A positive value of α indicates that the alternative exhibits a positive trend line gradient (increasing relative closeness), while a negative α denotes a negative trend line gradient (decreasing relative closeness).
An interesting trend to follow in this studies was the early slight increase in subsurface BD after three years of CA (CA3), followed by a significant decrease from 1.44 to 1.33 Mg m −3 by year nine.
Brewery sludge application on the soil had a highly significant effect on organic carbon (OC) content compared to that of NPS and control.
The reason for performing intNMF and no other methods like consensus clustering is that intNMF takes latency and variability into account and thus provides highly significant clusters compared to other methods.
All the epoxy-silica systems exhibited an increasing trend for T g, as evident from Table 4 and Figure 6 .
Thus, the present work will be practically significant for further research on supremacy of unmodified mesoporous micro silica filler over modified nanosilica filler in propagation of interpenetrating polymeric network throughout the polymeric composites with better dispersion and enhanced thermal properties.
Interestingly, cells cultivated in DMEM or DMEM-dominated mixtures showed strongly increased metabolic activity, a highly significant effect already evident after several hours ( Figure 3 B).
Certainly, the p-value corresponding to caffeine conversion is an extremely low probability (p-value less than 0.05) indicating that the model is highly significant, [ 33 ].
The post-doc test showed a highly significant increase of SVamp values in all MS groups in EC trials to compare with the test with full sensory control (EO trials).
The enrichment of phospholipids and cholesterol observed in mammals may be significant from an evolutionary point of view, due to the protective role observed against cytotoxic effects produced by bile acids ( Puglielli et al., 1994 ; Benedetti et al., 1997 ), and when high levels are observed in the short term after hepatectomy.
A cross-sectional study in Bangladesh investigated relationship between hypertension and chronic As exposure through drinking water and identified borderline significant association between As and elevated systolic blood pressure.
5 Empirical approach It is undoubtedly obvious that positive or negative year-on-year changes in the current account are of quite significant interest in the implementation of macroeconomic policies.
In the current finding, the uptake of P showed a decreasing trend at higher rates of P and S (44P and 30 S kg ha −1 ).
The variation of the pH was slightly significant for the specimens with the same activator content for all curing regimes.
With the Belk and MVS, the results of the indirect effect of neuroticism were highly significant.
Overall, source seed production showed an increasing trend in the study periods.
An increasing trend of average particle size for all formulations was observed after being encapsulated with increasing concentration of stingless bees' extract ( Figure 4 ).
Another study on storage stability of indigenous Fe fortified fruit bars which indicated that fat content followed a decreasing trend in 60 days, which decreased by 0.15–0.19% ( Zahra et al., 2020 ).
Even though these findings were heterogeneous, and pairwise comparisons did not follow a definite trend, roughness was specifically increased after the first use of the bur.
However, the previous study showed a highly significant association between financial hardship and mental health among Bangladeshi professionals ( Mamun et al., 2020 ).
The results revealed that an increasing trend of vegetative and reproductive growth of strawberries under the following growing media correlated positively with the number of fruits set and the number of fruits per plant.
However, a clear trend between the income of respondents and their desire to shift mode was revealed which suggested income play a crucial role in mode shift.
The data show a decreasing trend in the average value of the evaluations of the individuals.
Mazzitelli and Aura (2019) study the evolution of CO 2 emissions in South Africa and find that there is an increasing trend and this is expected to continue in the years ahead.
A positive β indicates an increasing trend, while a negative β indicates a decreasing trend.