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Abstract Background Little is known about the epidemiology of HIV in Japan, though newly-identified cases amongst men who have sex with men (MSM) show an increasing trend.

For marijuana use, the difference was marginally significant.

The correlation for TNF-α (r = 0.335 p = 0.06) was borderline significant.

Both age and smoking variables were highly significant predictive variables, and the estimated hazard ratios were very similar to those in the multivariable model with additional variables.

[18] discovered highly significant differences between shear and tensile bond strengths of human and bovine enamel; however, regression prediction equations supported the use of bovine teeth as a reliable substitute to human counterparts in bonding studies of orthodontic adhesion [10] .

This effect was more than twice the size of the same trend that was apparent, but only marginally significant in Experiment 1, when the dots were presented at fixed locations specific to each of the 21 possible stimuli.

It is clear that despite the nominally significant p-value, the two sub-populations fail to separate along these axes.

Two SNPs showed marginally significant P values for HWE testing of the control group: 0.0155 for rs3026401 (S9) and 0.0304 for rs509628 (S16).

A strong genetic determinism was identified with highly significant genotype and interaction between the genotype and year (GxY) effects ( Table 2 ).

Differences with a p -value ≤0.05 were considered statistically significant; differences with a value 0.05< p ≤0.1 were considered borderline significant.

The average correlation predicted between class and each of the 16 variables was significant for all variables (ts > 2.02, p s < .05) except Indifference ( t (95) = .52, ns), Dishonesty ( t (95) = 1.98, p = .05), and Contextualism ( t (95) = 1.86, p < .07) which were marginally significant.

As shown in Table 2 , the sensitivity of detection was usually 95% or higher except in the combination of AmpliconNoise+CORAL that again showed a trend towards reduced sensitivity when combined.

Appendix S4 Assessing the impact of the length of the data series on the likelihood of detecting a significant trend towards earlier or later phenologies.

This striking outcome may be quite significant in enabling the use of rigid body docking with the holo form when screening a structural database to find a suitable binding target, provided that the scoring functions are sensitive enough to identify these “early-encounter” conformations that form just prior to relaxation of the DNA and/or protein conformation.

All three genes appear highly significant induced in ARβ1 ES cells after ablation of β-catenin by administration of 4-OHT ( Fig. 3C ) supporting our finding that ablation of β-catenin in ES cells leads to an onset of apoptosis as early cellular response.

Values of p<0.05 were considered significant (*), p<0.01 very significant (**) and p<0.001 extremely significant (***).

Because the financial cost of routine screening may be significant, TCD is a cost effective choice.

How can these findings be interpreted under the inhibition framework? Although the current findings showed a trend consistent with this prediction (i.e., 73 ms vs. 60 ms for pre- and post-target inhibition, respectively, in Experiment 1, and 15 ms vs. 10 ms for pre- and post-target inhibition, in Experiment 2, respectively), the differences were not statistically significant.

The chi square goodness of fit tests rejected the power law and the simple BDIM for all word lists with highly significant p-values.

Although there were trends to poorer outcome for tumors with high expression of STAT1, this was only of borderline significance.

For instance, several recent field [3] , [4] and experimental [5] , [6] studies suggest that airborne transmission of low-pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) viruses in ducks may be significant.

Nitrate-N shows an increasing trend particularly from 1955 to 1975.

Roe deer abundance is not a significant predictor of TBE incidence; the red deer-roe deer abundance interaction shows borderline significance, suggesting that further analysis with larger sample size could clarify this aspect ( Table 2 ).

On the bead sorting task, more participants in the AN group chose to check their work (although this just missed significance) and those in the AN group spent significantly longer checking.

From an historical point of view, the number of reindeer in Finnmark has been characterized by considerable temporal variation: from the early 1900s, there was a decreasing trend that reached a minimum around the Second World War.