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Zhelezniak, Mykola. "CAPABILITY OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN UKRAINE IN PROGRESS OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION AREA." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu "Ostrozʹka akademìâ". Serìâ Ìstoričnì nauki 1 (December 17, 2020): 142–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2409-6806-2020-31-142-150.

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Reforming of education requires updating its content and methodological components, including didactic toolkits. In a broad sense, the proposed study is concerned with the design and implementation of a wide range of educational tools in the educational process. In a narrow sense, it identifies the opportunities and prospects of using encyclopedic online resources as a didactic toolkit. These issues are covered on the example of the e-version of The Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. The idea of using electronic encyclopedias in the educational process is not new. Researchers suggest that thematic encyclopedias are very important in the teaching of certain subjects. The introduction of encyclopedias into teaching is a contemporary trend initiated by the publishers of the world’s largest encyclopedias. For example, the popular Encyclopedia Britannica has recently become available in three online versions: for primary school students (Britannica Kids), middle school students (Britannica Students), and high school students (Britannica Scholars). This study demonstrates that the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine a) can be a platform for providing encyclopedic knowledge in a subject; b) can be a didactic tool that increases the effectiveness of learning; c) can be used as a source of information for in-depth study of topics in various subjects. Thus, electronic encyclopedias (in particular the online-version of the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine) provide significant opportunities for successful study of educational material, focusing on the most important aspects of educational topics and creating conditions for systematization and generalization of information, as well as actively involving students in self-study, arousing their interest in learning and generally increasing their motivation.
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Danowitz, Erica Swenson. "Britannica on the eve of its 250th birthday: an Encyclopedia’s metamorphosis." Reference Reviews 31, no. 6 (2017): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rr-03-2017-0078.

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the recent history of the Encyclopedia Britannica: how its contents evolved over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, how technological changes almost led to its demise and its transformation from a print to an online source. Design/methodology/approach This paper traces Britannica’s history during most of the twentieth century to today using relevant literature. It also examines how Britannica’s editors used continuous revision to edit numerous print editions throughout most of the twentieth century. The author used both print and online versions of the Britannica to track how particular entries changed or remained the same over a 106-year span. Findings Although many Britannica entries did not change for decades, it still managed to update numerous encyclopedic articles in an age before computers and instant editing. Britannica persisted despite challenges to its existence that resulted from technological changes and imprudent business decisions. On the eve of its 250th birthday, Britannica has managed to survive as an online product that continues to educate new generations of researchers. Originality/value This paper examines a subject that has been explored in the past but not in recent years. Despite previous missteps and competition from Wikipedia and other online reference tools, this paper argues that Britannica still has relevance today.
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Felitti, V. J. "Encyclopedia Britannica CD 98; Britannica Online." JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 279, no. 17 (1998): 1409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.279.17.1409.

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Rudy, Seth. "Knowledge and the Systematic Reader: The Past and Present of Encyclopedic Learning." Culture Unbound 6, no. 3 (2014): 505–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146505.

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Though digital media have unquestionably affected the features and functions of modern encyclopedias, such works also continue to be shaped by factors thoroughly conventional by the end of the historical Enlightenment. As William Smellie, editor of the first Encyclopædia Britannica (1768-71) wrote, “utility ought to be the principal intention of every publication. Wherever this intention does not plainly appear, neither the books nor their authors have the smallest claim to the approbation of mankind.” The “instructional designers” and “user-experience specialists” of the online Britannica are the inheritors of all those authors and editors who before and after Smellie’s time devised different plans and methods intended to maximize the utility of their works. The definition of utility and with it the nature of encyclopedic knowledge continues to change both because of and despite technological difference; if digitization has in some ways advanced the ideals of Enlightenment encyclopedias, then it has in other ways allowed for the re-inscription of certain flaws and limitations that encyclopedias like the Britannica were specifically designed to overcome. By examining not only what one might read in the encyclopedia but also the ways in which one might read it, this article demonstrates the extent to which the notion of encyclopedic utility depends on historical context.
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Zhelezniak, Mykola, and Oleksandr Ishchenko. "The coronavirus disease COVID-19’s coverage in Ukrainian and European encyclopedias." Entsykpopedychnyi Visnyk Ukrainy [The Encyclopedia Herald of Ukraine] 12 (2020): 44–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37068/evu.12.4.

