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An a priori decision was made to test for an increasing trend in natality, as the population in this region had been increasing over the study period [2] .

However, the model we tested with a increasing trend in natality did not fit the data, nor did one with a decreasing trend.

[18] observed nominally significant association from 6 of 37 SNPs entered into the full-sample association analysis.

The trace of the Kaplan-Meier curve showed a trend towards a lower survival for the cohort of cases with extensive disease (Stage I) in comparison towards the cohort with regional disease (Stage II/III) ( Figure S6 ).

The correlation is highly significant according to both permutation tests.

Fruit Taste - Behavior A clear and significant difference was apparent between the two Acomys species in the number of seeds left intact.

found a decreasing trend in surveillance utilization for more recent index colonoscopies.

Furthermore, an increasing trend of annual diffuse radiation in China has been proved to be 7.03 MJ.m −2 .yr −1 per decade from 1981 to 2010 [32] .

The difference in tissue parameters between the reference group and MS patients were highly significant, p 0.001.

The transgenic plants exhibited highly significant increases in both the fresh and dry weight biomasses compared with the corresponding WT plants ( Figure 6D, E ).

In the EGFR gene, rs763317 in intron 1, rs4947986 in intron 6, rs9692301 in intron 19 and rs6970262 in intron 21 demonstrated marginally significant associations with the adjusted phenotypes.

The latter possibility is supported by other study in tremor patients with idiopathic Parkinson disease in which highly significant coherence at the tremor frequency or at its first harmonic was found between the tremor EMG and contralateral EEG channels [14] .

The figure also shows that the standard deviation of y increased with y ; there was a decreasing trend in the coefficient of variation of y (i.e., standard deviation/ y ) from approximately 0.20 to 0.16.

Survival curves for total mortality attributed to ruptured abdominal and thoracic aorta in mice that were fed the high n-3 PUFA diet showed a trend for delay to time of rupture compared to mice that were fed the low n-3 PUFA diet ( Figure 4 ).

A borderline significant association of increasing pIgR expression and an improved survival was seen for pancreatobiliary type tumours.

AOB displayed an increasing trend with altitude, but this relationship was not significant (r 2 = 0.21, p = 0.28); in contrast, AOA abundance was inversely correlated with altitude (r 2 = 0.43, p <0.05).

The association of caesarean section and fistula in our study is highly significant, and supported by the types of fistulae found and by other studies.

[11] The second study concluding that there was a difference in all-cause mortality reported a non-significant effect of beta-blockers among patients with DM with a hazard ratio (HR) of.79 (95% confidence interval [CI].50, 1.20) and a borderline significant effect among patients without DM with a HR of.60 (.35, 1.01).

There was a highly significant effect of GVS condition and test session on the vestibular index ( Fig. 2D ), the ratio of equilibrium scores on SOT 5 (eyes closed and sway-referenced support) and the SOT 1 baseline (eyes open fixed support); GVS condition F(1,13) = 93.0, p = 0.000005, test session F(1,13) = 53.2, p = 0.00005, and GVS condition/test session interaction F(1,13) = 33.6, p = 0.0003.

Moreover, TA children had lower cv in the non-symbolic estimation task; however, this difference was only marginally significant.

Enrichment in mouse phenotypes was also similar but, in addition, an enrichment in abnormal nervous system phenotype became significant, and in abnormal behavior/neurological phenotype borderline significant.

Qualitative analysis found a strong trend showing a reduction of sadness, and feeling of increasing empowerment.

Our findings revealed an overall trend toward phylogenetic impoverishment across the experimentally fragmented landscape, irrespective of whether tree communities were in 1-ha, 10-ha, or 100-ha forest fragments, near forest edges, or in continuous forest.

Although the urban changes dominated the forest fragmentation, a slight trend of forest fragmentation was detected even without urbanization/urban sprawl.

All five stabilized OspA monomers generated highly significant levels of protection when mice were challenged with ticks harboring B. afzelii (serotype 2).