“a small trend”

A small trend was found in the residual plots for the late time point, probably due to the censoring of the data (lower limit of quantification).

Because higher PDQ-39 scores indicate poorer quality of life, the negative SMD suggests a small trend toward lower PDQ-39 scores in the aerobic exercise group compared with the control group, with an effect size in the small range according to Cohen’s conventional thresholds; however, the absence of statistical significance warrants cautious interpretation, as shown in Fig. 9 .

There was a small trend toward a better survival in the "stop" group but this was not significant (X2 = 1.47, P = 0.2).

Despite a small trend in higher values for ABP, CBP showed lower values than the BP.

In females, a small trend was noticeable in the German and Danish cohorts.

Results obtained did not show statistically significant changes for both Bnip3 mRNA and protein levels, although a small trend toward increased Bnip3 protein levels was visible in cachectic cancer patients ( Fig. 3A,C ).

Indeed, HR infants in the subsample seemed to show a small trend toward preferring the familiar trials over the novel ones at test.

No significant between-group differences for any adverse events were seen, although there was a small trend towards better tolerability in Group B.

We observed a small trend such that male faculty tended to receive higher ratings (of 0.10 points) of overall teaching quality than female faculty.

Although we found a small trend supporting the hypothesis that individuals with higher overall motivation exhibit a smaller change in V̇O 2peak with encouragement, the association was rather weak and nonsignificant (Figure 2 ).

Only a small trend toward increased resistance of het CTC-C was observed.

Extensive efforts have also been made with the use of recombinant FGF21 or FGF21 variants as potential therapy, due to beneficial metabolic effects observed in mice 152 , 153 ; however, only a small trend toward glucose lowering was reported in humans 154 .

The Monte Carlo algorithm presented in this work was shown to predict the transversal diffusion coefficients well over a range of gases in Section 3.1 , although a small trend to underestimate the transversal diffusion was seen for propane gas at high reduced electric fields.

4a and thus confirms a small trend of higher average curvatures in cells without vimentin and actin.

Optogenetic light were given at 11–18 trials of looming tests, and the behavioral results revealed that the activation of SuM-DG circuit significantly enhanced alertness levels given the reaction time to the looming stimulation was decreased when blue light was given, while inhibiting the SuM-DG circuit after the alertness stimulation response reached a plateau demonstrated a small trend toward increased reaction time in looming tests (Fig. 3G and H ), suggesting that activating the SuM-DG pathway before reaching the alertness plateau plays a critical role in the alertness phenotype.

Concerning the evolution of this gap, although there is a small trend, it is neither visually notable nor sustained over the long term.

Conversely, there are different possible explanations as to why we still found a small trend toward higher reduction in metabolic rate with increasing negative work assistance.

Our results show that although most electrophysiological parameters of the ipsilateral nontargeted cells are unaltered compared to control, there is a small trend for an increased membrane capacitance (Cm) in these cells (see Fig 8B ).

Among those patients that had a transfer, the pregnancy rates were statistically equivalent, with a small trend toward pregnancy (likely non-clinically relevant) among vaccinated women.

There is a small trend towards the Flex-foot in comparison with the SACH foot for greater stride length and lower energy cost in individuals with a transtibial amputation, and improved gait efficiency and lower energy cost in high activity individuals with a transfemoral amputation. 26 The evidence is uncertain whether a gait training protocol focused on impairment level reduces adverse events or improves mobility assessment when compared to a gait training protocol focused on task level.

There was even a small trend toward an increased survival in CKO vs.

Moreover, while the effect of R-Diff was greater in up-regulating the gene expression for UCP1 and PRDM16 ( Figure 3 B), there was only a small trend for increased UCP1 and PRDM16 protein expression ( Figure 5 A,B).

[ 31 , 50 , 51 ] On the other hand, comparison of 1 with the oxidized derivatives 3 and 5 shows a small trend toward lower thermal barriers upon oxidation of the sulfur atom.

Some previous reports suggest that microsurgical soft-tissue approaches may improve vascularization and thereby reduce contraction [ 24 ], but our results indicated only a small trend in that direction.

placebo, there were no significant changes on the MMSE scores.[ 86 ] Although there was a small trend to worsen cognitive function with antidepressants, the impact on cognition was not significant.