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Today, humans have the phase of the social organization evolution, in which information, communication technologies, and knowledge are fundamental objects of production, as well as the digital environment is an important space for the development of society. There are problems of people’s digital literacy actualized by the increasing role of the existing and growing in information and knowledge in society from Internet environment. This study illustrates the issue of getting digital literacy using online encyclopedic resources on the case about informing the pandemic of coronavirus disease COVID-19 worldwide in 2019-2020. Based on analysis of the mentioned virological topic articles of the national encyclopedias of Europe (Britannica, Brockhaus, Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine, Great Norwegian Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, etc.) the conclusion is made that encyclopedic knowledge is inert and during the pandemic, it has a low practical role for the needs of humans in the context of safe behavior and right decisions. However, Wikipedia differs from other national online encyclopedias by offering much more information including that is not commonly found in classical encyclopedias, but is useful to readers.
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Heide, Ann, and Dale Henderson. "Compton'S Multimedia Encyclopedia. San Francisco: Britannica Software, 1991Compton'S Multimedia Encyclopedia. San Francisco: Britannica Software, 1991." Canadian Modern Language Review 51, no. 2 (1995): 365–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cmlr.51.2.365.

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Grabus, Sam, Jane Greenberg, Peter Logan, and Jane Boone. "Representing Aboutness: Automatically Indexing 19th- Century Encyclopedia Britannica Entries." NASKO 7, no. 1 (2019): 138. http://dx.doi.org/10.7152/nasko.v7i1.15635.

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Representing aboutness is a challenge for humanities documents, given the linguistic indeterminacy of the text. The challenge is even greater when applying automatic indexing to historical documents for a multidisciplinary collection, such as encyclopedias. The research presented in this paper explores this challenge with an automatic indexing comparative study examining topic relevance. The setting is the NEH-funded 19th-Century Knowledge Project, where researchers in the Digital Scholarship Center, Temple University, and the Metadata Research Center, Drexel University, are investigating the best way to index entries across four historical editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica (3rd, 7th, 9th, and 11th editions). Individual encyclopedia entry entries were processed using the Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE) system, a linked-data, automatic indexing terminology application that uses controlled vocabularies. Comparative topic relevance evaluation was performed for three separate keyword extraction algorithms: RAKE, Maui, and Kea++. Results show that RAKE performed the best, with an average of 67% precision for RAKE, and 28% precision for both Maui and Kea++. Additionally, the highest-ranked HIVE results with both RAKE and Kea++ demonstrated relevance across all sample entries, while Maui’s highest-ranked results returned zero relevant terms. This paper reports on background information, research objectives and methods, results, and future research prospects for further optimization of RAKE’s algorithm parameters to accommodate for encyclopedia entries of different lengths, and evaluating the indexing impact of correcting the historical Long S.
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Platt, Len. ""Unfallable encyclicing": Finnegans Wake and the Encyclopedia Britannica." James Joyce Quarterly 47, no. 1 (2009): 107–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2009.0002.

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Sunarsih, NFN. "POLA REPRESENTASI PIHAK ISRAEL DALAM ENSIKLOPEDIA BRITANNICA." Kandai 13, no. 2 (2017): 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/jk.v13i2.191.

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The existence of Israel generates many discourses in so many media and in various points of view. One of the media writing about Israel is Britannica, an internationally high-reputed encyclopedia. Since the intellectual competence is embedded to Britannica, every article published in it may be considered as academically correct. This paper is aimed at analyzing the patterns of Israeli representation in Britannica by applying corpus-based critical discourse analysis (a method combining critical discourse analysis and linguistic corpus). The patterns are analyzed from the concordance of a key word “Israeli(s)” and the collocation around the key word. The results of the study showed that Britannica represents Israel as a powerful military force, as a country that runs democracy, as a country with complete governmental institutions, as one of the main actors of regional conflict, and as the side which affords the conflict end. The patterns found tend to be paradoxical each other because the bad and good side of Israel are represented interwovenly. It implies that Britannica does not construct Israel as entirely black or white.
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Jones, Paul R. "The Early Britannica: The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia." Annals of Science 70, no. 1 (2013): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2010.510938.

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Bell, Mark W. "The transformation of the encyclopedia : a textual analysis and comparison of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1365173.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore the following research question: Are there grammatical textual differences between Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia? Specifically, this study will focus on the articles for "Communism" and "Dwight D. Eisenhower" that appear in the online version of Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia. Using a grammatical textual analysis, the study finds there is little difference grammatically between Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia though they are very different types of systems. There are several different types of textual or contextual methods that could expand on this initial approach to find differences between Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia.<br>Department of Telecommunications
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Books on the topic "Encyclopedia Britannica"

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inc, Encyclopaedia Britannica, ed. Britannica concise encyclopedia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006.

