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IWOLOCA 2023 - Second Call for abstracts (extended deadline) + Registration is Open + Accommodation + Travel Grants Available
by Joerg Kalcsics 20 Jun '23

20 Jun '23

Dear colleagues, The XII International Workshop on Locational Analysis and Related Problems will take place 7-8 September 2023 in Edinburgh (United Kingdom). This workshop is jointly organized by the Spanish Location Network, the Location Working Group on Location GELOCA (SEIO), and the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS). SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS This is the second call for abstracts. If you would like to contribute with a paper on a facility location problem or on a related area (widely understood), please, submit an abstract of at most two pages. You can find attached the template for the abstract. To submit your abstract, please, use the following link: IWOLOCA 2023 (XII International Workshop on Locational Analysis and Related Problems) (easychair.org)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iwoloca…>. Please, note that you only need to upload the .tex file (and any other file required to compile, should that be the case). The compiled pdf, or the sty or cls files provided in the template are not required when you upload your abstract. If you are uploading more than one file, please, do so as zip file. Important dates for the abstract submission: * Deadline for abstract submission (EXTENDED): 28 June 2023. * Notification of acceptance: 29 June 2023. REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION We are delighted to inform you that registration is open at IWOLOCA 2023 | University of Edinburgh<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-and-events…> Several questions are asked at registration for logistics purposes. Please, answer all of them. We have two different registration fees, depending on wheter you need accommodation or not. The "basic registration fee" is £125. It includes participation to the scientific sessions, coffee breaks and lunches for the two days, a guided tour, and the gala dinner on Friday. It does not include accommodation. Deadline is 15 August. The "full registration fee" is £525. It includes the same things as the basic registration fee plus 3 nights of accommodation (check-in is Wednesday 6 September and check-out is Saturday 9 September) at university central venues of KM Central and The Scholar. The room will be allocated to you at one fo the two venues by strict order of registration. Note that it is still high season in Edinburgh on the dates of the workshop. So, it may be hard to find a central accommodation cheaper than this. As we have a cut off date for the room that we have managed to block, the deadline is 7 July. TRAVEL GRANTS Through different funding bodies, we have managed to secure some funding to support with travel and accommodation expenses. If you wish to apply, please, indicate so in the registration by answering appropiately the relevant questions. Decisions on the award of these grants will be made and communicated as soon as possible, but they will not happen by the deadline of the full registration fee and grants will not be paid before the workshop takes place. Priority will be given to participants presenting a paper, and among them to early stage researchers (PhD students and postdoctoral researchers), women, members of GELOCA, and participants from weak currency countries. If you have any question, please send your email to iwoloca(a)gm.uca.es<mailto:iwoloca@gm.uca.es> with cc to at least one of the following: sergio.garcia-quiles(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:sergio.garcia-quiles@ed.ac.uk>, Joerg.Kalcsics(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:Joerg.Kalcsics@ed.ac.uk>. More information on the workshop: http://redloca.ulpgc.es/redloca23.html We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh! The Organizing Committee The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Location related references - june 2023
by Frank Plastria 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Dear EWGLA members, Some ten years ago I retired from university and stopped my old semi-regular column on this list of location related references. I think my last one was January 2013, for those who remember. However, I never really stopped collecting the many new references I got news of that seemed of possible interest to the location community. So I have a quite large backlog to share, and will try to do so at an acceptable pace of between 20 and 50 per month as long as I have some in stock. These will be a mix of new ones as well as older ones, rather working backwards in time till somewhere in 2013 (if I will be able to get there ... there are so many!). I collect them in BibTeX format (often including the many errors with which they are made available online by their publishers), but thanks to Bogi (Boglarka G. Toth) they are converted to a more readable format. The original BibTeX file is attached. Here is my first new entry, 28 references mostly from early 2022. Unfortunately the DOI data got lost in transfer, which should hopefully be corrected next time. Enjoy. Sincerely, Frank Plastria [1] Sepide Aghaie and Behrooz Karimi. Location-allocation-routing for emergency shelters based on geographical information system (ArcGIS) by NSGA-II (case study: Earthquake occurrence in tehran (district-1)). Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 84:101420, dec 2022. [ DOI ] [2] Amir Ahmadi-Javid and Pooya Hoseinpour. Convexification of queueing formulas by mixed-integer second-order cone programming: An application to a discrete location problem with congestion. