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5 ), during which the water levels of the dry-season discharges dropped, while discharges during the flood season showed an increasing trend.

For the near future, issues of flood control and disaster reduction are still highly significant along the Yangtze River, and flood control is still the primary task of development and protection in this area.

The Yichang, Zhicheng, and Shashi stations showed a decreasing trend in the corresponding water levels at the same flow rate in the 4 time periods of 1955–1968, 1969–1987, 1988–2002, and 2003–2016.

In addition, a strong and highly significant reduction in the genus Clostridium was observed, which suggests that these bacteria may promote intestinal Th17 cell differentiation and arthritis 46 .

Its purity showed a decreasing trend in South Wales since its ban in the UK (from 84.7% in December 2011 to June 2012 to 45.6% in December 2012) 25 .

Of importance, there was a highly significant and consistent association between a marked increase in overall patient survival, the value of the mean score of this gene expression signature, and the presence of ELNs in stage IV (non-locoregional) melanoma, colorectal cancer, and stage IV bladder cancer.

In the same model, the risk of offspring macrosomia at birth were elevated by 1.51 (95% CI: 0.89, 7.05; P = 0.08) for each 1-mmol increase in maternal FPG with marginal significance (Model 3 in Table 3 ), while in the model excluding maternal FPG, the association was more pronounced, i.e., mothers who were overweight/obese (OWO) before pregnancy were 3.14 times as likely to have an infant with macrosomia compared with normal weight (NW) mothers (95% CI: 1.14, 8.66; P = 0.03), (Model 2 in Table 3 ).

1 ), with sufficiently long time series data of at least a decade, show a decreasing trend in the column aerosol loading during pre-monsoon period.

It may however be noted, that annually, each of these surface sites showed an increasing trend (mostly attributable to anthropogenic activities) in aerosol loading 45 , 46 , 60 .

Linear trend tests showed a significant trend for older age, a higher frequency of APOE ε4, poorer cognitive status, and more severe WMH among non-CAA, possible CAA, and probable CAA groups respectively (Fig. 1 ).

Comparing with E g (SL) the E g (hyp) gaps are larger and show an increasing trend as function of the number n of barrier layers.

In testing the PD mutants, we found that all three strains showed a trend towards decreased ethanol avoidance behavior, but the difference only reached significance in pdr-1 worms (Fig. 1g ).

In this study, the PCCA model of secondary forest had no harmful collinearity (VIFs of 6 variables were below 3.5, see Table 4 ) and was highly significant.

However, the mean confidence of incorrect predictions did not follow an obvious trend as λ 1 grew (Fig. 5D ).

The highly significant SNPs associated with SYF were mainly located on GGA17 and GGA28.

Our CGM data showed that patients who received metformin add-on insulin therapy had significantly improved glycemic variations in terms of MAGE, SD, CV%, and time spent on and the incremental AUC of glucose concentrations ≥10 mmol/L, which might be significant in avoiding long-term diabetic complications.

Most of the genes have not been reported to show borderline significance with BMI, as detailed in Table S2 .

Our results also showed that administered blood product volumes were highly significant predictors of both outcomes, even on their own.

MRI volumetric measurements at baseline showed a trend indicating a better preservation of hippocampi volumes in AD non-converters, with a stronger effect when the right hippocampus was analyzed (AD non-converters vs .

High-pressure NPPV with built-in software monitoring in patients with chronic hypercapnic COPD is associated with improvement in TDI scores and a positive trend in favour of high-pressure NPPV for improving P a CO 2 is observed. status released display-pdf yes is-olf no is-manuscript no is-preprint no is-journal-matter no is-scanned no is-retracted no Received 2017 Aug 30; Accepted 2017 Nov 22; Collection date 2017.

A decreasing trend in the average household size was found in American Samoa in the census data from 7.2 in 1980 to 5.7 in 2010.

In all cases the correlations between observed and fitted frequencies (expressed as proportional abundance) was highly significant (Table 1 ).

ERV markers provide highly significant phylogenetic support among kangaroos and wallabies, including for grouping the swamp wallaby, Wallabia bicolor , with the open forest wallabies of M .

Apgar scores, cord pH, BE and lactate), highly significant differences were found as expected.

Regardless of the lack of a pronounced behavioral phenotype in the 3xTg mice compared to wt mice of the same strain background, the histological effects of the tau immunotherapy were pronounced and highly significant.