The development of medical devices industry differs afar in developed countries and developing countries. In emerging markets like China and India, it is the economic growth that drives the expansion of market scale, but in most cases, the expansion just means the increase of market capacity. Comparatively, the developed countries’ market growth focuses on the new technology and the new product development. With the prevalence of digital technologies and new materials, a great change might happen to the current medical devices. As is expected, the annual sales of novel digital medical devices will hit more than US$100 billion in the following years.

America, Europe and Japan are listed top three in sequence in the global medical appliance market. The overall market size of the three occupied nearly 78% of global medical devices market in 2008. The global medical appliance market size declined 0.4 percentage points to US$206.59 billion in 2008, but a rise of 6% from a year earlier. In 2008, the China’s medical devices industry achieved CNY69.435 billion of sale, merely 5% of global market scale.

The hi-tech medical equipment, a focus of competition among multinational corporations, is also one of the fastest growing industries around the world. With the improvement of the people’s living standard, the global demand for medical healthcare has been enlarging, which stimulates the investments of countries in such field. Currently, the hi-tech medical appliance market is monopolized by only few large multinational enterprises including GE, Siemens, Toshiba, Hitachi, HP and Philips etc. Chinese market is also occupied by those multinational corps. In addition, GE announced in 2008 that it would roll out five new products to meet the demand of Chinese rural basic medical treatment market before 2010. Wuxi R&D Center (China) answers for the localized design and production of the products. The China’s local enterprises have to face strong competition from the giants in the long run.

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Lithium is the lightest metal and widely applied in the sectors such as battery, ceramics, glass, aluminum, lubricant and refrigerating agent, as well as the nuclear and photoelectric, and the lithium carbonate is the basic material for the production of lithium metal.

China is one of the countries with the largest lithium reserves in the world. China’s proven lithium reserves (convert into pure lithium) have reached 3.35 million tons, ranking the 3rd place in the world in terms of salt lake brine lithium reserves , and the fourth place in terms of lithium ore resources. And China’s prospective reserves of lithium resource are more substantial.

The same as the year of 2007, in the world, the sectors consumed the most of lithium carbonate in 2008 were battery, lubricant, ceramics and glass, with a proportion of 27%, 12%, 9% and 8% respectively, while the proportion in 2007 was 25%, 12%, 10% and 8% respectively. The lithium carbonate consumption by the battery sector has further increased, while the consumption was a bit down by the traditional sectors like ceramics.

By the end of 2008, the global lithium carbonate demand was 95,400 tons, up 2.9% year on year, and the CAGR for global lithium carbonate demand in the past ten years was over 7%. Chile, China and Argentina were the top three countries in terms of lithium carbonate production capacity, and they were together satisfied 94% of global lithium carbonate demand. Especially the China, its global market share increased to 26% in 2007 from 21% in 2006, but the figure declined to 24% in 2008 as a result of natural disasters.

China’s demand for lithium carbonate has also grown rapidly. Starting from 2008, China entered a releasing period of lithium carbonate productions. It is expected that China’s lithium carbonate output will reach 45,000 tons and its designed production capacity will surpass 60,000 tons by 2010.

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The economic rebound in the first quarter of 2009 was mainly due to LCD TV. The economic recession of Europe and America will only make consumers reduce the consumption on such necessities in the late phase. Although Europe and America suffered economic recession, the market shares of LCD TV did not fluctuate much because of manufacturers’ promotion strategies, WON depreciation and further development of LCD TV in the first quarter of 2009. With the push of China and other emerging countries, the market rebounded significantly. Japanese enterprises were panicked and reduced production greatly when economic recession arose, resulting in short supply. This strong rebound was still lack of powerful support, especially in emerging countries. In China, when the property market begins to rebound, real estate sales will promote the consumption on home appliances. In the mid and late rebound phase of the property market, consumers will wait and see, and real estate sales will decline, so that home appliances consumption will also drop. The unemployment rate is still rising in Europe and America and economic recession has not ended, so if consumers are aware of the fact, they will certainly cut expenditure.

