“a weak trend”

They clearly indicated superior efficacy in the PAOD‐group, only (see Table 1 ), suggesting that overall superiority was achieved mainly by the fact that a weighted average has been calculated (loosely speaking) from a strongly positive treatment effect in PAOD (risk difference –1.9% in favor of clopidogrel), a weak trend in patients with previous stroke (risk difference –1.0% in favor of clopidogrel) and a borderline neutral effect in patients with previous myocardial infarction (risk difference 0.3% in favor of aspirin).

However, besides a weak trend of HvAGPS2 mRNA levels to decrease under low K and drought stress, there were no consistent differences between the two lines ( Figures 3A,B ).

A scenario at the other extreme is nitrate concentration in the Southern Ocean which has weak noise, but also a weak trend, resulting in larger n* (>40 years).

There was a weak trend which may have suggested a main effect of group, in which the deaf group displayed greater signal amplitude in comparison with the hearing group but this did not reach significance ( p=0.053 ).

While the relationship between terrain position/prevalent soil type and exported carbon by the fourth harvest shows a weak trend, the dependency becomes more obvious when the development of dry phytomass over the entire growing season is taken into account.

Although notstrictly verified, 40 Ar/ 39 Ar cooling ages provide a weak trend with a 612–602 Ma age cluster in the northeastern part of the Arabian Shield and ages around 580 Ma in the northwest (Table 1 in Johnson et al., 2011 ).

Another study found that plasma α-MSH levels were similar between normal-weight, overweight, and obese subjects, although there was a weak trend toward higher α-MSH levels in obese than in lean men ( 19 ).

A negative control experiment in which Soybean Trypsin Inhibitor (Worthington Biochemical Corp., Lakewood, NJ) was titrated into labeled PP1 under identical conditions showed only a weak trend in T-jump behavior (data not shown).

However, in the current study, systemic JIA did not emerge as an independent predictor of response, although there was a weak trend for patients with systemic JIA to have a lower proportion of patients achieving higher ACR Pedi response compared with other subtypes (not statistically significant), but the proportion achieving ACR Pedi 30 responses was similar.

There was a weak trend that combining data over repeated fMRI sessions improved the classification of patients, hence it might be reasonable to perform the study on more than one occasion.

There was a weak trend between decrease of 18 F-FDG uptake and that of tumour lesion size ( Fig 2 ).

Although, in most of the items, there was a weak trend towards the positive attitudes (agree and strongly agree), there were no critical values (high positive or negative) of kurtosis or skewness for any item with all values being in the acceptable range.

As a result, we found that miRanda and PITA give a weak trend that old miRNAs have greater numbers of target genes than young one.

In cancer samples, we see a weak trend toward increased area of nuclei with increased Gleason score; however, there is no significant difference between different Gleason scores.

Formal certified BLS and ACLS training courses with the hands-on practice improved rate of immediate survival and survival to hospital discharge rates leading to definitive improvement in the outcome of CPR.[ 5 ] Although the quality of CPR improved after implementing 2005 guidelines, only a weak trend in improved survival to hospital discharge following cardiac arrest was seen.[ 16 ] Even with monthly practice and accurate voice-activated manikin feedback, some nursing students could not perform CPR correctly.[ 17 ] In phase one, there was a statistically significant increase in mean posttest CPR knowledge, and overall performance.

While we found a weak trend for cells with small dendritic fields to have higher median thresholds, cells with smaller somas and/or dendritic fields were better able to keep up with repetitive stimulation at frequencies of 10–200 Hz, with the advantage increasing with stimulus frequency.

However we observed a weak trend towards an association of ULBP2 with viremia in that there were reduced levels of ULBP2 mRNA with the BCP mutants compared to WT and increased ULBP2 levels expression with the pre-core variants.

18 The higher infarct size and MVO incidence occurred despite a weak trend toward greater degree of IRA collateralization, which can attenuate infarct size and MVO, 19 , 20 in the patients receiving clopidogrel.

In view of the above considerations it is not surprising that only a weak trend was observed by applying the SNS abundance assay to the FXN locus ( Fig 7D ).

There was a weak trend for Cr supplementation to increase the serum insulin concentration above placebo after 1 day of supplementation (Placebo day 1 = 4310 ± 642 vs.

Results showed a weak trend that subjects with higher accuracy are better able to supress their beta rhythm during force output (see Fig. 1 A).

A comparison of both visibly green and visibly nongreen mycoheterotrophs versus autotrophic orchids also indicates a weak trend for relaxed purifying selection ( k = 0.99), which is, however, not significant ( P = 0.118).

The fact that insight solutions were associated with higher accuracy and confidence compared to noninsight solutions, and also displayed a weak trend for shorter solution time, could be taken to support a discontinuous view.

There was a weak trend for positive correlation of performance (rho, 0.26, p , 0.102), which became weaker still when partialling out musical expertise (rho, 0.16, p , 0.225), matrices scores (rho, 0.19, p , 0.187) and both together (rho, 0.12, p , 0.292).

There is a weak trend for independence of motion to increase with increasing genomic distance (Fig. 4d ).