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19 As a result, in recent years, there has been a slight trend towards moving trials to the first line, where the abovementioned aspects are believed to be less pronounced.

A funnel plot of STB studies suggested a slight trend of asymmetry ( Figure 4 ).

A slight trend favoring a higher incidence of reports from industrial settings is observed, which may be reflective of the historical exposures to classical industrial respiratory sensitizers such as anhydrides and isocyanates. 3.2 Protein Binding Profiles of Clinical Respiratory Sensitizers In order to explore what our dataset of respiratory sensitizers may show about the molecular initiating event of respiratory sensitizers, we used the QSAR Toolbox (v. 4.4.1, OECD) to profile the protein binding mechanism(s) of each of the 354 chemicals within our investigation set ( Figure 6 ).

There, we were only able to observe a slight trend towards increased kinase expression in AsPC-1 and MIA PaCa-2, while expression levels in BxPC-3 and PANC-1 were unaltered ( Figure 6B ).

The SI, the ratio between insulin released during high and low glucose stimulation illustrates functionality in all groups over a duration of 4 weeks in vitro, even with a slight trend for a higher SI in bioprinted than in free control samples on day 28 after bioprinting.

4 , 5 , 6 Some studies have reported a greater absolute number of injuries in male players, 6 but after adjustment for the number of participants or exposure time, the overall incidence is generally of the same order of magnitude between sexes, 4 with only a slight trend toward higher rates in females in a few samples. 5 Thus, at the macroscopic level of injury incidence, sex differences in badminton appear unstable.

When patients who admitted non-adherence to the dietary restrictions were excluded from the analysis there was a slight trend towards higher catechin, taxifolin, and ferulic acid levels in the P+ group compared to the control group ( Table 2 , panel B).

in 2013, they reported similar outcomes that there seemed to be a slight trend for patients treated with VP to suffer fewer complications than those treated with EF.

Samples with a copper concentration above 6 wt.% (theoretical) show a slight trend of declining S BET values as the amount of copper present in the preparation of a sample is raised—that observation is similar to the other research reported in the literature [ 72 ].

From the plots, one can observe a slight trend toward lower losses with increasing slot width.

This study revealed that hospitalizations showed a slight trend from county hospitals to the THCs, but no obvious changes were observed in terms of outpatient care.

For compound B, >97% of prediction errors were distributed between 1.25 and 2.0 across the dose range, and fell into category 1 (prediction error, 0.8–1.25) or 2 (prediction error, 0.5–2.0), with a slight trend of overprediction.

pinnata shoots showed a slight trend to be inversely correlated with S supply, the negative effect of increasing sulfate levels on Se accumulation was only 2–3-fold, much less pronounced than for B. juncea (Figures 1A,C ).

The rest of organs showed remarkably similar weights in spite of a slight trend of cafeteria diet-fed rats to increase their size in, in accordance with their higher body size.

Further, without any training, a differential functional change was observed in the irradiated group; standing capacity was significantly inhibited while stepping showed a slight trend of improvement compared with the unirradiated group.

The range of values for solar radiation was roughly consistent across sites, but there was evidence of a slight trend toward higher modal values at sites nearer the equator.

The results are largely invariant to the number of pre-vaccine years, with a slight trend towards decreasing impact as more years are added.

Apparently, there is a slight trend that participants with poor speech recognition in noise profited more from FF than participants with good speech recognition in noise.

There seems to be a slight trend towards a decrease in free amino groups with fermentation for 12 h, probably due to the early assimilation of available nitrogen by both LAB and yeasts, followed by a slight increase, which could point towards some limited hydrolysis of the proteins.

We observed a slight trend towards a better surgical result with increasing distance from sling to urethra and increasing displacement of the sling during straining.

Though results were not statistically significant at an alpha value of 0.05, the white phenotype had a slight trend toward enrichment in 15 N during the fall season (pMCMC: 0.09; Table 1 ; Figure 3 ).

Of interest is that no significant difference was found in this value regardless of whether the RA cases were ACPA positive or not (Figure 5 G), although a slight trend for serum nucleosome levels was higher in ACPA-positive cases than in ACPA-negative cases (Figure 5 H).

However, the values implied a slight trend towards the upregulation of IFN-γ, with the highest concentration of astaxanthin (40 mg) being recorded after four weeks of treatment.

For none of the PSTH a dependency of the first spike latency from the characteristic frequency could be found, also there was a slight trend to shorter latencies at higher frequencies.

Neither bird species showed a clear preference for breeding in sandy coasts after 20 years of mink invasion; flightless steamer ducks showed evidence of a slight trend towards selecting steeper coasts.