From Q1 2005 to Q4 2010, the fluctuation of TFT-LCD industry seems to be magnified, but the fact is not. The global economy has experienced the most significant recession since the Great Depression in 1929. TFT-LCD industry is the upstream of consumer electronics and IT industry, and the two industries always follow the trend of the global economy. Excluding external factors, the fluctuation of TFT-LCD industry is lessened, especially the extent of decline shrinks, which is because LCD TVs develop rapidly, IT industry is relatively stable and notebook computers develop well. Before 2000, 80% of TFT-LCDs were used in notebooks, thus on which TFT-LCD industry was highly dependent, and then TFT-LCD industry fluctuated a lot. In the future, LCD TV industry, Netbook industry and LED notebook industry will enter the mature stage, which will make TFT-LCD industry tend to fluctuate less, but on the other hand, the industry will lack growth momentum.

TFT-LCD industry relies heavily on upstream raw materials and components. In the cost structure of TFT-LCD, upstream components account for 70-85%. Therefore, to be cost-efficient shall be supported by the strong upstream, but for Chinese enterprises, it is hard to do so. In many Chinese enterprises, including joint ventures, profit is often transferred to the upstream. In addition to glass substrates, Taiwan has nearly all of upstream industrial chains, which is the biggest driver for Taiwan’s success in TFT-LCD industry. TFT-LCD industry can prompt a huge industrial chain. Japanese manufacturers occupy the top position in the industrial chain, and they usually sell their technology rather than products. Almost every Taiwanese manufacturer in the upstream industrial chain has received technical support from Japan, so do South Korea manufacturers. Taiwanese manufacturers’ success lies in fast access to market through technology licensing, while Japanese manufacturers rely on supporting Taiwanese enterprises to combat South Korea rivals. Japanese manufacturers still master the upstream firmly.

Upstream components include Glass Substrate, Color Filter, Polarizer, Backlight Module, Driver IC, CCFL Lamp and LED.

As for non-key components, these companies have adequate resources, especially AUO and Chimei. Mainland China enterprises invest on the middle and downstream which brings production value fastest, but they neglect the efficiency and quality of the investment, and thus lack cost competitiveness.

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Over 95% DTVs are FPTVs, therefore this research including the DTV.

The shipment of FPTV in 2008 was 124 million, of which, the LCD TV shipment was 109 million, and the plasma TV shipment was 15 million. The industry chain of FPTV includes raw material suppliers, OEMs or ODMs and FPTV manufacturers. Among which, IC suppliers and panel suppliers are the key players.

The ranking of global FPTV manufacturers in terms of shipment is as following: Samsung, Sony, LG, Panasonic, Sharp, Philips, Toshiba, Hitachi, TCL Multimedia and Vizio. Samsung launched a 7th-generation panel production line and two 8th-generation panel production lines together with Sony and Sharp, moreover, Samsung also planned to launch a 10th-generation panel production line together with Sony and Sharp, however, the plan is about to delay. Sony only plays a simple role as the investors regarding those corporations mentioned, Sony has a power over financial issues, and the rest are all controlled by Samsung.

LG Display owns a 7th- generation production line and a 8th-generation production line, while Sharp owns a 8th-generation production line. Panasonic, Hitachi and Toshiba jointly own a 6th-generation production line. Besides, Panasonic has the world’s largest plasma display panel production line. Philips also owns a few shares of LG Display.

There are three major suppliers of LCD TV panel in Taiwan are AUO, Chimei and CPTF. The production scale of AUO is similar to Chimei, while CPTF has a smaller scale. LCD TV manufacturers often have a couple of panel suppliers in order to avoid the risks. The clients of CPTF including Samsung, LG, Funai, and AOC. Chimei has the strongest client base, including all of the top ten LCD TV manufacturers except Sharp, among which, Samsung and Sony are the most important two clients. The clients of AUO including Samsung, Sony, Philips, and LG. The clients of LG Display are Philips, LG, Panasonic and Toshiba. Sharp also sells some panels to Philips.

In terms of FPTV OEM, about 25% FPTVs are produced by OEM in the world. The proportion may expand to 35-40% with the increasing of cost pressure in the future. All non TV players relies on OEM 100%, including Westinghouse, Lenovo, Tongfang, ViewSonic, Dell, BenQ, etc. 60% is for Philips, the proportion may reach 100% in the future. The proportion of others is: LG (10%, which may expand to 20% in the future), Sony (20%, which may expand 40% in the future), Sharp (10%), and Toshiba (40%). While Samsung and Panasonic relies on themselves 100%. In 2008, the ranking of OEMs in terms of shipment was AOC, Proview, Amtran, Wistron, Funai, Jabil and Kolin.

