sampling

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A citywide book club, a villainous squid and a goodbye to a beloved ballerina — just a sampling of what’s on tap in the realms of books, movies and dance in the coming weeks.

From Seattle Times

In the year before the changes were enacted, about 18 percent of queries, or database searches, lacked sufficient justification or were improperly defined, according to the office’s survey of a sampling.

From New York Times

The restarted grant omits WIV, sampling of bats and people in China, and controversial experiments with live, hybrid viruses.

From Science Magazine

Wastewater sampling helped scientists determine when new variants arrived in particular communities and helped clinicians make more informed decisions about when to use certain treatments, which may not work against all versions of the virus.

From New York Times

The poll was conducted between April 3 and 25 and included a random sample of 1,013 U.S. adults and had a "margin of sampling error" of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

From Reuters