“a slight trend”

There is a slight trend towards stronger interactions near the centre of the fibre.

All test results based on gave -values greater than , although there was a slight trend of decreasing -values as increases.

Again, there is a slight trend toward divergence of the cost-based and charge-based weights.

Within Fort Bragg there were clearly no differences in either metric between seasons, but within the Channel Islands there was a slight trend of greater total effort (number of receipts) during those months limited to a four-day work-week compared to the unlimited period.

There was a slight trend towards more stressful life events prior to Giardia enteritis among patients with fatigue development over months compared to patients with fatigue development within weeks [ 19 ].

Although the cohort showed a slight trend toward better survival in patients with a duration of symptoms less than 14 days at the time of ECMO initiation, due to the small number of patients included in this study, it is difficult to draw a conclusion and further analysis is needed.

The average age of patients for TKA, THA, and TSA remained relatively stable, with a slight trend toward younger age over the study period (Figure 1 and Table 1 ).

Regarding BMI, the analysis within this subgroup displayed a non-significant difference in the probiotics group, with a mean difference of − 0.18 (95% CI − 1.18, 0.83) with heterogeneity ( I 2 = 61%, p = 0.73), indicating a slight trend toward lower BMI but without statistical significance.

Namely, a slight trend towards pro-inflammatory effects, a slight pro-thrombotic impact, and an increase of reactive oxygen species after nanoparticle exposure were observed with increasing incubation time.

Using wild-type C57BL/6J mice, moricizine treatment was found to promote sleep, alter circadian gene expression in the heart, and show a slight trend of increasing free-running periods.

The marginally higher median MW and logP in the active class, while adhering to the general principles of Lipinski’s Rule of Five, indicate a slight trend toward larger and more lipophilic molecules being more potent.

While comparative findings indicated a slight trend toward more hours spent sitting with older age in the FarmCoSwiss cohort, SHS data suggested the opposite trend in the general population.

For both polymer types, there was a slight trend of reduced activity with increasing polymer concentration, as shown in a trend analysis in the supplementary material.

While the association between risk status and the type of psychotic profile patients exhibited was not statistically significant ( p = 0.252), the at-risk group showed a slight trend of being more likely to experience only delusions.

Finally, the response surface results suggested a slight trend in which smaller droplet sizes were associated with higher inhibition diameters.

Furthermore, statistical analyses showed a slight trend for the presence of AI at 5q21 correlating with the poor response to chemotherapy, in agreement with a trend towards a worse prognosis in case of AI at 5q21.

There is a slight trend towards higher global connectivity in the second experimental run compared to the first, though this did not reach significance (a paired Wilcoxon sign rank test on the difference values suggested p-values of 0.05, 0.06, and 0.23 for θ, α, and β bands respectively—no measures survived a multiple comparison correction across bands).

Combo lures showed a slight trend toward attracting more virgin females than DA2313, but due to the low number of females captured, significant differences were not found.

From 10% crystallinity onwards, a slight trend of increased adhesion can be found for the semi-crystalline mixtures, but in all cases, there was a failure in the concrete and so it is not possible to confirm this trend.

[ 15 ], a slight trend towards a better five-year DFS for S-1 was observed (HR =1.05, 95% CI 0.88–1.26).

On day 7 after the initiation of topical treatment, a study showed a slight trend of better WBF scores for pain assessment in the experimental group, while another study had a clear bias toward the control group that employed a placebo.

Despite Australian Indigenous LE improvements, when compared with the all Australia LE, the absolute gaps indicate an overall trend rise in males from ~12 to ~13 years and a slight trend decline in females, from ~13 to ~12.5 years (Fig. 1 , c).

Speculating about the function of FG on the basis of its location in ventral temporal cortex and of our current results, we propose that FG could be a region sensitive to a number of different stimuli without preference for faces (as there was little overlap with FFA), with a slight trend toward a sensitivity to the amount of static information and no sensitivity to deformations of the stimulus over time (as there was no effect of frame order or frame rate).

Viability assessments using fluorescent staining and DNA quantification showed comparable values across all groups after 24 h, with a slight trend toward increased viability at higher HA concentrations.

Compared with enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition showed a slight trend of reduction in the rate of mortality (RR = 0.61; 95% CI, 0.34–1.09), poor outcome (RR = 0.73; 95% CI, 0.51–1.04), and infectious complications (RR = 0.89; 95% CI, 0.66–1.22), whereas without statistical significances.