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In these studies, there was a significant trend for increases in the number of infections in contacts as the degree of smear positivity in index TB patients increased.

The best regression equations were selected according to two criteria: the equation had to be logical (i.e., it had to provide a causal explanation for an observed trend), and it needed to have a high goodness of fit (i.e., R 2 ) [ 38 , 40 ].

Each age- and sex-adjusted risk ratio and attributable fraction was highly significant.

Introduction The role of healthcare workers (HCW) in the transmission of pathogens from patient-to-patient is well documented; however, increasing evidence reports the contaminated environment as highly significant in pathogen transmission; in particular, high-touch surfaces are recognized as a possible reservoir of infectious agents and their contamination can pose a risk also for the spread of multi-resistant organisms [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ].

The incidence rate of benzene toxicity has shown an increasing trend between 1994 to 2012 [ 4 ] with the main cause attributed to occupational exposure among workers in the manufacturing of basic chemical solvents and refined petroleum products [ 2 , 5 ].

A strong trend in the reduction of energy consumption does not hamper economic development in China, with late-2015 to early-2019 providing a good empirical example.

The analysis of these changes showed a clear trend, indicating a systematic improvement in the social and living conditions of society.

All paired comparisons between the lowest difference category (< 5 dB) and the other difference categories were highly significant (post hoc), despite the difference category variable itself was not significant in the model (cf.

In more recent times, other subject-centered concepts such as “living space”, as some kind of an internal representation according to Lewin [ 44 ] and the ”life world”, according to Schütz and Luckmann [ 45 , 46 ], have become theoretically and practically significant for social scientists.

These factors may be significant for recovery-enhancing processes [ 4 ] and/or well-being outcomes [ 88 , 89 ]. 3.4.

A potential source of response bias was the alteration of the face-to-face final follow-up to a telephone re-audit [ 38 ], which was minimized by comparing the 6-month and 12-month effectiveness and observing a positive trend in improvement in most factors.

It also led to a positive trend in antisocial behaviours and perceived violence.

In the survey, the misclassification error percentages are almost insignificant for the WHO-DMFT method, although the misclassification leads to judging a sound tooth as carious or the opposite.

The biceps brachii muscle activity through performing the manual material handling tasks (lifting task) as a percent of activity for the same muscle through performing the MVC (%MVC) was highly significant when the lifting frequency was four lifts/min and decreased by 60% when the lifting frequency was one lift/min.

Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis Moran’s I in the BTH region was positive for the six-year study period, indicating that the average PM 2.5 mass concentration in 13 cities showed spatial agglomeration, and as time went on, the spatial agglomeration level showed a trend of first rising and then declining ( Table 2 ).

These effects were marginally significant.

During the process of mixing aeration, the Alphaproteobacteria in the control and enhanced areas showed first a decreasing, and then an increasing trend.

For NP, the consumption in India showed an increasing trend, with the consumption of nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEO) between 40 and 44 kilotons.

The concentrations at the four outlets ranged from 2.21 to 48.52 ng g −1 dw for nonylphenol and were non-detectable for 23.64 ng g −1 dw for bisphenol A (BPA), which exhibited a decreasing trend from north to south as well as seaward.

Overall, there is an increasing trend of CO 2 from 2000 and onward, except in 2008 where the global crises existed, when both imports and exports tended to decrease, the low level of trade activities contributing less CO 2 emissions.

All these demographic imbalances are extremely significant due to the direct impact on distribution (localization) of healthcare services, which tend to be concentrated in higher-populated regions, as stated by Santana [ 55 ].

Chemical exposure was shown to have a statistically significant association with respiratory symptoms, while those who reported being current smokers, or having a history of smoking, showed a marginally significant association.

Recently, there has been an increasing trend in the consumption of raw milk due to perceived health benefits compared to heat-treated milk, including increased nutritional value and the potential presence of probiotic bacteria [ 4 ].

The percentage of women was not significantly different at the beginning but approached significance at the end of the study.

It is worth noting that due to the rapid development of social economy, CDD of the whole province presented an increasing trend.