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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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we performed systematic mutation analyses to identify residues critical for 3CL pro dimerization and activity in this study.
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background


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This study was undertaken to clarify the role of the reninangiotensin system ( RAS ) in the progression of severe HFMD.
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purpose


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This study aims to determine the levels of the IL-1 family ( IL-1β , 54 IL-37 ) and IL-12 family ( IL-12 , IL-35 ) in a group of these patients and the association 55 between these cytokines levels and the patients ' demographic characteristics.
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purpose