Among MDR-TB patients [ Table 4 ], upper socioeconomic status significantly predicted early conversion within three months (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 4.20; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.10–16.03; P = 0.036), while nonsmoking status (aOR = 3.50; 95% CI: 0.88–13.92; P = 0.074) showed a positive trend but was not statistically significant.
17 studied precipitation indices in the Xingu watershed (east of the BLA) and its research shows a decrease trend in precipitation in the central area and an increase in the northern part of the basin; while the number of consecutive dry days presents a positive trend along most part of the basin, concentrated in its central part.
The same study noticed a positive trend in risk with the increasing number of MetSs.
The relationship between anxiety disorders and GORD-related symptoms was not as consistent; a positive trend was observed when comparing current anxiety disorders and current GORD-related symptoms, however an association between lifetime anxiety and GORD-related symptoms was only evident among obese women.
Furthermore, as recently observed in large multicenter randomized trials, a positive trend favoring lenalidomide plus R-CHOP versus R-CHOP alone was observed in previously untreated high-risk DLBCL [ 16 ].
To investigate these expected changes, time series of coalitions’ contain-expand ratios were tested for statistically significant trends using Mann–Kendall Trend Tests , where a positive trend indicates an increasing level of containment (or decreasing level of expansion) and a negative trend an increasing level of expansion (or decreasing level of containment).
Nonetheless, the slow growth of efficiency signaled a positive trend, suggesting that BRI countries have made collective endeavors to mitigate climate change through industry aggregation.
The authors observed a positive trend in “in vivo” (i.e., loss of weight and clinical score) and in “in vitro” (cytokine production and histopathological staining) parameters in the treated EAE mice.
Although a positive trend was observed for CyA and UAMC-00050, these results were not statistically significant.
Overall, both countries showed a positive trend towards greater specialization, but with a noticeable difference in the speed of thematic development.
We found an association between CDASI and skin IFN signature scores (β=12.9, P=0.0002), an association between 5-D Itch Scale and skin IFN signature scores (Rho =0.65, P<0.0001), a lack of association between 5-D Itch Scale and blood IFN signature scores (Rho =0.22, P=0.24), and a positive trend that did not reach significance between CDASI and 5-D Itch Scale scores.
In contrast, when the search was run again a year later, 4 out of 12 (33%) specified what they did with user data, which may suggest a positive trend towards more transparency around data use.
Moreover, a positive trend in the SUHII was reported in Bogor [ 46 ] as consistent with an increasing pattern of SUHII in this study, except in the middle timestep of SUHIIs in BC and SUHII UC in SKB.
Although the mental status of these individuals varied both intra- and inter-individually over time, both underwent a complicated and lengthy process, showing a positive trend towards recovery from their traumatic loss.
Our findings of a positive trend of rice cereal intake with the sum of urinary arsenic species and the individual fractions, including i-As are in agreement with prior studies including our own study of 12 month old children, and a study with children of 5 to 8 years old from Uruguay 16 , 43 .
Key conclusions include: a positive trend (HR <1) favouring the palbociclib arm for time to deterioration (TTD) in HRQoL; a significantly greater improvement in pain scores in the palbociclib plus letrozole arm; the value of radiological assessments in estimating treatment effects on HRQoL.
On the contrary, a positive trend of probability (%) of dying between age 30 and exact age 70 from any of the NCDs was in Honduras and in El Salvador during the same period, albeit with fluctuations in the intervening years, but such a trend was consistently increasing in Philippines ( Fig. 1 ).
However, in Figure 9 , test 1–3 displays a positive trend across all conditioned groups, suggesting that newborn rabbits primarily use visual cues for cognitive recognition, While some instances of a negative trend in test 1–3 suggest potential reliance on olfactory cues, an evaluation of test 2–3 confirms the predominant use of visual cues, specifically toward the face of the feeder.
This paper showed a positive trend in the number of annual HIV/AIDS-related publications in the MENA.
The role of self-efficacy and its interaction with empowerment Logistic regression results showed that self-efficacy showed a positive trend in predicting caregivers’ family resilience development trajectories after controlling for other variables.
Studying the relationship between psychological needs and athletic behaviours of college athletes, Yoo found that, when athletes felt that their autonomy needs were met and the coach–athlete relationship was good, there was a positive trend in athletic motivation, and athletic behaviours were more positive [ 47 ].
However, the market from April 2020 started to show a positive trend.
We further found that although VRCBT and standard CBT did not reach statistical significance in the intervention of anxiety and depression, they showed a positive trend.
Although a positive trend toward mask use and social distancing was observed, a high percentage of posts showed disregard for the guidelines.
2e shows the winter NPP calculated in the grid with the highest observation frequency, displaying a positive trend of winter NPP rate.