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There may be significant benefits too for environmental justice and community involvement in HIAs [ 24 , 29 ].

Estimates of the contribution to total doses made by external dose have shown a decreasing trend, with the most recent study assessing a more comparable contribution to dose from external and internal sources than thought previously.

These small differences suggest the existence of a negative trend: Disapprovals lessen while approvals increase.

Cardiac tamponade is a rare life-threatening situation, which was found to be highly significant in the logistic model in terms of whether patients had both procedures in the same episode of care.

Results are displayed in column 3 of Table 1 and show only marginally significant treatment effects in years 2 and 3.

[ 69 ] who found a highly significant difference in DNA adduct levels between lung cancer patients with GSTM1 null and those with GSTM1 active genotype.

There is a clear trend of gradually decreasing concentrations of PM 10 .

Annual mean temperature demonstrated an increasing trend but this was not statistically significant (p = 0.0533, Figure 1 and Table 1 ).

[ 1 ] have also observed an increasing trend in the average magnitude of discrepancies over time.

Nonetheless, the marginal significance we detected could witness an informative correlation worth investigating in larger samples.

Government policies had a highly significant impact (mean score of 2.10) compared to other types of policies ( Figure 1 ). 3.3.

However, such placebo effect seems unlikely, given the highly significant improvements in the multiple psychosocial and clinical variables achieved for a relatively short trial period.

None of the variables included in the multivariate model were significant predictors of treatment retention, although being male (OR: 2.59, 95% CI: 0.98–6.84; p = 0.055) and lower educational level (OR: 2.65, 96% CI: 0.98–7.13; p = 0.054) were nearly significant predictors of non-retention.

A positive Z value denotes a positive trend and a negative Z value denotes a negative trend.

It can be seen that during 1470–1880, most of the natural streamflow shows an increasing trend (Z 1 > 0), but the trend is not significant at >95% confidence level; and after 1880 the natural streamflow presents a decreasing trend (Z 1 < 0), and the trend is still not significant at >95% confidence.

The requirement for health economic assessment fits within an overall trend towards evidence-based decision making in health care [ 5 ].

Further analysis revealed borderline significant interactions of age with race/ethnicity and race/ethnicity with religion raised.

All the three models showed significant or at least almost significant associations between the three measures of academic achievement, again indicating support to the reciprocal relationships between importance of good grades and educational achievement as suggested in our conceptual framework.

As regards health complaints, sleep disorder or insomnia during the year preceding the survey was negatively associated with the three educational outcomes, but its effect was only close to significance as regards the student’s module mark (actual achieved grade).

Except for a borderline significant effect for women who exercised 2–4 hours a day, this variable was not associated with an increased risk for SCC when controlling for other variables in the model.

They report that liking of advertising is marginally significant for males and insignificant for females.

Thus, while the result provided by least squares was highly significant, the instrumental variable approach did not show any evidence for a positive causal association of GGT on alcohol consumption. 5.

Although food is reported to be the major route of transmission of the pathogen, previous studies [ 8 – 13 ] indicated that Listeria is capable of surviving conventional wastewater treatment process even after disinfection; thus suggesting that wastewater may be significant in the epidemiology of the pathogen.

Fourth, source-sink effects for naphthalene may be significant, and can complicate the collection of representative samples and the identification of primary (not re-emitting) sources.

The joint test p-value for testing the POPs simultaneously for the additive WC model controlling for BMI is 0.0798, which is nearly statistically significant. 3.2.2.