In terms of IC, MediaTek and Trident were the major suppliers of Samsung in 2007. Trident targets the medium- and low-end market, while MediaTek targets the high-end market. At the end of 2007, Samsung started its self-developed IC for its medium- and high-end products. Though the scale was small, it also had an impact on MediaTek and Trident, especially the sales of Trident declined nearly 50%, and Samsung will further strengthen its independent R&D. Sonly has five IC suppliers, including Broadcom(AMD), NXP, Trident, MediaTek and NEC, of which, Trident and NEC are the majors. .

Panasonic and Sharp are both have self-developed IC, while Philips much relies on ST (GENESIS). Toshiba relies on ST and Sharp, and develops high-end products together with Sharp. Although its shipment is small, Hitachi still insists on self-development. Chinese manufacturers rely on Trident in the early stage, but tended to Morningstar considering the cheaper price in the second half of 2006. And Morningstar shared 70% of Chinese market, focusing on the medium- and low-end market. While in the high-end market, the major players are ST and MediaTek.

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The FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit) industry burgeoned in 2002, saw rapid expansion from 2003 to 2004, and then in 2005 entered the price-war competition. Afterwards, the FPC industry went through its downturn during 2006 to 2007, and turned better in 2008. The global financial crisis did not hinder the recovery of FPC industry. On the one hand, the drop in the price of FPC stimulates the demand for FPC; and on the other hand, the increasing demand for lightness, smallness and thinness as well as high reliability brings further application of FPC. Meanwhile, the FPC manufacturers that survived from price competition once suffered great pressure, and they are veteran in cost control and dealing with difficulties, thus fearless of global economic downturn.

The cell phone is the main driver for FPC market growth, in particular smart phone and high-end cell phones. What’s more, FPC will be increasingly applied to such consumer electronics as laptop, PND, digital camera, DV, LCD TV, plasma TV, and media players with the pursuit of performance and ultra-thin size. A great number of Laptop and FPTV has been provided with LED as backlight, and FPC is as usual the main mode to connect LED with main circuit. In the near future, the shaft connecting laptop screen with motherboard is likely to use FPC.

The FPC has still certain market in hard disk, although with a higher growth to be desired. It is impossible for NAND to quickly replace hard disk in short term, since the storage capacity grows ever in information era, and hard disk rather than NAND can meet the demand. Despite the price of NAND drops sharply, it still can’t keep up with the growth rate of mainstream storage density. NAND has some potential in non-mainstream market such as Netbook; the hard disk has still dominated the mainstream market. In a word, hard disk will enjoy advantages in storage density, reliability, maturity and price-performance ratio in next five years. Currently, there are only six hard disk manufacturers, and the number will decrease. In contrast, there are many FPC manufactures, but with weak price bargaining ability. Moreover, the FPC required by hard disk is single in style. All those above decide not a robust growth of FPC in hard disk market.

In optical disc drive industry, the growth of FPC rests with blue ray. In Addition, FPC has steady performance in printer market.

In automobile, the usage of ECU is attended by FPC with high reliability and space advantage. Now, auto ECU gets increasingly applied.

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Undoubtedly, e-book has been one of the much-talked-about topics in consumer electrics. Strictly speaking, only the readers with e-paper can be called e-book reader.

E-book industry can be divided into five major components as follows, content provider, digital format producer, content distribution service platform, transmission platforms, and reader. Of the five, the reader, which belongs to hardware, is the most mature.

Sony has sold its own brand of e-book, and decided to launch products with the function of wireless download and touch panel. Google has also issued the e-book plan, and in China, besides Jinke Hanlin, the companies such as Hanwang, Founder, Ebiox, Avoex and Onyx also have launched such products.

However, the competition among the terminal products has just started. The success of Amazon also rests with its powerful content service, and the consumers can buy Amazon genuine e-book via free wireless access such as Sprint 3G mobile phone network. It will be a big challenge for China’s e-book market that has been used to free service.

In fact, to digitalize books is not as simple as it seems. The operation flow begins with the digitalization of book content, and then it should protect digital content via the technologies such as DRM system, encryption and attestation in order to avoid copyright embezzlement. After that, a smooth download & charging system should be required so that the consumers can download their favorite content in books or magazines to e-readers via such system and service platform.

