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A stable trend was observed for younger workers, while a positive trend was observed for older workers in the form of a decrease in MSD-related SL.

The regression results once more prove the previous research conclusion that energy use right trading has a highly significant impact on environmental performance.

From 2000 to 2017, the cultivated land in the tourist areas showed a trend of first increasing and then continuously decreasing.

There was also a significant trend for most variables across the motivational stages.

In general, the mean values for the CVQ-96 scores indicated a decreasing trend by grade, which means that students from higher grades reported lower scores.

There was an increasing trend in the number of previous quit attempts, an increasing trend in the opinion that smoking diminishes beauty, but no trend in the opinion that smoking makes someone attractive, and no trend in the assessment of the pictures as realistic.

A clear trend in the timing of the end of the pollen season, and therefore the overall length of the pollen season, has not been found.

Many of these records show an increasing trend in pollen concentration for important allergenic species such as birch ( Betula ) (e.g., Yli-Panula et al .

Here, a clear trend for increasing odds ratios can be seen for increasing levels of inhalation, present also in the lowest category of light inhalers, though the light inhalation category consisted only of small numbers ( Figure 1 ).

We detected and recorded EEG values with a portable electroencephalograph, and a comparison between the results of the two groups revealed that there was a highly significant asymmetry between the EEG activity of the vegetation scene and traffic scene groups.

However, under certain circumstances, dermal contact with bioactive toadflax secondary compounds could be fairly significant, especially for organic producers or others engaged in routine or frequent, unprotected weed pulling activities.

Ireland has reported earlier of an increasing trend in ‘ever’ asthma and wheeze symptoms but it is unclear whether symptoms of severe asthma have changed significantly between the four Irish ISAAC waves (1995, 1998, 2002/2003, 2007).

The extent of GSH conjugation and presence of polymorphic phenotypes in these tissues may be significant in understanding the sites of action of dichloromethane, and potential differences in site concordance between species.

However, the National Statistical Office has reported an increasing trend of fertilizer use in Thailand [ 29 ].

As documented in that communication, climate change evidence is most clearly visible in temperature in Ethiopia, with an increasing trend in time (0.37 °C/decade).

It is found that there is a clear trend that both average and maximum Pi values of Pb are decreasing with the roadside distance.

We found that AML-associated transcripts targeted by critical miRNAs interact in a highly significant manner.

The highly significant positive correlations of a current smoking habit with overall negative attitudes to societal efforts at tobacco control and smoking cessation among Maltese health professional students highlights the need for the adoption of a standard curriculum inclusive of comprehensive tobacco prevention and smoking cessation training for these students.

However, when we included education as a covariate in our models, the association between pregnancy trimester and risky behaviors at home was only marginally significant.

The organic biodegradation led to the reduction of solid mass, and the porosity presented an increasing trend.

Increase was the main trend of Ks of the upper MSW, and the lower ones had a decreasing trend.

Confirming this possibility, monitored levels of suspended solids showed an increasing trend over the rainy season.

The landscape in the watershed showed a trend of fragmentation with a complex boundary.

The NP value changed little from 1974 to 1988 and maintained an increasing trend since 1988, strongly illustrating the spatial heterogeneity of the development trend and fragmentation of the total landscape.

All variables are highly significant to predict incidence rates.