in Mombasa, Kenya, from August 21-23, 2023.

The ISOO mission is to promote the advancement of ocular oncology by coordination with general ophthalmology, general oncology, ophthalmic pathology, and allied sciences, by the encouragement of research, by the improvement of teaching and technical methods, and by improvement of patient care, through scientific meetings and other activities worldwide.

Nearly 200 participants from over 40 countries have already registered for the in-person meeting.

The organisers are now pleased to also present ISOO AFRICA VIRTUAL, which will allow you to view all presentations taking place in the plenary hall via your personal computer or meeting app. 

For further details and registration, please visit the website at https://isooafrica2023.com/.

 

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Johann Gottfried Bremser’s early 19th century medical books on parasitic worms with hand-coloured plates. LSHTM Rare Books Blog Series No. 7. August 2023

The Austrian physician Johann Gottfried Bremser (1767-1827) was born in Wertheim am Main in present-day Germany. He studied medicine in Jena and Vienna where he obtained a licence to practice medicine in 1797. Bremser made a special study of parasitic worm infections in humans and travelled to Paris in 1815 to carry out further research.  He experimented and developed remedies against worm infestations and he also treated poorer sections of the community. He actively promoted the benefits of vaccination against smallpox. He died in Vienna in 1827 aged 60.

Portrait of Johann Gottfried Bremser (lithograph ca. 1820)

Vienna was a leading city of culture and science in the 18th century. Its Naturhistorisches Museum was making a special collection of parasitic worms found in humans and animals when Bremser joined it as a volunteer. In 1811 he was appointed curator of the helminth collection by which time 40,000 host animals had been dissected and he published host-parasite (and parasite-host) catalogues (Bremser 1811).  

His book, Über lebende Würmer im lebenden Menschen [living worms in living humans] was also based on specimens in the museum collection (Bremser 1819).  

Titlepage of Bremser 1819 showing engraved vignette.

The book has 284 pages of text and four hand-coloured plates.  Several parasitic worm species including nematodes, trematodes (flukes) and cestodes (tapeworms) are shown on each plate with each one identified and named in a key on the facing page.  The plates are unusual because the worms are pictured against a black background, a practical solution sometimes adopted when depicting transparent or white objects.  Most worms would have been white or grey when Bremser examined them – the same colour as the paper they were to be printed on – after whatever natural colour they may have had in life had been leached out by the preservative material.  A black background gave a strong contrast to the worm figures, to which only light brown or grey watercolours were applied, and contributed to the visual impact of the picture.

These four plates were produced by engraving which was the traditional method for illustrating 18th and early 19th century books. The process was expensive as it involved the employment of an artist, an engraver to transfer the artist’s drawing onto a metal plate, a printer and a colourist and may explain why this book has only four plates.  The names of the artist and engraver credited for the plates are Joh. Febmayer / Febmeir (1785-1866) and Austrian Heinr. Mansfeld respectively.

1819. Plate 2. Bothriocephalus latus, now Diphyllobothrium latum.

Bremser was the first person to write a scientific description of Bothriocephalus latus (now Diphyllobothrium latum) (Bremser 1819 : 88-96, pl 2; Scholz et al 2009 : table 1, p. 147).  Diphyllobothrium tapeworms – commonly called broad tapeworms or fish tapeworms cause diphyllobothriosis in humans affecting an estimated 20 million people worldwide. It is caused by the consumption of raw or undercooked infected fish.  They are among the largest human parasites and may grow up to 15 metres in length in the intestine. The maximum length recorded was 25 metres and had 4000 segments. They can grow 22 centimetres a day and may live for 20 years. In its life cycle the tapeworm has two intermediate hosts – first a copepod and secondly a fish – before coming to its final destination – a human’s intestine (Scholze et al 2009). 

The 1819 copy of Bremser was presented to the LSHTM Library by the Medical College of Virginia on 26 November 1958 still in its original paper wrappers.