PVI is the only e-paper manufacturer capable of mass production in terminal hardware field in Taiwan. Founded on Jun 2nd, 2009, PVI acquired E-INK at the price of USD200 million. With best whiteness and short response time, it is the most mature and excellent e-paper technology, closest to traditional books. Nearly all global e-book readers adopt PVI e-paper, and the 6-inch e-paper display module is priced at US$60. The order has been scheduled to the end of Jun, 2010, and rate of capacity utilization is up to 100%. In addition, AUO invested US$30 million to get 31.58% shares of SiPix Imaging in Mar, 2009 and became the largest shareholder, while the MicroCup technology originally corresponded to electric tag rather than e-paper. Then AUO changed into e-book reader at once, but the whiteness, resolution and response are not as good as PVI E-INK. AUO also reported that it had employed mass production in Sep, 2009.

The electronic liquid powder, produced by the world’s largest tire manufacturer, Bridgestone, has also entrusted Taiwan companies for industrialization. Its partner, Delta Electronics is the global largest adapter manufacture, and the electronic paper in trial production was a bit yellow, and rather slow in response. However, in Sep, 2009, Bridgestone announced that the responsiveness had been greatly improved.

Taiwan manufacturers take the advantages of geographic locations and convenient traffic in the field of downstream assembly manufacturing. Netronix Inc, 13% shares of which are held by PVI, is the second largest e-book reader manufacturer followed by PVI, and its shares have increased several times. AUO has not achieved mass production now, the shares of which have doubled already. Besides, the companies such as ASUS, Foxconn and Inventec all have entered e-book reader sector.

The price of e-book reader is still higher comparatively, and the maturity of AUO SiPix technology is still to be tested. Considering the current supply and demand, what PVI can only do is to increase price. The display module is the most expensive part of e-book, followed by the most used Qualcomm 3G chip set and Freescale IMX31 processor. The price is the key factor to hinder the prevalence of e-book reader, then the content. However, the content provider is substantially excellent in American market.

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The year of 2008 saw the exchange of roles between plastic and metal. The plastic players enjoyed a lower cost of raw materials than MgAl players due to their cost cut in advance considering the decline of plastic case market in 2007. In contrast, metal case producers still enjoined their dream of the growth from previous years but actually recorded a decline in 2008.

Laptop Case Market

The output value of MgAl alloy dropped somewhat in recent two years, which is mainly attributable to the following.

(1) MgAl alloy mainly applied in commercial laptops and medium- and high-end laptops, the sales performance of those is not considerable.

(2) The price gap to plastic case

Besides, positives are composed of that the prices of Mgnesium and Aluminum sharply dropped; the more popular products like Netbook needs the addition of MgAl alloy slices as the support to A-side plastic in order to satisfying intensity; the heat dissipation of MgAl alloy meets the demand of UCLV super-low voltage platform; Occidental vendors still prefer MgAl alloy case for their high-end products.

Mobile Phone Case Market

In 2008, mobile phone metal case and structure market shrank to a great extent. On the one hand, the sales of Motorola dropped drastically from 160 million handsets to 100 million handsets; on the other hand, 3G iphone of Apple transferred to plastic case from metal case considering the realize of GPS function. Nevertheless, the shipment of mobile phones with metal case of Samsung, Nokia, LG and SonyEricsson were all increased.

In 2009, mobile phone market tends to drop as a whole; the high-end handset will see a greater drop; and the cost competition will be more intense. Furthermore, Motorola, the main client of metal case, will not shrug off the predicament.

Till 2010, after the inconsistency of GPS with metal case gets resolved, such vendors like Apple will transfer back to metal case, and Motorola will resume as well. It is expected that RIM will also join the metal case by then. In this sense, the metal case market after 2010 will be expanding.

After its being acquired by Liteon, the profit of Perlos increased in spite of a sales drop. The operating profit margin of Perlos in 2007Q1 (before the acquisition) was negatively 2.3%, while the figure was up to 6.7% in 2008Q3. After being purchased by Jabil, Green Point endeavored to develop new clients, and sharply increased its shipment to Nokia, which has made up the decline of Motorola. Moreover, the South Korean players like the Intops, P&TEL, SHINYANG, CHAARMTECH, YUSUNG, JINWON, JYSLOUTEC, MOTIS and KH-VATEC were all achieved a considerable performance in 2008 driven by Samsung and LG. In contrast, counterparts from Mainland China were all in price war and achieved little profit. However, a bad profit for Chinese players due to the price war.

