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In contrast, our IV which is also constructed as the average of students j ≠ i from the same school as the respondent, is highly significant with p -values below .001.

However, only haplotype "C-A-T-C" showed a nominally significant association with PSC ARC risk.

To further assess the joint effect of SNPs rs9651118 and rs1801133 on ARC risk, a combination analysis of these two variants was carried out, and the results indicated that there was a significant trend of increasing ARC risk with increasing number of unfavorable genotypes, reinforcing the results of haplotype analyses.

Although there was an overall trend of sequence identity and phylogenetic clustering with AIV strains from shorebirds on the East coast of North America, a substantial genetic similarity was also found in relation to AIV strains from other aquatic birds in central USA and Canada, particularly Anseriformes (mallards, ducks and teals) along the Mississippi flyway.

Likewise, there might be significant differences in quantitative gait characteristics between other breeds of dogs with differing functions (and therefore different structure) as well, such as the sight hounds (e.g.

Climatic Data Out of the 19 bioclimatic factors, all but five (bio2, 5, 8, 10, 15) during the LGM and the current periods showed highly significant differences in mean values between populations of the QLM and HDM-YGP regions ( Table 3 ).

IL-1β, IL-18 and IL-6 assessment in PLF also showed a decreasing trend but did not reach significance.

Hierarchical conceptual modelling analysis confirmed the highly significant association between caries and race/ethnicity.

p values ≤0.05 were considered highly significant and p values between 0.05 and 0.1 were considered less significant.

P -values for pairwise comparisons were calculated with the unpaired Student’s t test and denoted as not significant (more than 0.05), significant (0.05 or less), very significant (0.01 or less), or highly significant (0.001 or less).

An increasing trend between medical facility and death was observed, with more complicated cases in medical centers having the highest risk.

The net effect of the two mechanisms, illustrated by the curve of ΔP, shows a decreasing trend with J HCO 3 - a but with a smaller slope due to P σ .

In light of the precedence for GPR39 playing a role in GSIS [ 4 ], the effects on GSIS in INS-1E cells presented here, and a weak trend between DMR and INS-1E data in the presence of Zn 2+ (data not shown), glucose tolerance tests in vivo were conducted to further explore the role of GPR39 on GSIS.

Compared to the CHB, the signal in the CHS (Han Chinese South China) reached borderline significance and was just below the Bonferroni-corrected threshold p-value.

No significant differences were found in the presence of these factors among the passages, but the results do show an increasing trend for the percentages of OCT4-, SOX2- and NANOG-positive cells at late passages.

In our repository, 51% of samples demonstrated RIN>7, with a favorable trend over the years.

As shown in Fig 4 , a significant trend is that the coordination drops with an increase in the number of task types despite the individual differences.

A similar trend, albeit only marginally significant, was observed when the total number of surviving children born to a woman since the onset of her reproductive career was considered.

Placebo-treated mice showed a highly significant positive correlation between operational taxonomic unit (OTU) richness and diversity of their gut communities over time as assessed by Chao1 (Pearson’s: r = 0.33; p = 0.009) and Faith’s PD (Pearson’s: r = 0.43; p = 0.0006) ( Fig 2A and 2C ).

Responses of absolute concentration of soil solution to different groundwater level ( Fig 4A–4E ) shows that with increases in the G L , the C S followed an initial increasing and then decreasing trend in different soil layers, although the top soil layer mainly exhibited an increasing trend.

When the G L is relatively increased, the soil salt rapidly accumulates in the surface layer to form a crust-like protective layer that reduces evaporation and results in a decreasing trend in the S C .

However, the combined HR had the highly significant heterogeneity.

Most of the drug effects of varenicline on smoking measures were seen by week 2 or week 4 of study drug treatment, and the magnitude of the difference between varenicline and placebo groups showed a trend for increase on some measures in subsequent weeks.

The job losses and financial problems resulting from the crisis have been accompanied by a highly significant increase in the incidence of mental health problems in the Spanish population during this period [ 35 ].

All results were considered statistically significant if the p -value was equal to or less than 0.05, and marginally significant if the p-value was between 0.05 and 0.1.