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(Three instruments were equipped with a 675 nm laser, as opposed to the currently used 655 nm laser, which causes only a ≈0.28% calculated difference in the value of dn/dc , based on [ 40 ], which was neglected in the consideration of signal magnitudes.) Thus, an instrument-dependent error of at least ≈3–4% in concentration should be considered when determining protein concentrations based on an assumed refractive index increment and given fringe shift data (in addition to variations in the protein refractive index increments, which may be significant especially for smaller proteins [ 41 ]).

Except for MGL , CD68 , and CS , there was still a significant difference in mRNA expression between control subjects and AT patients when accounting for age, and for the mentioned non-significant genes, the difference was still nearly significant ( p -values 0.0561–0.0677).

sagrei and Diadophis punctatus ), and one that showed marginally significant decrease ( Nerodia fasciata ).

Frequency of sense RNA foci showed a trend towards being higher in lymphoblastoid cells derived from patients with shorter survival, but there was no detectable correlation between disease severity and DNA expansion length.

However, as contrast, some recent studies [ 14 ] showed that IMT values were significantly increased in SGA, with and without signs of severity, as compared with controls and these SGA newborns showed a trend for higher values of blood pressure.

In North America, abruption rates increased in Canada while the rate in the US fluctuated over time, but overall there was an increasing trend over time also in the US.

Unexpectedly, the frequency of induced IL-10 + B cells correlated positively with FT 3 and FT 4 levels (the latter borderline significance), within the GD patients.

Furthermore, when we investigated the combination of KLC3 Lys751 and XRCC3 Thr241 alleles, a highly significant association with smoking was observed in the subjects carrying three or more risk alleles.

Similarly, the quartile estimates of EC a show a decreasing trend from 2009 to 2011.

In spite of these limitations, we still observed a statistical trend, which suggested that vertebroplasty was more effective than sham treatment.

Relationship between lesion length and latency delay There was a highly significant correlation between lesion length asymmetry and mfVEP latency asymmetry at 1 month ( r = 0.94, p = <0.0001, adjusted for age and sex) ( Fig 2A ) that remained significant at 12 months (correlation at 12 months: r = 0.75, p < 0.001) ( Fig 2B ).

A highly significant quadratic model was developed to investigate MG decolorization with LacA, and the maximum MG decolorization ratio of 91.6% was predicted under the conditions of 2.8 U mL -1 LacA, 109.9 mg L -1 MG and decolorization for 172.4 min.

The derived alleles based on sequence alignments and θ 2 showed substantial trends in GC-biased gene conversion; whereas the derived alleles based on θ 1 showed only a slight trend.

Interstate parasite stress significantly predicted two, with a marginally significant effect on the third, but the effects became non-significant when the analyses were stratified for race (as a control for extrinsic risks).

Age and ethnicity might be significant factors as well, with the multivariate model showing that native Dutch patients present an approximately 6.6-fold higher risk of carrying a pseudogenized mclx2 , and younger patients having a decreased OR for these forms.

p value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant and p value less than 0.01 was considered highly significant.

Nevertheless, a recently published systematic review and meta-analysis, comprising of eight original articles with a total of 21,064 participants and 2,053 CHD events [ 33 ] reported a positive association between leptin and incident CHD after adjustment for age, sex, lipids, blood pressure, and BMI, although the association did not quite reach statistical significance [ 33 ].

The “rounded tip” trait is indeed significant on this axis, but is also more marginally significant on axes 2 and 4, and has thus a more complex intrinsic importance.

This corresponded to a highly significant increase of ART coverage for PLWHA at the early latent infection stage from less than 10% to 30%, 35% and 40%.

Among other individually found genomic alterations, TP53 mutations (p=0.07), mTOR gain (p=0.07) and PTEN overexpression (p=0.08) have a marginally significant negative impact on OS.

1990), there has been an increasing trend in the SOI (CRU, climex.knmi.nl) and dominance of La Niña conditions [ 59 ], which coincides with the period of high precipitation in northwest Australia in the last two decades ( Fig 6 ).

In our report, we found an increasing trend over time of non-B subtype HIV infections in Barcelona.

Ten glaciers exhibit negative surface albedo trends (-0.0005 to -0.005 yr -1 ) during the period 2000–2011, whereas TLMKL has a positive trend (0.0006 yr -1 ) in the Karakoram area ( Fig 3 ).

Using a dominant model, the CC genotype of rs4822983 ( CHEK2 ) had a marginally significant protective effect compared to the CT and TT genotypes.

The correlation between 18 F-FDG and Ki-67 was highly significant in TETs, significant in GISTs, moderate in lung, breast, bone and soft tissue, pancreatic, oral, thoracic, uterine, and ovary cancers, average in brain, esophageal and colorectal cancers, and poor in head and neck, thyroid, gastric and malignant melanoma tumors.