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Among permethrin-treated VU adults at 3 dpt, knockdown-resistant pools showed a trend toward lower VGSC transcript levels than did adults that died by 3 dpt (Fig. 3 d).

Our trend analysis suggested a decreasing trend in the estimated fatality of legionellosis in Japan, although the reported number of fatal cases has not been declining (Figs. 5 and 6 ).

Through this study, we revealed an increasing trend in incidence, seasonality, regionality, and decreasing estimated fatality of legionellosis in Japan.

There was a slight trend towards higher heart and kidney weights in EC-EGFR-WT compared to VSMC-EGFR-WT.

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).

As each external recruitment event fuels the adult population through influx of larvae and subsequently juveniles, the population density exceeds the carrying capacity which, through density-dependent growth, is subject to a decreasing trend between each spawning event, irrespective of the level of external recruitment and carrying capacity.

12 ) is dominated by cross-province flow, having the characteristics of “Hubei → Shandong” intensive flow, and “other places → Shandong” dispersive flow, with an overall trend of “southwest-northeast” mobility.

RMS values for the ES significantly differ in all the postural conditions between the two groups: the elderly showed higher values and an increasing trend from 0% inclined surface to the core board (first column of Fig. 7 ).

We found that during this study period mangrove canopy area at this NW Australian site exhibited a decreasing trend during periods of negative SOI, which are indicative of El Niño conditions.

It is worth mentioning that 39% blueberry worldwide production in 2018 relied on regions outside its native range, showing a positive trend during the last five years 12 .

Indeed, we documented a positive trend in bat activity by both species with increasing number of hibernating conspecifics in caves, but more so for western small-footed myotis.

If the low VAF mutations are as important as high VAF mutations, only a slight difference in the survival curves is expected; on the contrary, if the low VAF variants are not so critical for cancer progression, there might be significant differences in the survival 17 .

The number of differences accrued with every additional heat treatment cycle performed thus showing an increasing trend per cycle.

A positive trend was observed in QW (R 2 = 0.33) but was not significant (p = 0.06; see grey lines in Fig. 3 D).

In summary we note that for the particular cases in this study, ESS was significantly different between complex and non-complex lesion at both resting and hyperemic conditions and marginal significance was observed for velocity.

In general, our data show weak correlations with all the environmental parameters considered, except for chlorophyll a in which the correlation is medium and significant; with respect to temperature, the correlation is at the limits of significance (for O. davisae ) and there is a positive correlation signal which supports the seasonal characteristics of the species.

This reflects, for St.1, an increasing trend in the evenness of the community from spring to winter: in spring, the best fitting model was the Dominance Preemption, characterized by a steeper RAD curve (Fig. 6 ).

Generally it was expected that nitrite ion would keep assisting the growth of passive layer and IE would maintain an increasing trend till 24 h.

At 4 and 12 months, the dual bronchodilator group showed a trend towards less lung function decline compared with the two other groups ( P for trend < 0.001) (Table 3 ).