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At 0.1% of GO-Au, we observed a decreasing trend (even though it was not statistically significant) in degradation of the scaffold, however at 0.25% and 0.5% concentrations of GO-Au, the degradation rate was significantly reduced in a dose dependent manner compared to naïve chitosan scaffold (Fig. 3A ).

Our data revealed that there was an increasing trend in the conductivity of scaffold with the inclusion of GO at a concentration of 0.5%, but this was not statistically significant.

High temperature friction test on SiOC-ZrSi 2 showed a decreasing trend in COF with increasing temperature to 400 °C.

Tgfβ , which exhibits pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrotic features, showed a trend towards a significant correlation to pro-inflammatory Tnf (Fig. 6 ).

Changes in amino acid properties upon mutation were a notable trend throughout the SNPs.

Indicators of critical slowing down The effect of SPEI on TAC at lag-1 shows a positive trend as SPEI decreases for all diversity treatments with confidence bands overlapping (Fig. 4a ).

The creep rate ε M under the stress values of 20 MPa, 35 MPa, 65 MPa and 75 MPa are all presented an increasing trend following thermal aging for 3000 h~8000 h.

Furthermore, since SAT represents a much larger proportion of total adipose tissue mass than VAT 27 – 29 , its contribution to the systemic inflammatory burden to which skeletal muscle is exposed is likely to be significant.

Given these findings, it is highly significant that depletion of resistin from obese SAT secretome reduced the anti-myogenic action of obese SAT conditioned media secretome.

In the case of topographic wetness index (TWI), the SWARA value showed a decreasing trend when the TWI value increased.

For males, education of the participants and their parents affected preferences oppositely such that the education of a male’s parents was a barely significant predictor of a son preference while their own education was a barely significant predictor of a daughter preference.

We observed a decreasing trend in the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${m}_{{\sigma }_{f}}$$\end{document} m σ f with increasing porosity from 15 to 34 vol.%.

PCoA plot also showed a trend of separation of microbial communities between the two groups (Fig. 3B ).

The results showed that the spatial distribution of potential yield in the future under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 were similar, characterized by an increasing trend from the northwest inland to the southeast coast.

Meanwhile, all the genes encoding auxin-repressed proteins had a decreasing trend at the same time (Fig. 4A ).

TRIAE_CS42_U_TGACv1_641629_AA2099820 , homologous to rice LAX PANICLE 1 ( LAX1 ), with an increasing trend, was verified by quantitative PCR and in situ hybridization (Fig. 6C,D and Supplementary Fig.

In 57 studies with cross-sectional data published from 2004 to 2018, the number of ALS patients showed a marked trend towards a considerably higher number of included patients in the more recent studies (Spearman Rank order correlation between number of included subjects per year and the year of publication, ρ = 0.87, p < 0.0001), whereas the total number of published studies over years of publication remained constant ( ρ = 0.41, p = 0.12, Spearman Rank order correlation) (Supplementary Figure 1 ).

Compared to S −, S + post-treatment samples showed a trend towards increased Simpson diversity and evenness, while richness was lower in samples post-treatment when compared to samples from uninfected subjects (Fig. 3b ).

Discussion Not only is the present study the first to apply EEMD in acquiring only six-second detrended DVP signals for assessing arterial stiffness, but it also unveiled the clinical significance of Hilbert-Huang spectrum-derived instantaneous energy of maximal energy (f Emax ) in differentiating non-diabetic middle-aged and elderly subjects from those with diabetes by showing highly significant positive associations of f Emax with key diabetes parameters and stiffness index.

Haemodynamically stable PE + Syncope patients were more often treated with systemic thrombolysis and showed a trend to improved survial.

In the multivariate logistic regression model adjusted for age and sex (OR 0.43 (0.16–1.16), P = 0.094) as well as after adjustment for age, sex and comorbidities (OR 0.42 (0.15–1.17), P = 0.096) the association demonstrated a trend towards lower risk for in-hospital death in PE + Syncope patients by the administration of systemic thrombolysis with a borderline significance level, respectively.

In the multivariate regression analysis adjusted for sex and age as well as adjusted for age, sex and additional adjustment for comorbidities this association demonstrated still a trend towards significance.

We report a highly significant reduction in biting pressure that was maintained over time, and establish the thresholds needed for success.

Although the effect was only marginally significant in source space, the observed effect size was medium, suggesting a genuine effect.

10 , a clear trend between the PEC performance and the thickness of Y-BFO films exists.