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The current study found a positive trend between mixed PAH metabolites and endometriosis when all the metabolites were at their 60th percentile levels or above versus their median levels.

Indeed, comparative analysis of serum LDH levels and immunohistochemistry showed a positive trend and the results between the two methods were not overlapping.

In this subset of studies, a positive trend was suggested between use of champions and improvement in provider instrumental innovation use, according to three quasi-experimental studies [ 54 , 72 , 80 ].

Serial β-hCG monitoring demonstrated a positive trend, rising from 80 mIU/mL after ET to 1920 mIU/mL one week later, consistent with early pregnancy.

37 The collected VHI-10 data in this study show a positive trend in voice quality, although its statistical significance is limited.

It is worth noting that, like in Study 1, the (non-significant) relationship between students' generational status and ASC showed a positive trend, suggesting that these students could experience positive self-perceptions based on the fact that, compared to their parents, they had activated the social elevator and were involved in social mobility processes.

The annual number of published papers on bovine leptospirosis showed a positive trend from 2001 to 2021 (Supplementary material 3: Fig. 1), with just over half of the studies published between 2014 and 2020 (33/62, 53.2%).

The data show a positive trend towards perceived higher importance of patient empowerment in the intervention group.

The skewness value of 1.18 shows a positive trend; this indicates that there are mostly higher dry matter ratios and that this variable exhibits a right-skewed distribution.

Finally a positive trend in the correlation between CD90+ cells and endothelial CD31+ cells was observed, but, in this case, the statistical analysis did not give a significant result, probably because of the lower number of subjects evaluated for CD31.

The results of the ISQ extrapolated from the literature analyzed in this review showed a positive trend in favor of bioactive implants beginning at one month from insertion, although this was not statistically significant.

A positive trend in the electrical conductivity was observed with increasing the amount of nanoinclusions, due to the resulting increase in carrier density.

Conclusions This study shows evidence with a positive trend supporting music therapy for the improvement of cognitive function in people living with dementia.

Communication Skills Assessment All three questions regarding the self-assessment of one’s communications skills showed a positive trend between the pretest and the posttest.

Our research suggests that the incidence of PC has been declining steadily from 2014 to 2019, demonstrating a positive trend in a way, but this cohort of PC cases still deserves more attention.

The theoretical rationale behind the study is to better characterize the act of second screening and understand whether it is a reflection of intellectual enhancement of viewing, thus reflect a positive trend or whether it is related to other aspects such as boredom and loneliness, or, alternatively, is simply a mirror of young adults who are used to multi-tasking rather than focusing on the television screen.

They found a positive trend in the PRP-group regarding median serum drainage, facial nerve impairment, Frey’s syndrome and keloid formation.

Fluorescence showed a positive trend with SSTR 2 expression and therefore facilitated in distinction between meningioma and dura mater tissue in all meningioma types [ 89 ].

Topics popularity evolution Linear regression analysis showed a significant linear fit ( R 2 > 80% and p value ≤ 0.05) for 15 topics; 13 topics showed a positive trend and 2 topics showed negative trend.

Conclusion The 10-year secular trend analysis revealed an increase in prevalence of body image dissatisfaction among adolescents, with girls showing a positive trend toward dissatisfaction with thinness and boys having a positive trend toward dissatisfaction with overweight.

5 , a positive trend in Ro , which is statistically significant at 99% confidence level, is found over the period 1961–1990 (0.004 yr −1 ), indicating that the orographic enhancement of precipitation in the Alpine region has increased from 1.20 ± 0.01 to 1.31 ± 0.01 in 30 years.

An overall performance parameters analysis of tibia bone showed that there was a positive trend among length of tibia, width and weight of tibia from day 7 to day 18, but the difference was not significant.

Overall, the changes that residency programs have made have generated a positive trend in resident perception of their personal ability across most aesthetic procedures, though gaps in education still exist.

Our population estimates exceed the government and scientific population recovery criteria by more than 500%, we found a positive trend in population abundance, and key habitats have remained intact despite heavy human river use.

At that intersource distance information shows a positive trend with frequency.