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We also noticed that although the trend in mutagenesis is highly significant, there are no significant differences among lower and high doses.

The most highly significant GO group within the MF category was identified as ‘extracellular ligand-gated ion channel activity’ (Fig. 3 ; GO:0005230; p .adj = 3 × 10 −5 ).

Use of chemically induced and clinically relevant liver fibrosis model for elucidation of pomegranate potential against liver fibrosis is highly significant because there is a general paucity of documentation on pomegranate juice against liver fibrosis.

In the first set of experimental materials, we found a significant difference for larvae production, growth, and adhesive rates between the hyposalinity adaptation and control population; the difference between the growth and adhesive rate reached a highly significant level.

Upon necropsy, primary and metastatic tumour weights showed a trend toward smaller tumours in shSnail mice (Suppl.

Variations in song phrase transitions indicated a decreasing trend in deafened birds compared with intact birds, as a reduction of the total number of unique syllables was observed following auditory deprivation (Fig. 5a ).

The TB incidence in Nanshan showed a decreasing trend in the 25–34 and 35–44 age groups, with the greatest annual decrease (13.3%) in the 15–24 group.

As expected, mean berry temperatures were strongly affected by the treatments and showed a trend that exactly mirrored the one observed for minimum temperatures in both years, with TV and TPV having similar values to C when outside the climatic chamber.

The water storage of the Danjiangkou Reservoir demonstrated an increasing trend over the observation period.

Furthermore, the number of ice days showed negative trends at all meteorological stations, but most of the entire eastern stations didn’t show a significant trend.

Overall, though the four extremal indices showed an increasing trend, the rate of change in the minimum temperature was greater than that of the maximum temperature; thus, the minimum temperature contributed most strongly to the overall temperature increases.

The agro-pastoral ecotone that we studied is a transitional zone between regions with a continental climate and regions with a monsoon climate, so climate change in this region is unstable, and the impact of land-use changes caused by human activities on regional temperature increases may be significant.

The smoothed data (red lines, based on the 10-year running average, with a sampling proportion = 0.18) for TN10 and TX10 showed a decreasing trend, with fluctuations, but with a predominantly upward trend after the 1990s (Fig. 1 ).

In the absence of leptin, siXbp1 led to downregulation of XBP1s protein and a strong trend of decreasing its mRNA (Fig. 4A,B ).

As the most abundant group in Proteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria showed a decreasing trend in community abundances along the vertical depth, with the abundance changing from 29.3% in the surface zones to 13.2% in the Deep areas.

Similarly, surface velocity patterns of the glaciers reveal an increasing trend with elevation until a maxima is attained near the transient snow lines (Fig. 3b ).

These highly significant correlations suggest that when faces are associated with anger and fear in a way that is shared across participants, these faces are also associated with dominance and trustworthiness.

Both studies’ top SNPs in the basonuclin 2 gene ( BNC2 ) locus were only nominally significant in our data ( P rs2153271 = 0.0044; P rs62543565 = 0.0351), and in the interferon regulatory factor 4 ( IRF4 ), melanocortin 1 receptor ( MC1R ), and agouti signaling protein (ASIP ) loci, their top SNPs were predominantly monomorphic in 1000G East Asian samples (Supplementary Table S2 ) or were only weakly significant in our data (Table 2 ; P IRF4,rs9405675 = 0.0113; P MC1R:rs8060934 = 0.0027).

There is an increasing trend with the increase of thickness of Al foils.

Generally, highly significant correlations were observed between SPR-measured affinity and total IgG (estimated by ELISA) for the PfRh2 protein from month to month throughout the study period (Table 1 ).

Increasing maternal pre-pregnant BMI showed a suggestive association with lower iron stores, of borderline significance, whereas other maternal factors not associated with iron biomarkers in cord samples (Supplementary Table S5 ).

However, both a decreasing trend in poleward heat transport 30 , and increasing poleward heat transport 13 have been reported indicating that determining the strength of external forcing in the Arctic requires further investigation.

In these regions, areas characterized by highly significant reductions in NPP cover 7,690 km 2 , encompassing 3.91% of total grassland area, while zones characterized by significant decreases encompass 1,260 km 2 (0.68% of total area).

1 shows that a highly significant positive linear correlation was present between the two models for both the maximum fertilization rate and the economic fertilization rate for N, P and K, which indicates that the new model has good inheritance and reliability with the recommended fertilization rate.

6 represents natural fluctuations in prevalence, where herds with low prevalence will have an increasing trend, and herds with high prevalence will have a decreasing trend.