“a slight trend”

While the PCA did not show a clear distinction between the Case and Control groups, a slight trend toward separation was observed, especially in the combined mode (ESI(±)) plot.

One study reported no significant differences in embryo quality and pregnancy outcomes, with a slight trend toward higher clinical pregnancy rates in the antagonist protocol (24).

At the very same dose, in the light phase food intake experiment, only a slight trend (if anything) towards increased food intake could be detected ( Figure 2 ).

A slight trend toward narrower, but not shorter, PC granules compared to PSU was observed ( Figure 1 C).

We found a slight trend between positive MMP-28 immunostaining and better prognosis of tongue squamous cell carcinoma.

8 ), which revealed a slight trend of elevated theta power with a high HADS score for anxiety OFF and ON medication, not reaching statistical significance.

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

A slight trend of decreasing hardness with increasing rate may have existed, but was within the uncertainty (scatter bars) of the experiments.

Food intake showed a slight trend to be lower in Gpr12 KO mice when assessed simultaneously with energy expenditure ( Figure 2C ).

There was a slight trend towards improvement in ChatGPT-4 performance throughout the test, as observed in the logistic regression curve.

We even observed a slight trend towards a pro-apoptosis effect.

Section 0 deals with the number of separate periods that family income was perceived as being inadequate by the respondent. There was a slight trend for the controls to have had more of such periods (32-1 % of the controls versus 26-4 % of the breast cancer cases).

In the southern and northern regions, we found a slight trend of increased seroprevalence from the younger to the older age cohorts; in the central-eastern region, this trend was absent.

However, in female rats, there was a slight trend of density enhancement in the LFRU group compared to the CON group, while the HFRU group remained suppressed.

There was also a slight trend for the best-fitting values of drift rate to depend systematically on IBI across subjects (Kruskal−Wallis test for H 0 : equal median values per IBI, across subjects, p = 0.011 l ).

These effects were clearly visible in the case of the PA-particles and observed as a slight trend in the case of the 80/20 spheres ( Figs 5 and 6 ).

In addition, 10 of 14 nuclear markers in domestic pigs were detected to have a higher proportion of pairs with significant LD than in wild boars ( Table 4 ), suggesting a slight trend toward increasing LD in nuclear DNA during domestication or breeding, which is consistent with founder effects.

However, a slight trend of decreasing Δ G H − is observed from I to III , which can likely be attributed to the stronger electron-donating (+ I ) effect exerted by more highly substituted alkyl groups.

Replotting by median trend values for CD69 signalling revealed a slight trend of resistance with increasing CD69 in Group 3 CD4 and CD8 TCM and TEM ( Figure 4 (B)).

There was a slight trend towards greater non-use of car seatbelts and motorbike helmets in urban compared to rural dwellers among the 40 + yo males ( Fig. 3 c), while this group on average reported the lowest non-use rates, particularly among males.

At the more mature stage, no significant changes were detected, although a slight trend toward decreased expression was observed.

When analyzing α-SMA expression in the gastric mucosa, a slight trend was detected towards an increase in the immunopositive region of α-SMA—5.28% of the total area of the mucosa in the space flight group compared to 4.87% in the control group ( Table 1 ).

Clinical trial findings on the OpHLINE ® series confirmed a favourable safety profile across all formulations The overall safety profile was favourable across all formulations although a slight trend of a concentration-dependent IOP spike trade-off was detected.

The creatinine levels indicated, however, only a slight trend in the same direction as they showed poor correlation with the scoring results ( r 2 = 0.52).

No association was found between pneumococcal meningitis and geographical regions, although there was a slight trend towards a higher incidence of pneumococcal meningitis in Nampula, in the northern of Mozambique. 4.