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However, for the limitations of Cramér’s V, which is the tendency of generating a relatively low correlation value for highly significant outcomes [ 47 ], Cramér’s V generated a low dependency value even though the chi-square dependent factors had high significance (lower p value). 4.8.

Then, it provides a dynamic analysis on the APE of the YREB from 2010–2019 and studies the differences in the agricultural efficiency in the YREB by using the combination of the DEA and Malmquist index without excluding the influencing factors of environmental factors and random disturbance, with the APE of the YREB showing an increasing trend in terms of fluctuation=; however, the APE of Jiangsu and Hubei is low due to environmental factors.

Several factors may cause these contradictory results; however, a few of them may be significant.

The overall supply level enjoyed by these communities is higher in the main urban area and lower in the new urban area, which is characterized by a decreasing trend of radiation from the urban center to the periphery.

FMD after hypoxic breathing showed a trend to increase, therefore suggesting that the influence of hypoxia-triggered microparticle formation is limited in our setting and, possibly, a greater influence of inspired NO.

Urinary BPA and t,t-MA concentrations showed an increasing trend, both warranting further studies on their exposure pathways.

It showed a decreasing trend during the emission reduction phase of the 2008 Olympic Games, and a continuous decreasing trend after enacting the enactment of the APPCAP policy in 2013.

In polydrug users, there may be significant issues with recall of the timing or frequency of prior use.

The meta-analysis showed a borderline significant pooled small effect estimate (SMD = 0.10, 95% CI −0.01–0.22) ( Figure 2 ) in favour of exercise interventions and with no statistical heterogeneity (I-squared = 0.0%, p = 0.718).

LEP was marginally significant, while marital status, employment status, and education were not significantly associated with experiences of everyday discrimination in the final model. 4.

With low DD as the reference category, medium DD was not significant (aOR = 0.88, p = 0.169) and high DD (aOR = 0.71, p = 0.002) was highly significant for one month abstinence.

Specifically, for those low and moderate in autonomy satisfaction, future anxiety had a positive association with message fatigue; however, for those high in autonomy satisfaction, the relationship between future anxiety and message fatigue was only marginally significant.

In terms of the urban level of patients’ residence, the number of patients showed a decreasing trend from the highest level to the lowest level in both cohorts, and the lowest urban level had the least number of patients.

While associations pertaining to key variables emerged from our analysis, a few relationships showed borderline significance, likely due to insufficient statistical power.

In the context of global warming, SU and precipitation showed an increasing trend: the change slopes were 0.178 and 18.007, respectively, whereas FD showed a decreasing trend in China from 2009 to 2017: its change slope was −0.589.

PM2.5 also showed a decreasing trend on the whole, especially after 2014, mainly because China promulgated the “Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan” in 2013, when government departments and enterprises took various actions to prevent and control regional pollution.

During the study period (2013–2019), a total of 1932 water samples were analyzed, with the average annual rate of Legionella -positive water samples of 8.9%, showing an increasing trend.

Accelerometer The analysis performed with the accelerometers underlines in EG a significant increase in minutes spent performing moderate physical activity and a decreasing trend of minutes spent in sedentary behavior.

Moderately significant relationships were found between the size of the largest deposit and the occurrence of UTI or diabetes, which indicates that deposits were greater in people with UTI or diabetes.

On the other side, the lethality decreased in the first wave to an increasing trend in the second wave.

The incidence of COVID-19 in Amazonas was marked by a decreasing trend at the end of June 2021, which suggests the positive effect of the vaccination program.

Table 3 shows that (i) as age increased, there was a clear trend towards decreasing the odds of infection and increasing odds of severe illness; (ii) male gender was a significant risk factor for severe illness; (iii) as the number of contacts with RHS increases, a trend towards increasing odds of both infection and severe illness was observed; (iv) previous history of SARS-CoV-2 infection and mRNA-based vaccination were significant protective factors against infection and severe illness.

Through this study, we analyzed production levels (which refers to the number of publications that normally has an increasing trend over the years), scientific impact levels, funding levels, most frequently studied topics, and patterns of distribution across countries and continents for papers on pediatric obesity published in the most relevant journals worldwide.

Grassland covers a smaller area than cropland and forestland and is dominated by slight and mild erosion, and the area of slight erosion decreased by as much as 40.67%, while the areas of other erosion types showed an increasing trend, with mild erosion showing the fastest growth rate of 95.56%.

The average soil erosion in western Hubei Province showed a trend of increasing and then decreasing between 2000 and 2020.