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(Please upload your review as an attachment if it exceeds 20,000 characters) Reviewer #1: This is a high-quality methodological study that provides important quantitative evidence and practical design recommendations for an under-researched yet practically significant issue in small-sample clinical trials, such as those for rare diseases: the impact of allocation bias on stratified analysis with multi-component endpoints.

When Re = 10, the two fluids show an overall trend of “unmixed - micro-mixed - basic mixed - fully mixed” within the continuous “S”-shaped microfluidic chip.

In our case, IL-10 levels showed a highly significant time × group interaction in G3, despite the absence of a main time effect.

The FP regimen demonstrated a favorable trend (HR = 0.68; 95% CI: 0.25–1.87), though not statistically significant, suggesting a need for further validation.

This effect was mostly driven by the respect dimension of attitude, since in a separate analysis of liking, it was only marginally significant.

This is supported by the excellent microbial safety profile, where pathogens were absent and Heterotrophic Bacterial Counts showed a decreasing trend over storage (e.g., from 5.505 to 2.301 log CFU/g, Table 5 ), a stability attributable to the low water activity from baking and the possible mild preservative effect of phytochemicals.

Employment status was not strongly associated with either outcome, although a slight trend toward lower smoking odds was observed among unpaid or informally employed individuals [ 26 , 30 ].

D-D demonstrated significant predictive value at 72 hours and showed a strong trend towards significance at 168 hours, but its accuracy is likely influenced by trauma-induced hyperfibrinolysis, which affects its specificity.

In addition, p16 protein levels showed an increasing trend in old myoblasts, although this difference did not reach statistical significance ( Fig 1b ).

The association for the second quintile is marginally insignificant (OR=0.83; 95% CI: 0.68-1.01).

This robust association, with a highly significant p -value of less than 0.001 and a narrow confidence interval, highlights the need to address AD-related difficulties to potentially reduce the prevalence of CLRC.

In summary, density has exhibited a negative trend over the years, a pattern that is consistent across different regions.

In China, the standardized incidence was 328.25 per 100,000 population in 2019, with an increasing trend [ 2 ].

Additional moderately significant economic predictors included home garden ownership and no consumption of fresh or fermented milk.

Demagnetization data were typically anchored to the origin because most specimens exhibited a well-defined stable endpoint demagnetization behavior that showed a trend directed to the origin.

The specific example mentioned (prevalence trends in China) has been corrected and is now uniformly described throughout the manuscript as an increasing trend.

A clear trend across all Nyquist plots is the systematic decrease in semicircle diameter with increasing tetracycline concentration.

LHV of product gas, CCE and CGE As shown in Fig 5 , the LHV, CCE, and CGE all exhibited an increasing trend with rising ER.

In terms of overall evolutionary patterns, although the CCD between EEQ and PHR in the YRBC exhibits an unbalanced state, the overall disparity shows a decreasing trend.

Also, Civil Servants insurance saw an increasing trend (26.12% to 50.93%), while the Rural insurance group showed a decrease (39.35% to 6.48%) across the antibiotic groups ( Table 1 ).

The highest population prevalence, across groups NAb to Q4, was in the 40–64 age group, while the lowest was in the 65–95 age group, with a decreasing trend from NAb to Q4 (24.17% to 18.85%) in the older group.

CPR followed a similar trend as CYR with a decreasing trend in the < 15-year age group and an increasing trend in the > 60-year age group ( Figs 2B and 2C ).

All groups showed a decline in antibody levels from V3 to V4, which was statistically significant in CTRLs and showed a trend in CKD and HD/PD patients, but not in KTRs.

Overall, expression of activation and adhesion markers on LN CD4 + T cells showed a trend toward recovery following T-MSC administration in DNCB-treated mice, although these changes did not reach statistical significance ( Fig 5E ).

On the MUSED-I dataset, the total loss and validation loss also show a decreasing trend.