ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jessica Ladd - Founder and CEO, Callisto
Jessica Ladd is using technology to combat sexual assault, empower survivors and advance justice.

Why you should listen

Jessica Ladd is the founder and CEO of Callisto, formerly Sexual Health Innovations, and a TED Fellow. She has been honored as a fearless changemaker by the Case Foundation, an emerging innovator by Ashoka and American Express, and as the Civic Hacker of the Year by Baltimore Innovation Week.

Before founding Sexual Health Innovations, Ladd worked in the White House Office of National AIDS Policy as a public policy associate at The AIDS Institute and as a sexual health educator and researcher for a variety of organizations. She also founded The Social Innovation Lab in Baltimore and a chapter of FemSex at Pomona College. She received her Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins and her BA in Public Policy/Human Sexuality at Pomona College. She left a PhD program in infectious disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins in order to pursue work at Sexual Health Innovations full-time.

Ladd has created a platform, Callisto, for survivors of sexual assault to electronically document and report what happened to them. The platform helps identify serial sexual offenders, allowing victims to either (1) directly report to an institution or (2) store their identity in escrow and only release it to an institution if another victim names the same assailant.

More profile about the speaker
Jessica Ladd | Speaker | TED.com
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Jessica Ladd: The reporting system that sexual assault survivors want

Jessica Ladd: O sistema de registro que vítimas de agressão sexual desejam

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Nós não temos de viver em um mundo no qual 99% dos estupradores saem impunes, diz a Bolsista TED Jessica Ladd. Com Callisto, uma nova plataforma para que alunos universitários registrem agressões sexuais de maneira confidencial, Ladd está ajudando as vítimas a conseguirem o apoio e a justiça que merecem, respeitando suas preocupações com privacidade. Ela diz: "Podemos criar um mundo no qual exista uma intimidação real à violação dos direitos de outro ser humano".
- Founder and CEO, Callisto
Jessica Ladd is using technology to combat sexual assault, empower survivors and advance justice. Full bio

