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Thereafter, although the gravel beach is periodically affected by tidal action with fresh inputs of spilled oil, the residue oils, depending on the time sequence, exhibited full depletion of n -alkanes, a decreasing trend for isoprenoids, and no discernible changes in saturated biomarker distributions ( e . g ., steranes, hopanes; Supplementary Fig.

The two-sided paired, unpaired or the one-sample t-test were used for statistical analysis and a p-value < 0.05 was deemed statistically significant, while a p-value < 0.01 was considered highly significant.

Because of the almost significant item type by electrode interaction for the second time-window, we performed post-hoc LSD tests and found that illegal words elicited larger positive ERP component than legal words over the 8 fronto-central electrodes (Fp1, Fp2, F3, Fz, F4, C3, Cz, C4; all P’s < 0.01).

These results were confirmed by a marginally significant correlation with the language subscale score of the BSID-III (r(11) = 0.51, P FDR = 0.14; see Fig. 4 ) in the melodically enriched condition and not in the flat contour one.

The cell spreading area quantified from the F-actin staining showed an increasing trend as the substrate stiffness increased (Fig. 1D ), in that the average cell spread area was <1000 μm 2 on the softest micropillars (0.012 nN/μm) but >2000 μm 2 on the stiffest micropillars (1.014 nN/μm).

There was a strong trend toward a reduced number of Arc + cells in the dentate granule cell layer of aged mice, compared with young adult mice (unpaired t-test with Welch’s correction t = 2.16, df = 10.4, P = 0.055, for adult: 21.9 ± 1.6 (n = 6) vs. aged: 17.4 ± 1.4 (n = 7); Fig. 5C ).

Using this approach, only significantly changed protein targets with opposite direction of expression or those with highly significant regulations in one side specific to LIM or LIH can be identified.

4c ) (mean ≈ 22,000 t CW/annum), as well as a highly significant correlation ( R 2 = 0.99) between adjusted annual imports and exports (see Supplementary Fig.

SNPs strongly associated with diseases or cancers are often likely to be significant factors in high-locus interactions.

Within the AS groups, a clear trend was observed in which AS low released more calcium than AS medium and AS high , which both released similar amounts (Fig. 3B ).

In general, after controlling for all available confounders, we observed a slight but significant increase in the risk of having a cancer diagnosis for subjects under either a medium or high level of stress, compared to the reference group (‘low stress level’), with multivariable adjusted HRs of 1.04 (95% CI 1.01–1.09) for the medium stress level group and 1.06 (95% CI 1.00–1.11) for the high stress group, showing a clear trend to increase (Table 2 , p for trend = 0.048).

To obtain a clear trend of the evolution of the three phases identified here as the discharge of sulfur-CuS hybrid electrode progresses, the peak area of three relatively strong reflections S (222), CuS (103), and Li 2 S (111) were chosen to be integrated at each depth of discharge and plotted together against discharge capacity in Fig. 2B .

Functional annotation analysis of this cluster using GoMiner showed a highly significant enrichment (FDR = 0%) of lipid-associated processes.

In a number of cases, we found an association between positive staining of a given galectin and 5-years OS, 5-years DFS or chemoresistance that fell just short of the traditional definition of statistical significance (see Supplementary Fig. 3 ).

In the case of plasma gal-9, its level in patients that were CA125 LOW was only associated with 5-year DFS (p = 0.043), although associations with 5-year DFS (p = 0.076) and 5-year OS (p = 0.053) in patients that were CA125 HIGH showed a clear tendency to significance.

However, the average absorbance intensity at 1533 cm −1 did not show a decreasing trend until 19 days after deposition.

Comparison of the multidecadal SST variability in both records shows a highly significant positive correlation for the period after the MCA (1230–1900 AD) (R = 0.29; P = 0.03) when compared to randomly generated red-noise data, and a positive correlation for the period 300–900 AD (R = 0.42; P = 0.12), although only marginally significant, which is probably due to the low data-resolution in core MD99–2322 (see supplementary information for statistical analysis).

They also increased in response to faces which had been rated as desirable for long- and short-term relationships and friendship, and attractive, although this effect was only marginally significant.

However, a significant increase in renal Oat3 expression in the membrane fraction was only observed in the combined drug treatment rats (p < 0.05) but there was an increasing trend noted in insulin-treated rats.

The smaller peaks for ν(S-S) and ν (C-S) were still visible, however a clear trend could not be seen due to the overlap with phosphate bands: E.g ., the δ (S-N = O) mode could hardly be observed in the difference spectra.

A pronounced trend towards transcriptional downregulation of proneural genes was observed in GB10 compared with the BT142 model (Fig. 5b ).

Results Experiment 1: Density-effect The inducer populations showed a highly significant negative relation between initial population size and cell division rate (ANOVA (linear fit): DF = 1; SS = 16.257; F-ratio = 610.6; p > F = 0.0001****) with the biggest populations (300 cells at origin) performing no more growth (Fig. 1(b) ).

Therefore, this phenomenon is likely to be significant on a global scale.

In skeletal muscle, the expression of genes encoding BCKDHA and BCKDHB only showed a trend to decrease in the db/db group (Fig. 6c–e ), and the total levels of BCKDHA was reduced in db/db mice (Fig. 6f ) (50% reduced compared to the control group).

Our data also showed better viral control and borderline significant lower viral load in subjects with major resistance mutations to NNRTIs who were on ART, compared to treatment-naïve subjects with major resistance mutations to NNRTIs.