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(2021) [ 8 ] who found significant shortages of staff working in nursing homes with COVID-19 patients through 30-June, 2020 with this study showing moderately significant shortages among Registered Nursing staff and highly significant shortages among aide staff, findings that are informative in further understanding the type of nursing staff shortages.

Additionally, the relationship between LL and PH demonstrates a highly significant positive correlation, with a correlation coefficient of 0.980.

However, other treatments exhibited a decreasing trend in pH values compared to the CK treatment (refer to Table 2 and S2 Table ).

If the changes in testing criteria have a practically significant effect on the outcomes of the models, then a complex observation model for the test data would be necessary.

Furthermore, in Fig 2 (the right of the red dashed line), it is discernible that PFTZs’ implementation triggers a significant influence on DEPTH, which emerges in the immediate year following the policy shock and persists in an increasing trend.

On the other hand, our cost analysis showed a trend towards decreased cost in the HAG.

A notable trend in Fig 2 is that lower bounds of IAA increased for all categories between rounds 1 and 3, and significantly so for most categories.

Figure 4a: is the decrease for the MF group between timepoint 3 and 4 significant? The discussion is missing why there may be a decreasing trend between that two timepoints and an increasing trend after that.

However, the numbers do fluctuate, and especially in days with low attendance these fluctuations may be significant percentage-wise.

AA services showed a trend towards lower mortality, comparable or lower readmission rates.

As the variable “Type of stroke” was almost significant, it was considered as a possible confusion factor.

However, unlike the increasing incidence of stomach GIST, no significant increase in small intestine GIST was reported between 2010 and 2019, while an increasing trend for localized stage small intestine GIST was observed [ 41 ].

Although not statistically significant, the MR-Egger analysis (OR = 1.083, 95% CI = 0.963–1.218, P = 0.184) using the weighted median method (OR = 1.070, 95% CI = 0.959–1.194, P = 0.226) also showed a trend towards MS being associated with an increased risk of abnormal sperm (see Table 1 ).

This correlated with increased valine-induced BCKD inhibition [ 61 ], while in this study we showed a trend for increased BCKD activation 30 min post leucine gavage in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles and the liver.

From Fig 4 , it can be seen that with the increase of compaction degree, the absolute expansion rate of the specimen is generally into an increasing trend, with P: T = 1:4, seven wet-dry cycles, for example, when the compaction degree of the specimen is increased from 90% to 96%, its absolute expansion rate is increased from 10.8% to 17.2%, an increase of 59.3%.

Smoking history Our study reveals a notable trend in which the poor outcome group had the greatest prevalence of a smoking history; however, there were no differences in outcomes when current versus former smokers were compared Table 2 .

Overall, the path coefficients in the revised model are quite significant.

The normalized SHD for the mixed-effect ABN had a decreasing trend as the number of subjects increased, whereas the other models had no such trend.

A positive correlation between assessment scores and Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) clicks is suggested if the graph’s points demonstrate an increasing trend from left to right, learners actively participating in the virtual classroom typically achieve higher test scores.

A study from China showed a decreasing trend in anaemia prevalence over time among a large cohort after initiating ART, yet our study show that the prevalence remain significantly high.

After the upturn before the return to the pre-pandemic situation binge drinking followed a decreasing trend in both sexes [aPR boys: 0.73 (95%CI: 0.66–0.81); aPR girls: 0.78 (95%CI: 0.71–0.86)].

On the other hand, the prevalence of binge drinking among girls followed an increasing trend during the restrictions period of the 2 nd wave [aPR: 1.58 (1.18–2.11)] with respect to the pre-COVID19 period of the 1 st wave.

As shown in Table 8 , the Pseudo-R 2 significantly decreased from 0.100 before matching to 0.003~0.009; the LR statistic dropped significantly from 179.17 to 6.15~16.33; the significance test p-values changed from highly significant to not significant; the mean bias decreased from 20% to 3.5%~6.1%; and the median bias decreased from 15.6 to 3.2%~5.6%.

Region Notably, PORT achieved better OS for non-Asian populations (HR = 0.71, 95% CI: 0.60–0.84, I 2 = 0%), and showed a trend of better OS for Asian populations (HR = 0.73, 95% CI: 0.52–1.04, I 2 = 63%).

This is related also with the blood lactate concentration observed during the test, where the participants of BA group showed a trend to increase anaerobic glycolysis and obtain higher blood lactate concentration at the end of the test.