“a slight trend”

For PAL, a slight trend in underestimation was apparent (-11.1 to -7.6) (Additional file 1 : Table S16).

Only a slight trend was found for the chemical condition PEA high concentration .

No trends for over- or underprediction were observed for GI-Sim, whereas GastroPlus showed a slight trend for underprediction of both AUC 0- t and F rel,colon for compounds with low permeability.

For IL36A , there was a slight trend toward increased expression in PP relative to HPE and MFPP, but it was not statistically significant ( Figure 4 a and b).

In the non-linear dose-response analysis, we found a significant non-linear pattern with a peak risk reduction at 12 g/d intake and a slight trend of increasing risk when amount consumed exceeds 35 g/d, which is confirmed by another meta-analysis [ 9 ].

While the Aβ group had almost similar levels of NF-κB p65 compared to controls, a slight trend of decrease in the inflammatory marker levels was observed after KH ingestion.

In conclusion, there is a significant difference in failure rates between OMIs placed in the maxilla versus the mandible, with a slight trend towards higher failure rates in the maxilla.

In 2011, there is a slight trend in clustering in the number of working hours over the categories of urbanisation and, in 1993 and 2011, for the availability of equipment.

Additionally, a weak but significant negative correlation was observed between fear of COVID‐19 and sex ( r = −0.108, p = 0.001), indicating a slight trend in the distribution of fear according to sex.

For none of the PSTH a dependency of the first spike latency from the characteristic frequency could be found, also there was a slight trend to shorter latencies at higher frequencies.

In contrast, FC showed only a slight trend toward association, without statistical significance.

A slight trend to increase the content of Mg 2+ and Zn 2+ ions was observed in the sequence Gly → Ala → Val.

In the Early Breast Cancer Trialists’ Collaborative Group (EBCTCG) meta-analysis, PR expression was not significantly predictive of tamoxifen treatment response in ER-negative breast cancer, although there was a slight trend, which failed to reach statistical significance [ 14 ].

Although we observed a slight trend for increased size of Ang-2/CD31 high brain metastasis, we did not observe statistical significance ( Figure 5C ).

When MGEs were split according to family (excluding integrons which are rare in the human gut microbiota 53 ), there was a slight trend for higher colocalization of defense genes with ICEs/IMEs irrespective of the environment (Fig. 4b , Methods), in agreement with recent observations 52 .

A slight trend of lower molecular weight and number of heavy atoms is also present with the top 10 scorers pointing to lower molecular weights and a larger number of hydrogen atoms relative to heavy atoms present for these ligands.

Heparin bridging was used in about 10% of patients, with a slight trend toward greater use in the more elderly.

Overall, there was a slight trend towards an increase in MMR in the three hospitals.

We observed a slight trend to increased accuracy in identification rates, however, the slope of the fitted regression line was not significantly different from zero ( p = 0.09) ( Figure 2B ).

For the studied systems, the overall colloidal stability is comparable, but a slight trend arises (from more to less stable): Fe 3 O 4 @OA > Fe 3 O 4 @ODPA > Fe 3 O 4 @OPA ( Figure 1 H).

There was a slight trend toward higher cross-sectional performance on DSST associated with higher BDNF, but it was not significant (p = 0.09).

In terms of BMPR1A , the expression of BMPR1A-Z was a bit male-biased at stage 6/7, but the following sharp decrease of BMPR1A-Z expression in ZZ males made it become significantly female-biased at later stages; however, BMPR1A-A did not show significant sex-biased expression throughout development, although a slight trend of male-biased expression was observed (Fig. 6F ).

Although the pooled estimate showed a slight trend favoring surgery, the confidence interval crossed zero, indicating the difference was not statistically significant.

The gender distribution remained constant, as did the age distribution, with a slight trend of increasing proportions falling into the older age groups.

There was a slight trend towards CHD, but this was not significant.