“a weak trend”

After adjustment, we observed a weak trend towards decreased AMI mortality, PNA mortality and AMI readmission with increasing net revenue from operations (Table).

It has been argued that this is only a weak trend that is true only on average ( Kisvárday et al., 1997 ).

In our dataset, there was no support for a strong relationship between litter size and fetal sex, despite a weak trend towards a switch from female bias to male bias in juveniles as litter size increased.

However, although there is a weak trend towards relative hyperopia in the periphery (positive a ) as the axial myopia increases, the slope of the regression line is not significant.

In enteroids, a weak trend was observed for an increased ER of talinolol (P-gp substrate) with age.

Opioid use was significantly associated with an increased risk of falls, which was greatest in the first week of opioid exposure; however, only a weak trend was observed when restricted to falls without fracture (Web Figure 7).

There is a weak trend for luminance to attenuate imagery and visual working memory performance.

Although we found a weak trend of association between the injury level and ME activation in the contralateral precentral gyrus, relatively large ISCI samples with homogenous injury types should be considered to fully clarify the role of the injury level on the functional reorganization of both the MI and ME networks.

The most stable structure A has the smallest αHOMO–LUMO gap of 1.87 eV, while the next most stable structure B has a slightly larger band gap of 2.18 eV; after that, there is a weak trend of decreasing band gaps with decreased stabilities of the structures.

There was a weak trend in the extreme color categories (Figure 6 ), with “ultra‐light” and “light” coloration being seemingly more prevalent among males reared in high temperature (25°C) and “dark” coloration being seemingly more prevalent among females reared in low temperature (12°C).

The results revealed that: (1) Uranium elements were mainly distributed inside the mining area and had a weak trend of migration to the outside.

1B ) and the induction of vimentin was increased with a weak trend in the cancer cells treated with both cytokines ( Fig. 1C ).

5 , 6 , 9 In addition, a weak trend of monocyte HLA-DR recovery was associated with secondary infection and poor prognosis. 27 , 28 Moreover, monocyte PD-L1 overexpression was also recognised as an independent risk factor during septic shock. 7 PD-L1 on monocytes could bind to PD-1 on effector T cells and suppress T-cell receptor signalling, leading to T-cell anergy, apoptosis and exhaustion. 29 – 33 Thus, the results indicated that patients with sepsis had a dysregulated monocyte immune response, predisposing the host to a dangerous situation upon infection.

Moreover, the homoplasy index for all symbiotic genes showed a weak trend of departure from zero.

Cells within knob regions of the same tissues exhibited only a weak trend toward higher expression of these proteins as shaft length increased [ Figs. 4(c) and 4(e) ].

However, only a weak trend could be observed in Shaanbei upland plateau.

Physical exertion correlated weakly ( r = −0.19, p < 0.05) with physical work ability, indicating a weak trend, such that the higher the perceived physical exertion, the lower the self-reported physical work ability.

Taken together, these results provide no reliable evidence for cardiac‐phase modulation of voluntary action timing, although a weak trend in the key‐release condition cannot be entirely ruled out. 3.2 Elbow Flexion–Extension Task 3.2.1 Basic Measurements In the pull condition, the average inhalation, exhalation, and total breathing cycle durations were 1.852 s (SD = 0.621), 2.285 s (SD = 0.791), and 4.168 s (SD = 1.426), respectively.

Increasing the concentration of pomalidomide resulted in a gradual rescue of HSP90α degradation, while a weak trend in the HSP90β rescue was noticed ( Figure 3B ).

A weak trend of Northern European accessions for later flowering and lower vigor in Y1 was observed ( Figure 8 ). 3.2.4 Breeding material and cultivars adapted to local environmental conditions To find signs of local adaptation in red clover breeding materials, the performance of accessions belonging to the type ‘breeding material’ or ‘cultivar’ and grouped by their geographic origin, were compared in the different trial locations across Europe ( Figure 9 ).

There may be a weak trend with the longevity of the photochemical species 18 , with longer-lived ethane and propane showing the most similarity between the poles (ratios of 0.7–1.0) and the shorter-lived acetylene, diacetylene and methyl acetylene showing greater contrasts (0.2–0.6).

For the FABP inhibitors, a weak trend towards greater inhibitory effects with increased number of FABP targets was observed in the cell growth and FA uptake assays (cf.

Although, in most of the items, there was a weak trend towards the positive attitudes (agree and strongly agree), there were no critical values (high positive or negative) of kurtosis or skewness for any item with all values being in the acceptable range.

We found, in all cell lines analysed, a weak trend towards increasing clone dominance and decreasing diversity over time, as shown by the positive slope of the linear fit to the average H–H indexes, and a negative slope in the case of Shannon indexes, respectively (Fig. 2 e–g and Fig.

Our reanalysis of these published data indeed identifies only a weak trend (Supplementary Fig. 13a–c ), with CTCF-associated signal relatively more prominent than transcription-associated signal than it is in our CC-seq libraries (Supplementary Fig. 13d–e ).