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inc, Encyclopaedia Britannica, ed. Britannica concise encyclopedia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2002.

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Children's Britannica. 4th ed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1989.

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Alexander, Coleman, and Simmons Charles 1924-, eds. All there is to know: Readings from the illustrious eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Simon & Schuster, 1994.

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A, Kafker Frank, and Loveland Jeff, eds. The early Britannica (1768-1803): The growth of an outstanding encyclopedia. Voltaire Foundation, 2009.

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Anonyma. Encyclopedia Britannica. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.

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Anonyma. Encyclopedia Britannica. Franklin Classics, 2018.

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Anonyma. Encyclopedia Britannica. Franklin Classics Trade Press, 2018.

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Anonyma. Encyclopedia Britannica. Franklin Classics, 2018.

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Anonyma. Encyclopedia Britannica. Franklin Classics, 2018.

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Welby, Lady Victoria. "Significs [Encyclopedia Britannica] (1911)." In Signs In Law - A Source Book. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09837-1_6.

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"Keats in the Encyclopedia Britannica." In John Keats. Routledge, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203199473-69.

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"Die Fachsprachen in der Encyclopaedia Britannica von 1771 Special languages in the Encyclopedia Britannica of 1771." In Fachsprachen, edited by Lothar Hoffmann, Hartwig Kalverkämper, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, Christian Galinski, and Werner Hüllen. Walter de Gruyter, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110158847.2.20.1636.

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Negash, Solomon. "ICT for Ethiopian Community Development." In Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology. IGI Global, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch065.

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Ethiopia is the home of Lucy’s discovery claimed by science as the oldest female in the search for human beginning—dated 3.2 million years (Johanson &amp; Edey, 1981; Foley, 1997, 2004); headquarters for Organization of African Union since its inception in 1973 (Encyclopedia Britannica Online, 2004); credited for the world heritage site of the churches of Lalibela, a building technology of ten churches hewed from solid rock (Salmon, 2003; United Nation Population Fund, 2001); the only African nation that did not succumb to colonialism, a nation with 13 months of sunshine, and a nation with a long history (Pankhurst, 1961 &amp; 2004; Tegenu, 2004).
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Headrick, Daniel R. "Storing Information : Dictionaries and Encyclopedias." In When Information Came of Age. Oxford University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195135978.003.0007.

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Encyclopedias and dictionaries are the workhorses of culture; almost everyone consults them from time to time, but almost no one studies them. These useful compendia of knowledge serve their purpose for a few years and then are shelved or pulped. There are some notable exceptions to this rule, works whose significance transcends the time in which they appear. The most famous example of these is the Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné of Diderot and d’Alembert. Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784) was one of the most prolific critics and essayists of the philosophes and a star of the French Enlightenment. His friend Jean Le Rond d’Alembert (1717 – 1783) was a mathematician, astronomer, and science writer. Together, they organized and edited the most ambitious work of their age. They planned it to be a universal compendium of all knowledge, organized in a coherent manner for the edification and enlightenment of the educated reading public. At the same time, they wanted it to be useful, practical, modern, and up-to-date. Despite its steep price, it enjoyed a huge popular success and became one of the best-selling works of the century. Yet it left a poor legacy. Its sequel, the Encyclopédie méthodique, was a com­mercial and scientific failure that few people bought at the time and hardly anyone has looked at since. Today, intellectuals pay lip service to the origi­nal Encyclopédie, but no one goes out and buys a new edition. Contrast this fate with that of two other encyclopedias that appeared a few years after Diderot and d’Alembert’s: the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Brockhaus. The first edition of the Britannica, which appeared in 1771, was a modest work, hastily put together by a printer, an engraver, and a penurious scribbler. The German Conversations-Lexicon was the creation of the publishing entrepreneur Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772–1823), who bought up an unfinished encyclopedia, hired writers to complete it, and issued the first edition in 1809 – 1811. These were no masterpieces of erudition or compendia of all knowledge, but simple reference works.
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Sala, Nicoletta. "Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments in Education." In Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch109.

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Virtual reality (2007), or VR, is defined in the Encyclopædia Britannica as: the use of computer modeling and simulation that enables a person to interact with an artificial threedimensional (3D) visual or other sensory environment. VR applications immerse the user in a computergenerated environment that simulates reality through the use of interactive devices, which send and receive information and are worn as goggles, headsets, gloves, or body suits.
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"Britannia." In Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58292-0_20673.

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Siskin, Clifford. "Histories for Systems." In System. The MIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035316.003.0003.

