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It is worth mentioning that, in comparison to the other published immobilization procedures, our protocol allows a quite significant reduction of time, because we stopped the enzyme adsorption process before the equilibrium was reached.

There was no significant difference between the ethyl acetate fraction and the n -butanol fraction, also between the ethyl acetate fraction and the petroleum ether fraction, but there was extremely significant difference between the n -butanol fraction and the petroleum ether fraction.

The effect of the catalase on the MIC was highly significant for all the microorganisms under study.

In the present study, a modest increase was observed in circulating levels of osteopontin and a borderline significance was observed in osteoprotegerin after intervention.

Highly significant differences were found in the capsaicinoids concentrations.

Highly significant correlation values were observed between the UFGT activity and cy3-gal, in red cultivars and no relation to synthesis of anthocyanins in ‘Granny Smith’ and ‘Golden Delicious’, the correlations being higher than 8.14.

The compounds with the alkoxy, ester, or alkyl group at position 4 of the phenoxyl ring (compounds 8a – f and 9g – h ) revealed that the suitable steric volume, neither too large nor too small, may be significant for anti-CVA16.

A highly significant and sustained improvement of responses following treatment with the Ginkgo-ginseng combination was observed.

Regarding the enzymatic parameters, GR and CAT activities were enhanced significantly compared with the ethanol group, whereas SOD activity showed a trend different from other parameters estimated.

The TERT amplification was found to correlate with the increased expression of TERT mRNA in almost all the tumors, while MB patients with increased TERT expression in their tumors showed a trend towards worse clinical outcomes.

The targeted pentacyclic triterpenoids, asiatic acid, madecassic acid, asiaticoside and madecassoside, made highly significant contributions to the model as shown by their VIP >> 1.0 ( Figure 3 ).

Again, there was an obvious trend in the color intensity of the honey samples; the samples collected towards the end of the year (between September 2010 and December 2010 as well as those in August 2011 to December 2012) had lower color intensities compared to the honey collected in the beginning (January 2011) or in the middle of the year ( Figure 3 ).

Preliminary structure-activity relationships (SAR) did not show a clear trend in terms of electron-withdrawing or electron-donating substituents on the phenyl ring.

Analogues with mono-substituted aromatic rings, even with hydroxyl or methoxy groups, followed a decreasing trend in terms of FRAP values.

The value of P in the range 0.05–0.1 indicates a trend towards significance, while values < 0.05 suggest significant correlation.

When the feed molar ratio of BLG-NCA/HAP-NH 2 was increased to 20/1, the diffraction peak broadening was accompanied by a decrease in peak intensity; this phenomenon was clear evidence of a decreasing trend in crystallinity [ 21 ].

The high model F -value (67.52) and low p -value (<0.05) implied the model was highly significant.

However, notwithstanding the statistical results, a clear trend towards decrease of sulforaphane and glucosinolates content is observed in Figure 1 .

The CO and GM-CLA groups showed a trend to a higher consumption of feed as demonstrated in Figure 2 .

The TPC obtained using the Folin-Ciocalteau assay showed a trend similar to that of the ORAC assay.

However, there seems to be a positive trend towards introducing LPME techniques in the environmental analysis of solid samples, judging from the number of papers in the last decade.

There is a clear trend involving interatomic separation between Fe 2+ and the oxygen atom in the trioxane ring because the distances are shorter for the O1 atom than for the O2 atom.

The lower overall survival probability of patients with low miR-9 expression that also tends to have a more severe pathological grade suggests a strong trend towards prognostic significance.

While generally both influences are of equal importance, there is a slight trend visible, that the calculation of the chemical shifts at the MP2 level of theory improves the results more than if only the force field is calcuated at the MP2 level of theory, which in some cases leads to an overestimation of the secondary isotop effects with respect to the full MP2 result.

However, differences are quite significant when carbon is added.