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At a given significance level, α , |UF i | > U α indicates a significant trend in the series.

Except for the downward trends of the autumn and winter mean temperatures at Hequ, the seasonal and annual mean temperatures at the stations showed upward trends, including highly significant upward trends.

The results of the analysis of monthly precipitation trends ( Table 5 ) show that at the 11 synoptic stations, there was a decreasing trend in the precipitation of July, August and November, whereas both decreasing and increasing trends in the precipitation occurred of other months.

The results show that the increasing trend at each station started at a different time during the study period, but most of the meteorological stations mainly experienced an increasing trend after 1990, and the increasing trend has become significant since 2005.

There was only one association that occurred in a direction opposite to that expected; scratching, which was positively associated with Adaptability at 5 months of age (and approaching significance at 8 months).

The reducing ability of the extracts showed an increasing trend with the polyphenol content, as expected.

Results DVT maturity occurred at 2 weeks, and the elasticity of the whole thrombus and the three parts (head, body and tail) showed an increasing trend, with the Young's modulus values varying from 2.36 ± 0.41 kPa to 13.24 ± 1.71 kPa; 2.01 ± 0.28 kPa to 13.29 ± 1.48 kPa; 3.27 ± 0.57 kPa to 15.91 ± 2.05 kPa; and 1.79 ± 0.36 kPa to 10.51 ± 1.61 kPa, respectively.

a difference score ( Fig 6 ), was negative and significant for questions 2 (Personal; Fig 6B ) and 3 (Interpersonal; Fig 6C ), and only marginally non-significant for question 2, when correlating F 0 with PP ( Fig 6E ).

Although the main effect of target did not reach significance, it showed a trend in which the mean F 0 of the participants progressively increased in responses to the neutral (mean ± s.e.m. = 156.17 ± 2.05 Hz), dominant (156.75 ± 2.27 Hz), and prestigious (157.10 ± 2.25 Hz) targets ( Table 2 ).

At 28 d and 35 d, a decreasing trend (WE:5824.94±144.86cm VS AE:4494.54±180.74 cm at 28d; WE:5602.01±222.11cm VS AE:3635.22±208.12cm at 35d) in the total distance was detected in alcohol-exposure rats, which reflected the inhibitory effects of chronic alcohol exposure.

Compared with the water-exposure groups, there was an increasing trend (WE:5457.75±192.75 cm VS AE:7017.95±213.73 cm) in the total distance travelled of alcohol-exposure rats at 7 d, which indicated that short-term alcohol exposure could induce locomotor stimulatory effects.

The differences in CTh between the groups were highly significant, and these differences were found at 5 measurement points in the macula.

In contrast to smoking and obesity, Fig 5 shows that the prevalence of hypertension varied less between men and women and showed a decreasing trend after 2001 for both sexes, i.e. from 24.8 and 26.7 to 17.2 and 16.3 for men and women, respectively.

The results from the meta-analysis confirmed the high prevalence and an increasing trend over time both among men and women.

Since torque values ( q 1, M , q 2, M ) are created by 6 muscles, there may be significant redundancy in possible muscle activation patterns.

However, patient data including a severity of illness score and parameters of gas exchange showed a trend towards more severe lung disease in the latter cohort.

The non-significant time-zone interaction term for richness and Hill’s N1 diversity suggests that both metrics have not yet converged within the four years following the oil spill, although the persistent increases in diversity within the impact zone from 2010 to 2014 suggest a possible trend toward recovery for this variable.

The 395 genes with reduced expression in eWAT of Mest pKO mice showed highly significant associations with immune system processes (Padjusted <10 −10 ) including defense, immune, inflammatory and stress responses whereas genes with increased expression in eWAT of Mest pKO mice (n = 301) showed enrichment for single-organism metabolic processes (Padjusted<10 −3 ) including oxidation-reduction, organic acid metabolism; and, fatty acid, acyl-CoA, thioester and monocarboxylic acid metabolism ( Fig 8B ).

The analysis showed a small peak crowned by rs6105452 with no surrounding highly significant EBV copy number associated variation ( S2 Fig ) ; and therefore, it was difficult to determine whether this represented a spurious signal.

pre-Brexit referendum) was 13.82% for London and 8.01% for the UK, whereas in March 2017 the respective rates are down to 1.53% and 4.1%, and continue to follow a decreasing trend.

Thas was also the case when considering responses of the bacterial species that were marginally statistically significant ( Table 1 ).

Rats consuming sufficient calories presented a nearly linear change with respect to increasing iron dosage; however, in rats consuming insufficient energy from milk, except for betaine, glycine, asparagine, lysine, and myo-inositol, the metabolic response showed a trend toward decreased levels at medium, and maintenance or recovery to levels similar to the unsupplemented group at higher iron treatment.

Our results suggested that functional units had a small effect, whereas monsoon had a significant effect on the capture of PM, and the effect of monsoon showed an increasing trend from the northwest to southeast, which partly confirmed our hypothesis.

Demographic and clinical characteristics were similar between the low and higher CD4 nadir groups ( Table 1 ) with a trend towards significance for race by CD4 nadir.

Interestingly, and in contrast to the other two CYP707As , expression levels of Cla005457 showed an increasing trend and may involve in the degradation of ABA at the later stages of fruit ripening, potentially to prevent over-accumulation of ABA at this stage.