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Our data indicate a decreasing trend in testes size of L. cinereus found dead at wind turbines from July through October.

The prevalence of suspected hepatitis B was highest among participants aged 20–49 years and showed a trend to a sharp decrease from 20 years to zero years old.

This is a highly significant reduction, as the rate was approximately 9%–12% for a similar age group prior to 1992 [8] and equals a reduction of an estimated 1,577,391 HBsAg carriers and a savings of US$17.8 billion for treatment of HBV infections in Zhejiang Province.

DTI Results When corrected for multiple comparisons at p<.05, permutation analysis revealed highly significant reductions in FA in NF1 patients relative to controls, which were spread broadly across the entire brain ( Figure 3 ).

As expected, its expression, even if with slightly different levels, showed a trend similar to P33 in both WT and AfP33 strains ( Fig. 1D ).

A stretch of negative log 2 ratio values is typically representative of copy number deletion, while a positive trend denotes a copy number amplification.

Although the fold-changes identified by microarray were generally small (though highly significant), for seven out of the ten genes we showed good agreement between array and real-time PCR in terms of statistical significance and the direction of change in expression.

The p-value given by the generalized Wilcoxon test was borderline significant whereas the standard Wilcoxon test missed the effect (p-value: 0.06 vs. 0.18).

In Cebus albifrons , the existence of the larger of the two most inclusive clusters is supported by statistical tests and includes all basicranial landmarks and the majority of the facial landmarks, while the other cluster is nearly significant and includes the x and z coordinates of all molar landmarks in addition to the z coordinates of nasospinale, alveolare and the lingual incisor alveolar landmark.

All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS for Windows 18.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) and associations with a p-value of <0.05 were considered nominally significant.

miR-451 and miR-497 showed a trend towards being significantly decreased, miR-31 showed a heterogenous expression pattern, and miR-19b, miR-29b and miR-142-3p were expressed at comparable level in clinical samples and bone.

miRNA qRT-PCR data of clinical samples, bone and osteoblasts were analyzed using Mann-Whitney U test with p-value cut-off of 0.05, and p-values between 0.05 and 0.15 were regarded as showing a trend towards significance.

The drop in γδ T lymphocytes may be significant in the increased susceptibility to reproductive tract infection, particularly as both vaccinated and non-vaccinated birds show increased infection levels.

Pairwise comparisons indicated that at a low expression rate of pAkt-IR, the influence of pEGFR-IR does not quite reach significance (and vice versa), whereas at a high expression rate of pAkt-IR, the effect of pEGFR is highly significant (and vice versa) ( Table 5 ).

This was accompanied by a highly significant reduction of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.

Also, results were marginally significant for highly experienced respondents being more often able to regulate psychological distress by attention to body sensations.

Interestingly, while Emotional Awareness is related negatively to anxiety in a bivariate correlation, in the regression model greater emotional awareness was related to greater anxiety, although the effect was of marginal significance.

Nevertheless, differences were highly significant for key elements of mind-body training that have been claimed to improve with more practice: Highly experienced participants were more often aware of their body sensations, less frequently worried about sensations of pain and discomfort, better able to regulate their attention focus, and listened more frequently to the body for insight.

There was an overall trend of up-regulation of protein expression in blood taken from the transiently ischemic limb during the RIPC protocol and this increase in the number of up-regulated peptides was cumulative with each cycle of the IR of the limb.

This effect was also marginally significant for the Norwegian vowels.

Notwithstanding, in the overall series of patients the negative association (with borderline significance) between the p.736Val variant and the presence of detectable hepatic iron was paralleled by decreased levels of hepatocellular ballooning, a typical manifestation of oxidative stress in NAFLD [52] , which is possibly related to iron status.

There was a nonsignificant trend for an increased prevalence of the p.Cys282Tyr HFE mutations in patients, whereas the prevalence of the beta-thalassemia trait was significantly higher in patients than in controls, but it represented and exclusion criterium for the control group.

In Malawi, there was a highly significant linear downward trend in death rates between 2000 and 2007, with a mean annual incremental death rate reduction of 0.52 per 1,000 population per year [12] .

This difference is, of course, highly significant ( according to a binomial test).

[19] After accounting for the seasonality in pneumonia case fatality, data from Kilifi demonstrated a non-significant decline in pneumonia mortality post-Hib introduction but no evidence of an overall trend in pneumonia mortality over a 9.25-year period.