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Based on these preliminary results, HR-pQCT data could offer some biomechanical explanation for the highly significant role shown for (wrist) cortical bone structure in the determination of (vertebral body) strength.

With an increase in Re C number to 98, a decreasing trend can be seen in the focusing width.

This was not significant when viewing the positive attention stimuli, but the p value was approaching significance ( Mdn = 2.57 vs.

In contrast, most chemokine levels in the placentas showed an increasing trend in the MIUH group.

lanceolate collected from different regions ( Figs 2 and 3 ); the influence of temperature increases on the growth of the populations exhibited an increasing trend with increasing latitude ( Fig. 4 ).

CXCR5 + Th17 cells frequencies showed a similar strong trend with IL-17 production that did not quite reach significance most likely due to variations in proportion of total CXCR5 + cells ( Supplementary Figure 1d ).

Importantly, the PIFE values with Bam HI showed a highly significant difference from control reactions with either bovine serum albumin (BSA) or DNA probe with no BamHI site (P values range from 1.2 × 10 −6 to 1.3 × 10 −6 ; two tailed t-test) demonstrating that mwPIFE can reliably detect a protein/NA interaction in a quantitative manner.

Thus, it is essentially significant to study the influence of crosslinking degree on the permeation selectivities of CO 2 .

Indeed, a clear trend exists, but to the best of our knowledge 56 , this trend on how the combination of HCP and FCC or BCC elements can affect the mixing enthalpy has not been revealed before.

The majority of texture descriptors exhibit either an increasing or a decreasing trend that varies with decreasing PEGDM hydrogel stiffness ( Fig. 4D ).

Sample #3 had a decreasing trend for hydraulic conductivity, and Sample #1 had a slightly decreasing trend.

The association remained highly significant even after adjusting for conventional risk factors and baseline RHR.

14 , who noted that an obvious trend of biomass did not occur in conjunction with temperate secondary broadleaved forest conversion into bamboo forest.

We noted a statistical trend towards a low inverse correlation between ascites miR-125b levels and MELD score levels.

melanogaster revealed that this protein is partly disordered and possesses a unique quaternary structure that may be significant for its regulatory activities.

In addition, the annual mean cyanobacterial surface bloom area exhibited an increasing trend across the entire lake from 2003 to 2013, with the exception of 2006 and 2007.

However, temperature displayed an increasing trend in the early season, but a decreasing trend in the late season from transplanting to maturity.

From a clinical perspective, an observed trend can show the tendency of an MCI subject to become an AD patient or to remain stable.

Third, patients had a median survival of 24.5 months (95% CI 20.524 to 28.476) for the del19 group compared with 21.6 months (95% CI 7.620 to 35.580) for the L858R group, and these data showed a trend.

In the current study, the fMRI time points were divided into two halves, which revealed an overall trend of decreased functional connectivity for the 11 domain-specific links from the 1 st to the 2 nd half.

Experimental-wise highly significant (−log 10 P EW > 5) additive effects were detected for 11 QTSs.

There was a slight trend towards a change in COX-2 expression between cigarette smoke exposed Ahr −/− and Ahr +/− mice ( Fig. 9A and C).

Thus, even with a comparatively small cohort, highly significant differences can be detected in regions implicated in nociceptive processing due to the reproducibility and sensitivity of the methodology at “moderate” stimulation.

6 ) shows an increasing trend over the considered timeframes, from a value of 0.7 in the period 1910–1930 to a value of 0.9 for the timeframe 1990–2010.

Statistical analyses The significance of trend of Cl a , Fl a and Imp ch during the years was evaluated using a two-tailed Mann–Kendall nonparametric test, with the null hypothesis of a trend absence, against the alternative of a significant trend.