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However, the number of less aggregated areas showed an increasing trend during the five years.

New bioinformatics approaches and the ability to examine entire pathways rather than individual genes is exciting as small changes in individual gene expression levels may be significant when examined in the context of overall pathway changes [ 22 ].

One study of a surgical ICU population showed a trend towards an increased rate of hospital-acquired infection and another study of patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery showed a strong association with the risk of subsequent hospital-acquired infection [ 23 , 24 ].

Even though the overall responses to the alap had a rather uniform distribution of phase angles, three subjects showed significant synchronization with the sound events and one subject’s responses approached significance.

The latter group had an increasing trend for developing DNI, although not statistically significant.

For microsatellite data, all permutations of Bottleneck analyses, except for NWFS, showed evidence of heterozygosity deficiencies (CB showed only marginal significance in this regard) ( Table 2 ).

EBER1 expression reached the lowest level at 24 hpi, was subsequently showing an increasing trend and reached initial levels at 72 hpi when cells were inoculated with rB95.8.

As the regression was highly significant (see below), we formed 2 groups of mixed populations, one dominated by the Acadian race (relative contribution of the Acadian race varying from 0.65 to 0.87, Acadian-mixed) and a second dominated by the Atlantic race (relative contribution of the Acadian race varying from 0.10 to 0.38; Atlantic-mixed, Table 2 ).

There has been an increasing trend in the number of studies for WTP per QALY in the last decade.

The expression of the IFNγ and iNOS genes was also elevated in the IfitmDel animals (Fig 4E and 4F ) with differences trending toward significance.

The “market temperature” One of the main implication of our GL-based theory of mood transitions in the market is the existence of a nontrivial transition from a “high temperature” symmetric state, where traders don’t create a trend over time, to a “low temperature” state, characterized by trend following with a definite trend in the price trajectories (up or down).

However, further experiments with anandamide at 10 nmol/L (Ki for CB2R = ≥280 nmol/L [ 3 ]), showed a trend for a decrease in anandamide effect by antagonism of CB1R and not by blocking CB2R or TRPV1 ( Fig 3A ).

While the ADC and MTR measurements may not have shown as much statistical significance in the ANOVA, it is still worth noting the values of the data collected for all the imaging modalities show a decreasing trend in the values observed with only one exception.

Mann-Whitney test proved a highly significant increase (all p-values less than 2.22 x 10–15, Bonferroni corrected, 10 tests) in 5’UTR lengths in T . gondii and N . caninum against the model eukaryotes. 3’UTRs were similar to those in humans but longer than those in other eukaryotes.

REM sleep latency decreased with increasing HbA1c with a significant trend (p value for trend is 0.004).

Similarly, protein levels of myogenin also showed a trend of higher levels starting from day 3 of differentiation (Fig 1C and 1D ).

However, those genes that are identified as being marginally significant by only one method should be carefully double-checked before being classified.

The second marginally significant window involves a similar scenario where RG35 is nested within the clade of French lines, sister to the French line FR229 ( S9 Fig ).

The person-specific effects were found to be highly significant.

X OM exhibited a highly significant and negative correlation with 4’-demethylpodophyllotoxin (R = –0.968), whereas the X JMT demonstrated significant and positive correlation (R = 0.953).

However, the effect of fire severity on mean mass loss (control) was not significant; instead, there was a positive trend with fire severity for leaf mass loss (control) in both whole and best fit models ( Table 2 , Fig 3b ).

Previous studies showed that cellulose contained in straw usually finished decomposing just at the beginning of the straw returning [ 65 , 66 , 67 ] and the β-cellobiosidase activity showed a trend of rapidly increased activity and relatively stable activity at first, but tended to significantly decrease after 60 days of straw returning [ 65 ].

The modest significance level might be due to the low number of matching groups.

SC100 had a highly significant effect on mean longevity.

The current study of wheat straw incorporation in a dryland farming region (Heyang) showed that, compared with the application of chemical fertilizer alone, straw incorporation had a highly significant effect on the available nutrient contents in the 0–40 cm soil layer, especially that in the top soil layer (0–20 cm).