In this task, you are given a sentence from the research paper and your task is to classify the given sentence into the following categories: Background (Why is this problem important? What relevant works have been created before? What is still missing in the previous works? What are the high-level research questions? How might this help other research or researchers?), Purpose (What specific things do the researchers want to do? What specific knowledge do the researchers want to gain? What specific hypothesis do the researchers want to test?), Method (How did the researchers do the work or find what they sought? What are the procedures and steps of the research?), or Finding (What did the researchers find out? Did the proposed methods work? Did the thing behave as the researchers expected?). 
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Question: The effects of two recent crises created by unusual viral infections of the respiratory tract - the severe acute respiratory syndrome ( SARS ) epidemic caused by the novel SARS coronavirus ( 4 , 5 ) and the bird flu ( 6 ) highlight the importance of research into ARDS.

Answer: background


Question: and the lay public in understanding the progress of Ebola virus disease and the continuing outbreak.

Answer: background


Question: We evaluated the proposed method over a number of spatial and spatio-temporal datasets ( Breast cancer mortality in Northeastern US 1988-1992 and different types of cancer in New Mexico 1982 -2007.

Answer:
method