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History is a genre consisting historically of different kinds with different functions. Instead of just writing “a history” of system, we need to recover the changing relationship between these two genres—starting with Bacon’s emphasis on the need for new histories and Galileo’s focus on system. This chapter follows their interrelations into the eighteenth century using a new computational resource I call Tectonics. It maps spatially over time the coming together of system and history at the century’s end as they share more and more title pages, modifying each other and forming a new platform for knowledge: the narrow-but-deep disciplines of modernity. The chapter confirms this finding using Encyclopedia Britannica and then—with turns to William Jones and the novel--shows how history itself became one of those narrowed disciplines by foregrounding “ideas” and the modern subject that embodies them. The chapter shows how these interrelations of system and history shaped the efforts of system theory, including Immanuel Wallerstein and Niklas Luhmann, and recovers for this book a different kind of history: Bacon’s notion of a capacious literary history that would tell the “story of learning” from age to age. The chapter concludes with Carl Woese’s efforts to transform biology through a newly capacious history, and with explanations of the scope and kinds of history featured in this book: the histories of “mediation,” “blame,” and the “real.”.
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"Britannia Metal." In Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58292-0_20674.

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Winter, Jerrold. "Hallucinogens: Magic Mushrooms, Ayahuasca, Mescal Buttons, and Dr. Hofmann’s Problem Child." In Our Love Affair with Drugs. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190051464.003.0011.

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There are about 400,000 species of plants in this world. Only a small fraction, perhaps 100 in number, contain hallucinogenic chemicals. Nearly a century ago, Lewis Lewin, professor of pharmacology at the University of Berlin, in speaking of drugs he called phantasticants, said “The passionate desire which . . . leads man to flee from the monotony of daily life . . . has made him discover strange substances (which) have been integral to human evolution both societal and cultural for thousands of years.” An unusual problem presents itself to me in writing about these drugs: They straddle the worlds of science and mysticism. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines mysticism as the practice of religious ecstasies (religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness), together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic may be related to them. Science I am comfortable with; mysticism not so much. Yet in our exploration of the agents found in this chapter, we will encounter many persons speaking of drug-induced mystical experiences. I have attempted to get around my unease by first providing the history and the pharmacology of these agents and then touching only lightly on mysticism, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. What shall we call these chemicals? Hallucinogen, a substance that induces perception of objects with no reality, is the term most commonly encountered and the one that I have settled on for the title of this chapter. However, it comes with a caveat. Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, our prototypic hallucinogen, has pointed out that a true hallucination has the force of reality, but the effects of LSD only rarely include this feature. Two additional terms that we will find useful are psychotomimetic and psychedelic. We have already considered the former, an ability to mimic psychosis, in our discussion of amphetamine-induced paranoid psychosis in chapter 4 and the effects of phencyclidine in chapter 6. A psychedelic was defined in 1957 by Humphrey Osmond, inventor of the word, as a drug like LSD “which enriches the mind and enlarges the vision.”
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Conference papers on the topic "Encyclopedia Britannica"

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Su, Xiaoqing. "Observation and Reflection on an English Lesson—The Great Famine in Ireland from 2013 Encyclopedia Britannica." In Proceedings of the 2018 6th International Education, Economics, Social Science, Arts, Sports and Management Engineering Conference (IEESASM 2018). Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/ieesasm-18.2019.47.

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Fadaie, Gholamreza. "The Influence of Classification on World View and Epistemology." In InSITE 2008: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3279.

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Worldview as a kind of man's look towards the world of reality has a severe influence on his classification of knowledge. In other words one may see in classification of knowledge the unity as well as plurality. This article deals with the fact that how classification takes place in man's epistemological process. Perception and epistemology are mentioned as the key points here. Philosophers are usually classifiers and their point of views forms the way they classify things and concepts. Relationship and how one looks at it in shaping the classification scheme is critical. The classifications which have been introduced up to now have had several models. They represent the kind of looking at, or point of view of their founders to the world. Aristotle, as a philosopher as well as an encyclopedist, is one of the great founders of knowledge classification. Afterwards the Islamic scholars followed him while some few rejected his model and made some new ones. If we divide all classifications according to their roots we may define them as human based classification, theology based classification, knowledge based classification, materialistic based classification such as Britannica's classification, and fact based classification. Tow broad approaches have been defined in this article: static and dynamic. The static approach refers to the traditional approaches and the dynamic one refers to the eight way of looking toward objects in order to realize them. The structure of classification has had its influence on epistemology, too. If the first cut on knowledge tree is fully defined, the branches would usually be consistent with it.
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