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We found that since the 1960s, the air temperature in Xinjiang shows an increasing trend and the distribution of precipitation in the Tianshan area is quite complex.

From the base of the section upward, goethite exhibits an overall increasing trend and hematite a decreasing trend resulting in a pronounced decline in Hm/(Hm + Gt) ratios upsection (Fig. 4 ).

There was also a significant trend according to sex, with a higher risk of stroke in female patients with Log Hcy >1.23 than in those with Log Hcy ≤ 1.23.

Among the antiviral drugs, chloroquine has shown to significantly reduce the duration of fever and showed a trend towards reduction in the proportion of patients developing DHF 41 .

These correlational analyses revealed very strong and highly significant positive correlations with DAT for the dopamine antagonists haloperidol, olanzapine, and both low and high dose of risperidone but not for the reuptake inhibitor methylphenidate (Fig. 3a ).

From which the specific BET surface area and total pore volume showed a trend of increase with the extension of the reaction time, however, they did not change significantly when the reaction time was extended to more than 26 h.

Interestingly, a clear trend for clustering of the samples was observed along the first component, which explained 58.1% of the metabolic variance in AF, 60% in urine, and 48% in serum.

Further, two more proteins scored near significance threshold and included, 19 kDa globulin protein OS = Oryza sativa subsp. japonica GN = Os05g0499100PE = 1 SV = 2.

C/C monozygotes of MTHFR C677T with a history of drinking alcohol showed a decreased risk of thyroid cancer, where an increasing trend was observed in individuals with a minor allele T.

Statistical analysis of Raman spectroscopic results shows a clear trend between growth rate and defectiveness that is in quantitative agreement with a model where defects are healed preferentially at the growth front.

In addition, when the lag was −15, there was a marginally significant negative CCF, which we believe to be a false alarm.

In the present study, the significant higher abundance of Beijerinckiaceae at the end of the dry season when compared with the rainy season, and almost significant at the transition between rainy and dry season would support the possibility of a higher abundance of bacteria in the soil linked to the phyllosphere when litter inputs and accumulation are at the highest 56 .

Patulibacteraceae showed higher relative abundances at Time 1 than Times 2 and 3 and Beijerinckiaceae higher relative abundances at Time 3 (and an increasing trend at Time 2) than Time 1.

Long-term records from single rural weather stations can be less reliable, but quality controlled data for the region around Liuku show the same warming trend as at XTBG 45 and, in contrast to XTBG, a significant trend of decreasing rainfall of 27 mm per decade 46 .

Plankton biomass partitioning Total plankton biomass (from pico to micro size) showed a decreasing trend from the surface (on average 29.3 μgC L −1 ) to the deepest water masses (0.3 μgC L −1 ; Fig. 3A , Supplementary Table S2 ).

All patient groups were matched for global cognitive impairment by their CAMCOG and MMSE scores, although the AD group showed a trend of lower cognitive impairment compared with the other dementia groups.

The B6 mice in Group 1 had no significant IOP changes between time points, yet showed a trend of slight IOP increase in the older individuals, consistent with normal age-related changes reported in a previous study 22 .

Carotenoid content of the stressed plants showed a decreasing trend with a greater reduction in content under SS than MS (Fig. 6C,D ).

These increases in rainfall, soil moisture, and vegetation together lead to a substantial reduction of the dust abundance in this region, especially the Thar Desert, as shown by a negative trend in satellite-retrieved aerosol optical depth.

In both cases, a strong trend is noticed for region A, which is the least for region B (check the scaling of the y axis).

Correlations of Microstructure between Histomorphometry and μCT Highly significant, positive correlations were found between the trabecular parameters by histomorphometry and μCT: BV/TV (histo) and BV/TV (μCT), BV/TV (histo) and Tb.Th (μCT), Tb.N (histo) and BV/TV (μCT), Tb.Th (histo) and BV/TV as well as Tb.Th (μCT).

In terms of microstructure, miR-324-3p showed a trend towards negative association to cortical porosity.

Our large sample size revealed some borderline significant associations, but there was little evidence of a strong association with diverticulosis.

sensory: p = 0.0016; 1-way ANOVA, repeated measures), whereas subgroup 2 showed a trend towards more pronounced cerebellar deficits.

Most ecological niche models indicate the range of Zika virus should be more restricted than that of its vectors, and published evidence suggests there may be significant differences between the known and potential distributions of dengue and Zika 12 , so we exclude these proxy methods from our study and focus instead on modeling studies that explicitly use Zika occurrence data.