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Comparison of CSD-induced changes in ambulatory time proportion between the light and dark zones Ambulatory time proportion of total time spent in the light zone did not differ among the groups, although the CSD-Vehicle group exhibited an increasing trend compared with the Sham-Vehicle group (Fig. 5 , red bars).

When exposure to parasite eggs occurred at different temperatures with hosts previously acclimatized at these temperatures, infection success was slightly higher at 17 °C compared to 14 °C and more parasites per host developed at 17 °C compared to 14 °C in these conditions, although these two differences were only marginally significant.

moschata at higher or Epilobium angustifolium at lower elevations), showing a decreasing trend along the chronosequence of the study sites.

It is worth highlighting that both the positive and negative correlations are highly significant, with the positives being smaller (in absolute value) than the negative (< 60% vs. 100% of normalized cross-correlation).

1 a, Table S4 ) but continued to exhibit a negative trend.

An increasing trend for IWUE was observed for the effect of CO 2 concentration (E2-E1) at all three (forest, grassland, and cropland) sites (5.228, 2.058, and 6.726 gC m −2 kPa mm −1 year −1 , respectively).

It caused by abnormal behavior of aerosol concentration at the grassland site [which showed a decreasing trend in EWUE (Fig. 1 b, E3–E1) and an increasing trend in TWUE (Fig. 2 b, E3–E1)] and reduces the negative trend in TWUE for all factors (E5) in the second period compared with the first (Fig. 2 b).

It then declined over time before it exhibited an increasing trend again on day 28 due to osteoblast differentiation.

There may be a small trend linking pleasantness and usefulness of the feedback.

Of the remaining candidate genes examined in the multiplexed CRISPR/Cas9 experiment, only mutations in syt10 showed a trend for higher odds of sinoatrial pauses at 2dpf (Supplementary Table S6 ).

Differential scanning calorimetry analysis showed a decreasing trend in the degree of crystallinity of PHBV:PLA:CE blends with increasing PLA content, and was corroborated with the findings of the polarized optical microscopy that showed the local absence of birefringence in PHBV crystals.

After exclusion of samples taken after clinical intervention for cervical shortening had been initiated, unadjusted elafin concentrations measured at 10–13 +6 weeks’ gestation were higher overall in women who delivered prior to 34 weeks’ gestation (n = 390, ratio 1.76, 1.00 to 3.10, p = 0.05) though this did not quite reach statistical significance, nor after adjustment (n = 387, 1.59, 0.93–2.80).

P < 0.05 was considered significant and P < 0.01 extremely significant.

Interestingly, the gender ratio showed a trend of more male than female patients with j-AVMs, with an approximate ratio of 4:3.

1 ), and showed a trend of gradual expansion.

PC_s1 was a general description of site climatic conditions, with highly significant effects from all variables (temperature, VPD and precipitation for the growing season and for the entire year).

Whereas, vapour pressure deficit (VPD) did not show a significant trend, except for an increase at the South-eastern most site of Covert Wood (Table 2 ).

Comparing the quartets with 2 archaea and 2 bacteria to the remaining quartets using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test revealed that the difference between the two sets is extremely significant (Z-score greater than 1000).

Statistical computations show that these differences in HGT frequency are highly significant.

Zoning showed a near-significant and positive effect on hard coral cover at the end of the study but was not a significant predictor of the proportional change in hard coral cover.

In our study in ulcerative colitis children positive relationship between IL-17A with PUCAI and stool calprotectin showed a tendency toward significance.

4 c,d a decreasing trend of migration inefficiency along with the increasing of education and income at least for the majority population (education level less than the master’s degree and monthly salary less than 42,000).

The former implies an increasing trend of the out-of-center migration 46 , while the later implies the decline of Beijing in terms of absorbing local migrants which reinforces the finding that the attractiveness of Beijing is reduced in the absolute sense.

These patients showed a significant trend of a reduction in the levels of SPP24 at the primary endpoint (i.e. pre- to post-treatment ratio increased in remission).

These findings were consistent with regional distribution of CHD incidence, which showed a decreasing trend from north to south in Shaanxi province.