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Similarly, our results showed that the proportion of CRF07_BC was an increasing trend since 2007, this likely attributed to the continual activities between heterosexual behaviors and drug use in these areas where the drug trafficking activities are frequent [ 14 , 72 , 73 ], especially for the phenomenon of prostitution to support drug use.

The p -values for interactions between green space and relevant factors, such as area deprivation, physical activity during the first trimester of pregnancy, and age, were close to significance; therefore, we performed subgroup analyses for different areas of deprivation, physical activity during the first trimester of pregnancy, and age groups.

Overall, we observed a borderline significant association between NO 2 exposure modeled as an averaged lag effect and ischemic stroke risk.

It is evident from the overview provided in Table 4 that, while each of the case studies analysed for this research varied in the extent to which it focused on equity, there was an overall trend away from an equity focus and towards a predominant focus on intersectoral collaboration.

An increasing trend of MetS and its components were observed in both BMI groups ( Table S1 ).

[ 69 ] found only marginally significant effects, with limited transfer to the driving task.

This is a positive trend and confirms the hypothesis that running events have the potential to stimulate activity in population subgroups that are known to be less active (women and lower-educated adults) [ 12 ].

Several recent studies have shown an increasing trend of the epidemic potential and length of the transmission season of VBDs in temperate regions and tropical highlands under different climate change scenarios [ 15 , 16 , 17 ].

In contrast, others found an increasing trend reflecting changes in precipitation and soil moisture, rather than wind conditions [ 46 ].

From the series, an increasing trend in temperature, with more observations of higher than normal temperatures since 2003, is noticeable.

All statistical tests were two-tailed with a significance level set at p < 0.05 and borderline significance set at p < 0.10. 3.

Our results showed that TG level was positively correlated with FBG, and displayed an increasing trend for both males and females.

There was a significant trend where higher work stress was associated with lower maximal HR responsiveness [ 32 ].

The OMI space observations show a decreasing trend for the tropospheric NO 2 content over all of the cities presented in this work ( Figure 2 ).

Using OMI observations we found a negative trend of ~1 ± 0.06% per year.

Since there is an obvious trend that in many industries it is no longer competition among firms rather it is competition among supply chains [ 16 , 17 , 18 ], there is a clear shortage in the PV industry literature regarding how dual supply chains compete and the key decision issues regarding the competition between dual PV supply chains.

Since the geometric mean MEHHP concentration shows a decreasing trend over NHANES survey years 2001–2002 to 2011–2012, our findings for TD children could possibly be comparable to the current population average, while our findings for ASD children may be elevated as compared to the current population average.

Marginally significant differences existed between men and women concerning their perceptions of cycle tracks for improving economic development, with women indicating cycle tracks were more associated with economic development.

They reported that both synthetic and natural polymers had highly significant effects on aggregate size classes, especially for aggregates >2.0 mm, and could increase the mass of macro-aggregates and decrease the mass of micro-aggregates.

Although discrepancies in the anthropometric indicators exist between the national surveys and the SISVAN, a positive trend toward weight deficit reductions in the north region was observed between 1974 (24.5%) and 2015 (6.1%).

[ 116 ] using mean NO 2 exposure measured by AirGIS at different point of time found a marginally significant increased T2DM risk for an IQR increase in NO 2 among confirmed T2DM cases, but not for all T2DM cases and baseline NO 2 levels.

Thus, the differences of reduced WEC in the basin for the three contaminants between the dry season and the other seasons were highly significant, suggesting that the reduced WEC exhibited a temporal variability that the pollution loads in the dry season were much more serious than other seasons in the study area. 3.5.

However, some studies reported that soil P content have large variation across China and show an increasing trend from humid region to arid region [ 59 ].

However, in other studies, a clear trend was observed for antimicrobial resistance, especially among Gram-negative bacilli [ 19 , 20 , 29 ].

The variations for light duty vehicles were quite significant and the reduction percentages of the emission factors for buses were low ( Figure 7 ).