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Our results show that from the variables associated with hearing loss and CI use, the only highly significant predictor of high self-esteem was a high level of satisfaction with their CI.

There was a slight trend towards smoking history in the crude analysis, but it was not significant in the adjusted analysis (OR = 1.23; 95%CI: 0.61–2.49).

The present study found an increasing trend in the body protein content with increasing dietary β-glucans inclusion.

Therefore, this study adds further evidence to a decreasing trend and a persistently below replacement level of intended fertility in rural China.

Regarding Stimuli E-H, there was a numerical trend towards higher ratings for the instructed stimuli than the noninstructed stimuli, but it did not reach statistical significance.

Although this is consistent with studies done in Ethiopia and abroad [ 18 , 25 , 26 , 28 – 30 ], yet none of the above causes was statistically significant on bivariate analysis level except prematurity (P = 0.054) which was very close to significance threshold and thus exceptionally considered to go for adjustment not to miss any association.

There was no indication of observer bias for either GE S8 2D-SWE or Samsung RS80A SWE as illustrated by limits of agreement analysis; however, GE S8 2D-SWE showed a trend of a slightly larger deviation of the mean than Samsung RS80A SWE (Figs 7 and 8 ).

Our study also showed an increasing trend of breastfeeding across birth cohorts in all ethnicity; however, among Chinese the breastfeeding rate and duration were still relatively low.

We obtained an only marginally significant difference in microsaccade rate between the Easy and Control tasks (the rate was higher in Easy tasks than in Control ones).

It is also different between 7-year-olds and the two youngest age cohorts (only marginally significant between 3-year-olds and 7-year-olds).

By means of 3km satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) database and geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) modelling, He et al., (2018) [ 66 ] also add evidence to the fact that air pollution in the BTH urban agglomeration generally showed a decreasing trend from January 2013 to December 2015.

Bootstrapping showed commercial hand-labor experience remained highly significant in the Sichuan dataset (model A2, significant at the 99.9% CI), which sampled from only one region.

We ran the best-fitting models again with the insertion of the FB prohibition variable in order to assess whether its p -values in any of the models was near significance.

In the following, only significant and near-significant results are reported.

An interaction between force magnitude and testing block (Force*Block, p = 0.031) was likely due to an observed trend towards reduced step width at the 2.5% BW force magnitude, but not 5% BW.

Despite the small sample size, a highly significant difference in renal oxygenation was found.

They believe that these health outcomes were highly significant predictors of mortality [ 44 ].

As depicted in Fig 7 , pH value exerts a significant influence on the zeta potential of barite and quartz, consistently showing a decreasing trend with increasing pH across various treatment conditions.

*P < 0.05 was considered to indicate a significant difference, while **P < 0.01 represented a highly significant difference.

From 2003 to 2018, the national Theil index for health production efficiency fluctuated between 0.072 and 0.286, exhibiting an overall trend of an initial increase followed by a decrease.

Microbubble dynamics We found an increasing trend of both SPIO positive cells and cell death with the acoustic PNP increase.

There is a slight trend of the residuals increasing as the fitted values increase.

It was the most impacting parameter for TDW with a positive trend that was stable across all S supply conditions (amounts and timing), meaning that increasing its value leads to higher biomass at the onset of pod formation.

During the potato growing seasons (April-September) from 1965 to 2014, the average light suitability index of the potato showed an increasing trend, increasing 0.014 every ten years.The maximum value of light suitability index was found in 2013 (0.891), and the minimum value was found in 1995 (0.679).

Overall, the C value over the past 50 years showed a slightly increasing trend during the whole growth season, benefitting potato growth in northern China.