“a slight trend”

A slight trend of relatively longer tails in males is apparent in some species ( Fig. 5 ) but could not be statistically verified due to a low sample size in many species.

To shed light on other potential biases, we additionally examined temporal variations in the directions of reported associations and found, besides the general explosive growth of studies in this domain, a slight trend towards an increasing number of both detrimental directions and null effects over time (Supplementary Fig. 4 ).

A study performed in the United States about the trends of vitamin D concentrations showed that non-Hispanic Whites but not Hispanics and Blacks-showed a slight trend towards an increase in vitamin D levels from the year 1998 to 2010; however, Mexican-Americans in this study did not show this variation [ 20 ].

However, a slight trend toward a decreased risk was seen in the group with a training volume in hours >110% of their age.

The Hif-p4h-2 gt/gt mice also showed a slight trend towards better glucose tolerance compared with the WT (Fig.

Although the cell wall still existed, the spatial relationship between the cell and the cell wall might have undergone subtle changes, such as a slight trend of plasmolysis.

Comparing this data with that obtained for 2-Cl-BPT (red curve) and 2-Br-BPT (green curve), a slight trend towards a more effective cross-linking of 2-Br-BPT seems to be visible, despite the noise present in the XPS raw data ( Figure 3a ).

39 In contrast, we saw a slight trend for a reduction in antibody titre for Sabin-1, but this was not significant in the multivariable analysis.

However, there is no evidence of this female advantage in play/comfort sounds, and aside from the lack of approach to agonistic sounds, only a slight trend suggests that females are more likely to approach in case of distress sounds.

The effect showed a slight trend from higher values in the dapagliflozin group on day 1 (0.09 mg/dL) to lower values by day 5 (−0.05), but with probabilities of direction that did not strongly support either direction (ranging from 0.39 to 0.73).

Despite these corrections, however, a slight trend for increased measured CBF is still seen at the shortest label durations, probably an artefact of the very poor ASL data achieved with such short label durations.

There was no clearly differentiated distribution according to living environment, but rather a slight trend towards a higher proportion of normal weight participants in urban areas for FPs and participants with obesity in urban areas for EPs.

Although there was a slight trend toward an increase, glud mRNA levels were not significantly affected by the treatment ( Figure 4 C).

However, a slight trend was noted, suggesting that women may need to increase heart rate more than men at absolute workloads (Table 1 ).

[ 48 , 49 , 52 ] Testing the grafts at lower pressure conditions (50/90 mmHg) and higher pressure conditions (110/150 mmHg), as suggested in ISO 7198, showed a slight trend toward increasing compliance for scaffolds with low fiber winding angles (15° and 22.5°) for an increase in mean pressure while higher fiber angles (30°, 45°, 60°, 75°) presented a minor trend toward decreasing compliance (Figure S1 , Supporting Information).

They reported a slight trend toward posterior disc positioning, which they attributed to differences in data acquisition between pre- and post-treatment assessments: at 6 months, in both groups (control and treated), the disc appeared to have shifted to a more posterior position, approaching the ideal “12 o’clock” reference.

There was a slight trend towards increased mortality in sexually mature fish.

The largest k value, observed in 2017, indicates a looser expansion that year, suggesting a slight trend toward a less compact urban form.

These results indicate that the orally treated group showed a slight trend of weight loss compared to the intratracheally treated groups.

Our comparative analysis, however, did not reveal a significant metabolic manifestation, with only a slight trend towards lower BMI in patients carrying non-synonymous variants in the galactose metabolism pathway.

There might be a slight trend towards an increase in fear of falling in participants who received the PDHA intervention.

Body mass showed small positive correlations with the race days, indicating a slight trend to weight gain, while both running and cycling mean heart rates showed no correlation with the race days.

In the BLM model, IF staining of TGFBi from liver sections of vehicle‐treated mice showed a slight trend towards higher TGFBi signal in Stab1 −/− mice compared to WT and Stab2 −/− mice.

Age and years of experience, though showing a slight trend, do not exhibit a significant correlation with disability, aligning with another previous study indicating that these factors might not strongly influence such outcomes [ 17 ].

At the same time, while analyzing, we observed a slight trend towards increased adverse outcomes after the surgery and in some probability of psychiatric comorbidities like depression and apathy.