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Although B/E presented a decreasing trend in the intervention group relative to the control group, no significant differences were observed.

The activity of these serum enzymes presented an increasing trend in the intervention group relative to the control group, however, no significant differences were observed.

Although earthworm density had a highly significant effect on aboveground plant biomass, only the highest densities (>400 individuals m −2 ) differed significantly from lower densities ( Fig. 5b ).

As the average fiber length decreases, the transmission haze of TOWF-coated flexible glass illustrates a decreasing trend.

15 revealed a highly significant correlation between insertion-torque-values (ITV), periotest-values (PTV), resonance frequency analysis (RFA) and radiographic bone density (RBD) in maxillary sinus augmentation with simultaneous implant insertion in a human cadaver study.

It has been reported that the elastic modulus of individual collagen fibril (extracted from AC) and AC tissue exhibit an increasing trend with the advancement of osteoarthritis, and the length of D-band for individual type II collagen fibril decreased accordingly 16 , 22 , 30 .

A decreasing trend in Arctic sea-ice concentration is evident in recent years, whereas Antarctic sea-ice concentration exhibits a generally increasing trend.

found a negative trend in the prevalence of depressive symptoms across increasing BMI categories in an across-sectional study of 2604 community dwelling Chinese elderly aged 55 and above 8 .

The exception 17 resulted in a marginally significant inverse association (RR = 0.860, 95% CI = 0.704–1.051).

Swedes usually regard seafood as a healthy alternative to meat, thus there is an increasing trend of seafood consumption.

Recent studies have indicated that PhytOC production flux of some plants shows a decreasing trend: bamboo (0.70 t-e-CO 2 ha −1 yr −1 ) 6 > sugarcane (0.36 t-e-CO 2 ha −1 yr −1 ) 23 > wheat (0.25 t-e-CO 2 ha −1 yr −1 ) 24 > rice (0.13 t-e-CO 2 ha −1 yr −1 ) 13 > millet (0.03 t-e-CO 2 ha −1 yr −1 ) 25 .

Differences in the six seawater chemistry parameters between seep and control sites were large and highly significant ( Supplementary Table S2 ).

We observed that the OVX produced a highly significant decrease on energy expenditure in all groups, with the exception of SL-HFD rats.

When we performed indirect calorimetry studies at PND120, we observed a statistically significant effect of postnatal over feeding and HFD, and extremely significant OVX effect on locomotor activity ( Fig. 4e ).

This finding is in agreement with a previous study that showed a trend of increased V with larger D 57 .

By contrast, the medical costs after adding rituximab showed a clear trend toward improvement, moving from 147,047 ± 32,054 points per 6 months to 89,676 ± 10,524 points per 6 months: as shown in Fig. 3 , this was 14,221 USD per 6 months at the start of the administration period, and 8,673 USD per 6 months after 18 months ( p < 0.01).

For the lower and upper boundaries of the elevational range, the estimates of δ were significantly higher than one in >50% of the trees of the posterior distribution ( Table 3 ).The MCC tree showed significantly higher estimates of δ for the lower boundary of the elevational range, but only marginally significant for the upper boundary ( Table 3 ).

Imperfection analysis There is a clear trend towards higher fidelity and lower gate time with higher momentum in the results shown in Fig. 1 , which means the development of faster pulsed lasers would lead to an even more favourable comparison with the MS gate.

S13b ( SI ), with an increasing trend with increasing molecular weight, i.e.

The linear regression had a slope of −0.29 ± 0.15 (mean ± SEM; p = 0.065; R 2 = 0.26), demonstrating a strong trend toward attenuation of vessels’ reactivity to hypercapnia with increasing vascular amyloid load.

NREM- and REM-cued mice showed a trend toward more NREM sleep and less total wake time, but these differences did not reach significance ( Table 1 , Fig. 2a–c ).

Mutant mice showed a trend toward slower finding of the submerged platform, but differences did not reach significance ( Fig. 3C ).

Logistic regression analyses Univariate analyses revealed a highly significant inverse association of 3-month mortality with total and small HDL particle concentrations as well as with total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, mean arterial pressure (MAP), and GFR ( Table 3 ).

Unexpectedly, we observed highly significant reductions in expression levels of genes related to myelin biogenesis and maintenance, suggesting that CSD reduces myelination of the mPFC.

The unadjusted odds ratio was slightly higher for boys (1.18) than girls (1.12), and both were of borderline significance.