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Educational status was marginally significant, with university level men being [OR 1.83, 95%CI 0.94, 3.54] more likely to have the knowledge about ECP compared to school level.

From the distribution of rural population density ( Fig 3 ), the rural population density in Jiangxi Province shows a decreasing trend in general.

A highly significant predictor with a smaller hazard ratio estimate is subject to false positive conclusions.

A marginally significant (or insignificant) predictor with a high hazard ratio estimate is subject to false negative conclusions.

From 1991 to 1993, the total radiation showed a trend of rapid decrease, which may have been related to the eruption of the Pinatubo volcano in 1991.

In addition, the concentration of P in decomposing litter showed an overall trend of decline followed by rise, and the P concentration in the nutrient enrichment treatment showed more violent changes than that in the nutrient control treatment ( Fig 2c and 2f ).

The nutrient release of decomposing litter including C and N increased in the same trend over the study period, while the P release showed a trend of increasing first and then decreasing ( Fig 3 ).

However, a weaker, but additional highly significant predictor of retention within CS courses is acquiring information about careers involving computational skills (Peteranetz 2018).

Nonetheless mPowerF showed a trend for being highest in the premenopausal women at rest, during MVC and in terms of relative decrement from rest to MVC in the DF (see Table 4 ).

Some records presented a well-formed peak (with Fig 7A and 7B ), while others showed just a more or less significant shift of the abiotic curve towards positive potential values ( Fig 7C ).

Other areas where we feel we have demonstrated appropriate judgement of significance is the inclusion of maternal age in our multivariate model based on our a priori hypothesis, and presentation of other ‘borderline significant’ outcomes, for example the inclusion of hypertension as a risk factor for admission (aOR 3.63, 95% CI 0.99 – 13.30).

The sentence has been amended by pointing out that numbers are small and the aOR from the sensitivity analysis have been added so that the readers can see the association for hypertension is of borderline significance: Line 222-223: “In the sensitivity analysis, there was some evidence that asthma and hypertension specifically increased the risk of admission, although the numbers in some groups were small (aOR 2.12, 95% CI 1.25-3.58 and aOR 3.63, 95% CI 0.99 – 13.30 respectively, Table S3).” line 255 when noting symptomatic SARS and pregnancy loss less than 24 weeks , if the authors do not wish to add the historical comparison can they explain why that is not used.

With regard to: ‘Specifically, intervention participants were less likely to report their lifestyle as ‘very healthy’ or ‘healthy’ (53.4%) compared with controls (59.5%) at the end of the study (PRR=0.94; 95%CI= 0.87, 1.01)’, that CI’s cross over 1.0 would suggest that though approaching significance, the finding is not statistically significant.

Loadings of 0.50 or greater are considered practically significant, as in item 4 [ 159 , 160 ].

ICU patients treated with triple therapy showed a trend towards more oliguric or anuric kidney injury.

For instance, the NORM/NORM-Vet 2016 report showed an increasing trend of consumption for penicillins (J01C) from 1974 to 2012 in Norway—from about 3.5 to 8.5DDDs/1000 inhabitants/day.

The fact that a decreasing trend was observed in the community-based annual consumption of systemic antibiotics from 2016–2018 for Norway, as clearly documented in this study, corroborates this point.

Mothers and fathers showed moderate positive correlations in their use of PC over time in Italy and the USA; these correlations were marginally significant for Colombian parents.

Analyses confirm that the three strains showed highly significant differences in behavior and in VOC profiles for all three odor sources (nest, sweat and urine).

TFC and TPC in ‘Nongda 5’ fruit showed a trend of continuous decline.

There was a small increase in TFC and TPC from the young fruit stage to the stone hardening stage, followed by a decreasing trend, and then to the lowest level at the ripening stage of ‘Nongda 4’, ‘DS-1’, and ‘02–16’ fruits.

In several studies the highly significant correlation between salivary ethanol and acetaldehyde levels has been confirmed.

Therefore the findings of the present study and those from Treiman, Kessler & Evans are not in direct contradiction, given the nature of participants (bilingual pupils being proficient in two languages, compared to monolingual English-speaking students, who just started to learn French as a second language) and nature of direction (interference between equally mastered languages, compared to interferences from L2 to L1) even though our result was only marginally significant.

The authors have tried to respond to my inquiries but as best as I can tell there is a barely statistically significant difference in groups that did and did not undergo angiography in the setting of symptomatic peripheral arterial disease.

The advanced tumor stage showed a trend toward increasing intolerability.