The Comet Assay for the Evaluation of Genotoxic Potential of Landfill Leachate by Kamila Widziewicz, Joanna Kalka, Magdalena Skonieczna, Paweł Madej

“…The leachate samples were collected from Zabrze landfill, situated in the Upper Silesian Industrial District, Poland. Statistically significant differences (Kruskal-Wallice ANOVA rank model) were observed between DNA strand breaks in cells incubated with leachate before and after treatment (P<0.001). …”
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Periodontal Status and Risk Factors among Adults of Sebha City (Libya) by Syed Wali Peeran, A. J. A. Ranjith Singh, G. Alagamuthu, Syed Ali Peeran, P. G. Naveen Kumar

“…Age, gender, current smoking status and frequency of tooth brushing showed statistically significant difference with CPI codes. Health professionals can utilize this data to identify individuals at risk and to target population level interventions.…”
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Cone-Beam Computed Tomographic Assessment of Mandibular Condylar Position in Patients with Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction and in Healthy Subjects by Maryam Paknahad, Shoaleh Shahidi, Shiva Iranpour, Sabah Mirhadi, Majid Paknahad

“…Results. No statistically significant differences were found regarding the condylar position between symptomatic and asymptomatic groups. …”
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Torque Analysis of a Triple Acid-Etched Titanium Implant Surface by Ana Emília Farias Pontes, Cássio Torres de Toledo, Valdir Gouveia Garcia, Fernando Salimon Ribeiro, Celso Eduardo Sakakura

“…The torque value at the final healing period (63 days) was statistically significantly different from that at other time points tested (ANOVA, p=0.0002). …”
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Prognostic Models of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis by A. I. Dolgushina, A. A. Selyanina, V. V. Dubrovina, G. A. Isyangildina, E. R. Olevskaya

“…A retrospective assessment of the risk of mortality using the MELD, Mayo Risk Score and Amsterdam-Oxford PSC Score did not reveal a statistically significant difference between deceased and surviving patients. …”
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A study on the relationships between some linear type traits and mastitis in brown-swiss cows by İbrahim Şeker, Ali Rişvanlı, Metin Bayraktar, Selim Kul, Erdal Kaygusuzoğlu

“…A higher incidence of mastitis was noticed in animal with high score of front teat length but the difference between groups was not statistically significant. In conclusion, it might be stated that in selection and breeding of dairy cows, udder depth can be taken into consideration.…”
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Radiographic and Clinical Results of Combined Bone and Soft-Tissue Tailored Surgeries for Hip Dislocation and Subluxation in Cerebral Palsy by Giulia Beltrame, Artemisia Panou, Andrea Peccati, Haridimos Tsibidakis, Francesco Pelillo, Nicola Marcello Portinaro

“…All three radiographic parameters showed persistent statistically significant improvement after surgery and at follow-up, respectively. …”
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A MINI-FACTOR HEALTH AND SAFETY COMPLIANCE: A MULTIVARIATE FACTORIAL ANALYSIS by Zakari MUSTAPHA, Clinton AIGVABOA, Wellington THWALA

“…The influence of adherence to safety regulations features on the Health and Safety (H&S) compliance was found to be statistically significant. Hence, strong in predicting H&S compliance among SMEs contractors’. …”
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A comprehensive evaluation of histopathology foundation models for ovarian cancer subtype classification by Jack Breen, Katie Allen, Kieran Zucker, Lucy Godson, Nicolas M. Orsi, Nishant Ravikumar

“…Hyperparameter tuning the classifiers improved performance by a median 1.9% balanced accuracy, with many improvements being statistically significant. Foundation models improve classification performance and may allow for clinical utility, with models providing a second opinion in challenging cases and potentially improving the accuracy and efficiency of diagnoses.…”
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Transoesophageal Echocardiography for Monitoring Liver Surgery: Data from a Pilot Study by Filipe Pissarra, Antonio Oliveira, Paulo Marcelino

“…The comparison between 39 CO paired measurements obtained by TEE and PiCCO2 revealed a statistically significant correlation (P<0.001, r=0.83). In this pilot study TEE successfully answered the questions raised by the anesthesiologists. …”
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A Clinical Trial to Investigate the Effect of Cynatine HNS on Hair and Nail Parameters by Christina Beer, Simon Wood, Robert H. Veghte

