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That is, the removal effect showed an overall trend of gradual improvement and then a slight decline.

Population growth, as well as the number of undernourished people is still an increasing trend [ 33 ].

However, on the last incubation day, an increasing trend in CH 4 consumption up to 8.5 μM CH 4 mL −1 (Sp3) and 9 μM CH 4 mL −1 (Sp4) was noted.

For age-specific rates, mortality decreased in all age groups except for those aged 75 years and older in total, those aged 60–69 years in men, and those aged 90–94 years in women, with a slightly increasing trend.

The net age and period effects showed an increasing trend, while the cohort effects presented a decreasing trend in incidence and mortality risk.

Skin and mucosal absorption is also possible, but, in usual conditions, the contribution is considered scarcely significant [ 1 , 3 ].

A positive trend is evident during the whole explored period.

Depending on the decision-making aspects, it may be significant expenditures on investments to protect the environment; other times, depreciation costs of non-current assets used to protect the environment.

CT showed a decreasing trend from the first to ninth step.

The probability of using “uncertain” claims was not significantly associated with sale prices ( p = 0.175), although a positive trend (the higher the price the higher the probability of such claims) can be observed ( Figure 1 ).

Furthermore, due to competition or collaboration, there may be significant interrelationships among different types of health care facilities, such as hospitals and clinics [ 7 ], which needs to be examined.

Results A total of 724 migrant workers were assessed, with an increasing trend between 2005 and 2011 ( Figure 1 ).

All predictors are highly significant in the linear model, and the amount of variance accounted for by the model is 36%.

As can be seen from Table 4 and Figure 6 a, the GML index reflecting the change in TIE shows that, from 2009 to 2016, the TIE of HTI in all provinces (municipalities) along the B&R line presents an overall trend of fluctuation and increase, decreasing yearly from 2013 to 2015 and then increasing significantly from 2015 to 2016.

Therefore, although the technical efficiency of HTI declined every year on average, the technological progress was increased, so it still showed an increasing trend in the input-output efficiency of whole technological innovation activities.

SNPs common between the current study and the GWAS were, first, grouped around highly significant index SNPs and then pruned out based on linkage disequilibrium (LD) using the ‘clump’ command [ 51 ] in Plink [ 52 ]; a 500 kb range and LD threshold of r 2 ≥ 0.25 were applied.

Since road dust was comprised of particles from both the local area and nearby areas, mercury concentrations in road dust showed a decreasing trend from the two industrial zones to the surrounding areas.

The literature review indicates that in the treatment of waste and odorant gases since the end of 2010, there has been an increasing trend in developing bioreactor configurations (including those combined with physical methods) [ 23 , 24 ] to improve the efficiency of removing pollutants from process gases (also VOCs), including those from the food industry [ 25 , 26 , 27 ].

Due to the differences of the level of economic development, economic and industrial structure, and the ability of talent-technology transformation between regions, the level of GTI in the eastern, central, northeastern and western regions of China shows a decreasing trend. 3.4.

However, recent studies have shown that BPS, BPF, and other BPA analogues were widely detected in the water environment, and the pollution levels have an increasing trend [ 11 , 12 ].

The correlation under the sham exposure is of a marginal significance with a beta weight of 6.952 × 10 −6 , an adjusted R 2 of 0.1515, and a p value of 0.0684, implying that the correlation between the beta oscillation and the reaction time is considered relatively weak.

It can be seen here that the precipitation of Huang-huai-hai River Basin shows a decreasing trend on the whole, which is about −0.71 mm/annually, as seen in Figure 3 .

It can be seen that the intensity of light rain and mild rain has an increasing trend; the intensity of heavy rain and very heavy rain has no significant changing trend; the intensity of extreme rain has a decreasing trend.

[ 28 ] reported an increasing trend of surface O 3 in a rural site north of eastern China and indicated that meteorological factors had little influence on long-term O 3 change, which was completely related to emissions.

SO 2 and NO 2 in Liangshan showed a trend of first rising and then falling before and after 2012, and the decline of SO 2 was particularly significant after 2012.