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However, robotic surgery showed a trend of increasing mortality rate.

However, we did not observe a significant trend change in age, sex, and income of colorectal cancer patients during the study period.

Because body mass influences animal locomotor behaviour, we expected to obtain a negative trend in our sample.

2a , we plot the fitted values of h 0 ( θ ), which do indeed exhibit a decreasing trend, from around 6.5 nm to around 3 nm as θ increases.

Examining the absolute muscle weights also reveals a highly significant effect of overloading on plantaris muscle mass (sham, 15.4 ± 1.3 mg vs.

It is highly significant that a waste resource, such as waste cooking oil, can be used in a copper slag depletion process thereby reducing carbon emissions.

Despite the increasing temperature and moisture stress early in our simulations, our results, similar to other studies 19 , showed a trend of continued C uptake and increasing TEC into the 22 nd century (Fig. 2 ).

Relative to baseline, increasing temperature under projected climate resulted in an increasing trend of upslope movement in snowline elevation (threshold elevation below which mean monthly temperature ≥0 °C for all year) over the century (Fig. 3 ), decreasing the area maintaining snow cover by 20–84% across transects under mean projected late-century (2090–2100) climate.

In addition, there was marginally significant evidence suggesting that responders reported a heavier drinking pattern (average number of drinks per drinking day) in the 3 months prior to entering the study compared to non-responders ( P =0.059).There was no difference in average number of drinks per drinking day in the past month before entering the study or the average number of days sober in the past 3 months before entering the study.

Study limitations It is important to note that the magnitude of phoria adaptation showed a statistical trend in its decrease with age, which has been shown to be significant in other studies 95 , 96 .

In the wound area photon emission measured at 6 hours time showed a trend to increase in animals treated with both 1e and 1f (30% and 20% increase with respect to time 0, respectively).

We found that these RT time series exhibited highly significant power-law auto correlations, frequency scaling, and LRTCs.

At 4 °C, N-OXPHOS capacity showed a trend to decline during the experiment particularly with PM, and no stimulation could be observed with cytochrome c .

In human skeletal muscle, however, the limitation by the phosphorylation system is highly significant, j ExP (NS) = 0.05 to 0.2 7 , 68 and j ExP (N) = 0.2 with glutamate&malate as substrates 69 , and is even more pronounced in the human heart, with j ExP (N) increasing from 0.52 in healthy controls to 0.59 in heart failure 2 .

A clear trend in the water splitting efficiency of the polymorphs was observed (Fig. 2 ).

They reported a decreasing trend of soil pH, noticeable but non-significant change in mineralogy and some trace elements like As and Cr 21 – 23 .

The same tendencies are also observed for the Cl-LS and the Ze-LS CWs, except for Mn, which does not exhibit such a clear trend.

A clear trend is that with the increase in the content of ionic liquid in the copolymer membranes, the water contact angles of the PPHMs drops from 128° till a plateau at 117° (Fig. 6 and Supplementary Table S3 ).

Finally, as the significantly differentially expressed microRNAs between the control and TLE samples all had borderline significant p -value, and none of them had a log 2 -fold change above 2, we chose miR-223-3p as it has been shown to be expressed in astrocytes and microglia 22 .

The levels of miR-451a obtained from plasma showed a trend toward negative correlation with the levels in the same individual in CSF, although this did not reach statistical significance (ρ = −0.75, p = 0.066) (Fig.

From those, 16 genes showed significant fold change differences, 7 genes showed tendency toward significance and 15 genes did not show any significant differences.

In summary, the models show that differences in backscatter across sites and tree-types can be explained by differences in macroecological forest properties of stem heights, sizes, number densities, understory and cover fraction to a highly significant extent.

Strain KL22 even if not receiving ERCP treatment or not admitted in the same ward it is clearly significantly related with the other three strains in group A probably for surgery or visit room sharing.

4A , a highly significant increase of aromatase mRNA was detected in Sertoli cells cultured in RCCS, which resulted higher (0.0017 ± 0.001) with respect to culture at G (0.0004 ± 0.001).

DGAT-path (gene) and KGG have similar type I error rates on average (~4.5%), while KGG shows a clear trend of increasing error rates with pathway sizes, which is likely due to an over-estimate of the significance of larger pathways, as large pathways tend to contain more SNPs (genes) in LD.