Digital Camera Case Market

Canon and Sony persist in their own production. There are only few of independent Digital cameral case and structure manufacturers. Along with the appreciation of Japanese Yen and increasing cost pressure, the outsourcing proportion will be expanding in 2009. Considering the digital camera OEM, there are four giants are Foxconn (Premier), Altek, Canon and Asia-Optical. Foxconn is capable of self-producing case and structure. Canon and Asia-Optical made invested the YORKEY, which focus on the production of plastic case and structure. Asus and Canon invested the AVY Precision Technology, which focus on the production of metal case and structure. Nowadays, AVY has ranked the first in the world with a share over 50%.

TV Case Market

Most of TV manufacturers are capable of self-producing TV cases. However, considering the LCD TV emphasizes its appearance, for some state-of-the-art technologies, the independent case suppliers are more specialized in, for example the Echom Science & Technology Co., Ltd and Taoshi Mould Group in China.

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There are two kinds of car navigation systems by installed method: one is the embedded car multimedia information system, which often integrates navigation, DVD, audio, Bluetooth, etc. It includes factory OEM navigation system and aftermarket navigation system. The former means the system installed by car manufacturers, while the latter mainly refers to the systems sold in 4S stores. The other kind is PND (Portable Navigation Device), whose sales channels are IT and 3C stores.

In 2008, the world’s total shipment of GPS navigation devices were over 70 million units, of which, the shipment of factory OEM car navigation devices occupied 10%. The factory OEM car navigation devices market scale will surpass 14 million sets by 2011. China car navigation devices sales in 2008 were over 3 million units, more than doubled the figure last years, of which, the sales of factory OEM car navigation devices were over 300,000 units, much smaller than that of aftermarket car navigation devices. (Please refer to the report for accurate data).

Though the ratio of car navigation to the global navigation devices market scale has decreased, the absolute value of the factory OEM car navigation devices market scale is still growing steadily. As automakers, government and car drivers pay more attention to car safety, high efficiency, convenience, entertainment information, cost saving and pollution reduction, etc, factory OEM car information service terminals are increasingly welcomed. The key driver is the demand of consumers for advanced information and recreation service system, such real-time services as traffic information, oil price, parking lot, tourism information, etc.

Based on the basic information of National Bureau of Statistics, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China Technical Application Association for Global Positioning System, related publications at home and abroad, the data of related navigation research institutes and in-depth market survey, the report made analysis on and forecast of the car navigation industry development, the equipping of mainstream car models, sales channels of related products, key segmented industries, leading companies, etc and discussed the overall environment and development trend of the car navigation industry in the future. In addition, it provides accurate market intelligence and scientific decision-making basis to help car navigation companies timely adjust their operation strategies in accordance with the market demand, to help strategic investors choose the right investment time and to help company leaders make proper strategic planning, in addition, the report is of great reference value for the credit department of banks.

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“Supposing the LED industry keeps developing at the current speed, the LED will be in line with the traditional light source level in 2014. The cost of the light source only takes up very small proportion of automotive headlight. If the automotive LED headlamp has the same illuminating effect as the headlamp made of the traditional light source, their cost gap won’t be more than 10%. Currently the LED headlamp cost is 30% higher and even two times of the HID headlamp, and the mainstream cars are against such a big cost difference.

Besides increasing the LED luminous efficiency and lowering the average illumination cost, it is also very necessary to solve the heat dissipation problem. The optical fiber-distributed lighting might be the best choice. If the technique of such lighting pattern achieves its maturity, the LED headlamp can be equipped into the low-temperature trunk instead of the vicinity of the high-temperature engine. Only an LED module is needed in the trunk, and then the optical fiber can transmit the light to every reachable area, which perfectly simplifies the design and minimizes the volume of the auto lamp. Though the current commonly-used heat pipe and fan can also dissipate the heat, they are with the high cost and complicated design.

