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rbcL and rca gene expressions With increasing seeding rate, the total rbcL expression in the upper three leaves followed a decreasing and then an increasing trend, while the rca expression followed a decreasing trend.

In the present experiment, two highly significant positive correlations were found for Pn and Chl among leaf positions, with higher Pn and Chl in the flag leaf and the inverted second leaf.

Net photosynthetic rate and chlorophyll content With increasing seeding rate, both Pn(net photosynthetic rate) and Chl(chlorophyll) in the upper three leaves followed a decreasing trend Pn and Chl at different leaf positions under each seeding rate were higher in the flag leaf and the inverted second leaf.

As shown in Table 2 , simple logistic regression analysis showed that systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), TG, HDL-C, serum and aqueous humor myonectin showed a trend toward an association with T2DM.

Discussion Changes in the dispersal ability of alien plant species in six risk ranks Our results showed that the natural dispersal ability of alien plant species in ranks I to VI exhibited a decreasing trend; however, the total and anthropogenic dispersal abilities showed increasing trends (Fig. 2 ).

The interaction effect of temperature and pH on the CMCase activity was found to be highly significant.

In contrast, Zn, despite its significant correlation with S, showed only a weakly significant correlation with GPC and did not correlate significantly with P.

In their analysis, a better than 1-year survival rate was shown in SG patients in respect to the CHT group ( p = 0.001), with a favorable trend even when compared with PG.

Characterization of gene expression revealed an expected trend for both encapsulated and control spheroids—expression of pluripotency genes ( OCT4, SOX2, NANOG ) was high with cells in pluripotency (mTeSR) media at days 1 and 3 but then decreased after spheroids were transferred into endodermal differentiation media during subsequent 3 days (Fig. 6 B,C).

This indicates, as evident also from Tables 2 and 3 , that differences in performance between the tool on its own and CL are small but that the improvement is clearly significant when both are combined together.

Furthermore, its estimated β 1 for the three biomass component ratios were more highly significant than the estimated β 1 of the two LSUR models with dbh 2 and dbh 2 ·ht, i.e., smaller p -values (Table 2 ).

The F-value, of 471.97 and the probability value at P > F was < 0.0001, implying the model was highly significant.

In case of pausing there is a clear trend towards a short interruption for 1 to 2 weeks around RT, even more pronounced for nfRT than for SRT.

Within the higher age categories, there is an increasing trend in the risk of pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity on preeclampsia.

Furthermore, data showed a trend towards a behavioural effect of HD-tDCS in participants with lower beta at baseline showing faster response times.

With respect to behavioural outcomes, HD-tDCS produced some preliminary evidence (i.e., a trend towards significance) of a potential motor improvement in participants who had lower beta power at the baseline stage.

The results showed a trend towards better visual acuity in patients with foveolar fixation, but there was no statistically significant difference in BCVA grouped by fixation location before and after surgery (before surgery: χ 2 = 1.43, P = 0.70; after surgery: χ 2 = 4.10, P = 0.25; Kruskal–Wallis analysis).

We have also detected 37 regulators for the 21 targets DE genes with a highly significant interaction score within the whole GRN, reported in Supplementary Table 1 .

There was a clear trend towards a more severe OSA among non-dippers, and severe OSA was an independent correlate of non-dipping BP during NREM-sleep.

The percentages of rectal and pancreatic NETs showed an increasing trend from T1 to T2 to T3.

The results show that: (1) the annual runoff indicates an increasing trend in the future in contrast with the base period, while the ascending rate of the basin under RCP 4.5 is 4.47%; (2) a nonlinear relationship has been identified between the optimal allocation of water resources and water availability, while a linear association exists between the former and water demand; (3) increased water supply are needed in the water donor area, the middle and lower reaches should be supplemented with 4.495 billion m 3 water in 2030.

Our results also showed upregulated levels of MPO at 3- and 6-months following initiation of anthracycline treatment, which was in concordance to previous studies which reported elevated levels of MPO starting at 3 months with an increasing trend even up to 15 months into anthracycline therapy 25 .

The empathy score with the 4 measures was only marginally significant.

The prediction accuracy of the feature selection method performed within CV showed an increasing trend as the number of features increased until a certain number of features (about 10 for each classifier), but after which it showed a continuously decreasing trend.

This correlation was highly significant in NFG (r = − 0.330), was weaker in IFG (r = − 0.182) and was lost in the diabetes group (r = − 0.080, n.s.).