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 34(5):2621--2633, sep 2022. [ DOI ] [3] Eduardo Alarcon-Gerbier and Udo Buscher. Modular and mobile facility location problems: A systematic review. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 173:108734, nov 2022. [ DOI ] [4] Gökhan Altay, M. Hakan Akyüz, and Temel Öncan. Solving a minisum single facility location problem in three regions with different norms. Annals of Operations Research, 321(1-2):1--37, sep 2022. [ DOI ] [5] Hamzeh Amin-Tahmasbi, Sina Sadafi, Banu Y. Ekren, and Vikas Kumar. A multi-objective integrated optimisation model for facility location and order allocation problem in a two-level supply chain network. Annals of Operations Research, 324(1-2):993--1022, apr 2022. [ DOI ] [6] Nicolau Andrés-Thió, Marcus Brazil, Charl Ras, and Doreen Thomas. Network augmentation for disaster-resilience against geographically correlated failure. Networks, 81(4):419--444, dec 2022. [ DOI ] [7] Walailak Atthirawong and Pongchanun Luangpaiboon. Hazardous waste management system for thailand's local administrative organization via route and location selection. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 72(10):1121--1136, aug 2022. [ DOI ] [8] Ardavan Babaei, Majid Khedmati, and Mohammad Reza Akbari Jokar. A new branch and efficiency algorithm for an optimal design of the supply chain network in view of resilience, inequity and traffic congestion. Annals of Operations Research, 321(1-2):49--78, dec 2022. [ DOI ] [9] Roberto Baldacci, Marco Caserta, Emiliano Traversi, and Roberto Wolfler Calvo. Robustness of solutions to the capacitated facility location problem with uncertain demand. Optimization Letters, 16(9):2711--2727, feb 2022. [ DOI ] [10] Danwen Bao, Shijia Tian, Rui Li, Tianxuan Zhang, and Ting Zhu. Multi-objective decision method for airport landside rapid transit network design. Networks and Spatial Economics, 22(4):767-801, jun 2022. [ DOI ] [11] Michele Barbato, Alberto Ceselli, and Marco Premoli. On the impact of resource relocation in facing health emergencies. European Journal of Operational Research, nov 2022. [ DOI ] [12] Víctor Blanco, Ricardo Gázquez, and Francisco Saldanha da Gama. Multi-type maximal covering location problems: Hybridizing discrete and continuous problems. European Journal of Operational Research, oct 2022. [ DOI ] [13] Justin J. Boutilier and Timothy C. Y. Chan. Drone network design for cardiac arrest response. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24(5):2407--2424, sep 2022. [ DOI ] [14] Thomas Byrne, Sándor P. Fekete, Jörg Kalcsics, and Linda Kleist. Competitive location problems: balanced facility location and the one-round manhattan voronoi game. Annals of Operations Research, 321(1-2):79--101, dec 2022. [ DOI ] [15] Yutong Cai, Ghim Ping Ong, and Qiang Meng. Dynamic bicycle relocation problem with broken bicycles. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 165:102877, sep 2022. [ DOI ] [16] John Gunnar Carlsson and Bo Jones. Continuous approximation formulas for location problems. Networks, 80(4):407--430, apr 2022. [ DOI ] [17] Alejandra Casado, Nenad Mladenović, Jesús Sánchez-Oro, and Abraham Duarte. Variable neighborhood search approach with intensified shake for monitor placement. Networks, 81(3):319--333, dec 2022. [ DOI ] [18] Deeparnab Chakrabarty and Maryam Negahbani. Robust k-center with two types of radii. Mathematical Programming, 197(2):991--1007, mar 2022. [ DOI ] [19] Theophilus Dhyankumar Chellappa, Ramasubramaniam Muthurathinasapathy, V. G. Venkatesh, Yangyan Shi, and Samsul Islam. Location of organ procurement and distribution organisation decisions and their impact on kidney allocations: a developing country perspective. Annals of Operations Research, 321(1-2):755--781, sep 2022. [ DOI ] [20] Xin Chen, Wenjing Liu, Qingqin Nong, and Qizhi Fang. Bounding quality of pure nash equilibria in dual-role facility location games. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 44(5):3520--3534, sep 2022. [ DOI ] [21] Rong Cheng, Shaopeng Zhong, Zhong Wang, Otto Anker Nielsen, and Yu Jiang. A hyper-heuristic approach to the strategic planning of bike-sharing infrastructure. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 173:108704, nov 2022. [ DOI ] [22] Amadeu A. Coco, Andréa Cynthia Santos, and Thiago F. Noronha. Robust min-max regret covering problems. Computational Optimization and Applications, 83(1):111--141, jul 2022. [ DOI ] [23] Stefano Coniglio, Fabio Furini, and Ivana Ljubić. Submodular maximization of concave utility functions composed with a set-union operator with applications to maximal covering location problems. Mathematical Programming, 196(1-2):9--56, oct 2022. [ DOI ] [24] Isabel Correia and Teresa Melo. Distribution network redesign under flexible conditions for short-term location planning. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 174:108747, dec 2022. [ DOI ] [25] Francisco Saldanha da Gama. Facility location in logistics and transportation: An enduring relationship. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 166:102903, oct 2022. [ DOI ] [26] P. M. Dearing and Mark E. Cawood. The minimum covering euclidean ball of a set of euclidean balls in rn. Annals of Operations Research, 322(2):631--659, dec 2022. [ DOI ] [27] Seyyed Jalaladdin Hosseini Dehshiri, Maghsoud Amiri, Laya Olfat, and Mir Saman Pishvaee. Multi-objective closed-loop supply chain network design: A novel robust stochastic, possibilistic, and flexible approach. Expert Systems with Applications, 206:117807, nov 2022. [ DOI ] [28] Michael Dienstknecht. A branch and bound approach for the tower crane selection and positioning problem with respect to mutual interference. 4OR, 21(1):105--123, feb 2022. [ DOI ] Prof. Em. Frank Plastria BUTO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel frank.plastria(a)vub.be

