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Further analyses at the whole-brain level, revealed that VPT children showed a positive trend towards increased connectivity in theta during the retention interval compared to the FT group.

That is, the aromatics biodegradation showed a trend that the less branched or un-branched components were preferentially degraded, and the effects gradually weakened with the crude oil concentrations increased.

There was a significant trend towards lower VEGF-A (p trend = 0.001) and higher MMP-2 levels (p trend = 0.004) in eyes with MMD.

In Table 2 , PO 4 -P fluxes exhibited a slightly significant degree of variation with respect to the capping material, while they were significantly influenced by the temperature.

Furthermore, because cancers are multifactorial diseases, it has been suggested that other factors such as exposure to other carcinogens (e.g., asbestos), poor diet, past lung diseases (e.g., tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis) and genetic factors may be significant in the development of lung cancer 11 – 13 .

The S6k1 −/− mice showed a trend for being hyperactive, but this did not reach significance for either gender (males: F 1,33 = 1.266, P = 0.271; females: F 1,31 = 3.265, P = 0.080).

In our study, current smoking was not associated with 15D, but ex-smoking remained of borderline significance.

Partially controlled asthma, BMI, previous smoking and number of drugs in use (other indications than asthma/allergy) were not associated with poorer 15D score, even though the two latter had borderline significance (Table 3 ).

A decreasing trend of H 2 O 2 concentration was observed in the release media from 48 to 72 hours, that may be attributed to an ageing of H 2 O 2 , as observed in cell culture media 37 .

This knowledge is extremely significant in order to minimize the environmental aftereffects of open-pit mining in Europe.

The COD concentration showed a trend with two distinct peaks where the highest concentration was observed either early morning between 8:00 am to 9:00 am or early night around 8:00 pm.

mongolica , and showed a decreasing trend in 60–100 cm soil layers 66 .

Discussion Spatial variability An earlier study showed large spatial variability in primary production in the North Pacific 32 , i.e., an overall increase from the south to the north and an increasing trend from the east to the west, similar to the spatial pattern of POC (Fig. 2 ).

Studies have also shown a decreasing trend in chlorophyll and net community production from 1971 to 2000 in the surface waters of the Northwest Pacific 11 , 12 .

Our systematic search through COREMINE ( www.coremine.com ) revealed 7652 article abstracts containing both neoplasms and diagnostic errors (or synonymous terms), with an increasing trend over time.

In contrast, GLSR was not different at Endo- level, showed a trend of decrease at Myo- level and is significant at Epi- level (−0.84 ± 0.11 vs −0.71 ± 0.15, p = 0.008) between these 2 groups.

Accordingly, when considering the pressure group scale, the global effect of the factor Group was highly significant with pairwise differences detected between the control group and the two others.

Passed that threshold, although a clear trend remained visible (Fig. 4a ), it appeared difficult to attribute to the increasing dredging intensity the observed changes in interface rugosity (Table 1 ) as well as in station scale spatial heterogeneity (Fig. 4b , Table 1 ).

Although, alpha helix showed a decreasing trend in W239R mutant between 35–85 ns, after that it was stable (Fig.

Mutant W239R presented an increasing trend in RMSD value throughout 36.9 ns (RMSD ~3.611 Å) and 140 ns (RMSD ~3.76 Å) of MD simulation.

2 ) do not display a decreasing trend with increasing migration distance, but instead they exhibit a clear increasing trend (Supplementary Text, S-1.5 ), which is completely opposite to the decreasing trend of SMFIs and SMFI λ s (Supplementary Fig.

However, surficial vegetation coverage in high altitude areas shows an increasing trend.

The relationship between C remaining and soil temperature was marginally significant (Fig. 5b ).

As DElncRNA showed a trend of change similar to that of the DEmRNA and opposite to that of DEmiRNA, ceRNA network was constructed with 3 DEmiRNAs, 5 DElncRNAs, and 130 DEmRNAs.

Furthermore, endothelial β1 integrin expression increased in the calf, while only showing a small trend towards higher expression in the thigh (Supplementary Fig.