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This value was selected and used for all further data analyses because a) for both methods, it represents the mean S/P of negative samples + 3 standard deviations, and b) it is the lowest value associated with a practically significant net OD (about 0.15–0.20).

We used a futility stopping boundary, where we stopped in case of a negative trend, i.e. the observed interim estimate of the treatment group is worse than of the control group.

Our results showed a decreasing trend of FGM prevalence over time and significant variation across geographic and socioeconomic groups.

By contrast, a highly significant correlation was observed between cyst abundance determined by direct counting and the qPCR assay in conjunction with DNA debris removal ( r 2 = 0.72, slope = 1.07, p < 0.001).

We also expected that egg sizes (lengths and breadths) and weights would be larger in fed groups than in nonfed groups (H7a,b; H8a,b; & H9a,b).The differences for all three aspects of egg size were highly significant as shown both by the ANCOVA’s and Fisher’s exact tests ( Table 4 ).

AAS treatment did not significantly exacerbate NSS scores in injured mice (Treatment effect: p = 0.352), although we noted that AAS-treated injured mice showed a trend toward higher NSS values over VH controls from 1 h to 2 d post-rTBI.

One other hit, 609515, also possesses reasonable physicochemical properties (logP = 2.31, topological polar surface area = 87.7) and even showed a trend toward selectively inhibiting BRCA1 mutated cells versus cells with restored BRCA1 activity ( Fig 2B ).

For the IGD index of the CHPDEED system, the p value of the improved MDEA is much less than 0.001 compared with the AMDEA, and the difference is extremely significant.

As shown in Fig 1D , Sema3E KO mice in the type 2-low asthma model exhibited an increasing trend to sensitivity to methacholine.

The fraction of significant changes for all the tested condition changes showed a clear trend to increase with the number of included trials, possibly saturating when the number of trials reached about 8.

The majority of the other As +3 -and Cd +2 -transformed lines also showed a trend for increased chemotaxis compared to the parental control, but the changes were not statistically significant.

Ironically, there was an increase in the composition of women married in mid- and late-teens, which was associated with an increasing trend in TPM.

An apparent trend that k almost continuously decreases is observed in the plot, which may imply the decay of the dependence of countries’ export strategies on the global market.

Once ‘relationship’ and ‘community’ levels are taken into account, a decreasing trend in the ICC in regressions 3 and 4 is observed, reaching the 3% of the total variance.

A p-value below 0.05 was considered statistically significant and p-values below 0.01 were highly significant.

Conclusions The TPM prevalence remained high in Nigeria, though a decreasing trend was observed within the studied period.

Fig 8b shows the results for the PeMSD8 dataset, with an overall trend similar to that of PeMSD4, due to the same reasons.

Furthermore, in most females the differences between the embryonic stages were quite significant and tended to fall into two distinct stages.

In summary, at 15 mo of age, morphometric analysis showed a trend toward hypertrophy and a significant increase in fibrotic lesions in the hearts of BACHD mice.

These differences are statistically significant, with the t-test showing that MDKG-RL’s improvement over BERT-GNN in MRR (t = 10.00, p = 8.49e-06) and NDCG (t = 6.88, p = 1.25e-04) is highly significant.

The meta-analysis of all three populations (GOLDN, Bogalusa European Americans and Bogalusa African Americans) demonstrated highly significant P-values for both CpGs—cg00574958 (2.6 x 10 −23 ) and cg17058475 (1.4 x 10 −13 ).

Moreover, highly significant differences between cases and controls were also present in the homocystein/glutathione pathway (cysteine ↑: RLS vs.

Conversely, the difference in means regarding visuospatial working memory, as assessed by DMT, was highly significant in favour of the experimental group compared to the control group.

Although there is a clear trend, this effect was not statistically significant.

While the IARC collaborative study found a relative risk of 1.6 for long-term OC users with a significant trend, Moreno et al . observed a stronger association (OR = 4.0).