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CALL FOR NEW BOARD MEMBER
by carmela.piccolo 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

Dear locators, as you might recall, from 2018, the duration of service on the EWGLA coordination board is 4 years, changing one member at every EWGLA meeting such that the 3 members are from different countries. Thus, we are looking for a volunteer to replace Boglárka G.-Tóth. According to the rules, eligible candidates are members society of EURO who do not work in Italy and Belgium. If you are interested, please send us a one-page document where you state and promote your candidacy until Monday, 19 June. At the next ISOLDE meeting, the EWGLA members will elect the new member during the EWGLA session. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Best wishes, Carmen, Bogi & Hatice

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Doc-Course on Data Science in Granada and Seville from September 17 to November 14, 2023
by Miguel A. Pozo 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

The "Doc-Course on Data Science" will be held in Granada and Seville (Spain) from September 17 to November 14, 2023, and is jointly organized by the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Granada (IMAG) and the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Seville (IMUS). This activity is aimed at PhD/Master students and consists of a training period (a 4-week course), visits by researchers and professors to the IMAG/IMUS facilities throughout the period, a supervised research period for participating students (4 weeks) and an international closing workshop in which researchers, lecturers, supervised students and tutors participate. Doc-Course on Data Science is addressed to students enrolled in a Master or a Doctoral program related to Statistics, Operations Research or Data Science. Students with special interest and background on these topics are encouraged to apply for a grant to attend this Doc-Course. There will be a maximum of 20 PhD/master students that will be competitively selected among all applicants. A brief curriculum vitae (3 pages maximum) that includes a complete academic record is required. The 20 grants will cover accommodation and food allowance. Important dates for the abstract submission: * Deadline for filling the application form: June 12, 2023. * The selection of participants will be communicated on June 19, 2023. * Registration fee deadline June 22, 2023: 50 € (Payment procedure will be sent to selected participants). More information on the Doc-Course: https://www.imus.us.es/congresos/DCDS23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Miguel Ángel Pozo Montaño - Profesor Titular de Universidad Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa. Facultad de Matemáticas, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla. E-mail: miguelpozo(a)us.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Nominations for LALA
by Joerg Kalcsics 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Dear EWGLA members, Please find below a message from Elena Fernandez. Best wishes, Jörg. From: Elena Fernandez <elena.fernandez(a)uca.es> Sent: Samstag, 3. Juni 2023 22:13 Dear Colleagues: This is a Call for Nominations for the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award. The Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis (LALA) award is a triennial honor awarded to a person who has made significant lifetime contributions to location analysis research. The award is given every third year at the closing dinner of ISOLDE, the International Symposium on Locational Decisions<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/isoldeconference.org/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!ROR…>. LALA Nominations will be received until June 7, 2023. The nomination process consists of sending by email the following three items: (1) A nomination letter, including significant reasons why this individual should be considered for this award. (2) An up-to-date curriculum vitae of the nominee. (3) Information about citations and service to the profession for the nominee. The 2023 selection committee comprises Ismail Capar (chair), Elena Fernandez Areizaga, and Mark Daskin. Please submit nominations (including self-nomination) by June 07, 2023, to Ismail Capar (chair) at capar(a)tamu.edu<mailto:capar@tamu.edu>. Questions may be directed to the same e-mail address. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Call for Nominations for the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award
by Ismail Capar 02 May '23

