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Our results show that there is an increasing trend of myopia in India over the last four decades.

The overall wind pressure showed a trend of being high toward the centre and low toward the sides.

Although no statistically significant difference was found with regard to the FAOS sports, an increasing trend was observed after the operation.

However, means for the specific groups (i.e., non-actors, student actors, and professional actors) did exhibit statistically and practically significant differences.

However, the 2018 WHO Africa Region Secretariat reports a decreasing trend of STEPS implementation in countries from 33 in 2003, to 15 in 2015 [ 8 ].

AFI significantly increased in the SCP and showed a decreasing trend in the MCP and DCP with increasing NPDR severity.

The increase in aggresome accumulation in VEC of PLGA-PEG-challenged mice was not significantly significant, but the other treatments were.

Though in recent years, a decreasing trend in intestinal parasitosis has been documented in Ethiopia, as far as our knowledge goes there is no published study on the magnitude as well as determinants of intestinal parasites including schistosomiasis in areas which are not easily accessible like islands.

The countries that had BCG vaccination coverage had a statistically borderline significant less daily mortality count as compared with countries without BCG coverage in the national immunization program (IRR 0.43, 95% CI 0.19 to 1.00).

Nationally, incidence counts displayed a significant trend of decrease: almost 33000 cases of typhoid fever was reported in 2004 but the count fell below 10000 and stayed in the close range since 2010; more than 16000 cases of paratyphoid fever was reported in 2004, and the continual downfall reached to 2311 cases in 2016 ( Fig 1A ).

Fig 6 indicates that some tissues showed a slight trend to lower expression in older age categories.

The normalized NDVI over the eastern Tibetan Plateau shows a decreasing trend of –0.33/decade (significant at the 90% confidence level), whereas the normalized NDVI over the central and western Tibetan Plateau generally shows an increasing trend (figure omitted).

There was also an increasing trend in precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau [ 14 , 15 ].

The number of cells that stained for ALDH1, but not CGA, showed a trend in the opposite direction with proportions being, respectively, 19%, 22%, 72%, and 81%.

The effect is only marginally significant because there is a considerable variability in subjects' sensitivity to the VD.

At 2 months of age, smKO mice showed a trend of increased body weight without statistical significance as compared with WT control ( Fig 2E ).

Communal defence initiation rate was lowest during the midday hours (positive quadratic trend; Table 1 ), while the opposite was found for individual defence initiation and aggression rates (negative quadratic trend, marginally non-significant for individual flight initiation rate; Tables 2 and 3 ).

The association was only mildly attenuated after adjustment ( Table 3 ), and remained highly significant in the fully adjusted model (Model VIII), with an MRR of 1.42 (95% CI 1.25–1.61) ( Table 3 ).

A growing body of research also suggests that SDoHs, especially educational attainment and income, and social/environmental risk factors closely associated with these SDOHs, may be significant drivers of observed patterns of racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care utilization [ 12 – 17 ].

In general, we saw an overall trend that differentially expressed (upregulated) genes in the fused condition play an important role in sexual development.

Differences were considered significant at P < 0.05 (two-sided), and values > 0.05 and < 0.1 indicate that a difference approached significance.

Our results suggest that there are likely to be significant gains from targeted registration efforts.

We also found a strong trend in the sign of D values: over all loci, at least 21 of the 23 populations show D>0.

Our results reveal agricultural carbon emissions may have an increasing trend in the future [ 23 ].

Furthermore, the semi-quantitative assessment of selection of resistant flora from longitudinal samples showing the negative impact of unnecessary antibiotic use using standard culture methods has to our knowledge not been done before and shows a very consistent and highly significant difference between resistant fractions among samples on presentation and after antibiotic use among >500 children against 7 out of 8 tested drugs, that was restored in a subset of patients after 28 days.