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However, a weak trend indicated highest expressions of TLR-7 and -9 in the patients that were not medicated ( Fig. 6B and 6C ).

In fact, there is a weak trend in the direction opposite to our expectation, where I. cordatotriloba individuals from more distant populations tend to be more compatible (Fig.

They also reported a weak trend towards an inverse correlation between plasma Pseudomonas spp. and CD4+ T cell counts.

Additionally, higher PD-L1 expression implied more advanced clinicopathological features, such as depth of invasion, histopathological stage, lymphatic metastasis, tumor metastasis, vascular invasion, tumor necrosis, and sarcomatoid features; however, tumors with high PD-L2 expression displayed only a weak trend of sarcomatoid features.

All peaks showed a T 2,app in the range between 130 ms to 160 ms, where all distributions showed a weak trend towards shorter T 2,app for the broadened upfield side of each line.

11 a weak trend was observed with regards to the performance in the quizzes being indicative of the subsequent exam performance.

The absence of correlation with tic severity and a weak trend for interaction with severity of premonitory urges do not lend strong support to this hypothesis.

Moreover, there is only a weak trend for the net solvent contribution to become more unfavorable as the solute–solute Lennard-Jones interaction becomes more favorable.

Taking both tests into account, Leadership score was the least relevant, having no effect in the competitive test, and only having a weak trend in the non-competitive test.

There was a weak trend between high levels of depressive symptoms and lower scores in reaction time, but the association did not survive the Bonferroni correction for multiple testing.

There was no evidence for equivalent associations in Pakistani-origin women, other than in complete-case analysis a weak trend toward lower postload glucose levels with more mid-pregnancy physical activity ( p trend = 0.094; see Supplementary File 2).

MJO amplitude Earlier studies noticed a weak trend in the MJO amplitude during the twentieth century 7 , 9 , 11 .

Overall, there was a weak trend for the scFvs with Vκ to have lower Tms than those with Vλ ( Table 3 ).

Although the association was not statistically significant, there was a weak trend that patients with a lower mean daily glucose level (≤140 mg/dL) were more likely to have a lower GFR.

Nevertheless, a weak trend was observed towards a concentration of interactions within a few constructs.

The response of tetraploid HCT116 lines to doxorubicin was also highly heterogeneous: whereas several tetraploid lines showed a weak trend of or a statistically significant increase in IC 50 of doxorubicin compared with diploids, others showed significant reductions in IC 50 (Fig. 6C ).

While seawater bacterial communities showed this predicted pattern of higher diversity at lower latitudes, fish hindgut communities demonstrated a weak trend in the opposite direction, and no patterns were detected in sediment communities.

As the trends in the NH–SH ASR and OLR differences correspond to radiative heating and cooling of the NH relative to the SH, respectively, they largely offset one other, resulting in a weak trend in the NH–SH NET difference (0.14 ± 0.21 Wm –2 dec –1 ; Table 1 ).

When the index does not exhibit a clear trend or shows a weak trend, outliers can be intuitively identified using the mean and standard deviation, corresponding to significant expansion in marginal areas.

Consistent with previous results indicating that the bright materials are less weathered 21 , our data retain a weak trend of high albedo features systematically containing a weaker 3 μm feature than the surrounding dark terrain.

We found that on baseline, PCD sputum neutrophils showed a weak trend towards a higher cellular content of F-actin as compared to blood neutrophils (Fig. 5 A).

Furthermore, in this study, the cases with decreased Bax expression from primary tumors to the corresponding metastases showed a more infiltrative growth pattern, more distant metastases, and a weak trend toward poor prognosis, indicating the involvement of Bax expression in tumor differentiation and metastatic progression.

First, we observed a weak trend of reduced re-pairing frequency during the first days (d1–d7) of re-pairing compared with single-gene RNAi or the (untreated) control group ( Supplementary Figure S6B ).

Although there was a weak trend toward the diabetic group having a greater postprandial GLP-1 response, there was considerable heterogeneity in the AUC among the subjects and no correlation between this measure and insulin secretion or the magnitude of insulin suppression by GLP-1 receptor blockade.

The marginal tendency of home range size decrease was identified for carnivores and rodents, while a weak trend of home range increase was observed in ungulates.