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Results Trends of NPP A change In the study area, the model-simulated grassland NPP A shows an increasing trend over majority (69.7%) of the grassland in Xinjiang (Fig. 1a ).

The increase may be related to the fact that, in the past ten years, the average annual temperature and precipitation in Xinjiang have increased, showing an overall trend of warm - wet climate 17 .

Within the three types of grasslands in Xinjiang, the desert grassland showed the greatest NPP A increasing trend that mostly attributed to human activities; the meadow showed an overall NPP A decreasing trend that was mainly caused by human activities; the steppe showed similar NPP A decreasing and increasing trend in terms of area percentage.

Although this did not quite reach statistical significance, this most likely reflects the limited number of non-failing samples in our study.

However, we found that, while a positive trend was present, RyR-t-tubule association was not significantly correlated with active stress when normalised to cardiomyocyte content in failing human heart trabeculae.

loadings of about 0.40 or greater) should be considered practically significant and useful for interpretation purposes 111 .

The highly significant association of the ECM facilitated us to list up the ECM-related genes in the cardio-JAGs as depicted by the STRING database-generated interactive network (Fig. 4C ).

Aggregometry studies showed that pigs treated with SynthoPlate had a stable platelet aggregation profile while pigs treated with unmodified (control) particle demonstrated a trend for decreasing platelet aggregation and pigs treated with saline showed a trend for platelet hyper-aggregation (Supplemental Figure S.8.A).

The overall SIR for prostate cancer was increased to 1.06 (95%CI 0.99–1.12) but no individual UL subtype showed an association (yet for bladder cancer in parents the SIR of 1.12 was of borderline significance, 95%CIs 0.99–1.25).

Moreover, both orangutans ( z = 2.73, p = 0.070) and spider monkeys ( z = 2.79, p = 0.060) showed a trend towards outperforming capuchin monkeys (0.86).

Thus, from in vitro experiments, we concluded that the combination of ONB-MMC was found to be highly significant in reducing the viability of MB49 bladder cancer cells and the effect of beam steering was found to have a pronounced effect on the combinatorial treatment, compared to the individual ONB or MMC treatments.

We found that phospho-ERK/total ERK ratios showed a decreasing trend in the presence of DAPT to FSK or FSK + EGF treatments, similar to the effect on PCNA expression (Fig.

Above ten phenotypic characteristics exponentially increased at a significant or extremely significant level with increasing differences in reproductive period.

excelsus showed a decreasing trend with the delay of heading date over the two years.

However, the proportion of female offspring did show an increasing trend with the increase of oedipal males, with the highest proportion found in the bisexual cohort (Table 1 ).

Although increases in Cox2 displayed a decreasing trend following TRPV4 inhibition, a significant increase in Cox2 was still achieved in response to OFS.

The sum of marine-derived fatty acids, EPA + DHA, showed a borderline significant trend for the reduced risk of gastric cancer as the intake increased ( p -value for trend = 0.045).

2 ), and the same inhibitors produced a statistically highly significant reduction in the molecular beacon siRNA engagement (statistical significance as indicated in Fig. 3 ), while concavalin A, genistein and cytochalasin did not produce a statistically significant reductions in either cellular internalization or siRNA engagement with target mRNA (statistical significance as indicated).

Some previous studies suggested that rumen effects may be significant when there is relatively low variation in hepatic deamination and transamination 7 .

MSC-PLT also exhibited a clear trend of elevated mRNA level for CD318 ( CDCP ) (Fig.

glabrata , with essential oil component citronellal having a highly significant differential VMAA.

Indeed, the presence of CBZ pre-treated OBLs seemed to lead to an increasing trend of U-2 OS cells growth that did not reach statistical significance.

In addition, although not statistically significant, most patients with the apical form showed a trend towards higher SSS, SRS, SDS, phase standard deviation (SD) and phase histogram bandwidth, as well as lower LVEF, ∆LVEF, resting phase histogram skewness and kurtosis.

Comparison of Sample Sizes Among all species, sub-sampling of active and passive camera trap detections revealed an overall trend of decreasing Δ and increasing error as the sub-sample size decreased (Fig. 6 ).

In addition, for all 22 deregulated genes, a positive and highly significant correlation was also found between the estimates of fold change in expression level from RNA-seq data and RT-qPCR results (R 2 : 0.9187) (Fig. 1c ).