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It reported a moderate positive correlation between the total performance scores and three validated cognitive screening tools scores (i.e., Abbreviated Mental Test, Mini-Mental State Examination, and Montreal Cognitive Assessment) and a moderately significant relationship between the total performance scores and the presence of cognitive impairment [ 23 ].

An increasing trend in the number of terminations was observed both in Poland and in the United Kingdom.

Independently of the supplement taken, mature mDCs showed a decreasing trend between the test one hour after and 24 h after testing ended.

Vaginal delivery showed a trend toward more MOM feeding at discharge, but did not reach statistical significance ( Table 3 ). 3.

However, in other parts of the world, particularly Asian countries with traditionally low obesity prevalence, an increasing trend in obesity prevalence has become apparent only in recent decades [ 9 , 12 ].

Household income and its interaction with the limitations levels were barely significant across regression models and long-term care services, pointing towards the predictive power of need for personal care itself.

Another two results: 50-meter Sprint ( p = 0.097, d = 0.5) and Grip Strength ( p = 0.077) were close to being statistically significant.

During 2005–2018, the soil maintenance service in the ERAs and NERAs showed a trend of rapid decline, with value dropping by 25.01% and 33.46%, respectively.

Covariates in the final models were those that were significant or marginally significant in the univariate analysis such as gender, education level, age, urate, systolic blood pressure, BMI, and alcohol consumption.

The results show that: (1) From 1978 to 2018, agricultural drought vulnerability showed a decreasing trend in China with more less vulnerable to mildly vulnerable cities, and less highly vulnerable cities.

We found 0.22, 0.17, and 0.20 as the measurement of a non-linear relationship between COVID-19 case fatality and the number of physicians, nurses and midwives, and hospital beds and these relationships are highly significant with a p -value less than 0.001.

In both cases, the evolution of the mean height of the recruits conscripted in the region shows a clear trend towards stagnation, with annual growth rates of −0.01 and 0.01, respectively.

Projections of mortality under different climate change scenarios in China also estimate increasing trends in heat-related excess mortality for mental disorders but a decreasing trend in cold-related excess mortality [ 59 ]. 3.3.4.

All variables in bivariate analyses showed highly significant associations with suicidal behaviors.

Intriguingly, negative association between Der f 1 and asthma or wheeze (marginal significance) were seen only in non-atopic participants, but not in atopic ones.

Although no statistically significant associations were found between different modes and overall weight status, there was a possible trend that students who travel to school by car were at a lower risk of being overweight or obese.

Regarding the influence of the ICOH publications on the development of international OSH policies, 47.8% of the respondents indicated that ICOH publications are much or totally significant, 26.2% fairly significant and 25.9% partially or not at all significant. 4.2.

Pooled results from the repeated measures study indicated there were highly significant improvements after supplementation with reductions in urticarial severity scores of −1.54, using dosages of 7000–20,000 IU daily for 6–12 weeks.

There were certain domains of parenting practice in which the changes were close to significance with a moderate effect size as is the case of those related to problematic behaviors of children, the use of food as a reward or the level of parental concern about behaviors and habits dietetics of their children.

There were no significant differences across the two quantitative waves, despite a slight trend toward decreased impact.

In addition to the results in Table 5 , level of risk preference showed a positive and weakly significant impact at the 10% level on vaccine hesitancy in Model 2.4. 3.2.

Moreover, although the rate ratio increased until cohorts born in the 1970s, it showed a decreasing trend thereafter.

Although the spontaneous fetal mortality rate ratio showed a decreasing trend during the analyzed period, it showed an increasing trend from cohorts born in the late 1940s to the 1970s. 4.

As explained in Table 7 , under the same external conditions of the 7 types of PCB-44 derivatives, only the absolute value of the binding energy of PCB-44-6 and PCB-44-7 to the oestrogen receptor showed a decreasing trend; the reduction rates were 13.77% to 33.66% and 19.99% to 31.68%, respectively, indicating that the anti-oestrogenic activity of these two molecules was expressed to a much lesser extent than the standard molecule PCB-44.

The mean age difference between students with experience (24.42 years) and construction workers (39.7 years) is quite significant.