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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.

From the predicted results, it was observed that there was no significant variance in the predicted activity concentrations from the measured or experimental activity concentrations for 238 U and 232 Th whilst the activity concentration of 40 K showed variation from the measured activity concentrations that are quite significant.

As GmhA is a slow enzyme (with a turnover number of less than 1 s −1 ), there is likely to be significant binding and release of substrate before a catalytic event takes place.

Deep-sea REE cycling and their indicative significance Historically, riverine inputs were considered as the primary source of REEs to seawater 18 – 20 and could be transported to marine via particles, solution and colloids with a total concentration of 39 × 10 6 mol/y 73 .

The contents of REE (ΣREE) are low in seawater (31.8–168 pmol/L) and display an increasing trend with depth (Fig. 2 ), similar to previously published REE data 28 , 44 – 49 (Fig. 3 ).

The follicular CD20+ lymphocyte counts showed an increasing trend from CT group 1 [129.67 (69.08–247.42)/0.1 mm 2 ] to CT group 2 [231.00 (81.83–391.17)/0.1 mm 2 ] to CT group 3 [312.00 (132.96–482.96)/0.1 mm 2 ], but the difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.085) (Table 5 ).

The follicular CD20+ lymphocyte counts showed a trend of gradual elevation from the FVC improved group to the FVC stable group and finally to the FVC worsened group (Table 4 ).

A p value ≤ 0.05 was considered as significant, p > 0.01 highly significant.

The controls for T cells also showed a trend of higher migration towards the positive control, but differences were not significant (Supplementary Fig.

4c left) and a positive trend (albeit not statistically significant) towards an increase in inhibition with higher anti- Pf CSP antibodies was also observed (Fig. 4c right).

The concentrations of most of the PPCPs detected in plasma reflected a decreasing trend that corresponded with the exposure gradient of the caging locations within CPM (CPM1 > CPM2 > CPM3 > JH), except for amitriptyline, citalopram, erythromycin-H 2 O, gemfibrozil, and hydrocortisone.

(2015) reported that TGF-β receptor type 3 was a candidate gene associating with an extremely significant difference in the FCR in chicken 68 .

The −374T > A’s association was only marginally significant under the additive and recessive models.

Although the positive association between the SI and ASI was statistically highly significant, the SI was highly related positively with yield but negatively with fiber length and strength.

The results showed that the expression levels of SP1 and GS1;1 at T1, T2, and T3 in OFA treatment were higher than those in TFA treatment (expect for the expression of SP1 in T2); the differences between the two treatments were significant or highly significant (expect for the expression of GS1;1 in T3).

The difference in the reservoir’s ability to regulate floodwater between scenarios I and II was highly significant.