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Through the study of the overall learning curve, it was found that when the 8th operation was performed, the learning curve K-value began to show a decreasing trend, the curve began to show a flat state, and the learning process showed a stable period, indicating that the trainees had crossed the learning curve and entered a proficient stage.

Unemployment rate, interest rate, economic growth rate, seasonal effect and policy implementation time had highly significant effects on the surrender rate, and the unemployment rate had a significant positive impact on the surrender rate.

Families with one child had an increased risk of depression but of borderline significance.

Those with children who self-harmed had a greater likelihood of depression but fell short of significance.

Further though you have clarified/admitted (lines 261-62: It is possible that, given the small sample size, these correlations were influenced by outliers in our sample), one should keep in mind that highly significant (large) value of ‘Pearson’s correlation coefficient’ alone does not imply cause-effect relationship.

There is a slight trend of the residuals increasing as the fitted values increase.

From 2003 to 2018, the national Theil index for health production efficiency fluctuated between 0.072 and 0.286, exhibiting an overall trend of an initial increase followed by a decrease.

As depicted in Fig 7 , pH value exerts a significant influence on the zeta potential of barite and quartz, consistently showing a decreasing trend with increasing pH across various treatment conditions.

The present study found an increasing trend in the body protein content with increasing dietary β-glucans inclusion.

Beyond the main analysis, the project will employ the Reliable Change Index (RCI) scores based on the Jacobson and Truax [ 50 ] Index––to gauge the magnitude of change and explore practically significant differences in electricity savings and renewable energy adoption pre- and post-interventions.

While there was a clear trend in the label distribution within each cluster, only clusters 3 and 4 showed statistically significant differences.

This means that there is a significant difference in the assessment of stress levels among individuals participating in aerobics before and after the test, and there is a decreasing trend.

However, it’s important to note that these results were marginally significant (p-values higher than 0.05 and CIs for OR include 1), and other authors have failed to find an association [ 27 ].

The omission of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) had a highly significant impact on reducing both the grain yield and yield components of tef.

Reply: Thank you for the practically significant suggestion.

Near-significant findings included: those having an advanced degree compared to those without (52.0% vs. 34.1%, PR = 1.52, 95%CI: 0.94–2.45); and those being directly employed by a HS or district versus those who were not (53.2% vs. 37.0%, PR = 1.44, 95%CI: 0.94–2.18).

Our past experience suggests there may be significant cross-ethnicity differences between MA and NHW with regard to their blood-based biomarker profiles [ 14 , 26 , 40 ].

Nonetheless, our results indicate the possibility that a wider range of chemicals beyond those considered may be significant for gustation and could serve as ligands for T1rs.

The meta-analysis, focused on live-attenuated and CpG ODN vaccines, demonstrated a significant trend favoring both vaccination types in reducing mortality.

The authors emphasize that there was a favorable trend in the equol producers, but this is not evident from the results or the figures.

A notable trend in current society is the gradual rise in the proportion of older adults who live alone, this group, especially seniors who live alone, are often not the primary digital technology users, and their acceptance of this domain is relatively low.

Patients in DPP-4 inhibitors group died less often than patients not taking DPP-4 inhibitors, however P value is of borderline significance (0.055).

Changes in the geography of profitable zones The potential profit maps produced by the model for the time sequence studied show more or less significant differences according to the centuries considered.

Overall, whether the change in aHR assessed in terms of cumulative dose or duration of exposure to spironolactone, we observed a decreasing trend in prostate cancer risk and an increasing trend in renal cancer risk.

When growth of these isolates was measured by optical density (OD) at an initial MOI of 100 to further test for resistance, we did not observe a clear trend in the maximum OD achieved; however, all final densities were depressed compared to phage free controls and AbiZ + (IL7) bacteria achieved higher densities overall (S7 Fig in S1 File ).