In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

[EX Q]: Sentence 1:At the Verkhovna Rada building , house of the Ukrainian Parliament , Volodarsky and his girlfriend were arrested for stripping naked and simulating public sex . Sentence 2:As a result , Volodarsky served six weeks in police detention , and a six - month sentence in a penal colony .
[EX A]: as a result

[EX Q]: Sentence 1:The curvature of the sample is dependent on elastic moduli , swelling ratios , and ratios of layer thickness and bilayer thickness . Sentence 2:Thus , the adjusted models that describe mean curvature and Gaussian curvature are , respectively ,
[EX A]: thus

[EX Q]: Sentence 1:If that hypothesis is rejected , one can use OLS . Sentence 2:However , if the presence of a unit root is not rejected , then one should apply the difference operator to the series .
[EX A]:
however