“a small trend”

We observed a small trend with mean step time (time taken to traverse two steps) increasing as a function of stiffness.

There was a small trend toward decreased serum insulin level and increased body weight that did not reach significance in diabetic mice compared to non-diabetic mice.

157 For example, a population-based study in Bavaria, Germany found no association between lunar phases (full, new, and the interphases of moon) and serious crimes such as aggravated assaults, 157 but a small trend in non-violent suicides during new moon in men under 40 years of age was observed. 158 One reason for these discrepancies is the varying definitions of lunar phases used in research, with studies considering different time windows (12, 24, 48, or 72 h) to determine statistical significance.

The results showed no statistical difference in outcome for patients treated with gefitinib, even though there was a small trend toward improved PFS, OS and RR in favor of gefitinib.

In univariate analyses of overall survival according to the treatment factors, 90 min HIPEC (HR 0.541, 95%-CI 0.300–0.978; p = 0.042) and treatment with cisplatin only (as opposed to cisplatin and doxorubicin, which yielded an HR of 2.269 95%-CI 1.230–4.186; p = 0.009) appeared to be significantly superior in terms of overall survival, whereas only a small trend was observed for CCR with a benefit of CC0 resected patients ( Figure 4 , Table 4 ).

A recent overview of German tests ( Urban et al., in press ) found that conventional norms are commonly used, but that there is a small trend toward continuous norms.

Nevertheless, there is a small trend toward induction of cytokine expression by the supernatants of the discs; thus, the tissue culture plate is a proper control in this setting.

Even though there was a small trend towards diminished extravasation of cancer cells to the lung in the CSMD1 group, this cannot explain the drastic difference in the occurrence of metastatic foci observed in the previous experiment.

However, only a small trend of broader tuning correlating with larger SSA was observed, which was again not different between WT and Fmr1-/- animals.

There was also a small trend toward an increase in the proportion of nulliparous females (PrNF) between baseline and the emergency spray period, from 0.03 to 0.10 and from 0.07 to 0.11 in the buffer and spray sectors, respectively (C1 to C3, S8B Table ).

As shown in Figure 9B , a small trend toward poorer performance with worse neural health conditions (8.57 dB for healthy conditions, 8.76 dB for moderate degeneration, and 9.63 dB for severe degeneration) is not significant compared to the clinical data obtained by Litvak et al.

There was a small trend toward enhanced myocardial oxidative stress (elevated superoxide anion production, increased MDA levels, and decreased MnSOD activity) in SIRT1 −/− diabetic hearts compared to diabetic hearts while the difference did not reach a significant level.

In our case single miRNAs such as miR-29b and miR-29c indicated a small trend for a correlation (R 2 = 10–20%) between CSF and serum.

Inclusion of non-linear time dependent effects, with a categorical timing of BCG variable, did show a small trend for time dependency ( figure 2D ).

A small trend towards a reduction was observed in EX compared to CON and a significant reduction was observed in BLEO+EX compared to BLEO.

The citrate-based data were similar, with a small trend (0.1 %) possibly evident in the residuals.

Overall, there is a small trend of deformation to the right.

Notably, in our study, we observed a small trend for decreased quantification of the HER2/CEP17 ratio and of the average of HER2 copy numbers per cancer cell using IA quantification and an opposite trend for the average of CEP17 copy number.

In subsequent testing, a small trend of continuing improvement could be seen in the HI group for both HF tests and for the NH group for HF-CVC test, but this trend was smaller than the standard error and not significant.

Again, there is a small trend toward the SRT increasing in the ratios >1 plateau region as the eccentricity increases beyond 5–10°, consistent with standard SRT literature.

However, a disconcerting finding was that oncologists showed a small trend towards being more patient-centred and warmer towards patients with a normal life expectancy than patients with a prognosis of weeks to months.

Memory load in the verbal condition had a small trend for slowing reaction time, particularly for the first stimulus.

18 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 50 Results of our study also showed a trend toward the belief that bioidentical estradiol is more effective than other estrogens for menopause-related vasomotor symptoms but associated with a higher risk of breast cancer ( Table 5 ).There was also a small trend favoring progesterone over MPA with regards to beliefs of effectiveness (menopause related vasomotor symptoms and improving quality of life) and safety ( Table 5 ).

Analysis of proportions of sub-G1 cells among the PI-stained cells from cell cycle analysis revealed a small trend of DHT-induced cell death in RWPE-1-AR cells, but the result was not statistically significant (Supplementary Fig. 5C).

15 Although there was a small trend favoring antibiotic prophylaxis in a recent metaanalysis, no definite conclusion could be reached given the poor quality of the studies. 31 Furthermore, the stringent case definition for bacterial pneumonia, which included mandatory positive microbiologic results, may well have led to an underestimation of the true incidence of bacterial pneumonia.