“a weak trend”

If anything, there was a weak trend toward reduced amount of intrapancreatic adipocytes/fat in PAT-ectomized mice possibly indicating that intrapancreatic adipocytes can arise from precursors that reside within PAT.

On the other hand, IL-6 serum levels did not significantly correlate with the PMI but only showed a weak trend towards a negative correlation ( Figure 2 B), meaning that sarcopenic patients tend to have higher levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6.

For the FABP inhibitors, a weak trend towards greater inhibitory effects with increased number of FABP targets was observed in the cell growth and FA uptake assays (cf.

Data management for prevention and service continuity is a weak trend.” (KII_A_11) Barriers in proper storage included inadequate storage space, improper storage conditions, lack of power supply and lack of equipment like refrigerators.

Based on a weak trend for lymphoid tumors for both genders combined, Steenland et al 25 presented a log cumulative exposure model with a 15-year lag for males as the “best fitting” model.

It is not surprising to find support in such thinking, as was shown by Olasveengen, with a weak trend in improved discharge rate following cardiac arrest.[ 2 ] Moreover, the program should involve regular and periodic recertification, and focus should be on updating to most recent guidelines.

In the group of acromegaly patients, we found a positive correlation between GH and CPP concentrations (result close to statistical significance p = 0.060) with a weak trend (ρ = 0.27) ( Table 2 ).

These factors probably explain why only a weak trend in the increase in concentration of rhamnitol was observed as the portion sizes increased, resulting in an insignificant t test statistic and a Spearmans co-efficient of only 0.18 (Fig. 1 b and Supplemental data 5a).

KIR2DL3/KIR2DL3+C2C2 A weak trend of increased representation of homozygous KIR2DL3 in the absence of its' HLA-C ligand (i.e. homozygous C2 group) in the IP infants compared to the EU infants was noted ( P = 0.086; OR = 2.87).

Among the formaldehyde-exposed portion of the cohort, there was a weak trend of relative risk (RR) with peak exposure, for both all leukemias and myeloid leukemia, largely influenced by elevated RRs of 1.78 (95 % CI 0.87–3.64) for myeloid leukemias and 1.42 (0.92–2.18) for “other” (non-myeloid) leukemias in the highest peak exposure category.

There may be a weak trend with the longevity of the photochemical species 18 , with longer-lived ethane and propane showing the most similarity between the poles (ratios of 0.7–1.0) and the shorter-lived acetylene, diacetylene and methyl acetylene showing greater contrasts (0.2–0.6).

A weak trend of Northern European accessions for later flowering and lower vigor in Y1 was observed ( Figure 8 ). 3.2.4 Breeding material and cultivars adapted to local environmental conditions To find signs of local adaptation in red clover breeding materials, the performance of accessions belonging to the type ‘breeding material’ or ‘cultivar’ and grouped by their geographic origin, were compared in the different trial locations across Europe ( Figure 9 ).

3) There is a weak trend linking dedicated training to PhD level participants’ handling of likely non-compliant actions regarding data at the small effect size level (OR range: 1.68–1.73).

For buses, there is a weak trend towards bus lanes being slightly protective at junctions and slightly harmful away from junctions.

The degree of anomaly trend could not be too weak because a weak trend requires a long time, and the amount of data to be calculated for each engineering parameter was relatively large.

Nevertheless, we observe a weak trend to higher T PEX rate in CD4+ GMTC compared to UTC, which could be further investigated.

At the same time, the steric contour illustrated a weak trend for a reducing chain length to steadily improve the compound’s potency.

There was a weak trend for failed provisioning attempts to increase with brood size, but the precision of the estimated effect was low (β = 1.09 ± 0.69 SE, 95% CI [−0.29, 2.66]).

Buying apparel for reduced environmental impacts and buying ethically-made apparel Both practices generated almost identical results and showed a weak trend towards decrease during COVID-19 ( Fig. 10 , 11 , 12 , and 13 ).

While the calculated mean sizes are very close to each other, a weak trend can be noticed, according to which the increase in the spacer length in the template gemini molecule leads to the development of particles of smaller sizes.

pombe , we detected a weak trend in the opposite direction which probably resulted from a bias in the GC content.

In addition, with the trend of economic development globalization and the development of product social division of labor, the improvement of related profits in China's textile industry has shown a weak trend.

In this regard, the ex-situ conserved barley landraces considered formed eight major genetic clusters with a weak trend of association between or among accessions from the same geographic location of collection and vice versa.

Soulas and colleagues confirmed the finding by Welter which demonstrates that age and disease duration are predictors of poorer outcome after surgery [ 6 ], but these factors were noninfluential in our study, although longer disease duration showed a weak trend towards poorer EQ-5D and PGIS in our group.

Increasing the concentration of pomalidomide resulted in a gradual rescue of HSP90α degradation, while a weak trend in the HSP90β rescue was noticed ( Figure 3B ).