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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ).

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 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.

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 .

Overall, there was a slight trend toward a more notable CXCR4 upregulation by Dexamethasone than by Prednisolone in the responding cell lines (Daudi, OCI-LY1, SUDHL-4, -5 and -6).

Despite few participants indicating that they worked less than 10 hours per week (n=3), there was a slight trend towards greater stress when fewer hours were worked per week (0–10 h – 36.3 ± 2.3; 10–20 h – 30.8 ± 4.1; 20–30 h – 27.3 ± 5.9; 30–40 h – 27.9 ± 4.4; 40–50 h – 28.0 ± 3.2 points).

NIH RePORTER and CDC Required Reporting data are limited in the context of these diseases, but we were able to identify a slight trend of increasing funding per author over time.

While an increase in GMPs was detected in vitro, this effect was not directly mimicked in vivo and only a slight trend toward increased numbers was detected (Fig. 3 A).

A slight trend of increasing melting temperature was observed among the functionalized nanogels (N2, N3, and N4) as the PEGA3500-NHS initial content increased during nanogel synthesis (S7 Fig in S1 File ).

Discussion In this retrospective analysis, infection rates in A-PICC and S-PICC were similar, with a slight trend toward A-PICC.

The reisolates passaged through the insect or plant showed a slight trend toward increased tomato colonization and enhanced antagonistic action on tomato-associated bacterium Bacillus pumilus as compared to the parental strain.

A significant silencing activity of the passenger strand was observed only when the ESB RNA was 22 bp, with a slight trend toward dose-dependent passenger strand activity at 21 bp.

According to the indications in the literature and the results reported in Table 2 , a slight trend towards an increase in the energy gap can be observed when introducing the solvent effect for both titled molecules resulting in a lower reactivity in the aqueous phase.

Age and years of experience, though showing a slight trend, do not exhibit a significant correlation with disability, aligning with another previous study indicating that these factors might not strongly influence such outcomes [ 17 ].

For focus offset variances, there was only a slight trend of JP-Unfamiliar having less variance in the visual comparison (see Figure 10 d).