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Their use in small scale farming was found to be almost insignificant ( Nsibande and McGeoch, 1999 ; Ebenebe et al., 2001 ).

While correlation coefficients relating to soil (or rather, dust fallout to soil) radioactivity show a clear trend (and effect) of humidity and hence that distance dependence increases with increasing dustability and increased fallout by drier weather conditions, the actual correlation factors describe a moderately negative correlation between soil radioactivity and distance from the radioactivity pollution source.

A highly significant model was observed that included rs895819 and risk factors such as age, region, socioeconomic status, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, alcohol consumption, tobacco chewing, suggesting an increased risk for GI cancers.

Convergent validity can be established when the outer-model loadings' t- values are significant; all items in the present study's outer-model loadings were highly significant.

However, all models remained highly significant, with the computed p-values for the F-statistic ranging from 10 −9 – 10 −17 .

The correlation between the experimental activity and predicted activity according to the model was highly significant as determined by statistical analysis.

Thresholds of significance determined were p > 0.05 = not significant, p ≤ 0.05 = significant, p ≤ 0.01 = very significant, and p ≤ 0.001 = extremely significant. 3 Results The pH of soil collected from the Dumpsite was slightly acidic compared to those of Lagoon front and control station (Highrise) which were within the standard range of Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment ( CCME, 2001 ).

This removal increase was close to significance if compared to the one obtained with only Tetrahymena sp.

An increasing trend was observed in the percentage removal with the increment of adsorbate concentration as a limited number of Co(II) ions compete for the available active sites present on CNSP reaching the maximum removal at around 20 ppm.

However, observations of individuals showed a declining trend and groups of 7–9 and ≥10 showed an increasing trend.

Meanwhile, a decreasing trend in the riverine dissolved silicate (DSi) flux was observed in recent few decades in the Changjiang River basin ( Dai et al., 2011 ; Ma et al., 2018 ), which could have a drastically impact on the biodiversity of primary production in the Changjiang estuary under the background of increasing nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes ( Liu et al., 2013 ; Zhou et al., 2017 ; Xiao et al., 2018 ).

There was a clear trend in the monthly variation in freshwater discharge, and the annual discharge mainly fluctuated around approximately 258 km 3 /a and 268 km 3 /a over the sampling year at the inflow and outflow stations, respectively, in the TGR.

We observed an increasing trend of NO 3 loading in the TGR ( Table 3 ), which may have caused a shift in nutrient stoichiometry and enhanced eutrophication in the river and estuary ( Ran et al., 2018a ).

During drying process this showed a decreasing trend: colonies up to 10 6 (30°C-30 %), up to 10 3 (40°C-50 %) and up to 10 2 (50° C-60 %) dilutions.

A decreasing trend for |Z| 10 mHz was seen at higher Ar/CH 4 ratios (T-4 and T-5).

However, the results on the morphological characteristics did not define a clear trend that would provide us a basis for making taxonomic decisions. 3.2.

When investigating the relationship between CCN1 score in PanIN to that of ductal and adjacent stromal CCN1 scores, a highly significant association was observed.

The pH of the TCLP leachates was in the range of 2.75–2.98, and a decreasing trend in the pH value was found with an increasing modifier dose.

However, there is a positive trend in this regard in some European countries, such as in Spain, where courses on special education are offered to teacher trainees to prepare them with adaptive teaching methods ( Lasagabaster and de Zarobe, 2010 ).

The addition of NSQN & CSQN results in a more or less significant modification of slopes of the lines of the anodic (β a ) and cathodic (β c ) Tafel, this shows that these NSQN & CSQN affects the kinetics of the reduction reaction of the proton and the reaction of the dissolution of M-steel [ 20 , 21 ].

At the same time, studies have shown that Staphylococcus aureus has an increasing trend in resistance to compound sulfamethoxazole and rifampicin [ 33 , 34 ]. the nursing hospital needs to deal with the problems such as long hospital stays, and more patients in the ward and very complex patient's condition.

Overall, all aggregate market and sectoral models (except the Real Estate sector) were highly significant at lag zero.

Prior to 2017, the IT sector recorded a decreasing trend in returns from 2013 (24.83%) to 2016 (4.39%).

Depressive symptoms as measured by BDI and MADRS and MDD diagnosis were not associated with GABA+, BDNF polymorphism or BDNF serum concentrations, but we found a negative trend towards a correlation between GABA+ concentration and MADRS total score in males but not in females.

Of related concern, recent investigation in south-west Nigeria showed an increasing trend in the use of fluoroquinolones, tetracyclines, beta-lactams/aminoglycosides and macrolides for questionable purposes ranging from animal disease management to livestock growth promotion [ 94 ].