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On the contrary when we compared the ONT MinION cDNA counts and the Illumina cDNA molecular counts we saw a positive trend (r 2 = 0.293) ( Fig. 2B ).

Although these elevations were only marginally significant in statistical terms, they may represent actual tolerable limits, as suggested by a parallel analysis of stress biomarkers in control larvae exposed to paraquat-augmented diet (for more details, see Table S4 ).

7 ): (1) For fixed Δ and ρ , there was a decreasing trend in decoding error with increasing T 0 , but the performance was relatively stable; (2) Regardless of T 0 , decoding error decreased with increasing ρ ; (3) For fixed T 0 , there was a decreasing trend in decoding error with increasing Δ.

A high positive Z-score indicates that the raw data statistic is much greater than those obtained by chance (null hypothesis), and therefore is highly significant in a statistical sense.

This survey also showed a trend of increase in the prevalence of aac ( 6 ′)- Ib-cr and oqxAB among FQ-resistant isolates between 2004–2006 and 2010–2012 ( Table 1 ).

At 17.5 dpc Noggin −/− myofibers were slightly but significantly thinner and this trend persisted until 18.5 dpc where the difference was apparent ( Fig. 1 F–H’).

Furthermore, the ambient temperature has increased by 1 °C over the past 50 years and precipitation shows a significant increasing trend in the 1980s and 1990s, and the average annual precipitation shows an increasing trend with a magnitude of 6.8 mm per decade 37 , while warming has decreased soil moisture content and enhanced the potential for oxidation of CH 4 38 .

Additionally all mutants showed a trend toward steeper slopes than WT, but only the augmentation slope in dlgA mutants reached statistical significance ( Fig. 5 D).

having “ikigai” and decisiveness, had a nominally significant association with breast cancer incidence 12 .

This conservative selection of a threshold ensures that the scores are well above the level of random values, and that only highly significant interactions are retained.

The CCT showed an increasing trend at postoperative 1 week and then returned to preoperative levels at postoperative 12 months.

For most of the ROIs, the genetic correlations between the homologous regions were found to be highly significant and also the test of genetic correlations r G = 1 tenable.

In this context, it is possibly significant that MscS can tolerate additions to the carboxy-terminus (e.g. the alkaline phosphatase protein), and the 18 residues at the carboxy-terminus can be deleted without significantly impacting folding, assembly or function 20 .

The temporal evolution of SST anomalies during the developing EN year (January to December) in 1982, 1997 and 2015 are similar, with an increasing trend from January to the peak in November in 1997 and 2015, and the peak in December in 1982, with 2015 typically showing the strongest warming.

Furthermore, an increasing trend was observed in Austria (from 1.10 cases per 10,000 births in 1974–1979 to 4.20 cases per 10,000 births in 2005–2009) and North America (from 1.88 cases per 10,000 births in 1980–1984 to 4.00 cases per 10,000 births in 2005–2009).

The rain rate (RR) exhibited a decreasing trend in most portions of EC for both convective and stratiform precipitation.

F3 ′ H and F3'5 ′ H genes revealed contrasting patterns of expression in the four leaf stages, with an increasing trend for the former but a decreasing one for the latter, indicating a change in their relative importance in flavonoid biosynthesis during Hevea leaf development.

8b , the crack growth velocity shows a decreasing trend, which is understandable as the aggregated strain energy reduces with the crack growth.

Moreover, in the latter case speciation will also be impacted by the recrystallization rate, with a clear trend towards increased incorporation at faster recrystallization.

Although no data are available directly for our study site, data from nearby sites indicate a strong impact and declining reef health starting in the mid-1990s, with a decreasing trend in coral cover reported for MNP (west of Chichiriviche; from 55% in 1996 to 39% in 2011) and Los Roques National Park (north of Chichiriviche; from 44% in 1999 to 25% in 2012) 30 .

In the years following the mortality of 2010, regeneration seems to have occurred across all size-classes at 2 m, demonstrated by total coral abundance and proportion of larger size-classes generally following an increasing trend ( Fig. 1 ).

We also notice that the ME scores in terms of AJCC (pTNM) M stage show marginal significance ( Fig. 5B ), which may be affected by the small sample size of given metastases status.

We localized CAV1 in blood vessels of 2-day-old WT and DMD pigs, with an apparent trend of more stained cells in the latter group (see Fig. 2A ).

Despite a lack of direct comparison with observation, TZDs showed borderline significance when compared with insulin (RR 0.33, 95% CI 0.14–0.78).

No significant alteration of any other quantified angiotensin could be observed in the LBQ657 treated group, although a clear trend towards reduced levels of angiotensins was present.