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Hannah is excited to be going to college.
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Hannah está animada
por ir para a faculdade.
Ela mal consegue esperar
para sair da casa de seus pais,
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She couldn't wait
to get out of her parents' house,
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to prove to them that she's an adult,
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para provar a eles que é adulta,
00:21
and to prove to her new friends
that she belongs.
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e para provar a seus novos amigos
que faz parte da turma.
00:25
She heads to a campus party
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Ela vai a uma festa no campus,
00:26
where she sees a guy
that she has a crush on.
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na qual vê um rapaz
por quem se sente atraída.
Vamos chamá-lo de Mike.
00:29
Let's call him Mike.
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00:32
The next day, Hannah wakes up
with a pounding headache.
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No dia seguinte, Hannah acorda
com uma dor de cabeça latejante.
00:37
She can only remember
the night in flashes.
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Ela só se lembra
de alguns flashes da noite.
00:40
But what she does remember is
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Mas ela se lembra de vomitar
no corredor, fora do quarto do Mike,
00:42
throwing up in the hall
outside Mike's room
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00:46
and staring at the wall silently
while he was inside her,
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de encarar a parede em silêncio
enquanto ele estava dentro dela,
00:49
wanting it to stop,
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de querer que aquilo acabasse,
00:51
then shakily stumbling home.
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e depois ir para casa tropeçando.
00:54
She doesn't feel good about what happened,
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Ela não se sente bem
com o que aconteceu, mas pensa:
00:56
but she thinks, "Maybe this is just
what sex in college is?"
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"Talvez sexo na faculdade seja isso".
01:01
One in five women and one in 13 men
will be sexually assaulted
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Uma em cada cinco mulheres
e 1 em cada 13 homens
serão atacados sexualmente
em algum momento durante
a faculdade, nos Estados Unidos.
01:06
at some point during their college career
in the United States.
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01:11
Less than 10 percent will ever report
their assault to their school
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Menos de 10% registram ocorrência
na faculdade ou na polícia.
01:15
or to the police.
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E os que registram, em média,
esperam 11 meses para fazê-lo.
01:17
And those who do, on average,
wait 11 months to make the report.
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01:24
Hannah initially just feels like dealing
with what happened on her own.
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Inicialmente Hannah sente
como se lidasse com aquilo sozinha.
01:27
But when she sees Mike
taking girls home from parties,
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Mas quando vê Mike levar garotas para casa
na saída das festas, se preocupa com elas.
01:30
she's worried about them.
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01:32
After graduation, Hannah learns
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Depois da graduação, Hannah fica sabendo
que ela foi uma das cinco mulheres
01:34
that she was one of five women
who Mike did the exact same thing to.
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com quem Mike fez
exatamente a mesma coisa.
01:40
And this is not an unlikely scenario
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E esse não é um cenário improvável,
01:43
because 90 percent of sexual assaults
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porque 90% das agressões sexuais
01:46
are committed by repeat offenders.
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são cometidas por criminosos reincidentes.
Mas com taxas de registro tão baixas,
01:49
But with such low reporting rates,
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01:50
it's fairly unlikely that even
repeat perpetrators will be reported,
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é muito improvável
que os criminosos sejam denunciados,
01:54
much less anything happen if they are.
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e muito menos que algo aconteça a eles.
De fato, apenas 6% das agressões
registradas na polícia
01:57
In fact, only six percent
of assaults reported to the police
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02:02
end with the assailant
spending a single day in prison.
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terminam com o agressor
passando apenas um dia na prisão.
02:05
Meaning, there's a 99 percent chance
that they'll get away with it.
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Ou seja, existe 99% de chance
de eles saírem impunes.
Isso quer dizer que praticamente
não existe nada que iniba a agressão
02:11
This means there's practically
no deterrent to assault
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nos Estados Unidos.
02:14
in the United States.
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02:18
Now, I'm an infectious disease
epidemiologist by training.
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Sou uma epidemiologista
de doenças infecciosas, por formação.
02:21
I'm interested in systems and networks
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Tenho interesse em sistemas e redes,
02:24
and where we can concentrate
our resources to do the most good.
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em que podemos concentrar
nossos recursos para fazer o melhor.
02:29
So this, to me, is a tragic
but a solvable problem.
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Então, para mim, isso é um problema
trágico, mas que pode ser solucionado.
Assim, quando as agressões nos campi
02:35
So when the issue of campus assault
started hitting the news a few years ago,
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começaram a ser destaque
nas notícias, há alguns anos,
02:39
it felt like a unique opportunity
to make a change.
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me pareceu uma oportunidade
única de mudar algo.
E foi o que fizemos.
02:42
And so we did.
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Começamos conversando
com as vítimas da faculdade.
02:44
We started by talking
to college survivors.
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E o que elas queriam ter tido
na faculdade é muito simples;
02:47
And what they wish they'd had
in college is pretty simple;
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02:50
they wanted a website,
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elas queriam um site,
02:52
one they could use
at the time and place
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que pudessem usar no horário e local
02:54
that felt safest to them
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em que lhes parecesse mais seguro,
02:56
with clearly written information
about their reporting options,
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com informações claras
sobre as opções de registro,
03:00
with the ability to electronically
report their assault,
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e com a capacidade de registrar
eletronicamente a agressão,
03:03
rather than having the first step
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em vez de o primeiro passo
ser falar com alguém
03:05
to go in and talk to someone
who may or may not believe them.
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que pode ou não acreditar nelas.
03:09
With the option to create
a secure, timestamped document
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Com a opção de criar um documento
seguro e com registro de data e hora
03:12
of what happened to them,
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do que acontecera com elas,
03:13
preserving evidence
even if they don't want to report yet.
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conservando o testemunho mesmo
se não quisessem fazer a ocorrência ainda.
03:17
And lastly, and perhaps most critically,
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E por fim, e talvez o mais crítico,
03:20
with the ability to report their assault
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com a capacidade de reportar a agressão
03:22
only if someone else
reported the same assailant.
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somente se outra pessoa
reportar o mesmo agressor.
03:26
