“a positive trend”

To identify a positive trend of improvement, the rule five or more consecutive points all going up was applied.

Other correlations, including those between apoptosis and Mapk4 or Mapk7 , were not statistically significant ( p > 0.05), although Mapk7 showed a positive trend.

Moreover, combining RLRL with orthokeratology shows a positive trend, enhancing its efficacy [ 17 ].

a positive trend is desirable for all of them.

According to our data, bar supplementation combined with physical exercise significantly improved the strength values for hand grip ST; additionally, a positive trend was detected in the group that followed only physical exercise.

[ 8 ] reported a positive trend in the improvement of depression level after 24 sessions of yoga training.

Although not reaching statistical significance, divided attention time ( r = 0.39; p = 0.081) and selective attention time ( r = 0.41; p = 0.111) showed a positive trend with brake response time.

Only 8.33 percent of stations showed a positive trend.

While this is a positive trend, it remains below the IUCN’s recommendation for OECD countries to allocate at least 0.3% of GDP to biodiversity conservation.

A positive trend was observed among rural strata with increasing population mixing index (IRR for trend=1.4, 95%BCI=1.1–1.8).

Lastly, pulse clarity showed a positive trend on urge to move.

The study was thus under-powered to demonstrate statistical significance, but there was a positive trend toward an 11% increase in average daily patient step count (odds ratio (OR) 1.11 95% confidence Interval (CI) 0.72-1.7) in the post intervention compared to the pre-intervention group.

When analysing the impact of maternal educational level, a positive trend was observed in bivariate analyses.

In UVM, there was a positive trend in CD8 + T-cell and T-cell follicular helper immune infiltration, which might be associated with the role of different tumour microenvironments ( figures 6 and 7 ).

This was regarded as a statistical artefact because other possible reasons were ruled out, such as degradation of the matrix (which would result in a positive trend for all PBDEs, which was not the case) or dehalogenation of BDE209 (no decreasing trend was observed in the mass fraction of this congener).

In conclusion, a positive trend between the severity of VSD and activities of MMP-2 and MMP-9 was found.

Finally, vitamin B12 deficiency showed a positive trend in cognitive performance.

Wiengrill et al.’s findings show a positive trend of MP accumulation in placentas over 15 years [ 41 ].

High OSI levels showed a positive trend for increased lipid content.

Preliminary results demonstrated a positive trend in a cohort comparison towards improved OS and PFS in the prospective cohort, suggesting a benefit from implementing FDG PET/CT-guided concurrent CRT in patients with stage III NSCLC in centres in LMIC with limited experience with PET/CT.

This NMA suggests that CT doublets based on taxane and carboplatin retained similar efficacy in DFS (and a positive trend in OS) as anthracycline/taxane/capecitabine-based regimens.

For overall cognition, there is a positive trend for Asians and whites, with increased activity frequency associated with a 0.40 and a 0.43 standard deviation increase in cognition, respectively (Figure S2, Table 5 ).

However, a positive trend was noted.

The survival rate is very variable even though, over the years, there has been a positive trend thanks to important changes in screening methods, early diagnosis, and therapy [ 12 ].

Six of the questions had scores ≥3, showing a positive trend, and very few (only four) scored <2, which was very heartening.