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Most of the other variables–primarily demographic and institutional factors–lost their statistical significance or remained only weakly significant in the multivariate model.

When we fit all the independent variables into a generalized linear model using multvariate logistic regression, we found that QUALITY, SCORE, RENEW, and FREQUENCY prevailed as the most highly significant predictor variables, with QUALITY conferring a 5-fold increase in the odds of ENI funding success and SCORE, RENEW and FREQUENCY each conferring more than a 2-fold increase in the odds of funding success ( Table 13 ).

Given the protected status of the TRNP, the role of fish in recovery is likely to be significant.

In these conditions there may be significant changes in growth parameters and those defined as primary (LA and DM) and those associated with the functional growth of the species as secondary parameters (RGR, NAR, CGR, LWR, SLW).

In contrast to KSCs, the level of CPDs in TAs followed a decreasing trend to 24 h post-exposure and stabilized at 48 h post UVA-exposure.

Permutation analysis showed that the change in metabolic fluxes predicted from gene expression changes during Parkinson’s disease was highly significant in the metabolic network: taken over all studies which showed substantial variation, all reaction rates were significantly affected during Parkinson’s disease, except CO 2 production and glutamine synthetase ( S4 Table ).

However, the Mantel test is at the limit of significance.

Except for 2009, the placebo effects in other years are not significant or only weakly significant with magnitudes near zero.

In the passive avoidance memory test, mice showed a trend toward better performance in the TMEV-EVs group (261 ± 79.31) compared with the TMEV-VH group (203.64 ± 114.87), without reaching statistical significance ( Fig 3A ).

The coefficient on quality is also negative and moderately significant in the summed events model.

This is an encouraging trend, as clinic visits, peer educator contact, and supportive networks have been found to be strongly associated with the willingness of KP members to engage in HIV testing, care and treatment programmes, as well as in ART initiation and adherence [ 29 , 31 , 39 , 40 ].

From 1917 onwards there was a decreasing trend in the annual rainfall component that switched to an increasing trend in 1935, after which rainfall increased from a low of about 600 mm to a high of about 850 mm in 1962 ( Fig 3B ).

The increase in severe annual floods (0.90 quantile) was close to significance in the Mara ( Table 5 , Fig 6A ).

The p-value for the runs test was marginally significant ( Table 4 ), suggesting that the sequence of extreme flood years in which the wet season rainfall exceeded the 20-year return level in Narok Town deviated from complete randomness.

The stochastic disturbance variance of the primary annual cycle did not quite reach significance ( Table 2 ).

Trends in the severity of droughts and floods There was no evidence for a significant trend in the severity of droughts in the Mara from quantile regression during 1965–2014 ( Table 5 , Fig 6A, 6C and 6E ).

Our analysis verified that the only enzymes that were significantly downregulated in our panel of 20 MMPs were MMP-2 and MMP-9, although there was an interesting trend towards downregulation of a number of other MMPs in the absence of active MMP-2/-9.

The goal was not to compare men to women or ethnicities to one another, but to assess the effect of PFASs on Rubella within group to assure that highly significant effects in one sex /ethnicity group had not generalized to all.

There was no significant effect of PFASs on immunity in youths but a significant effect of both PFOA and PFOS in adults, as well as a significant interaction of PFOA x sex and a borderline significant interaction of PFOS x sex.

Although slightly significant differences were found at 13,14,15 and 20 years of age, the statistical significance level (p = 0.036, 0.042, 0.047 and 0.037 respectively) and the sample size let us to consider the AC/A ratio as no clinically relevant in regards of the development of refractive error in patients affected by accommodative esotropia.

A probability value< 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant and <0.01 was supposed to be highly significant.

Overall, we found an increasing trend of lung cancer with increasing PM 10 concentration (P-value for trend for OR2: 0.04), with ORs moderately increased in the 4 th (OR2 1.24, 95% CI: 0.85–1.80) and clearly elevated in the 5 th PM 10 category (OR 1.52, 95% CI: 1.04–2.21) ( Table 3 and Fig 2 ).

Bland-Altman analysis revealed bias and limits of agreements had an increasing trend by increasing distance to the surface as is shown in Table 3 .

Linear regression analyses for PWV and C-SBP results adjusted for age, sex, and race/ethnicity in relation to several markers of glucose homeostasis and CKD did not identify any significant associations with the exception of a marginally statistically significant and modest association between PWV and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (linear regression estimate ± SE, 0.001 ± 0.0006; P-value 0.046).

Correlation between BV and HU for men and women and the two scan protocols showed a negative trend between HU and BV ( Fig 4 ), except for men scanned with the high pitch protocol.