“…The results show that subjects taking Cynatine HNS showed statistically significant improvements in their hair and nails when compared to placebo. …”
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Hydroxyl-platelet-activating factor exists in blood of healthy volunteers and periodontal patients by Smaragdi Antonopoulou, Alexandros Tsoupras, George Baltas, Helen Kotsifaki, Zacharias Mantzavinos, Constantinos A. Demopoulos

“…In addition, the quantitative determination of PAF and hydroxyl-PAF analogue (expressed as PAF-like activity) showed a statistically significant increase in the ratio of hydroxyl-PAF analogue levels to PAF levels in periodontal patients, suggesting that this bioactive lipid may play a role in oral inflammation.…”
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Application of Trend Analysis on Drought Indices in the West Black Sea Region by Turgay Partal, Ercan Yavuz

“…According to the trend analysis, there is an increasing trend that is not statistically significant at the 5% significance level in all stations in the extremely severe drought class for the 1-month standard precipitation index. …”
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Biofeedback treatment of proctogenic constipation in adults by A. Yu. Titov, O. M. Birukov, O. Yu. Fomenko, M. A. Voynov

“…According to subjective assessment of rectal evacuatory function by questioning before and after BFT statistically significant reduction of proctogenic constipation symptoms was revealed. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Efficacy of Self-Assembling Peptide (P11-4), Bioactive Glass, and Arginine Bicarbonate Remineralizing Agents on Simulated Carious Lesion by Rashmi P Yadahalli, Yazeed Abdullah Alotaibi, Ravinder Singh, Mohammed Najmuddin, Mohamed Tharwat Salama, Radha Prasanna Dalai, Noura Alessa, Vardarajula Venkat Ramaiah

“…In all three test groups, the shift in microhardness values from demineralization to remineralization was shown to be statistically significant. Conclusion: Higher remineralizing capacity was found in bioactive glass and self-assembling peptide (P11-4), which can be employed therapeutically to treat early carious lesions.…”
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Referral to an Electronic Screening and Brief Alcohol Intervention in Primary Health Care in Sweden: Impact of Staff Referral to the Computer by Preben Bendtsen, Diana Stark Ekman, AnneLie Johansson, Siw Carlfjord, Agneta Andersson, Matti Leijon, Kjell Johansson, Per Nilsen

“…The differences between staff- and self-referred patient groups in the number who moved from risky drinking to nonrisky drinking at the followup were not statistically significant. Our results indicate that standalone computers with touchscreens that provide e-SBIs for risky drinking have the same effect on drinking behaviour in both staff-referred patients and self-referred patients.…”
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Using Topomer Comparative Molecular Field Analysis to Elucidate Activity Differences of Aminomethylenethiophene Derivatives as Lysyl Oxidase Inhibitors: Implications for Rational D... by Jing Han, Guochao Yan, Jianping Feng, Xianglin Yang, Yuan Zhou

“…The established topomer CoMFA model has the non-cross-validated correlation coefficient (r2) of 0.912 and the leave-one-out correlation coefficient (q2) of 0.540, which is statistically significant. The theoretically predicted anti-LOX potency agrees well with the experimentally observed inhibitory activity, proving the reasonable predictive ability of the QSAR model. …”
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Umbilical Coiling Index as a Marker of Perinatal Outcome: An Analytical Study by T. Chitra, Y. S. Sushanth, S. Raghavan

“…P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as statistically significant. Results. The mean umbilical coiling index was found to be 0.24 ± 0.09. …”
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The Potential of the Quick Detection of Selectins Using Raman Spectroscopy to Discriminate Lung Cancer Patients from Healthy Subjects by Edyta Wolny-Rokicka, Andrzej Tukiendorf, Jerzy Wydmański, Agnieszka Zembroń-Łacny

“…However, diagnostically the results have not been statistically significant, probably due to the limited number of samples gathered. …”
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Seroprevalence of Antibodies against Human Herpesvirus 6 in the Quebec City Area by Louise Deschênes, Jean R Joly, Michel Couillard, Gilles Richer

“…This difference between sexes varied according to age and became statistically significant in subjects older than 20 years of age (P=0.04). …”
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