02 May '23

Hi, Could you please share the call for nomination below with your members? Thanks in advance! Dear Colleagues: This is a Call for Nominations for the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award. The Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis (LALA) award is a triennial honor awarded to a person who has made significant lifetime contributions to location analysis research. The award is given every third year at the closing dinner of ISOLDE, the International Symposium on Locational Decisions <http://isoldeconference.org/>. LALA Nominations will be received until *May 31, 2023*. The nomination process consists of sending by email the following three items: (1) A nomination letter, including significant reasons why this individual should be considered for this award. (2) An up-to-date curriculum vitae of the nominee. (3) Information about citations and service to the profession for the nominee. Please submit nominations (including self-nomination) by May 31, 2023, to Ismail Capar (chair) at capar(a)tamu.edu. Questions may be directed to the same e-mail address. Regards, Ismail Ismail Capar, PhD Associate Professor & Honors Program Coordinator Industrial Distribution Program TAMU 3367 College Station, TX 77843 E-mail: capar(a)tamu.edu Phone: 979-862-8312 Fax: 979-845-4980

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IWOLOCA 2023 - save the date!
by Joerg Kalcsics 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Dear Colleagues, We are glad to invite you to participate in the XII International Workshop on Locational Analysis and Related Problems (IWOLOCA 2023) to be held in Edinburgh on 7 and 8 September 2023. Please save the date! The confirmed plenary speakers are: - Miguel Anjos (University of Edinburgh). - Maria Paola Scaparra (University of Kent). - Antonio Manuel Rodríguez Chía (University of Cádiz). Information on abstract submission, registration fees, web page, and accommodation will follow in the next few weeks. We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh in September! Sergio García Quiles, Joerg Kalcsics, and Víctor Blanco (on behalf of the organizing committee) The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Facility location session at IFORS
by Hale, Trevor Schuyler 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

Howdy EWGLA, And greetings from Texas! IFORS 2023 <https://ifors2023.com/> is July 10-14 in Santiago, Chile. Yours truly is chairing a facility location session in the Discrete Optimization track (Dr. Rym M'Hallah of King's College London in the Cc: box is the track chair). Looking to invite research presentations to fit the session: Facility Location on Networks. If you're interested, reply to this email and let me know. Oh, and as a shameless bribe I'm bringing wine and cheese to the session. Cheers, Trevor Google Voice: (409) 233-7787 Summers: trevor.s.hale.ctr(a)us.navy.mil<mailto:trevor.s.hale.ctr@us.navy.mil> Trevor S. Hale, Ph.D. `97 Clinical Full Professor of Business Analytics Office of Naval Research Senior Faculty Fellow | Naval Base Ventura County<https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrsw/installations/navbase_ventura_count…> President 2023-2025 | Texas Council of Faculty Senates<https://www.txfacultysenates.org/> Past-President 2020-2024 | National Council of Faculty Senates<https://ncfs18.org/> Faculty Senator 2021-2024 | Texas A&M Faculty Senate<https://facultysenate.tamu.edu/> Editorial Board 2022-2025 | Decsion Sciences Journal of Innovative Education<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15404609> Mays Business School | Texas A&M University 301F Wehner | College Station, Texas 77843-4217 thale(a)mays.tamu.edu<mailto:thale@mays.tamu.edu> | Mays<https://mays.tamu.edu/directory/trevorhale/> | Energy<https://energy.tamu.edu/find-faculty-experts/> | Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Hale> | Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jJxfau8AAAAJ&hl=en> | Pearson<https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/quantitative-analysis-for-m…> ____________________________________ MAYS BUSINESS SCHOOL | ADVANCING THE WORLD'S PROSPERITY