You see, knowing that you weren't
the only one changes everything.
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Veja bem, saber que você
não foi a única, muda tudo.
Muda a forma de encarar
a própria experiência,
03:30
It changes the way
you frame your own experience,
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03:32
it changes the way
you think about your perpetrator,
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muda a forma de pensar
sobre seu agressor;
significa que se você der um depoimento,
terá o respaldo de outras vítimas
03:34
it means that if you do come forward,
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03:36
you'll have someone else's back
and they'll have yours.
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e elas terão o seu.
03:40
We created a website
that actually does this
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Nós criamos um site que de fato faz isso,
03:43
and we launched it [...] in August,
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e foi lançado há dois meses, em agosto,
em duas faculdades.
03:46
on two college campuses.
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And we included a unique matching system
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Incluímos um sistema de cruzamento único,
no qual se a primeira vítima do Mike
tivesse feito a denúncia,
03:51
where if Mike's first victim
had come forward,
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salvado o registro, entrado no sistema
de cruzamento, e dado o nome do Mike,
03:54
saved her record,
entered into the matching system
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03:57
and named Mike,
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e a segunda vítima do Mike tivesse
feito o mesmo alguns meses depois,
03:58
and Mike's second victim
had done the same thing
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04:00
a few months later,
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os registros teriam sido cruzados
04:02
they would have matched
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04:04
and the verified contact information
of both survivors
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e as informações de contato
das duas vítimas
04:07
would have been sent
to the authorities at the same time
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teriam sido enviadas
às autoridades ao mesmo tempo
para investigação e acompanhamento.
04:10
for investigation and follow up.
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04:13
If a system like this had existed
for Hannah and her peers,
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Se um sistema como esse existisse
para Hannah e suas colegas,
provavelmente elas teriam
reportado a agressão,
04:17
it's more likely
that they would have reported,
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teriam acreditado nelas,
04:19
that they would have been believed,
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e Mike teria sido expulso do campus,
04:21
and that Mike would have been
kicked off campus,
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04:23
gone to jail, or at least
gotten the help that he needed.
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sido preso, ou, no mínimo,
recebido a ajuda de que precisava.
04:27
And if we were able to stop
repeat offenders like Mike
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E se pudermos parar agressores
reincidentes como o Mike
depois da segunda agressão
seguida de um cruzamento,
04:31
after just their second assault
following a match,
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vítimas como Hannah
não seriam mais atacadas,
04:35
survivors like Hannah
would never even be assaulted
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04:37
in the first place.
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em primeiro lugar.
04:39
We could prevent
59 percent of sexual assaults
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Poderíamos prevenir
59% das agressões sexuais
04:43
just by stopping
repeat perpetrators earlier on.
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só por impedir agressores
reincidentes mais cedo.
04:48
And because we're creating
a real deterrent to assault,
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E como estamos criando
um empecilho real para agressões,
talvez pela primeira vez,
04:50
for perhaps the first time,
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04:52
maybe the Mikes of the world
would never even try to assault anyone.
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quem sabe os Mikes do mundo
nem tentassem atacar alguém.
04:58
The type of system I'm describing,
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O tipo de sistema que estou descrevendo,
05:00
the type of system that survivors want
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o tipo de sistema que as vítimas querem,
05:03
is a type of information escrow,
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é como uma custódia da informação,
05:05
meaning an entity that holds on
to information for you
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ou seja, uma entidade que mantém
a informação para você
05:08
and only releases it to a third party
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e só a libera para terceiros
05:11
when certain pre-agreed upon
conditions are met,
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quando condições preestabelecidas
forem atingidas, como um cruzamento.
05:13
such as a match.
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05:15
The application that we built
is for college campuses.
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A aplicação que implementamos
é para campi universitários.
05:19
But the same type of system
could be used in the military
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Mas o mesmo tipo de sistema
pode ser usado nas forças armadas
05:22
or even the workplace.
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ou mesmo em locais de trabalho.
05:25
We don't have to live in a world
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Não temos de viver em um mundo
05:28
where 99 percent of rapists
get away with it.
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no qual 99% dos estupradores saem impunes.
05:32
We can create one
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Podemos criar um mundo
05:33
where those who do wrong
are held accountable,
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no qual os que cometem crimes
são responsabilizados,
no qual as vítimas recebem o apoio
e a justiça que merecem,
05:36
where survivors get the support
and justice they deserve,
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05:39
where the authorities
get the information they need,
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no qual as autoridades recebem
as informações necessárias,
que existe um empecilho real
05:42
and where there's a real deterrent
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05:44
to violating the rights
of another human being.
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à violação dos direitos
de outro ser humano.
05:49
Thank you.
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Obrigada.
(Aplausos)
05:50
(Applause)
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Translated by Cláudia Sander
Reviewed by Wanderley Jesus

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jessica Ladd - Founder and CEO, Callisto
Jessica Ladd is using technology to combat sexual assault, empower survivors and advance justice.

Why you should listen

Jessica Ladd is the founder and CEO of Callisto, formerly Sexual Health Innovations, and a TED Fellow. She has been honored as a fearless changemaker by the Case Foundation, an emerging innovator by Ashoka and American Express, and as the Civic Hacker of the Year by Baltimore Innovation Week.

Before founding Sexual Health Innovations, Ladd worked in the White House Office of National AIDS Policy as a public policy associate at The AIDS Institute and as a sexual health educator and researcher for a variety of organizations. She also founded The Social Innovation Lab in Baltimore and a chapter of FemSex at Pomona College. She received her Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins and her BA in Public Policy/Human Sexuality at Pomona College. She left a PhD program in infectious disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins in order to pursue work at Sexual Health Innovations full-time.

Ladd has created a platform, Callisto, for survivors of sexual assault to electronically document and report what happened to them. The platform helps identify serial sexual offenders, allowing victims to either (1) directly report to an institution or (2) store their identity in escrow and only release it to an institution if another victim names the same assailant.

More profile about the speaker
Jessica Ladd | Speaker | TED.com

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