“a positive trend”

As an exploratory analysis, we examined the relationship between tumorous CA9 mRNA expression and circulating CA9 levels in 32 HCC specimens and observed a positive trend that did not reach statistical significance when assessed by Spearman’s rank correlation ( online supplemental figure 8 , online supplemental table 15 ).

Nevertheless, there was a positive trend for the surgery group.

In plaque-free zones of the PFC and hippocampus, while basal pAkt was significantly inhibited in TG mice, as expected, PS48 had no effect save for a positive trend in the PFC of animals fed an SD.

For all scales, there was a positive trend towards increasing mean scores with age.

Background There is a positive trend in cancer survivorship in the United States (US): 10 million in 2006; 1 15.5 million in 2015; 2 and 16.9 million currently.

Real-life case series had further confirmed this significant impact on oral ulcers and demonstrated a positive trend on genital ulcers in smaller samples ( 14 – 16 ).

There is, however, happily evidence of a positive trend in Germany: in federal states with a high rate of use of emergency oral contraceptives, the termination rate is lower compared with states in which emergency contraceptives are used less often.

Wheat straw application resulted in a positive trend of winter barley yield under higher N conditions ( Figure 3A ), which could be either caused by remineralization of immobilized N during the growing season, but also due to decomposition and subsequent N release contained in the wheat straw itself ( Di and Cameron, 2002 ).

This suboptimal coverage persists despite improvements from the previous reports, indicating a positive trend, but highlighting the substantial work still needed to reach the 85% WHO target.

A positive trend in increasing peak torque of plantar flexion (60o·s-1, 120o·s-1) was found in the medium grade compression garments: a difference between 24 and 48 hours post run.

( 2012 ) presented a positive trend in Eastern Europe, where the secondary use of rubber is increased for hardening roads with modified asphalt.

However, a positive trend for efficacy was seen in the treatment group, particularly after 60 days, highlighting the promising role in the future of omalizumab in IA.

In recent years, youth employment rates have shown a positive trend, and the NEET rate has reached a historic low.

Variation in the implicit learning gain (e.g., Participant A has an implicit system that is more sensitive to error) will promote a positive trend between implicit learning and total adaptation, that will weaken the negative correlations generated by implicit-explicit competition.

However, the prevalence documented in this study, despite the small sample size, suggests a positive trend that introduction of the rotavirus vaccine has indeed helped reduce the number of cases of acute childhood gastroenteritis.

Several indicators showed a positive trend, namely decreasing monetary poverty, lower levels of material deprivation and less economic inequality, contributing to an improvement in the well-being of families ( Correia, 2020 ).

On the other hand, the finding of a positive trend in our subjects with MCI appears to be consistent with the evidence present in the literature related to early disease stages.

There was also a positive trend for the number of IL-17-γδ T cells and IL-17 + T cells to be increased in UC7-13D5-treated mice (right panels of Figure 5 B and C).

Fertilization rate, embryo quality and pregnancy rate displayed similar results, although it was observed a positive trend in favor of c-IVF in terms of pregnancy [ 114 ].

Sixteen occupations associated with the lowest ratio of heavy drinkers demonstrated a trend with duration of employment, the majority ( n = 11) showing a positive trend; i.e. greater time employed in these occupations was associated with increasing rates of lower heavy drinking (Table S 3 ).

High amounts of PUFA detected in one quarter of the samples indicate a positive trend of usage of PUFA-rich oils.

However, there are no differences in the number of publications led by men and women ( p > 0.05), which shows a positive trend in terms of representation.

After the implementation of the EWS in Phase 2, a more pronounced increase was observed (IRR 2.113; 95% CI 1.963 to 2.275), followed by a positive trend in RR measurements (IRR 1.002; 95% CI 1.002 to 1.003).

Spline regression models confirmed that serum selenium concentrations decreased with increasing WC ( Figure 2 , Model 3), but not after adjustment for BMI, which discrepantly presented a positive trend in men and a non-significant trend in women ( Figure 2 , Model 4a). 4.

In the age group 1–4 years, the pattern is less defined, without relevant fluctuations until season 2013-2014, and from season 2014–2015 to season 2019–2020, the rates show a positive trend (APC (CI95%): 34.6 (12.7; 60.8)), a drop in season 2020–2021, and then reach their series record of 1.16/1000 in season 2021–2022.