From 2008 to 2013, the auto headlight manufacturing will remain the slow development. It is forecast that it will see the fast improvement in 2014. 50% high-mount brake lamps were made of LED in 2008 and this proportion will reach 100% in the future; 10% steering lamps were made of LED in 2008 and this proportion will reach 50% in 2015; only 10% width lamps were made of LED and this proportion will reach 30% in the future. In spite of huge market room, the price competition is quite intense and the price would fall by a big margin, hereby the market growing ability is not strong enough.

The global automobile industry has very clear group division. The German group and the Japanese group have built the vertical supplying system for years and the companies from other countries hardly have opportunities to participate in this system. The American automakers keep not so close a relationship with the suppliers, so other automakers still have certain chances. The Japanese auto market is monopolized by the three lighting companies, namely, Koito, Ichikoh and Stanley. Nissan has long-term partnership with Renault, so it also purchases the lamps from Valeo. In addition, the American automakers have numerous suppliers like Delphi, Visteon, HELLA and Stanley etc. The German automakers’ suppliers consist mainly of HELLA and AL. The French automakers undoubtedly choose their local company Valeo as the supplier. Similarly, Italy chooses AL, which is affiliated to the Italian FIAT Corporation. The South Korean suppliers contain Mobis and Sunlush.

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“The recession of global automotive industry contrasts with the prosperity of China automotive industry. In Jan.-Apr.2009, China’s auto output was 3.725 million sets, by an increase of 6.4%; sales volume 3,832,000, up 9.4%; sale/output ratio was up 2.55 points to 102.6%. As for models, the output and sale of passenger cars were 2,692,900 and 2,826,700 respectively, up 9.75% and 15.09% year-on-year, and the sale/output ratio increased 4.87 points to 104.97%. The output and sale of commercial vehicles were 1,031,900 and 1,005,200, down 1.46% and 3.86%, and the sale/output ratio dropped 2.43 points to 97.41%.

National economic stimulation policies continued to exert effects in April. Like March, the output and sale of automobiles in April set new records again, and the cumulative growth margin further expanded. The auto models that accounted for 52% of total sale and benefited from the favorable tax policy maintained stable growth rate in production and sale. The medium and high-end sedans began to revive. The output and sale of commercial vehicles did not fall sharply as before. The overall auto industry recovers. In fact, the automotive market in Mainland China has just begun to emerge, so the continuous high growth in this industry will be sustainable.

Automotive audio industry has already been a very mature industry. German, South Korean and Japanese automakers have their own specific parts and components providers with the cooperative relations of 30 years or 50 years, so it is very difficult for other suppliers to enter the industry. American automobile manufacturers emphasize cost, leaving potential opportunities for Chinese enterprises. The three major German automotive audio manufacturers — Becker, Blaupunkt and Continental (Siemens VDO) almost monopolize the German market. Toshiba, Fujitsu Ten, Alpine, Pioneer, Clarion, JVC Kenwood monopolize the Japanese market. Hyundai Mobis and Hyundai Autonet are about to merge, and both of them monopolize the South Korean market. American market is monopolized by the giants — Visteon and Delphi.

Automotive Infotainment System is the combination of automotive information system and entertainment system. Automotive information system mainly refers to navigation system, Telematics system and communication system. In 2008, the market valued approximately US$18.7 billion and after-market US$ 6.5 billion.

Becker, Blaupunkt and Continental (Siemens VDO) almost monopolize the German market. In Japan, Toyota cooperates with AisinAW and Denso; Honda gets supply from Denso, Pioneer and Alpine; Nissan depends on Clarion, Alpine and Panasonic. American automakers have more suppliers than any others, including Becker, Blaupunkt, Continental (Siemens VDO), Denso, Alpine, Panasonic, Aisin Seiki, Clarion. Ford also has a lot of suppliers. Hyundai gets supply from Hyundai Autonet. PSA and Fiat mainly cooperate with Blaupunkt and Magneti-Marelli.

By types, Chinese auto audio and infotainment manufacturers can be divided into joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises and local enterprises. By product, manufacturers can be divided into head-unit enterprises, navigation enterprises and electro-acoustic enterprises. By value, sole proprietorship enterprises account for about 50%, joint ventures 40%, local enterprises 10%. Of total output value, head-unit enterprises occupy 65%; navigation enterprises 10%; and electro-acoustic enterprises 25%. Local enterprises focus on electro-acoustic field.

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