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Surgical intervention Although the difference in operative rates between groups did not reach statistical significance, a notable trend was observed.

Collaboration Patterns and Strategic Gaps The study reveals a strong trend toward international collaboration, with a growing number of publications co-authored with researchers from around the world.

From 1998 to 2024, there have been fluctuations in the percentage of publications in the top 10% and top 1% of journals by CiteScore percentile; however, in the mid-year of 2024, there was an increasing trend in the top 10% and 1% with 30.8% and 3.1%, respectively (Figure 12 ).

These figures have fluctuated over the last decades but show a positive trend reflecting the quality and impact of research outputs from the UAE, indicating a significant portion of publications are in high-ranking journals.

The highly significant p-value for SAS-SV (<0.001) confirms that addicted students have much higher addiction scores.

The p-value for PSQI (0.375) suggests no significant difference in sleep quality scores between addicted and non-addicted groups, but the near-significant p-value for bad sleep prevalence (0.057) suggests a trend toward worse sleep among the addicted group.

TLC showed a weak negative correlation with Wagner grade (ρ = -0.240, p = 0.090), nearing significance but not reaching the threshold for statistical significance.

GSTM1 showed a trend toward association but was not statistically significant with respect to treatment response (p > 0.05).

Over the last 22 years, the crude mortality in both urban and rural areas has shown an increasing trend.

Induction rates have risen steadily over the past two decades, with an estimated 29% of all births in high-income countries and an increasing trend also being observed in low- and middle-income settings [ 3 ].

PSA, DRE, ISUP, and D’Amico remain heavily skewed toward high-risk strata across all quartiles; consequently, their additional explanatory power is limited, though ISUP shows a weak trend.

The main effect for condition (F(1,77) = 3.44, p = 0.06) and the interaction (F(3,231) = 1.89, p = 0.13) approached significance (Table 2 ).

A level of significance with a p-value <0.001 was considered to be highly significant.

Especially, the use of alpha-defensin-NGAL biomarker combination, whose correlations have high diagnostic sensitivity and specificity and whose diagnostic power is determined to be highly significant, seems effective in detecting periprosthetic infection.

This suggested a positive trend, though numbers were small.

CRP was initially high (61mg/L), which started to show a decreasing trend by the end of one week and was 10mg/L after two weeks.

Though the p value was not statistically significant at 0.064, it is showing a trend toward significance.

The high-intermediate risk (ISUP 3: 4+3) showed an increasing trend, as with the PI-RADS score.

A study from Rajkot, Gujarat, reported a decreasing trend in the diphtheria case rate over time, which was above 6 per 1,000 admissions before 1989 and decreased to less than 1 per 1,000 admissions during 1993-1997 [ 17 ].

Although both younger age and male gender showed a trend toward higher conversion rates, only the association with age reached statistical significance in our study, while gender did not.

When asked whether the session improved their confidence in managing acutely unwell patients, both groups showed a positive trend, but the increase was slightly more pronounced in the escape room cohort (escape room: 4.5/5 average rating and traditional: 4.1/5).

While these changes did not reach statistical significance, they demonstrate a positive trend following low-cost interventions.

Abstract Introduction: Thyroid nodules have shown an increasing trend over the past years, with a recent surge.

Further subgroup analysis by clinical diagnosis and CRP levels showed a trend toward increased antibiotic use in children with ARI and AFI when CRP was elevated, although these did not reach statistical significance.

A positive APC or AAPC with a lower CI bound above zero indicates an increasing trend, while a negative APC or AAPC with an upper CI bound below zero shows a decreasing trend.