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Finally, although the difference in vocabulary scores between the short-and long-distance groups showed a decreasing trend, the short-distance group’s vocabulary scores were significantly higher than those of the long-distance group at any Chinese proficiency level. 6.

The incidence rate of males increased significantly from 1990 to 1999, with an average annual increase of 3.5% from 1996 to 1999, showing an increasing trend during the entire period.

Nevertheless, the results indicated that alexithymia still showed a trend toward the “diagnosis” score of the YFAS-F.

In the weishenme P condition, there is no significant main effect of Structure (β = 0.012, SE = 0.048, t = 0.26), but there is a marginally significant main effect of Distance (β = 0.11, SE = 0.062, t = 1.77) such that the short condition is more acceptable than the long condition.

Overall, topics 1, 6, 10 showed a negative trend, while topics 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, and 15 showed a positive trend ( Table 4 ). 4.

When DIF < 0 and DEA < 0, a negative trend appears in the stock market, which is a sell signal.

When DIF > 0 and DEA > 0, a positive trend is shown in the stock market, which is the buy signal.

The effect size concerning quantity (Score) was large and highly significant.

Figure 2 , lower panel, displays the sizer plot with the transition between the colors blue and purple indicating a change in the trajectory of behavior from a negative trend to a zero trend, and colors transitioning from purple to red, changes in behavior from a zero trend to a positive trend ( Chaudhuri and Marron, 1999 ).

The regression coefficient of the interaction term shows that there is a marginally significant positive correlation between market and government relationships, which could be attributed to the follow three reasons.

However, they show a strong trend toward an increase in the precision of estimation (expressed both in the absolute error of estimation and model fit coefficients) along mastering the concepts of number and counting (CP-knowledge).

Neither line orientation, CP-knowledge level nor interaction approached significance (largest F [1,39] < 1.92, all p s > 0.17).

Even though post-hoc analyses did not provide statistical evidence supporting the interactions, overall data showed a trend toward better scores only for the experimental group, suggesting a potential improvement in information processing speed, working memory and mood.

Is cognitive exergaming able to boost cognitive performance and mood? Although this exploratory study did not provide statistical evidence of a beneficial effect of the exergame on cognitive functions and mood, after eight sessions of exergame training, a positive trend in three measures, Stroop Colour, 3back-false alarms, and Beck Depression Inventory, was observed in the expected direction.

With respect to cognitive tasks, there was an increasing trend in Stroop color accuracy (naming as many items-colored squares-as possible in 30 s) suggesting a faster processing of information of displayed stimuli.

A small difference between the prices for the two channels costs more resources to identify, while participants could relatively easily identify a high price variance, in which the differences between prices is a little significant.

In addition, Figure 2 demonstrates that the estimates of correlations among exogenous variables of environment elements, online behaviors, and person factors were 0.854, 0.793, and 0.700, respectively, and the extremely significant p value was less than 0.001.

The results shockingly showed that except for the maturity of judgment scale, highly significant differences were apparent in the other remaining scales.

However, because of the large sample sizes, adjusting for unequal variances did not change the p values reported in Table 1 , which was highly significant.

As for the demand side, under the impact of COVID-19 epidemic, the recruitment demand of enterprises in 2020 showed a trend of first decreasing and then rising, but after the second quarter of 2021, the number of recruitment demand continued to decline.

Moreover, beauty premium in both social and economic activities does not fall, but it shows an increasing trend ( Gu and Ji, 2019 ; Li et al., 2020 ).

At the three levels of parental support, the mediating effect of negative emotions on the relationship between catastrophising tendency and NSSI also showed a decreasing trend (see Table 3 ); that is, with an increase in the level of parental support, catastrophising tendency was less likely to induce adolescents’ NSSI behaviour by reducing their negative emotions.

Previous research reported a decreasing trend in levels of family cohesion as adolescents develop ( Baer, 2002 ).

In the group with green plant horticultural activities, the SDNN index showed a decreasing trend from 58.17 ± 15.79 to 53.65 ± 21.77 and a significant difference between the latter and the former ( F = 5.727; p = 0.001; ɳp 2 = 0.526).

It should also be noted that, a marginally significant indirect association was found whereby more CETE was associated with higher levels of craving via greater difficulties in engaging in goal-directed behaviors ( β = 0.05, 95% CI = 0.001, 0.103).