Reflecting these findings, normalization to muscle volumes revealed that the relative content of IMCT was significantly larger in the GL (p = 0.005, r = 0.80) with a further trend towards greater IMCT content in the elderly in the GM (p = 0.058, r = 0.62).
In line with internationalisation, a further trend which increasingly shapes doctoral education is an emphasis on publications in academic journals (Pelger and Grottke 2015).
In Fig. 3c, removal of COD was increased with increase of pH up to 7 and later it follows a decreasing trend with further increase of pH.
Differences in repeat candidates' scores between the first and a subsequent attempt is relatively small (about 4 points) with little evidence of an upward trend with further sittings.
More specifically, our study found that the EQ-5D-3L utility scores increased initially as BMI increased and achieved maximum at a BMI of around 23 kg/m for men and 24 kg/m for women, and then showed a decline trend with further increases of BMI.
De Vita et al.[ 26] suggested preoperative VEGF and CEA levels as good prognostic indicators for curative and noncurative surgery, and VEGF levels dropped significantly after surgery, with a further downward trend until the 30th postoperative day.
Unexpectedly, this trend is nonmonotonic whereby, up to a certain limit, genes become less compact with the increase of the expression level (the C↓E trend), but with further increase in expression, become more compact again (the C↑E trend).
For HRCT features occurring in a minority of patients, prevalence was compared using Fisher's exact test, with further evaluation of significant trends using the Kruskal-Wallis test (examining prevalence differences across non-smokers, ex-smokers and current smokers).
It will be important to monitor the actual extent and direction of such trends with further epidemiological research, in particular to assess the effectiveness and equity of attempts to improve the prevention and control of chronic diseases.
Of the 128 genes screened with two independent dsRNAs, only 8 showed an interaction consistent with the HFA genome-wide data, with a further 4 trending in the right direction (Additional file 5).
