Interestingly, the slope of the degradation curve in AurkCBC-OE cells was slightly steeper than that from AurkB-OE cells (Fig. 2B), suggesting that the AurkC domains flanking the kinase domain may also play some roles in dampening the checkpoint activity.
Once students are enrolled in charter schools, their academic growth was slightly steeper in elementary schools than it would have been in a traditional L.A. Unified school; far steeper in middle school; but not better at all in high school.
The dose response model for sCL was similar to that with the high dose group, though the slope was slightly steeper.
With respect to usual walking speed, the regression coefficient for the interaction term was very small and indicated that the decline in walking speed across age-groups was slightly steeper in women than men (see also Additional file 2).
Crump et al. (2003) also showed that the slope of the dose response was not dependent on the pattern of the risk in heavily exposed workers and that, by contrast, the slope was slightly steeper at lower doses.
The model did predict an initial increase of PCB-180 during the early 1980s consistent with our empirical results, although the observed decline afterwards was slightly steeper than predicted.
