“a positive trend”

There was a positive trend, although not statistically significant ( Figure 2 , r 2 adj = 0.12, F 1,16 = 3.41, P = 0.08) between distance and sighting.

Varlamova and Solovyev [ 62 ] reported a positive trend of NDVI in East Siberia over the past three decades.

Although statistically significant differences were not observed in both BIC and RFA, coll and coll/CS implant coatings had a positive trend in beneficial characteristics for osseointegration, compared with the further integration of BMP-4.

Another feature is the inclusion of news articles or updates to HeLP-Diabetes sections and pages; one study that examined the effect of email prompt content on engagement showed that the inclusion of links to news items on a DHI showed a positive trend toward engagement [ 18 ].

They demonstrated a positive trend of the AOFAS and the visual analogic scale (VAS) until the fifth post-operative year, while afterwards these scores did not further increase.

Without the total lesion volume as a feature, significant above-chance accuracies were observed for small-world sigma ( r = 0.225, P one-tailed = 0.024) and network gE ( r = 0.268, P one-tailed = 0.019), with a positive trend for network locE ( r = 0.183, P one-tailed = 0.055).

Although overall temperament scores did not show a statistically significant correlation with serotonin concentrations, a positive trend was observed.

Specimens prepared with matrix polymer not recycled before filling (V-15, V-30) show much more modest differences after reprocessing (VP-15, VP-30), not always with a positive trend.

Meanwhile, springtime rainfall exhibits a positive trend near the west coast of the Indo-China Peninsula, the southern South China Sea, and the southern Philippine Sea.

Low glycemic index foods with sufficient proteins and fibers have shown a positive trend in Bieber’s sensitivity and dropped androgen levels [ 70 ].

A significant upregulation of podocyte expression of CXCL1 and DMPK as well as a positive trend for neurabin-1 induction were observed in patients with nephrotic-range proteinuria and histologically proven podocytopathy when compared to non-proteinuric controls.

On the whole, having URRBMI has a positive trend to promote children's performance in Chinese, but the effect is not significant.

A positive trend can be observed for all three groups.

In fact, unsaturated aldehydes have their origin in the autoxidation of unsaturated fatty acids, in particular linoleic and linolenic acid that, in this study, although not significantly, showed a positive trend up to 14 months and then they slowly decreased.

A positive trend was observed in annual minimum discharge at upstream gauging sites of Garhmukteshwar, Kachlabridge, Fatehgarh, Ankinghat, Kanpur, Bhitaura, and Shahzadpur; however, a negative trend is observed downstream towards Allahabad and Buxar.

This goes against the data where hearing loss is typically a positive trend toward increased rates of loss.

In contrast, a positive trend was observed in other models.

As shown in Figure 2 b, even though there is a positive trend between the expressions of gene x and gene y within each of the 10 groups, the trend between expression of the gene pair xy across the pool of all groups is negative.

By utilizing Spearman correlation analysis to investigate the effect of DM duration on LDDD, a positive trend was observed between DM duration and severity of disc degeneration at L1/2 ( r = 0.253), L2/3 ( r = 0.456), L3/4 ( r = 0.362), L4/5 ( r = 0.335), and L5/S1 ( r = 0.426) in the group with good DM control and L1/2 ( r = 0.210), L2/3 ( r = 0.338), L3/4 ( r = 0.217), L4/5 ( r = 0.239), and L5/S1 ( r = 0.328) in the group with poor DM control ( P < 0.05).

Conclusions Notwithstanding some clear improvements in the quality of palliative care, which reflects a positive trend toward a less aggressive approach to treatment among NH residents with advanced dementia in their last days of life, there are still some barriers to a full implementation of palliative care.

Thus, although clinical response rates were not significant, there was a positive trend noted for low-TS patients.

In particular, the late spring months (e.g., May) also exhibit a positive trend, contributing to an extended warm season in Europe.

Conclusions This study observed a positive trend in all the maternal iron indices in the early to mid-second trimester and a slight decline in the late second trimester among each outcome group.

While the secondary endpoints did not reach statistical significance, but showed a positive trend in favor of the ER2EP pathway ( Figure 2 ).

Education around sleep and substance abuse showed a positive trend and may become more meaningful with a larger sample size.