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SC100 had a highly significant effect on mean longevity.

The current study of wheat straw incorporation in a dryland farming region (Heyang) showed that, compared with the application of chemical fertilizer alone, straw incorporation had a highly significant effect on the available nutrient contents in the 0–40 cm soil layer, especially that in the top soil layer (0–20 cm).

We further examined the publicly available microarray dataset ( GSE35602 ), in which miRNA expression profiles of micro-dissected colon cancer stromal and epithelial tissues were analyzed, demonstrating a clear trend of higher miR-34b and -34c expression in cancer stroma ( S4 Fig ).

The results above indicate: (1) the male subjects have larger diameters and length of the tracheobronchial tree, while the the female subjects have larger main stem bronchial angles and subcarinal angles; (2) there is a strong positive correlation between the average tracheal length and body height, and there is also a positive trend between age and AP-mcTD; (3) the large individual variations in the parameters relating to the tracheal dimension precluded a simple math equation capable of predicting TL, AP-mcTD, Pe-RBD and Pe-LBD.

While many of the genes in this pathway were only modestly affected, those effects were individually highly significant and when taken together as a pathway it was the most significantly affected process with P = 1.9e-46 ( S5 Table ).

FHL1 levels in the severe line show a strong trend towards still being elevated at 24 weeks, although this difference is not statistically significant (P = 0.10), perhaps due to greater variability in the levels in the severe line.

FHL2 levels also showed a trend towards increased levels at 24 weeks compared to 3 weeks, though this difference was not statistically significant.

Comparing to node 1 patients, the significant or borderline significant higher recurrence risks were still observed in node 2 and node 3 patients for both sub-cohort analyses.

An interesting trend was found out that systems with higher C:N/C:O ratios provided higher number of regulating, supporting and cultural ES.

This is also confirmed with the highly significant correlation established between pH and Cd 2 + fixation ( Table 3 ).

For marked individuals the capture ratio is visibly higher in the days immediately subsequent to releasing in the field and has a decreasing trend along with time.

Furthermore, over the 31 years, annual and growing-season precipitation showed a decreasing trend, though it was not significant (R 2 = 0.024, F = 0.707, P = 0.407 and R 2 = 0.049, F = 1.499, P = 0.231; Fig 1A and 1B ).

This result might be significant because we operate the fitting with a very minimum number of parameters, 2 or 3 at most, that are patient-specific.

Religiosity on the other hand proved highly significant across all regression models and consistently showed the same effect: the higher the reported level of religiosity, the higher was the likelihood of rejecting any form of euthanasia or physician-assisted death of the neonate.

The average increase in CRP levels after hip arthroplasty in the posterior group was slightly higher than in the anterior group, although no difference approached significance at any point in time or cumulatively.

This may be partly due to the small sample size, and differences might be significant when frailty groups were larger, or defined differently.

Raised fasting glucose had a marginal significance (AOR = 1.01; 1.001, 1.01) ( Table 2 ).

Apart from the aforementioned factors, fires showed a decreasing trend with increase in elevation i.e. the highest fire frequencies were found in low elevation (0–100m) areas.

However there was a mild trend towards a better PFS in patients with RDI reduction lower than 15%.

The anti-angiogenic genes Angiomotin 2 and Thrombospondin 2 showed a trend towards a higher expression value in the atrophy group at day 7 ( Fig 8 ).

However, and in agreement with Ahad et al, [ 29 ], our results also indicated that adenine treatment has induced a highly significant increase in the concentrations of some inflammatory cytokines (particularly TNF–α), and this effect has been significantly and markedly suppressed by chrysin treatment at the three doses given.

The data depicted that activity of GR showed an increasing trend with an increase in different Cd 2+ concentrations ( Fig 3E ).

Otherwise the pattern of development for the two brush border membrane enzymes was similar with an increasing trend during the experimental period ( Fig 9 , Table 3 ).

There is a clear trend towards lower fluorescence intensities as the alkyl chain length increases.

The interactive effect remained highly significant except the interactions of YxLxG, SDxG, LxSDxG and YxLxSDxG.