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Support for local and topic-specific meetings to promote location science
by Joerg Kalcsics 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Dear Locators, this year we secured a budget from EURO for a new initiative to support and encourage local or topic-specific location meetings. If you wish to organize a scientific meeting or workshop around a specific topic such as competitive location, emergency facility location, stochastic location etc. or a meeting covering a broader range of location topics in your institution, you will be able to request support from EWGLA up to a maximum of €1,000. The meeting should be open to the entire location community, and it must be announced via the EWGLA mailing list and the web site of the organized meeting (upon approval of the support). The procedure for applications and decisions for support is planned as follows: The EWGLA board will announce a call twice a year. Applicants need to submit a brief letter of intention (about one page) to organize a meeting within the next 12 months (exceptionally within 15 months for the very first call). The applications will be evaluated within two weeks after the deadline and the amount of support will be communicated to the applicants. The letter of intention should provide the following details: 1. A brief description of the meeting, including sufficient information about the format (workshop, conference etc.), the organizers, and the target audience. 2. The topic and how it relates to Location Science. 3. A brief motivation on how this meeting will contribute to the advancement of Location Science or how the (local or international) location community will benefit from it. 4. A concrete explanation and reasoning for the kind of support that is asked for from EWGLA (travel expenses for invited external speakers, supporting student participation, etc.). 5. The budget requested from EWGLA and a plan of the estimated budget for the entire meeting. Note that all expenses will have to be justified with receipts and proofs of payment. 6. Mention of other potential supports from local/international societies, organizations (government, NGO), universities or industry. The deadline for the first call of this year is 30 April 2023. As this is the very first call of the initiative, if you are already planning to organize a meeting before 31 July 2024, you are encouraged to submit your application to the EWGLA Board before this deadline. Depending on the number of applications received by the deadline, it will be possible to provide partial or full support (up to a maximum of €1,000) after evaluation. We want to support these events as much as possible, so if you are planning to organize a meeting but cannot finalize all the details for the first deadline, please contact us with all the details you already know. It may not be possible to guarantee support to organizations if an application, even a partial one, is not submitted by 30 April 2023. The deadline of the second call for proposals will be around 30 September 2023. All the best, Hatice Çalik, Boglárka G.-Tóth, Carmela Piccolo, Jörg Kalcsics EWGLA Coordination Board ---------------------------------------------- Joerg Kalcsics Reader in Operational Research Programme Director OR MSc School of Mathematics University of Edinburgh James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK Room: 6226 Phone: +44 (0)131 650 5953 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Grants for attending the ISOLDE / EWGLA meeting
by Joerg Kalcsics 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

Dear Locators, the next ISOLDE & EWGLA meeting will be held in Kaiserslautern & Baden-Baden, Germany, 25 – 30 June 2023 (https://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/opt/isolde2023/) and we hope to meet you all there! We are pleased to announce that EWGLA is again offering a number of grants to support young researchers and researchers from economically weak countries for attending the meeting. These grants will cover your expenses for registration & accommodation up to a maximum of €750. To apply, you have to be a member of EWGLA and you should send the following documents as a single pdf by e-mail to the EWGLA Board (ewgla-board(a)mail.euro-online.org) - An extended abstract of two full pages, - Your CV, and - A letter of recommendation from your supervisor, if you are a PhD student. Deadline for applications: 6 Mar 2023 Notification about grants: 24 Mar 2023 In return, you will be asked to prepare a 2-page report and, ideally, also a short video jointly with the other recipients of the grant, summarizing the conference. Below you can watch the video made by students that received this grant for participating in the last EWGLA meeting in Aveiro: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gsk9yp9v5v6uwrn/Video_EWGLA22.mp4?dl=0 We would appreciate if you could forward this announcement to your PhD students in case they are not yet members of EWGLA and, of course, encourage them to become EWGLA members! If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. See you all in Kaiserslautern & Baden-Baden, Hatice Çalik, Boglárka G.-Tóth, Jörg Kalcsics, Carmela Piccolo ---------------------------------------------- Joerg Kalcsics Reader in Operational Research Programme Director OR MSc School of Mathematics University of Edinburgh James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK Room: 6226 Phone: +44 (0)131 650 5953 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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