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Untreated wounds showed a slight trend of faster healing, but showed significant signs of wound contraction which points towards wound healing by contraction but not by epithelialization.

(2022) had observed that being heterosexual and having a partner predicted greater satisfaction with sexual life during the pandemic, in our study we only observed a slight trend in the same direction, but it is not statistically significant.

Regarding smoking status, most participants (73.6%) reported not actively smoking, and there was a slight trend towards a higher percentage of active smokers in Group 1 compared to Group 2.

When analyzing age in the present study, there was a slight trend in which older patients (group aged 13–14 years) provided higher scores in most dimensions of OHRQoL in the CPQ-Esp 11–14 questionnaire than the younger patients did; however, this did not obtain statistical significance.

As a slight trend, more elution of monomers in the ethanol/water mixture than in ethanol can be observed over almost all material/elution media combinations with exception of TEGDMA from the 3D printing composite and Bis-EMA from the self-curing composite.

We generally observed a slight trend of lower diversity in young trees vs. old trees (this was easily observable at the sites RR, MCR, and CC).

21 Just one-third of the sites were rated to be of good quality, with a slight trend toward improvement compared to 10 years ago.

The θ d5 values are similar and independent of the polymer composition, with a slight trend of decreasing θ d5 with higher PI x content and range from 322 to 334 °C.

There was no major change in the proportion of patients treated with GA over the period of inclusion in the study, although a slight trend towards a decrease in GA use was observed ( Figure S1 ).

However, even in these cells, the Sdc-1-OV clones showed a slight trend towards the induction of faster aggregation.

Between 2004 and 2019, there was no substantial inequality in smoking prevalence by remoteness, a relatively stable inequality by education, but a slight trend for increasing absolute and relative inequalities by area-level disadvantage (for the middle disadvantage subgroup, a prevalence difference of 4.3 percentage points [95% CI: 1.3–7.4] in 2004 to 8.0 percentage points [95% CI: 5.5–10.5] in 2019, and a prevalence ratio of 1.2 [95% CI: 1.0–1.4] in 2004 to 1.9 [95% CI: 1.4–2.3] in 2019; for the most disadvantaged subgroup, a prevalence difference of 7.5 percentage points [95% CI: 3.9–11.2] in 2004 to 16.8 percentage points [95% CI: 12.7–20.8] in 2019, and a prevalence ratio of 1.4 [95% CI: 1.2–1.7] in 2004 to 2.8 [95% CI: 2.1–3.5] in 2019).

The proposed model was subsequently used to estimate HCT values on the test set showing a good agreement between the estimated HCT and the HCT measured by the reference method (r = 0.87, p < 0.001), with a low mean difference of 0.53 ± 5.04% and a slight trend of overestimation for higher hematocrit values.

Results There was a significant difference in RPE between weeks ( p = 0.015, W = 0.19) with a slight trend in decreasing RPE.

The correlation between turning and nearest neighbor position in groups selected for cohesion was not significantly stronger than in non-selected groups, though a slight trend was observed. 69 These findings, along with our results in A. mexicanus , support the idea that the modulation of turning and speed is essential to evolved differences in collective behavior across fish species.

3 B) there was a slight trend of PPS enlargement after training, as shown by the peaks of the distribution that were rather spread apart.

While our 2D random section data suggested only a slight trend towards larger ribbons in type I VHCs ( Figure 1I ), the large volume data enabled more accurate quantification of individual ribbon volumes ( Figures 4E–G ; Supplementary Table S6 ) alongside the number of cluster-associated SVs.

In addition, the biochemical values of blood in the database showed a slight trend toward an increase in platelet concentration at 9 h compared with the other clusters ( Supplementary Figure 11 ).

In the case of the Vis-NIR, the PCA model yielded a slight trend in groupings based on the color changes in the bread samples possessing different flour compositions.

In this context, we found only a slight trend for better predictability in multimodal than unimodal models, higher prediction accuracies for SC and GMV than RSFC and for global cognition compared to specific cognitive profiles.

Similarly, our study showed a slight trend toward PFS benefit for patients receiving combination therapy as first-line treatment (HR = 0.84, 95% CI: 0.54–1.30).

However, in T4, grassland had a slight trend of developing against fragmentation mainly caused by increment of patch size and reduction of isolation compared to T3.

Similar trajectories and disease symptoms were observed for XBB.1.5 MA infected mice, achieving a peak mean weight loss of 25 %, with a slight trend towards weight gain noted at 7-dpi ( Fig. 1 A, green line with circles) .

Demographics and clinical characteristics were similar between treatment groups except for a slight trend toward decreased tibialis anterior muscle strength in the treatment group ( Table 1 ).

We found a slight trend for higher total and right and left hemisphere ICM in the FHR group ( Table 1 , Figure 3 ).

Urine shows no relevant susceptibility to the strong acidification in the renal pelvis ( p = 0.55) despite a slight trend for more alkaline pH values due to obstruction-related inability of acid excretion 63 .