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Thus, blossom frost risk cannot be stated to be lower by the end of the 21st century despite a negative trend.

It is also worth noting that we found the effect of glenohumeral alignment on forward flexion to be very close to statistical significance ( Table 3 ).

Overall, the Affymetrix signals for these genes showed a strong trend toward negative correlations with miR-122 abundance.

For both axes and for the two N supply levels, the regressions were highly significant with slopes not different from one (Axis 1, Figure 3C : y = 0.98 ±0.05 x; y = 1.01 ±0.03 for N+ and N-, respectively; Axis 2, Figure 3D : y = 0.95 ±0.09 x; y = 1.05 ±0.08 for N+ and N-, respectively).

Linear regression analysis of log-transformed metabolite concentrations revealed a nominally significant association with FLD for 19 of the 138 metabolites (13.8%; Table S3 ).

When the model was adjusted for visceral fat area, it was marginally significant.

For statistical evaluation we set P<0.05 as significant, P<0.01 as very significant and P<0.001 as extremely significant.

Regardless, forager honey bees infected with IAPV at day 2 post-injection showed a trend of foraging earlier in the morning compared to that of the control group.

In our study, high cord levels of TNF-α were associated with decreased risk of severe malaria, although this association was only marginally significant.

Aim 2: Effect of feeding regime on male development and morphology There was a significant difference between the H and L treatments in fixed male size, body condition and wing size, and the difference in development time and antennal length approached significance (see Table 1 ).

In this study, there was a significant trend/difference in development and morphology for males and females as a result of juvenile feeding treatment, however, its effect on the fitness components measured for males was much greater than on those measured for females.

The trend toward reduced prevalence of dental decay in obese children was highly significant considering either permanent or primary teeth.

The data from stroke participants also showed a trend similar to neurologically intact participants.

However, in this case, the adjusted P value was nearly significant ( P adjusted = 0.071177) so the relatively small sample size of 8D subgroup might be the main reason for the negative result.

Second, although there was a highly significant predictive relationship between training group and mean standardized grade for GTA lab section, lab grades were only part of the total grade; it is therefore unclear to what degree this treatment might predict improvement in student grades.

Generally, ages ≥50 years were associated with an increased risk; a clear trend was observed in 19 cohorts, with the strongest evidence in the levothyroxine cohort for warfarin concomitance (aORs 2.75 [95% CI 2.10-3.61], 6.99 [95% CI 5.38-9.07], and 11.26 [95% CI 8.66-14.63] in the three age groups, respectively, vs the <50 years class).

Our previous finding from a semantic relatedness judgment task also identified a marginally significant cluster in BA44 related to word class effects [25] , but the region was no longer significant when we looked for convergence between the judgment task and a semantic associate production task [26] .

A recent randomized trial of community-based active TB case finding in Zambia and South Africa found a marginally significant 22% reduction in TB prevalence, but the parallel “enhanced case finding” arm of that trial (arguably a more intensive intervention) found no effect [ 8 ].

As for T cells, in all myeloid cell subsets examined, Hap 2 homozygotes showed a trend for reduced splicing of exon 6 compared to the other haplotypes, significantly so in most conditions.

These observations suggest that the downstream effectors of Ras1 differentially require GTP hydrolysis to propagate a response and could be highly significant when we consider the vast array of signal transduction pathways regulated by Ras proteins in mammalian cells.

There was a clear trend that the favorable prognosis rate decreased gradually with the increase of the ICH score and the ICH-GS score.

Generally, most of NCDs such as cardio-vascular diseases, cancers, and mental and behavioral disorders are real health concerns nowadays and they have an increasing trend in most part of the world [18] .

The use of the CB 2 agonist JWH015 also showed a trend toward a dose dependent protective effect as well ( Figure 2B ), suggesting the importance of the CB 2 receptor.

This trend was only marginally significant, but this study lacked statistical power for analyses at the population scale.

There was no significant difference (p = 0.4840, Mann-Whitney U test) but a slight trend for higher %STAT5Ptyr levels between female T1D subjects (32.30%±24.37 SD) and that of T1D male subjects (24.62% ±15.07 SD).