“a weak trend”

Besides, in the analysis of MR, there was a forward causality between appendicular lean mass and COPD (IVW: OR = 0.803; 95%CI: 0.680–0.949; p = 0.01), with a weak trend of causality to lung function.

There was a weak trend toward reduced length of procedure as operators became more familiar with the technique (r = − 0.395, Fig. 3 ).

42 Among 27 related controls, there was a weak trend toward the top 10 most frequently represented clones occupying a greater proportion of the B-cell repertoire with increasing age ( Figure 5 C).

Also, the PC scores PC2, PC3, and PC4 showed a weak trend for correlation with the number of female clicks (R = −0.316, −0.272, −0.278, respectively).

More specifically, there was a weak trend towards increased risk-taking as participants advanced through the trials.

There appeared to be a weak trend for frequency of cervical CD4 + cells expressing activation and integrin markers to mostly increase from D0 to 25 W, in both contraceptive arms, but more so for DMPA‐IM than NET‐EN.

ICU-NS, p=0.006) but those patients exhibited a weak trend of decreasing platelet populations relative to control group as determined by the proportion of CD42b-positive cells (% Total); Figures 1A, B (Mean ± SEM, control, n=31: 11.37 ± 1.68, non-ICU, n= 15: 15.22 ± 2.76, ICU-S, n=34: 7.63 ± 0.94, ICU-NS, n=56: 7.89 ± 0.87).

The stabilisation period for Hg emissions occurred in the years 2003–2017 with a weak trend of − 0.1 Mg year −1 .

CTL1 expression showed a weak trend in healthy (non-cancerous) areas in the same sections compared with cancer areas (Fig. 6 B,C).

There was a weak trend towards regions with a higher per cent coral reef cover having a larger proportion of fishery catch for species that use live corals.

All groups showed a weak trend for representing cumulative area in addition to number.

The overall results showed a weak trend of decreased stained surface in group 17 compared to 11.

When stratifying on three different age bands, we observed a weak trend towards decreasing risk with NSAIDs with increasing age, however with largely overlapping CIs, Fig. 1 .

Among the formaldehyde-exposed portion of the cohort, there was a weak trend of relative risk (RR) with peak exposure, for both all leukemias and myeloid leukemia, largely influenced by elevated RRs of 1.78 (95 % CI 0.87–3.64) for myeloid leukemias and 1.42 (0.92–2.18) for “other” (non-myeloid) leukemias in the highest peak exposure category.

There was a weak trend in which higher parcellation resolution led to slightly lower optimal scan time, although there was a big drop in the optimal scan time from 200 parcels to 400 parcels in the ABCD dataset (Fig. 6c and Supplementary Table 1 ).

In addition, we observed a weak trend of less AULCSF loss at high spatial frequencies when external noise was present.

There was very little differentiation among subpopulations and a weak trend of increasing differentiation with geographic distance.

6 C), closer examination of the differences between age groups revealed a weak trend of decreasing methylation with advancing age (Figure S12).

Arg·Glu does reduce the dark-state population for COE19 while showing a weak trend in reducing both its cluster size and concentration.

The correlation between the CBI 3' boundary and the splicing frequency was not significant (Figure 3C ; r = -0.11, P = 0.45, Spearman's rank order correlation; N = 46), suggesting a relatively constant level of CBI values in this region with a weak trend of negative correlation with the splicing frequency (see Additional file 2 ).

Healthy dietary patterns—characterized by high intakes of vegetables, fruits, wholegrains, low-fat dairy, and lean protein foods—were associated with lower risk of preterm birth (OR for top compared with bottom tertile: 0.79; 95% CI: 0.68, 0.91; I 2 = 32%) and a weak trend towards a lower risk of small-for-gestational-age (OR: 0.86; 95% CI: 0.73, 1.01; I 2 = 34%).

This affects both the numerator and denominator quite equally, and therefore, despite a weak trend towards random priming superiority, the cDNA priming type accounts only for minor changes in the diagnostic outcome, which are within the acceptable range (up to threefold) of variability [ 26 ] ( Figure 4 C).

Neither concentration of 100 μM Amb significantly altered MTR, although there was a weak trend towards an increase.

A weak trend can be observed, however: the mean values of the relative difference between the amounts of protein peaks in the IRR and RF samples eluted at a given time, ( c IRR -c RF )/c RF , show a relationship with the elution time, so irrigation has a larger effect on the relative amounts of less hydrophobic avenin proteins (r 2 = 0.453) ( Fig. 6 ). 3.2.

We also saw a weak trend for decreasing housekeeper expression with sample age in our data; however, there was considerable sample variation ( Supplementary Figures 7 and 8 ).