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With respect to behavioural outcomes, HD-tDCS produced some preliminary evidence (i.e., a trend towards significance) of a potential motor improvement in participants who had lower beta power at the baseline stage.

The results showed a trend towards better visual acuity in patients with foveolar fixation, but there was no statistically significant difference in BCVA grouped by fixation location before and after surgery (before surgery: χ 2 = 1.43, P = 0.70; after surgery: χ 2 = 4.10, P = 0.25; Kruskal–Wallis analysis).

Although XDR-TB was not detected, an increasing trend in the frequency of pre-XDR-TB was evident in Kuwait as the frequency of mutations conferring resistance to FQs or SLIDs was significantly higher among isolates collected during 2013–2019 versus 2006–2012.

In a recent study, Enterobacteriaceae counts showed a decreasing trend upon supplementation of chicken diet with microencapsulated blends of natural identical essential oils including thymol 48 , these results consistently support our findings.

IFN β-1b was the second most commonly used treatment, but the result shows a decreasing trend of IFN β-1b being prescribed as initial treatment during the study period.

Nonetheless, some previous studies conducted in Asia still suggested an increasing trend in the prevalence and incidence of MS over the past couple of years 13 – 19 .

During this period, the number of fires generally increased, while the annual burned area didn’t show an increasing trend despite a large amplitude (the difference between the largest and smallest burned areas) (Fig. 1 a).

According to AIC, the best fitting models were simple segmental BIA models of serially obtained resistance unadjusted (only approached significance in GLMM) and adjusted for widths of body segments (was significant in GLMM).

Yield related parameters showed a significant trend in reduction from standard to mid to early planting dates.

In all these comparisons, p values indicate that trajectories differed in both the intercept (with marginal significance in PH87) and slope.

The MK versus diluent comparison was statistically significant for PH77 and PH39, marginally statistically significant for PH80 and PH87, and not statistically significant for PH95, indicating MK had activity in some but not all PDX models.

With difficult intellective tasks, there is a robust and practically significant impact of algorithmic appreciation.

Furthermore, we found that CD19 + cell counts also exhibited a decreasing trend, compared with matched controls, but this difference did not reach statistical significance.

This correlation was highly significant in NFG (r = − 0.330), was weaker in IFG (r = − 0.182) and was lost in the diabetes group (r = − 0.080, n.s.).

Nevertheless there was a clear trend visible in the concentrations over the different compartments of the GIT, i.e. low lactate concentrations in the stomach, relatively high in the proximal compartment and gradually decreasing towards the distal intestinal compartment.

Tourism in protected areas is on an increasing trend for decades now 34 , 35 : several studies have shown how human activities triggered an increase in the physiological stress response in vertebrates, often resulting in pathological consequences 36 – 38 .

Linear regression showed this relationship to be highly significant (Supplementary Table S.2 ), with an intercept close to zero but a constant slightly less than 1.

It is known that genes with low counts are less likely to be significant in differential expression test due to a lack of statistical power 38 , 39 .

3 c,d), whereas MMP13 expression was not significantly modulated, and showed a trend towards reduced expression in all TNAP-transduced groups (Supplementary Fig. 3 d).

Therefore, hexagonality and CCT did not show a clear trend with age in the subgroup analysis.

There was a clear trend in IOP recovery to near baseline levels after adhesive application, however variation was high after wound closure, indicating high variability in the application of the adhesive to the eye.

An increasing trend in mortality proportion was observed with higher age groups in COVID-19 patients with CVD, malignancy, and one comorbidity whereas a decreasing trend in mortality proportion was noticed in CKD patients (Table 2 ).

Preliminary evidence showed a trend towards the slower spread of COVID-19 in countries where the national Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccine policy is current for all 48 .

The resolutions of the preceding studies on Br profiles are too low to detect the subtle changes of halite Br content, and only showed an overall trend of the whole salt member.

Based on an incubation experiment on farmyard manure mineralization in tropical soils, a decreasing trend of soil resion extractable P with incubation time was also reported 44 , indicating the process of P-fixation in soil with high P absorption capacity.