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We found that the relative abundance of several bacterial taxa differed between cases and controls, albeit marginally significant.

Our data showed a trend towards having lower ER and PR immunoreactive scores in tumors that have low BRCA1 expression which is in agreement with previous studies showing BRCA1-related breast cancers are more frequently ER negative than nonhereditary breast cancers [ 30 ].

The V85% speeds show a decreasing trend from grade -0.04 to 0.03.

A previous study has demonstrated a simultaneous increasing bundle compliance trend and a decreasing trend of ventilator-associated pneumonia rate [ 25 ].

Furthermore, in the SPIN-UTI network an increasing trend of IAP rates was observed from 2006 to 2015 [ 6 – 10 ].

Our results have shown a negative trend of IAP risk with increasing number of bundle components and suggest that a large proportion of IAP, i.e. 40%, can be prevented by improving adherence to good practices.

Additionally, the association with male gender was marginally significant.

The outcomes of these models indicate that the coefficients of EMP are quite significant for the two, four and six-period lags where the four-period lags in A2 and B2 demonstrate the highest elasticity on industrial land developments.

A slight trend of decreased activity and increased in inactivity occurred in the 1 st week, but after 2 weeks, both mean worker activity and inactivity appear to have regained levels comparable to pre-removal levels.

As shown in Fig 3A , we did not find any significant change in the frequencies of Th17 cells in RA patients, although a clear trend toward a reduction over the low-sodium dietary regimen followed by an increase at the end of the study was observed.

An obvious trend of increasing 5mC levels was observed starting at 28 days of exposure to the second highest dose and this trend persisted at the two highest treatments for close to one month, when the experiment was terminated after 56 days.

These data indicate an overall trend towards DNA hypermethylation with elevated Cd exposure.

There is a very highly significant overlap between the proteins that were identified by Nishida et al compared to our current study. 9 proteins KRT10, KRT2, RCL, YCN, SRSF8, ALB, PKM2, KRT9, HISTH2AB and KRT19 are exclusively identified in the previous study.

Fluency and flexibility did not significantly differ between the groups in the CFG, and were marginally significant in the AUT, in favor of the placebo group We next compared fluency, defined as the overall number of solutions.

Nevertheless, based on two stock assessment models (i.e., a stochastic age-independent continuous population model and a catch-free assessment model), Larkin [ 23 ] estimated an increasing trend in fishing mortality since the mid-1980s in Florida Bay and the Keys, and suggested that even relatively low mortality could reduce bonefish stock abundance if effort and releases were high.

None of the other three contrasts approached significance (all p s > .349).

Among others, bacteria of the families Verrucomicrobiaceae and Enterobacteriaceae showed a trend towards increased abundance in H+ , whereas the Leuconostocaceae and Bacteroidaceae showed a relative increase in H - and Ht respectively.

Among socio-demographic indicators, only religion was highly significantly associated with avoiding pre-lacteals, and marginally with colostrum feeding; paternal education and institutional delivery showed marginally significant association with avoiding pre-lacteals.

Other miRNAs approaching significance with log2 fold changes up- or downregulation by greater than 1 included miR-10a, miR-133b, miR-138, miR-150, miR-155, miR-212, miR-362-3p, miR-518e, and miR-885-5p.

This study reported that the prevalence of abdominal obesity (defined as WC ≥ 95 cm for males and ≥ 90 cm for females) was 10.2% (8.6% for males and 11.3% for females), which showed a trend towards a lower prevalence of abdominal obesity compared to those in other studies [ 28 ].

In the single-variable analysis, feeling comfortable with the foot pedal exhibited strong significance ( P < 0.001) demonstrating a highly significant inverse association with the presence of foot pain, however the type of activation switch exhibited no statistical significance ( P = 0.468).

There was marginal significance between neck pain and number of monitors used.

Conversely, fentanyl showed a trend toward increasing the awakening and weaning time along with the duration of mechanical ventilation.

This may have resulted in some non-significant or marginally significant results due to a lack of statistical power in the present study.

As regards the HIV parameters, we observed that HIV-positive MSM in C-CDC 93 stage, i.e., subjects diagnosed with an AIDS-associated disease, had a higher prevalence of infection, at borderline significance.