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In particular, global deforestation rate is still alarmingly high[ 1 ], and the tropics are the only biome to exhibit an increasing trend of forest cover loss in the 21 st -century[ 2 ].

The fact that Laos might reach FT is intriguing, because socio-economic and environmental conditions in Laos contrast with those in the countries showing a positive trend in forest area ( S2 Fig ).

A p-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant and a p-value less than 0.01 was considered highly significant.

Descriptive statistics of pedigrees As seen in Table 2 , while not large, there was an overall trend for increase in inbreeding over time in both affected and control groups, but no clear pattern exists for any differences in average inbreeding coefficient between affected and control Std.

Similar to the binary outcome model result, the effect of age on the prevalence of anaemia is different for males and females, and place of residence (urban or rural) where the subject lives does not have any impact on the prevalence of anaemia for males, and a borderline significant result was observed for females.

During the 6-year study period, there was an increasing trend toward greater efficiency of basic medical service provision, benefits of basic medical service provision, effectiveness of common chronic disease management, overall satisfaction of community residents, and two-way referral effects.

A p-value <0.1 was interpreted as marginally significant and referred to as a tendency.

We found an increasing trend in attacks for nonhunters in relation to the increase in bear population size, but the null model was also among top-ranked models ( Table 2 ).

The interaction plot suggests that some of the interactions may be significant; however, the ANOVA results reject the significance of the interaction terms.

In a final sensitivity analysis in which all patients with a missing visit were counted as a flare, high MBDA score remained a significant predictor of clinical flare and a marginally significant predictor of medication escalation and TNFi-restart ( S5 Table ).

The decrease of HIC showed a trend for association with a risk of incident metabolic syndrome [ 28 ].

When compared with the 2001/02 pre-PCV baseline using the GEE model the overall odds of carriage of any pneumococcus was not significantly different from 1 in any of the post- PCV surveys ( Table 3 ); similar results were obtained when stratified by age, with the exception of a marginally significant reduction in carriage prevalence in those aged 5 years and over in 2015/16 (odds ratio 0.55, 0.30–0.99) ( Table 3 ).

The overlap from both studies is highly significant (p-value of the hypergeometric test < 0.001) and corresponds to 63 known human protein coding genes.

At doses of 50 mg/kg and 100 mg/kg, linalyl acetate injection also showed a trend toward decreased DBP, but the reductions were not significant ( Fig 2B ) Inhibitory effect of linalyl acetate on p47 phox expression in the hypertension-ischemia injury model Utilizing Western blot analysis, we investigated hypertensive ischemic injury-induced changes in p47 phox expression and corresponding inhibitory effects of linalyl acetate.

(3) A positive trend in carbon fixation (relative to nitrogen) that appeared in the particulate matter pool as well as the downward particle flux.

In contrast to the relatively stable concentrations of DON and DOP (Phases III and IV), DOC concentrations showed a decreasing trend during the second phytoplankton bloom, reaching values lower than the initial ones by the end of Phase III.

Effects of aging on IF actions In online control of IF actions, although young group showed a trend of smaller Var ON at AC task compared to NC task, both elderly and young groups showed significantly unchanged Var ON between AC and NC tasks.

Conclusion The review identified an increasing trend in the publication of accountability initiatives in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).

The partial correlations (see Table 3 ) indicated that Trail B completion time remained significantly correlated with performance in the Day/Night and Backward Digit Span tasks, and its correlation with performance in the Counting Span task was marginally significant.

There was a significant trend of decreasing rates of low Apgar scores at 1 and 5 minutes, neonatal mortality, infant mortality, and necrotizing enterocolitis with increasing gestational age at delivery ( Table 2 ).

A highly significant inverse correlation of the intensity of luminescence with the frequency of T cells secreting IFN-γ in response to stimulation with peptides representing epitopes of PR aa 1-15 and 75-84 was observed starting from day 15 ( r > 0.5, p < 0.05; S3 Fig panels A, B).

Discussion In this study, we identified an increasing trend of CO-MRSA in the HD population with MRSA bacteremia in a Taiwanese medical center during 2009–2014.

Introduction Although there has been a decreasing trend in the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the past decade [ 1 ], MRSA remains a major threat to patients all over the world.

The sampling curves of simulated datasets, in contrast, are more nuanced, showing increasing variance in fit values up to certain subsampling of landmarks, followed by a decreasing trend once the landmark sampling reaches a plateau in the curve (Figs 2 – 5 ).

The incidence rate of CRPS in Korea was 29.0 per 100,000 person-years with an increasing trend, which was correlated with patient age in the 70s and female sex.