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There was a slight trend toward steeper body size–latitude relationships in males (slope = 0.0008) than in females (slope = 0.0006)( Fig. 2 ).

Generally, a slight trend in an increase in epidermal shielding (decrease in epidermal transmittance of UV-B) was seen for both P. trichocarpa and P. deltoides that at low (~10 kJ m −2 ) levels of UV-B treatment, though the differences were qualitative and lacked statistical power to draw firm conclusions on the influence of leaf age on acclimation of low lignin Populus to UV-B radiation.

A slight trend of increase in measured green fluorescent signal in the entire image was detected in all conditions by day 3 ( Figure 5(a) ), raising from 28.7 ± 6.9% to 46.9 ± 16.4%, from 28.4 ± 5.2% to 43 ± 3.3%, and from 27.3 ± 7% to 40.9% in 100 H, 75 HM, and 50 HM cultures, respectively (all p > 0.05).

Examination of TB density levels indicated a reduction in the first week after stroke, with a slight trend towards an increase over time ( Supplementary Fig. 7e ).

Meanwhile, there was a slight trend of increased weight loss of steel sheets in the blank medium, mainly due to electrochemical corrosion.

The decay rates are similar for all junctions, with a slight trend towards slower decay in high-quality junctions, as revealed by the exponent β (see the inset in Fig. 6 ).

Regardless of the device, there was a slight trend toward lower exposure at higher body weights (Figure S2 ).

Within this subset, a slight trend was observed for a higher frequency of some disease characteristics potentially associated with less aggressive disease compared with those who received <2 years of avelumab treatment, which included a better performance status, smaller tumor burden, a lower prevalence of liver metastases at baseline and a higher frequency of disease control achieved with prior chemotherapy.

Apart from a slight trend towards higher serum concentrations of S100, which was statistically not significant, there was no indication for a correlation between the tumor marker concentration and the PET/CT results.

Although a slight trend was observed, with more recent graduates (particularly from 2020 to 2021) reporting a higher number of problematic courses, the ANOVA test did not reveal significant differences [ F (14, 458) = 1.32, p = 0.1908].

They reported that there was a slight trend towards higher diagnostic accuracy in studies with patients only infected with HCV than in studies with patients with different liver diseases.

A slight trend for increased expression can be noted on chromosomes 8, 9, 11, and 22 with their ratios increased by 0.15–0.2.

Regarding well-being and stress, there is a slight trend toward improvement.

Natural S-seropositivity was similar across most age-groups, with a slight trend towards higher S-seropositivity in the younger population.

As we can see, there is a slight trend of the velocity changes with AWC, and in contrast, navigating without AWC has more sharp variations both in linear and angular velocity.

Recent research [ 37 ] found no significant survival benefit from surgery across most subgroups, but noted a slight trend toward better progression-free outcomes in triple-positive patients.

There appears to be a slight trend for stronger learning in the group of intuitive decision-makers.

Inguinal LND was performed predominantly in a radical or modified fashion, with a slight trend toward an increasing use of the sentinel technique.

Body weight Both control and lesion groups exhibited a slight trend of weight gain during the 4 days of saline injection (control: 0.155 ± 0.213% BW, lesion: 0.340 ± 0.388% BW).

These results suggest a slight trend towards a higher frequency of “good” response genotypes in responder patients.

The number and size of synaptic puncta identified with vGluT2 antibodies were not altered by the Clstn3 KO, although there was a slight trend towards a decrease in climbing-fiber synapse density ( Figure 7H, I ).

Elevated serum LDH level only showed a slight trend toward unfavorable OS, whereas CD30 positivity and high absolute lymphocyte counts were associated with a trend of better PFS with a marginal P -value ( P = 0.066 and 0.072, respectively, Supplementary Fig. 1 ).

Nevertheless, a slight trend was shown, which a decrease of the logD value is associated with an increasing K i .

For instance, AT3G26200 encoding the cytochrome P450 CYP71B22 showed a trend for lower expression in nac42‐l mutants than in Col‐0, Rld‐2 and Sha following temperate acclimation, but a slight trend for higher expression in nac42‐l mutants than in natural accession following Mediterranean acclimation (Fig. 6e ).

In our sample, older pilots also had higher resting SBP and DBP, and there was a slight trend toward greater SpO 2 reduction in those with higher baseline BP, although this did not reach statistical significance.