“a weak trend”

The ratio of phosphorylated STAT3 (Tyr705) to total STAT3 showed a weak trend toward increase in STAT3 activity in S14G-HN-treated mice compared with control mice, but no significant difference was detected ( Fig. 9B ).

Although the overall regression was not significant, there was a weak trend suggesting that lateral-frontal (F8–F7) alpha asymmetry during eyes-open rest might predict BIS scores.

In contrast to the pattern revealed for decomposition, we found no significant differences among leaf litter mixtures for fungal biomass, with only a weak trend towards higher biomass in healthy alder.

Only LDH displayed a weak trend, indicating minimal mechanical or procedural influence.

According to 54 , an absolute value of Kendall-τ ≥ 0.5 indicates a strong trend; 0.3 ≤ Kendall-τ < 0.5 indicates a moderate trend; 0.1 ≤ Kendall-τ < 0.3 indicates a weak trend.

Morphometric analyses revealed only modest differentiation between clusters and no robust temporal shifts, though a weak trend of increased body mass was noted in southwestern males.

They found that the number of alleles fluctuated from decade to decade; that about 40–50 % of the 969 alleles were present in any one decade; and that there is a weak trend toward lower numbers per decade, starting in the 1980s.

The funnel plot ( Figure 3 ) and Egger’s test revealed no evidence of small-study effects or publication bias across all subgroups, with the exception of the DM subgroup, in which a weak trend towards small-study effects was noted; however, this did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.0746).

In the current study, no significant association was identified for incidence of PA by birthweight, although a weak trend in the same direction as the previously identified association was observed (OR = 1.05, 95%CI: 0.99–1.09 per 500 g).

Additionally, there is only a weak trend in relative heterozygosity with GERP score ( Figure S8 ).

There was a weak trend of increasing presence only abundance at intermediate levels of reef cover (Fig. 5 d).

Figure 4 shows that, in general, there is a weak trend from higher Cr# and Mg# for the LG chromites towards lower Cr# and Mg# for UG-2 chromites, with some significant overlap between MG and UG chromites (Fig. 4 ).

The mean (± SD) alcohol lifetime alcohol consumption of the patients was 1038±828 kg, and they smoked a mean (± SD) of 17±13 cigarettes per day, yielding a weak trend towards correlation between individual alcohol and cigarette consumption (r = 0.27; n.s.).

PD-1 expression level was reduced by both 2DG concentrations to a similar degree (60% of control) in CD4+ cells, while in CD8+ cells, only a weak trend of decreased PD-1 (ns) was observed ( Figure 1 G,H).

Like HNF4α , overall TCF7L2 (FDR PV_CV = 0.008, Log 2 FC PV_CV = 0.3) shows only a weak trend towards zonation.

The spatial patterns in P300 latency did not differ significantly ( p > 0.05), although there seemed to be a weak trend in which the high-performance group had a shorter latency than the low-performance group did.

Despite a strong seasonal pattern in spore counts, there was only a weak trend toward a seasonal pattern in IFD cases in our population, and there was no evidence of a significant association between community airborne mold spore counts and ambulatory-onset IFD.

In a similar study of 501 TKAs using a single prosthesis, Bonner 22 and co-workers found a weak trend towards a higher revision rate in those outside the 0° ± 3° range; however, this fell short of statistical significance (p = 0.47).

The taurine‐conjugated bile acids showed a weak trend to be increased in livers of 11KO.

Within a protein complex ( n = 32), aggregators had a weak trend for more similar disaggregation profiles when compared to scrambled complexes ( n = 10,000) containing the same aggregators randomly re‐distributed (Fig EV4 C; P = 0.048).

Beech dominance showed a significant positive effect on leaf damage in May, with a significant effect in HAI, a marginally significant trend in ALB and a weak trend in SCH ( Fig 2 , Table 1 , Supporting Information S1 Table ).

We found no effect of total drinking bouts per bat on the total mass loss for bats and, except for a weak trend relating initial body mass and total drinking bouts per bat, there was no clear effect of initial body mass on drinking behaviour.

On the genus level, the lower abundance was observed primarily in Alistipes (100%—three non-RCTs [ 30 , 43 , 49 ]), while a weak trend for higher abundance was observed in Bacteroides (50%—one RCT [ 8 ] and four non-RCTs [ 31 , 46 , 48 , 52 ], with the last one observed only in B. coprococcus and B. vulgaris and one elevated only in B.fragilis vs. 50%—five non-RCTs [ 29 , 30 , 36 , 49 , 52 ], with the last one observed only in B. fragilis ).

Previous attempts to generalize across local/taxon specific studies have used vote counting (qualitative comparison of the number of studies showing significant and non-significant differences [ 3 , 22 ]), finding a weak trend towards greater seed dispersal capacity for introduced invasive species.

However, spontaneous intracellular production of ROS in monocytes from patients with SLE appeared to show a weak trend to be negatively correlated with phagocytosis of SNECs ( Fig. 1 C and D).