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Receiving payment for work has a slightly significant positive association with children’s self-agency (β = 0.16).

In the within-group comparison, the medical and long-term care costs and the number of outpatient visit days and emergency transports showed a decreasing trend in both groups, although there was no significant difference.

Regarding the number of hospitalization days, there was a decreasing trend in the CMG and an increasing trend in the CG.

The composite index showed that during the study period of 2010–2019, there was a positive trend in indicators characterizing resource efficiency—the index growth was 2.4%.

demonstrated strong and highly significant correlation between the CLEIA and the RT-PCR Ct values (RdRp gene) to determine SARS-CoV-2 on 513 nasopharyngeal swabs.

A slope of >0 indicates an increasing trend, while a slope of <0 represents a decreasing trend during the 18-year period.

An increasing trend in improved treadmill walking speed was observed.

A decreasing trend of FT3 with increasing COVID-19 severity was found, and patients with low FT3 had more adverse COVID-19-related outcomes.

This may be consistent with the second half of the EKC curve [ 24 ], where the ozone pollutants show a decreasing trend with the increasing economic level in the YRD region.

Our data showed a trend-level effect of time for both groups in identifying nonverbal expressions of affect.

Advanced countries such as Canada also face the dilemma of an aging population and an increasing trend of older adult abuse [ 24 ].

A consecutive Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) between 2008 and 2018 showed a trend toward significant decreases in self-reported tobacco smoke exposure and measured urinary cotinine concentrations.

A decreasing trend in urinary cotinine values in nonsmokers was clearly observed between the surveys.

Similarly, DGM concentrations were also higher at SK where an increasing trend was observed during the whole sampling period, from 197.5 to 696.1 pg L −1 .

According to Table 2 and Figure 5 , the experimental data and fitted results showed that the sediment particle size deposited along the river formed by alluvial proluvial deposits in the plain area gradually decreased, which in turn led to a decreasing trend in the permeability of the riverbed along the river. 4.2.

There was no significant correlation and a low Pearson‘s correlation (almost significant) between the date of exposition and number of the protentional contacts with SARS-Co-2 r = 0.265, N = 52, p = 0.058. 3.3.

All these failures showed a decreasing trend over time and in the forecast at a maximum of two to three years.

They also found a decreasing trend as the number of contacts increased.

Furthermore, when life satisfaction was regressed on demographic variables, R 2 was not significant, but when the three factors were added in the second step, the change in R 2 reached marginal significance.

At the industry level, compared with ELS scenario, the CO 2 emissions of high-emitting industries in LCS scenario will be strictly restricted after 2020, showing a decreasing trend gradually.

(2020) analyzed the technical efficiency of large freshwater farmers from 2011 to 2017 using the stochastic frontier production function model, and the results showed that the total factor productivity of farmers grew at an annual rate of 3.29% and presented an increasing trend [ 13 ].

Huhehaote had a negative trend with very small value of −0.009 °C/a, and the negative trend in UTCI was negligible in Chengdu with an even smaller value of −0.001 °C/a.

In contrast to the decrease in days under no thermal stress, the days under strong heat stress showed an increasing trend in most tourism cities in summer ( Figure 8 b), which would inevitably cause more potential heat threats to the public health and make the further investigation on thermal perception essential and urgent [ 28 ]. 4.3.

Previous studies on the Lithuanian adult population demonstrated the increase in the smoking prevalence up to 2000, especially among women, while a decreasing trend in men and stabilisation in women has been observed afterwards [ 19 , 36 ].

A previous study carried out by our group [ 15 ] also evidenced a decreasing trend in the development of risky consumption patterns.