“an apparent trend”

There is an apparent trend toward more positive bile cultures in the EPT+ group in the years 2015, 2017, and 2018 ( Figure 1 ).

We observed an apparent trend of strengthening of the chemopreventive effect associated with increased NSAID use during the post-trial period (Additional file 1 : Table S4).

However, an apparent trend towards statistical significance was detectable ( Figure 2(d) ). 3.3.

Anti-CS responses during the vaccination period (sAUC7) were high for all study groups with an apparent trend towards the highest values with the 0,1,2-month schedule in the RTS,S/AS01 E group.

An apparent trend towards an increased proportion of Beijing strains in younger patients seen overall ( Table 1 ) is attributable to the higher proportion of immigrants in younger age groups.

This is consistent with these same samples also having Al 2 O 3 contents > 5.5 wt% and an apparent trend towards crustal compositions in Fig. 4 E.

In addition, WRTDS includes a built-in “flow-normalization” algorithm to remove the noise of natural hydrologic variability, which can help reveal water-quality changes related to management actions. In rivers, streamflow and water-quality concentrations are often correlated, and thus a sequence of wet or dry years may induce an apparent trend that reverses direction once conditions return to normal.

Although none of the changes (i.e., after either 1 or 5 days of optical defocus) proved to be statistically significant for either strain, curiously over the time frame of this study only the EH strain showed an apparent trend of increased axial elongation after 5 days of optical defocus imposed with negative lenses.

We did not observe a significant increase in ER stress in the retina of 6.5-month-old KO mice, although there was an apparent trend toward increased BiP expression in the retinas of mutant mice.

There was also an apparent trend for positive association between magnitude of decrease in serum albumin and maximum severity of edema, with more severe edema seen in patients with the greatest reduction in serum albumin.

This lack of an apparent trend in smectite or kaolinite abundance may reflect the postdepositional neomorphism of original clay minerals, highlighting the challenges in identifying long-term patterns in continental weathering and marine authigenesis from clay mineralogy alone ( 40 , 41 ).

In retrospective analyses varying the year in which the analysis was ended, an apparent trend (although not completely monotonic) of increasing hypertension hazard with increasing cumulative PFOA exposure quintile was seen for sexes and ages combined in analyses ending in 1987; this trend became progressively less clear with longer follow-up after the time of peak exposure (see Supplemental Material, Figure S5).

This parameter also displayed an apparent trend for higher relative failure rates in the higher-ranked CCs (CC IV) in both jaws.

We found an apparent trend with increasing frequency of drug use and GC risk reduction.

3 4 Although the precise relationship between the level of income or its growth and inequality is hard to ascertain and the relationships is likely to be nonlinear, 16 – 18 an apparent trend in recent years is the increase in inequality within countries. 19 , 20 For instance, China’s Gini has risen from 31 in 1981 to 45 in 2001. 21 Even in Korea and Japan, which are perceived as countries with the most equal distribution, Gini coefficients are increasing. 5 It is important to emphasize

Note that although there was an apparent trend for ethanol to increase the frequency of sIPSCs in the Gabrb1 +/ L285R MSNs, it was not significant in this sample.

NMDS ordination showed an apparent trend that ASC plots clustered separately from EDC and STC plots along axis 1 in each season (Figure 7 ).

also described an apparent trend when comparing residents below and not below Canal St.: the former had stronger associations between location and both any new-onset and persistent new-onset respiratory symptoms [ 9 ].

Alpha and Beta Diversity Patterns At the taxonomic and phylogenetic level, the alpha diversity of bacterial communities (randomly selected 4,000 sequences per sample) did not show an apparent trend along the elevation gradient ( Figure 3 ), which is consistent with our previous results (454 data in Shen et al., 2013 ).

As shown in both groups, an apparent trend of reduced cell viability was observed at an increasing DOX concentration from 0.75 to 6 μM ( Figure 4A ).

This effect is less pronounced in the Future scenario owing to a proportional increase in biomass costs and an apparent trend to the optimal scale for system operation, as indicated by the minimum in production costs for the Corner-Point scenario at a scale of 50 km 2 .

Analysis by SDI regions An apparent trend emerged across SDI regions ( Table 2 ), where higher SDI levels were generally associated with lower HIV incidence.

In same EF groups, we could not find an apparent trend that patients with hypertension or diabetes mellitus had impaired diastolic function.

A total of 40% of patients continue to show symptoms into adolescence, while 25% are diagnosed with an anti-social disorder at the same time, and recent research points to an apparent trend in the increase in the prevalence of ADHD among adults [ 38 , 39 ].

There is an apparent trend of improvement in knee proprioception in the group which underwent both aquatic therapy and real tDCS, which may imply synergistic effect of the two interventions.