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In addition, we found that the vermilion border lengths of the patients showed a decreasing trend.

For instance, the NDVI of natural vegetation in Central Asia exhibited an increasing trend at a rate of 0.004 per decade prior to 1998, after which the trends reversed and the NDVI decreased at a rate of 0.003 per decade 26 .

First, illumination inside dark nest boxes showed an increasing trend from the nest box bottom to the entrance hole.

However, the same analyses in the case of PEA, retinol and beta-carotene resulted underpowered, at the limit of significance in case of BMI and FFA, and had sufficient power in the case of AEA, 2AG, SAFA and PA/LA.

A highly significant difference between M. kansasii and “ M. canettii” resides in the so-called α-mycolic acids; subtle structural changes contribute to modified outer membrane physical properties 2 , 3 .

Other factors may be significant in the development of malignant mesothelioma by erionite, such as levels of exposure that are indeed dangerous for the population 8 as well as genetic predisposition 9 .

In a Cox multivariate model including gender, ESS baseline and characteristics associated with a p < 0.15, being younger (borderline significant), consuming less coffee, smoking occasionally, being insomniac, depressed, with fatigue and having chronic pain were independent predictors of the incidence of EDS (Table 3 ).

It can be found that the signal phase shows a higher precision in the wingbeat frequency measurement than the signal amplitude, although the precision difference is not quite significant especially in the S-band.

As noted in the introduction above, these analyses were driven by theory, in addition to the initial statistical significance of the time-glioma interaction and borderline significance of the age interaction in the AMORIS data.

The significant and borderline significant trends in these tables show time interactions in the AMORIS cohort and age interactions in both cohorts.

Although 30 mg/kg deferiprone treated patients showed a trend for improvement in motor-UPDRS scores and quality of life, this did not reach significance.

On the negative side, extreme weather events such as drought have exhibited an increasing trend 11 – 13 and resulted in declined crop production 4 , 6 , 14 .

After adjustment, although birthweights were similar among infants born to HbAA and HbAS mothers, infants born to HbAC mothers showed a trend towards higher birthweights, although this did not reach statistical significance (mean difference 182.9 g; 95% CI −18.9, 384.8; p = 0.08) (Table 2 ).

With regard to the Student ’s t-tests on the differences of DB indices between SSGA/MSGA and Triple-Link Algorithm, the differences of DB indices between SSGA and Triple-Link Algorithm were usually at significant levels while the differences between MSGA and Triple-Link Algorithm were always at extremely significant levels (Fig. 4A,B,C and D ).

Among these compounds, listed in Table 3 , it is worth mentioning five that were highly significant, with a p -value below 0.01: indole ( p -value 0.0006), undecanol (0.0036) and three phenolic compounds such as p -cresol (0.0065), 2,4,6-tris(1-methylethyl)-phenol (0.0032) and 2,6-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-(1-methyl-1-phenylethyl)-phenol (0.0031).

Figure 5(b) shows that the F/C ratios of the fluorocarbon thin films from CNT concentrations of 1 to 15 wt% have a decreasing trend as the CNT concentration increases from 1.28 to 1.12.

However, compared with air atmosphere, these samples showed approximate trend for exothermic curves in N 2 atmosphere with weak exothermic peaks that was almost insignificant exothermic effects.

A study of 359 urban African-American T2D patients indicated a barely significant impact of a FH of diabetes on HbA1c level 24 .

A highly significant increase in mean pressure values was observed with the increasing pumping frequencies.

Additionally, hom bundles displayed a highly significant increase in pCa 50 values when compared to the other two genotypes (Fig. 5b ).

And the NH 4 + -N and NO 3 − -N concentrations under the OPT treatment were higher than under the FFP treatment in the top 20 cm of the soil layer, indicating that soil NH 4 + -N and NO 3 − -N were gradually leached down into deeper soil layers due to precipitation and irrigation. We also simultaneously analyzed the results from the large demonstration area under field conditions from the Soil Testing and Formulated Fertilization database for Jiangsu, and the results were consistent with the location field experiment, which showed a trend in rice yield of OPT > FFP > CK.

Simultaneously, the total N showed a decreasing trend from the south to the north of Jiangsu.

The Young’s moduli of SCWF-AgNPs were decreased in comparison with SCWF, with a highly significant negative correlation.

However, the inhibitory effects of PGE 2 were not diminished, and reductions in Alizarin Red S staining remained highly significant even when dexamethasone was completely absent (Fig. 5B ).

In spleen a more highly significant increase of IL-4/13B expression was seen at 24 h.