Interpretive Summaries, February 2021

Spatial analysis of the COVID-19 prevalence pattern in Yazd province, Central part of Iran (February 2020 to January 2021)

Abstract Introduction:  . Yazd province is the center of Iran and the highway for travelers to other cities. This province is susceptible to disease transmission in Iran.   this study aimed to spatial analysis of corona virus prevalence,  predicting the spread and determination of hot spot  areas in Yazd province, central part of Iran. Methods:  This analytical Cross-sectional study was condu...

EMBL Programme 2017-2021: Digital Biology

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Current techniques for validating and verifying program changes often consider the entire program, even for small changes, leading to enormous V&V costs over a program’s lifetime. This is due, in large part, to the use of syntactic program differencing techniques which are necessarily imprecise. Building on recent advances in symbolic execution of heap manipulating programs, in this paper, we d...

Interpretive Summary

The Office of Public Health and Science in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS)—with input from other federal agencies, industry, and the public—conducted an assessment of the risk of illness associated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ground beef. This risk assessment details our current state of knowledge about (1) the occurrence of E. coli O157:...

Query-Focused Summaries or Query-Biased Summaries?

In the context of the Document Understanding Conferences, the task of Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization is intended to improve agreement in content among humangenerated model summaries. Query-focus also aids the automated summarizers in directing the summary at specific topics, which may result in better agreement with these model summaries. However, while query focus correlates with p...