Sentence examples for a relatively weak relationship from inspiring English sources

For the other (colorectal cancer), our data confirm a relatively weak relationship with smoking, which could not be explained by confounding with the consumption of alcohol.

These large biases are reflective of what was seen throughout the simulation study for these methods and suggest they may be inappropriate for use due their large sensitivity to even a relatively weak relationship between switching and prognosis.

As described below, genome-wide analyses also indicate that there is a relatively weak relationship between individual TF binding events and the genes affected by mutation of the TF, which cannot be completely explained by noise in the data, transcriptional cascades, or condition-specific activation.

These results are perhaps not surprising given what we already know about glucose homeostasis in obese children and adolescents (3) and recent evidence supporting a relatively weak relationship between elevations in fasting glucose within the normal range and incident CVD events in adults (4).

Even considering the above limitations, the present study illustrates that females with high titer against Pg and high level of inflammatory marker are more likely to have periodontal disease some years later, while males have a relatively weak relationship among the titer against Pg, inflammatory markers, and periodontal disease.

Nonetheless, a meta-analysis of 45 studies on the association of sexual abuse and self-injury only found a relatively weak relationship between self-injury and sexual abuse indicating that sexual abuse ceased to explain the variance in self-injurious behavior if the studies were controlled for other psychiatric risk factors [ 54].

Social projections for NS, doping and social drug use showed a positive, statistically significant but relatively weak relationship between fellow athletes using prohibited performance enhancing drugs and NS (r = .385, p<.001) and social drugs by the general population (r = .231, p = .036).036

In our data, colorectal shows some relatively weak relationship with smoking with an implausibly strong relationship for rectal cancer and no evident relationship for colon cancer.

The findings are discussed with reference to the growing interest in structural factors as an explanation for population health outcomes, and the relatively weak relationship between governance and HIV prevalence.

However, in many other species, including N. rossii, simple geographic distance may be an unsuitable predictor of genetic structure, possibly explaining the relatively weak relationship between PLD and isolation-by-distance slope (Selkoe and Toonen 2011).

It is likely because of this relatively weak relationship that the present work showed no evidence that cramping was related to percent weight change.