All other gender dyads showed decreased concordance with decision aid use (6% fewer concordant encounters for same-gender, 16% fewer concordant encounters for male clinician/female patient).
Concordance was excellent and all reconstruction parameters had no significant impact on MBF, except for the exclusion of TOF which led to significantly decreased concordance in rest and stress MBF in patients with or without perfusion defects on a coronary artery basis and in MFR in patients with perfusion defects.
There are at least two reasons for the decreased concordance.
If this explanation is correct, and male concordance is a by-product of being able to see and feel changes in penile tumescence, then experimental research that restricts this feedback (e.g., by placing a barrier that prevents the participant from seeing his penis or lying in a position that reduces tactile feedback from an erection) should decrease concordance.
Of individuals with previous positive TST, T-SPOT.TB and QFN-G-IT were negative in 51.6% (49/95) and 62.1% (59/95) respectively, decreasing the concordance to 0.321 and 0.288, respectively.
We established a cut-off different from that recommended by the manufacturer to avoid doubtful results without decreasing the concordance between the results of the two tests.
For both S1 and S2 data sets, 'default value' decreases the concordance of Novoalign with other aligners dramatically; using 70 and 75, the concordance of Novoalign and other aligners is similar as the one using 60.
The immunoblot analysis shown in Figure 4C also illustrates that the protein expression levels of angiopoietin2, BiP, and Hsp90 α in the bevacizumab and simvastatin combination group were markedly decreased, in concordance with the results of in vitro experiments shown in Figure 3.
Among the CpG sites shared between the PN- and NN-DMRs, the majority of the shared CpG sites showed concordance of decreasing methylation due to increasing gestational age at birth and the effect of the first few days after birth (Additional file 2: Figure S2).
Second, as coverage decreases, the concordance decreases for smaller cohorts; at 2X coverage, 200 samples are required to produce concordance equivalent to the 6X case.
