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Firstly, sample sizes in some cases were insufficient to unambiguously prove or discard the hypothesis about an apparent trend with age.

This may be due to the physiological and reproductive growth of pear jujube requiring a large amount of water supply, and the water consumption of pear jujube is increasing, so that the crop coefficient shows an increasing trend.

Two and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for differences between treatments with p-values < 0.05 considered significant, < 0.01 very significant and < 0.001 highly significant.

Assessment of association between lesion grade, viral load, E2: E6 ratio and pSTAT3 was performed using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient which revealed a positive correlation between lesion grade, viral load and pSTAT3 with highly significant p -values ( Table 6 ).

When several genes from the same family were differentially expressed we took one member from list from highly significant ones and one member for which the adjusted value was close to 0.05.

Although presepsin showed an increasing trend in the early stage due to the deterioration of renal function, there was no significant difference between healthy subjects and patients in the CKD G1 group.

The CI 95% of the adjusted RR of the different strata did not overlap and the Breslow-Day test was highly significant with p = <10 −3 for the incidence, but not applicable to the case fatality.

It was observed that there was an increasing trend of mean QOL scores among the patients with higher educational qualification.

In the remaining “fearful” dogs with both current age and age of onset recorded (N = 395), there was a clear trend showing that firework fears tended to develop at a young age: 45% of owners reported that their dogs developed a fear of fireworks already under one year of age.

For the 108 remaining species, we removed those that had insufficient data to determine a significant trend, which we defined as a capture rate <5 individuals/year.

For example, the death rates and the number of deaths from hypertension by IHME decrease between 1990 and 2005 for the age groups by genders, and then show an increasing trend between 2010 and 2015.

After 12 weeks of age, the loss in total inguinal scWAT innervation remained consistent in MUT mice ( Fig 1F ), but TH showed a trend for further decrease in MUT mice aged to 24 weeks ( Fig 1G ).

Protein expression of the pan-neuronal marker PGP9.5 revealed a decreasing trend with increasing BMI in human scWAT adipose tissue ( Fig 3A ), despite no difference in adipocyte diameter with increasing BMI and no correlation of adipocyte diameter to PGP9.5 levels ( Fig 3B and 3C ), indicating that adipose neuropathy also likely exists in human tissues.

The preoperative SMI was significantly decreased at 6 months postoperatively and showed a slightly increasing trend during the 1-year postoperative period.

The distribution map of L/H shows a decreasing trend from east to west, except for the central part of the watershed.

The map of HREEs distribution shows an increasing trend from east to west and northwest, except for the small plot of low content in the central part of the watershed.

In addition, the finding that combination multiple job holders experienced sickness absence less often than single job holders was borderline significant.

p-values were considered statistically significant if * P <0.05 and statistically highly significant if ** P <0.01. 3 Result 3.1 The toxicity of alcohol to zebrafish larvae 3.1.1 Influence of solvent ethanol to lethality and morphology of zebrafish larvae The lethality of solvent ethanol to zebrafish ( Fig 1A ) was represented by the lethal dose 50% (LC 50 ).

A pairwise comparison between the immersive perspective-taking and the control conditions was also insignificant ( p = .108) though approaching significance.

Sequences matching the tet(33) were associated with a notable trend in manure-treated effluent.

Stratified analyses showed a significantly decreased risk of AD mortality with aspirin, whereas non-aspirin NSAIDs only showed a statistical trend toward significance in the adjusted Cox regression models.

Importantly, the main effect of gender diversity in the workforce remains positive and highly significant indicating that our findings in this regard are not an artifact of endogeneity.

noted a decrease in the incidence and in-hospital mortality from AKI in all AMI patients.[ 13 ] They postulated that this may be partly due to greater recognition and the effective use of preventive strategies.[ 13 , 29 ] In contrast to the general AMI population, our study noted an increasing trend of AKI in AMI-CS during this study period.

The result showed an increasing trend of AS from extracts of two high Trp lines when Trp concentration was increased. 5MT-5 showed 1.5 times higher activity compared to 5MT-4 at the end.

Overall, however, we saw a positive trend in Tajima’s D ( Fig 2 ), suggesting the signatures of either balancing selection or a recent population expansion in both cross types; average Tajima’s D values were 1.93 for the R x R cross and 1.98 for the A x A cross.