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Mustelids exhibit a negative trend between litter size (proxy for fecundity) and female body size, suggesting that small female body sizes are favored 27 .

A clear trend is seen between the charge applied and the resulting lattice parameters, strain-heavy IONPs are produced at higher charge/Fe experiments with compressed lattices further from the ideal value of bulk Fe 3 O 4 .

Moreover, the guilt-by-association approach shows that we actively enriched specific functions in each cluster and the clusters have highly significant different gene functions enriched (see the cross-correlation table in Supplementary File 2 ).

S1 ), and both were high when the macrophyte belt was absent and showed a decreasing trend with the increasing width of the macrophyte belt (see Supplementary Fig.

Overall levels of IgG4 were significantly lower in Gabonese plasma, although the infected sub-group showed a trend towards higher IgG4.

Further analyses at the whole-brain level, revealed that VPT children showed a positive trend towards increased connectivity in theta during the retention interval compared to the FT group.

That is, the aromatics biodegradation showed a trend that the less branched or un-branched components were preferentially degraded, and the effects gradually weakened with the crude oil concentrations increased.

There was a significant trend towards lower VEGF-A (p trend = 0.001) and higher MMP-2 levels (p trend = 0.004) in eyes with MMD.

In Table 2 , PO 4 -P fluxes exhibited a slightly significant degree of variation with respect to the capping material, while they were significantly influenced by the temperature.

Furthermore, because cancers are multifactorial diseases, it has been suggested that other factors such as exposure to other carcinogens (e.g., asbestos), poor diet, past lung diseases (e.g., tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis) and genetic factors may be significant in the development of lung cancer 11 – 13 .

The S6k1 −/− mice showed a trend for being hyperactive, but this did not reach significance for either gender (males: F 1,33 = 1.266, P = 0.271; females: F 1,31 = 3.265, P = 0.080).

In our study, current smoking was not associated with 15D, but ex-smoking remained of borderline significance.

Partially controlled asthma, BMI, previous smoking and number of drugs in use (other indications than asthma/allergy) were not associated with poorer 15D score, even though the two latter had borderline significance (Table 3 ).

A decreasing trend of H 2 O 2 concentration was observed in the release media from 48 to 72 hours, that may be attributed to an ageing of H 2 O 2 , as observed in cell culture media 37 .

This knowledge is extremely significant in order to minimize the environmental aftereffects of open-pit mining in Europe.

The COD concentration showed a trend with two distinct peaks where the highest concentration was observed either early morning between 8:00 am to 9:00 am or early night around 8:00 pm.

The wavelengths extracted from the red-edge spectrum had moderately significant contributions for the estimation of E in all pooled data, the second season, and 60 mM NaCl, with R 2 ranging from 0.35 to 0.55 (Table 3 ).

4(b) show an increasing trend of ~6 μg/m 3 (4%) per year (total 60%) over the period 2002–2016.

A 15-year long record (2002–2016) of NASA’s A-train satellite measurements have revealed a positive trend in the total fire activity and resulting aerosol loads over IGP.

Fire count data from MODIS reveals a decreasing trend of −120 fire spots/year (−1.62%/year) in October, whereas fire activities in November have shown a drastic increase by +640 fire spots/year (+10.63%/year).

In this study, the mean NDVI initially continued to increase until 1997/98, before it showed a decreasing trend until mid-2000s.

The East Africa region indicated an increasing trend which is evidence of favorable agricultural and land use practices in recent decades.

After scrutinizing these data a clear trend was apparent, where Gram-positive representatives were more abundant in the fresh frozen samples relative to collection tube samples.

Follow-up duration, initial IOP, cup volume from initial OCT and deep VD from OCTA showed significant or marginal significance by univariate analysis ( P values ranging from 0.003 to 0.106).

Results Variation of FY and its related traits in the population and two parents The two parents, ZSZ1 and wild BNT exhibited highly significant difference in five fiber yield-related traits investigated (Table 1 ; Supplementary Fig.