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The orientation selectivity was not different between the two groups (p = 0.12, Wilcoxon ranksum test), although there was a small trend towards co-tuned inputs being more selective.

Evaluation of the degree of saturation of the fatty acid chains also unveiled a small trend of increase in unsaturation in case of eLDL loading.

An exploratory assessment (see Additional files 4 and 5 ) of the relationship between 6MWD, PVR, and steady-state concentrations revealed a significant relationship for 6MWD, whereas only a small trend could be seen for PVR across the concentration range observed (Additional files 6 and 7 ).

Nonetheless, there was a small trend for αsyn KO to have decreased basal OCR in several runs ( Figs. 1 A – C ), and we cannot exclude the possibility that αsyn KO causes a small impairment in respiration that was below the sensitivity of the assay (see statistical table ).

The data show a small trend in the direction of the group differences seen in Parbery-Clark et al.

There was no significant difference in both the number and size distribution of Dicer foci between 8h and 24h, although there was a small trend towards a decrease in the number of Dicer foci per cell ( Fig 3C ).

However although not significant we did notice a small trend of increased number of effector memory CD8 + T cell in RA patients (Fig. 3 ).

The naturalness rating of the recording did not change significantly with playback speed over a 16-fold range (from four times attenuated to four times accelerated), although there was a small trend toward unnaturalness when the sound was played back at four times the speed.

A small trend (albeit non-significant) towards an improved oral glucose tolerance in transgenic mice versus controls was outlined.

There continues to be a small trend towards an increasing number of pediatric heart transplants reported to the Registry, from an annual average of 384 transplants in the 1990’s, to 428 in the 2000’s to 491 in 2008.

The dose‐response analysis observed a small trend of increased closure time with increasing doses of meloxicam intravenous (Figure 1B ).

We observed a small trend toward prolonged survival when combining IL-7 ALT with αPD-1 therapy (2 of 6 mice surviving more than 30 days, 0 of 6 with long-term overall survival), but a significant increase in survival when combining IL-7 ALT + α4-1BB compared with IL-7 ALT only ( Figure 2D , * P < 0.05).

A small trend towards decreased Vi with increasing device resistance was observed.

As expected, there was a small trend toward a lower hazard for the SPoRT Behaviour Score with a stroke definition that was broader and more heterogeneous.

However, the results of the bootstrap analysis showed a small trend towards higher absolute mean errors in predicting calcium scores based on a linear regression model for VNC pc compared to VNC conv .

As shown in Figure 4 and Supplemental Figure 3 , the tree shrews showed a small trend toward increased latency when it came to entering the dark box and reduced percentage of staying time in the dark box, implying reinstatement effects in the fear memory in this species.

Two of the significant associations from the pilot study, the “Acknowledge-Refer” and “Acknowledge-Overall Communication Skill” pairs showed a small trend toward a positive association in the current study.

There was no effect of the stimulation frequency on the lag times although there was a small trend to shorten lag 1 as the stimulation intensity increased (Figure 5B ).

Griffith et al, 40 who performed a meta-analysis of the effect of calcium on blood pressure, found a small statistically significant effect of calcium on lowering systolic blood pressure independent of baseline blood pressure, and a small trend toward reduction in diastolic blood pressure that did not reach statistical significance.

It can be observed that the coefficients of variation of carbon emissions of animal husbandry in pastoral, agro-pastoral, and agricultural areas, as well as in the total area, show a small trend of variation.

This observation coincided with a small trend toward higher ECE1 and reduced NRG1 expression in the tongue tissue ( Fig. 4G and Fig.

[ 22 ] has a small trend toward higher h 2 estimates than do Nustad et al.

Even with the high hybridization efficiencies, there is a small trend showing improved efficiencies as a function of the spacer length.

Thus, also in terms of PEA, the awareness of an error did not influence behavioural adjustments (despite a small trend indicating that PEA might be larger after detected than undetected errors).

However, in our experimental setting, CsA treatment did not produce significant alterations in plasma lipid levels: HDL-cholesterol levels were unchanged and only a small trend to increased non HDL-cholesterol was observed.