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Resistance to ceftriaxone and levofloxacin was lowest in the first year of the study period and then varied between 15–25% and 27–42%, respectively, but a clear trend was not observed for either drug.

IVRT was not significantly lowered following any treatment in female SHRs, even though a clear trend towards a decrease was observed.

Overall, 54% stated that such trials are “strongly needed,” with an additional 39% answering that they are “sometimes needed,” and only 7% indicating that they are "rarely needed." A stratified analysis based on the proportion of patients who declined trial participation owing to travel distance revealed a clear trend: institutions with higher abandonment rates reported a stronger need for online-enabled trials.

2d shows a clear trend: smaller Δ E lower /Δ E ratios produce increasingly pronounced departures from the Boltzmann curve.

As shown in Table 3 , AC005009.2 replicated with a significant p value, and MIR1307 showed a clear trend toward association, with the same direction of effect, in the DLPFC data (Table 3 ).

Adding the sEMG cost term showed a clear trend towards superior overall performance with regard to 3D lip marker trajectories as well as muscle activation patterns when compared with regular inverse modelling.

Gastrointestinal ulcers did not show a clear trend in Figure 5 , whereas changes in metabolic substances in the gastrointestinal tract under pathological conditions are reported to impair brain function via the gut-brain axis ( Zeng et al., 2022 ).

The epidemic situation in 2014–2016 has a clear trend, with a general north-south distribution.

The results presented a clear trend in which the shrinking of these concretes gradually increased with time due to the occurrence of water that escaped from the capillary pores of the OPCC and GPC to the unsaturated outside air.

Our analysis reveals a clear trend: the performance across all assessment metrics declines as the number of rotatable bonds increases.

Subjects receiving the lower dose (15 g day –1 ) showed a clear trend toward reduced levels of activated CD4 + /CD25 + T cells (median (min–max)) after 12 weeks compared with baseline levels (from 0.36% (0.04–1.9) to 0.22% (0.02–1.25), P =0.09), whereas the higher-dose group (30 g day –1 ) showed a statistically significant reduction compared with baseline (from 0.52% (0.01–7.21) to 0.27% (0.02–1.54), P <0.01).

There was a clear trend towards increased prevalence of higher educational level from 8.6% to 16.4% (p trend <0.001).

A clear trend emerges if we follow any one St/ASt pair of bands moving from bottom left to top right.

In the case of Cr/Au contacts, a clear trend shows that top-contact devices present the highest contact resistance independently of the number of layers, which is most likely due to contamination between the electrode metal and the 2DM.

A clear trend of powder refinement with increasing Y 2 O 3 concentration is observed, further confirmed by the scanning electron microscope images in Figure 2 .

Compared to compound 3a (1,1-diphenyl-2-(phenylthio)­ethylene), the electron-withdrawing or electron-donating substituents did not show a clear trend in the displacement of the emission peaks.

Among the 21 esters other than acetates, only ethyl tiglate, methyl heptanoate, and methyl nonanoate did not show a clear trend over time in the open and closed alperujo samples, whereas ethyl 3-methylbut-2-enoate decreased over time and all the other ones increased over time in both storage conditions.

While patients with mutations in either TSC1 or TSC2 have indistinguishable phenotypic features, there is a clear trend for increased severity of the symptoms in TSC2 patients (Dabora et al, 2001 ; Kwiatkowski et al, 2010 ).

Although there was no statistical significance in the comparison between 11-year-old soccer players and nonathletes in primary ATR, the results revealed a clear trend.

There is a clear trend towards depopulation in Silesia rather than population growth.

A clear trend for the mean differences was not present.

Notably, the signed mean errors reveal a clear trend: −0.11 eV (NEVPT2), 0.15 eV (NEVPT3), and 0.02 eV (NEVPT4).

The analysis of these changes showed a clear trend, indicating a systematic improvement in the social and living conditions of society.

Regarding the objective variables, there is a clear trend of improvement in grip force of the healthy and affects hand after the intervention, although not statistically significant.

Also, there was a clear trend towards better outcome in patients with a mild motor deficit, if surgery was performed within 72 h after symptom onset.