Barely Significant
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“a weak trend”

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p=0.09

Listed by Hankins (2013) · Otte et al. (2022)

In the literature

31 A 6.5-year follow-up study among Norwegian students reported a weak trend of decreasing LBP with MPA/high PA levels, but this association was not significant, and concluded that no clear relationship between PA and LBP was possible to establish among young adults. 32 A recent literature review on the association between PA and LBP was also unable to determine if PA could
In our case, the additional use of video cameras did not provide a significant improvement of detectability with what is possible with the simpler method of DO, although a weak trend was observed for some muscicapid species ( Luscinia megarhynchos , Saxicola torquata , Erithacus rubecula and Phoenicurus ochruros ) and thrush species ( Turdus merula and Turdus viscivorus ).
We found a weak trend of improvement in daytime somnolence after 3 months of treatment, with stronger results after 12 months (median Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) score from 6.0 to 4.0, p = 0.015); a significant improvement in subjective sleep quality (median Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) total score from 7 to 5; p = 0.001) was also observed.
Less expected was that we see little or no genetic differentiation between islands, with only a weak trend for greater genetic differentiation between villages on different islands than villages on the same island, albeit this is a larger effect than either the distance between villages or the size of village populations, perhaps suggesting that snail vector movement around the coasts of islands may play a role in parasite movement.