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As it was expected [ 30 , 31 ], there was highly significant correlation between plasma levels of CRP and AAT from COVID-19 patients ( Fig 2A ).

We also found that there is a decreasing trend in the prevalence of underweight, particularly among those aged 60–79 years.

Positive means indicate an increasing importance from T1 to T2, while negative means reflect a decreasing trend.

Sun et al showed a borderline significant lower survival rate for pancreatic cancer patients with AT levels below the median [ 31 ].

However, the χ 2 statistic is sensitive to sample size, and its p value might be significant, although the predicted model represents the data well [ 44 , 45 ].

Statistical tests (Wilcoxon rank-sum test, FDR corrected, p < 0.0005) reveal highly significant unique peaks, matching the expected external task-specific frequencies ( Fig 4 ).

Discussion Our large abdominal surgery cohort revealed an increasing trend in the number of laparoscopic surgeries being performed.

Except for laparoscopic appendectomy and laparoscopic rectal resection, SSI rates showed a decreasing trend until 2010.

The data will be considered as demonstrating highly significant level of heterogeneity if the P value is greater than 0.01 [ 37 ].

The model fit was worse for seasonal change for smoking only patients; however, a highly significant periodic trend was still observed.

This difference was marginally significant (p 0.059).

There were only four athletes with easygoing lifestyles in this study, but that number might be significant compared to a larger population.

In some studies that compared VVD optimization by QuickOpt and ECHO, optimized aortic velocity-time integrals (VTI) instead of corresponding VVDs were analysed and highly significant correlations were misleadingly considered proof of the agreement between both methods [ 9 , 17 ].

Areas under HotSpots demonstrated a positive trend over both the 11-year (0.02 km 2 *yr -1 ± 0.02) and 24-year (0.09 km 2 *yr -1 ± 0.03) period ( Fig 5 ).

ColdSpots showed a decreasing trend (−0.03 km 2 *yr -1 ± 0.03) over the 11-year period and an increasing trend (0.05 km 2 *yr -1 ± 0.03) over the 24-year period ( Fig 5 ).

During this period study area, and AverageSpots demonstrated a positive population trend (0.04 ± 0.06 pheasant*km -1 *year -1 and 0.9 ± 0.75 pheasant*km -1 *year -1 , respectively; Fig 3 ) while HotSpots and ColdSpots exhibited a negative trend (−0.06 ± 0.11 pheasant*km -1 *year -1 and −0.79 ± 0.02 pheasant*km -1 *year -1 , respectively; Fig 3 ).

On the other hand, there is an increasing trend of falling physical exercise among adolescents.

However, contrast of the main effects showed that music was borderline significant and further exploration of the pairwise effects showed that time influenced performance without music but not with ( Table 4 ).

The cropland, road, and residential area expanded to different degrees, and the area of waters fluctuated and displayed an increasing trend.

This finding, displayed in Fig 3C and 3D , confirms that the length of this experiment could be reduced to a fraction of the original length and still provide the same reliable, highly significant result in healthy adults.

Further, BMIs of 40 kg/m 2 or higher showed a trend toward higher MACCE risks (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.32; 95% confidence interval, 0.89 to 1.95), possibly due to the small sample size.

Nonetheless, the results of the Cox regressions and survival curves remained the same ( for BMI>40 and MACCE, the significant effect turned into a near-significant effect, which we assume is because of its relatively small sample size compared to other groups).

This suggests that TUG1 may be significant in metabolically challenged conditions in high glucose, acidic environment and hypoxia.

These differences showed a decreasing trend but were not statistically significant ( Table 2 , Fig 2G ).

The interaction between socioeconomic status, FoMO, and plagiarism in college closely approached significance.