For the rail market, we've seen some short-term tightening of budgets in the Americas, although we expect that a couple of upcoming rail-focused trade shows will generate special projects and orders.

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Now moving on to Asia-Pacific, The region had a year-over-year core growth percentage in the low single digits. Unfortunately, COVID continues to be a challenge, specifically in China, with COVID restrictions creating some supply chain disruptions in the quarter. As of December 1st, some of the local governments are gradually easing the COVID test and travel restrictions, and China is now moving from no COVID to living with COVID.

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With that said, COVID variants are causing some continued restricted access to distributors and customers, with challenges remaining around travel to certain regions or countries, and in some cases, continued quarantine requirements that are impacting our ability to serve our customers and therefore our overall service utilization rates.

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