Five years after publication of the German edition an enlarged French edition was published in Paris Traite zoologique et physiologique sur les vers intestinaux de l’homme (Bremser 1824) with 12 hand-coloured lithographic plates. Lithography was invented in 1796 in Germany, a printing technique which involved drawing on a block of fine-grained limestone. Due to the relative ease of the process of lithography and cheapness compared to engraving, it became the most popular method of book plate illustration in the 19th century.  Artists themselves frequently learnt lithography and the plates in this edition were both drawn and lithographed by Delevieux and printed by Charles-Louis Malapeaux (1795-c1878) in Paris.  As in the 1819 edition all 12 plates have a black background, the figures coloured with grey shades of watercolours. A comparison of the figures in the two books shows that some in the 1824 book were copied from the 1819 plates in reverse.

1824 Plate 1. Nematode species

1824 Planche I Key to the plate of nematode figures

1824 Plate 5 Bothriocephalus

The LSHTM Library holds only the Atlas of 12 plates of the French edition (still with its original orange-coloured wrappers) which was acquired on 16 February 1951; a previous owner of this copy was a Robert D??kins M D 47 Finsbury Square [London] whose signature is in the front.

References

BREMSER, J.G., 1811. Nachricht von einer betrachtlichen Sammlung thireischer Eingeweidewürmer, und Einladung zu einer literarischen Verbindung, um dieselbe zu vervollkommen, und sie für die Wissenschaft und die Liebhaber allgemein nützlich zu machen. Vindobonae : Typis Antonii Strauss: 1811: 31, [1] pages;

BREMSER, J.G., 1819. Dr. Bremser, über lebende Würmer im lebenden Menschen :  Ein Buch für ausübende Aerzte. Mit nach der Natur gezeichneten Abbildungen auf vier Tafeln. Nebst einem Anhange über Pseudo-Helminthen. Wien [Vienna] : Bei Carl Schaumburg et Comp.  xii, 284 pages,  [4] leaves, 4 plates (LSHTM Library *M 1819 fol) https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/9099 (viewed 14 June 2023)

BREMSER, J.G., 1824.  Traite zoologique et physiologique sur les vers intestinaux de l’homme,  Paris : Imprimerie de C.L.F. Panckoucke. [6]  pages, 12 plates (LSHTM Library *M 1824 fol ATLAS only) https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/45345 (viewed 14 June 2023); https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/110058 (viewed 14 June 2023)

SATTMAN, H., 2000. Profile : Johann Gottfried Bremser (1767-1827). Systematic Parasitology 47 : 232-232 port.

SCHOLZ, T., GARCIA, H.H., KUCHTA, R., WICHT, B., 2009. Update on the human broad tapeworm (Genus Diphyllobothrium), including clinical relevance. Clinical Microbiology Reviews 22 (1) : 146-160.  Doi: 10.1128/CMR.00033-08

LSHTM Library Rare Books Collection Blogs is an occasional posting highlighting books that are landmarks in the understanding of tropical medicine and public health.  The Rare Books Collection  was initiated by Cyril Cuthbert Barnard (1894-1959), the first Librarian, from donations and purchases, assisted with grants from the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. There are approximately 1600 historically important rare and antiquarian books in the Rare Books Collection.      

Many of the LSHTM Library’s rare books were digitized as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library. This provides high-quality copyright-free downloads of over 200,000 books and pamphlets for the 19th and early 20th century. To help preserve the rare books, please consult the digital copy in the first instance.

If the book has not been digitized or if you need to consult the physical object, please request access on the Library’s Discover search service. Use the search function to find the book you would like to view. Click the title to view more information and then click ‘Request’. You can also email library@lshtm.ac.uk with details of the item you wish to view. A librarian will get in touch to arrange a time for you to view the item.

Researchers wishing to view the physical rare books must abide by the Guidelines for using the archives and complete and sign a registration form which signifies their agreement to abide by the archive rules. More information is available on the Visiting Archives webpage.

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