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Trends of refractive surgery rate among aged 20–49 years in 2008–2015 in Korea Over the past 8 years, the cumulative proportion of participants who underwent refractive surgery showed an increasing trend.

It may be significant that the knapping tools from this area include both curated and heavily used knapping tools (the horse phalanx and molar) that were probably utilised to shape, re-sharpen or reconfigure (retouch) tool edges, as well as the metapodial knapping hammers.

Following the trend of glomerular PMN influx, the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6, the chemokine CXCL1, endothelial cell adhesion molecule ICAM-1, L-selectin and NF-κB was either significantly increased or showed a strong trend towards increased mRNA expression 2 hours after co-injection of anti-HS antibody EW3D10 compared to mice injected with anti-GBM IgG alone, which persisted up to 1 day after co-injection for IL-6, CXCL-1 and L-selectin ( Fig 5A–5E ).

A slight trend toward reduced rates of proliferation were observed in the HTN (+) HFpEF group but did not reach statistical significance.

In all the models allowing for the interaction ( hypothetical#high_anchor_interaction ), it was highly significant, while the main anchoring effect was not.

CPL and LW exhibited extremely significant negative correlations between all pairs of physiological traits; Chl presented significant positive correlations with LP and LN, and PRO was significantly negatively correlated with CLW and LA (P<0.05).

Whilst there are no significant initial differences between the pristine and heat-treated samples, 106.9°±6.8° and 111.9°±15.1°, respectively, both samples show a decreasing trend over time.

Although drought-stressed seedlings treated with exogenous Put displayed an increasing trend in both genotypes for all parameters, significant responses were recorded in SBT-010 only for Pn and water use efficiency (WUE) on the application of 0.3 mM Put.

In the heatmap, the parameters SOD, CAT, AsA, and LRWC displayed a decreasing trend, and the parameters H 2 O 2 , MDA, Pro, GB, Chl a/b ratio, root-shoot ratio, and GPX displayed an increasing trend in drought-stressed seedlings compared to the control.

Therefore, being a halophytic crop [ 89 ], sugar beet showed a negative trend in mannitol accumulation in the present study under all treatments.

But increasing the slope may have already substantially affected this phenomenon, causing a decreasing trend in the mass of total ejected material.

In aged animals, SAR247799 significantly reduced heart weight/tibia length ( Fig 3A ) , right atrial weight/tibia length ( Fig 3C ) , inter-ventricular septum at end-systole (IVSs) ( Fig 3E ) and LVPWs ( Fig 3G ) and showed a trend to reduce left atrial weight/tibia length ( Fig 3B ) , IVSd ( Fig 3D ) and LVPWd ( Fig 3F ) .

With an increase in k , the ApEn of the soil moisture series in the surface, middle, and deep layers under the four land use types showed a decreasing trend in both growing seasons.

The model found a decreasing trend of smoking cessation by age, where the youngest age group (20–29) had the highest marginal probability of quitting (49.5%), followed by participants in their 30s (30.8%), in their 40s (19.4%), and those who were 50 years old or above (5.2%).

Nonsevere COVID-19 cases showed a trend to thrombotic pole.

The incidence of hemorrhagic fever in China has had a slightly increasing trend in recent years.

The results show that ARIMA model tends to forecast more accurate results for which there is a clear trend in the series, whereas LSTM tends to do better on volatile time series with more instable components.

Several studies using administrative data have noted an increasing trend in sepsis-related hospitalizations, but the rationale for this increasing trend is conflicting.

-statistics: where analyses adjusted for multiple comparisons? If so, how? Answer: The analyses were not adjusted for multiple comparisons since the number of comparisons is small and the p values in all comparisons were highly significant. -line 113: There seems to be a word missing in the last sentence.

We have amended the result to show 3 decimal places and to state that it is only borderline significant: “For “outcome expectations”, those aged 60-75 seemed more likely to have low motivations as compared to those aged 40-59, with borderline significance (adjusted OR 1.569, 95% CI 1.004-2.453, p=0.048).” We have also removed the outcome expectations from the discussion section given the marginally significant result.

There were extremely significant differences in 11 indices of leaf structure for these 35 healthy plants.

Pre-TKR subjects showed a trend of higher mid-stance EKAM (related to knee OA severity) with no clearly defined double peak ( Fig 3D ).

It is initially recognized from Fig 3 that the number of consultations and hospital beds in Hubei province show an increasing trend year after year, which is in line with previous studies [ 55 ], and such an increase may be caused by the increasing resident population and the growing industrialization.

However, ZOEO showed a trend to increase cell apoptosis by a dose dependent manner.

Neither age nor schooling had significant effects, although not having a Baccalaureate’s degree (having a UK A Level or less) was marginally significant at the 10% level in the baseline specification.