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The density of the sampling areas varied in number and location along time with an increasing trend over time ( Table 1 ).

The average left eye visual acuity in the three assessments reached a significant level ( p < 0.05), demonstrating an increasing trend first, followed by a decreasing trend.

Using the mass/volumetric concentrations, exclusion of any of the remaining elements not excluded by having an increasing trend were made by establishing whether or not the trace elements were decreasing as a power function with distance, as highlighted in Figure S3 .

This result is in line with a study conducted by Eltony et al., which confirmed an increasing trend in the volume of publications on QOL of PLWHA [ 35 ].

The three input variable options examined do not show a clear trend of which has the highest predictive power for modelling air pollutants.

Based on the GIMMS NDVI3g and MODIS NDVI data, there exists an increasing trend of vegetation greenness in Xinjiang from 2001 to 2015 [ 42 , 72 ].

The student’s t-test was used to determine whether the test data had significant differences and differences were identified as statistically significant (or extremely significant) when P values were less than 0.05 (0.01). 3.

We have also observed an increasing trend after a decline at leaf edges ( Figure 4 ).

Higher educational attainment among mothers was associated with greater involvement in active housework by spouses, and the association between mothers working full-time and spouses’ active housework also approached significance.

Finally, the residential energy consumption per capita is presented in Figure 3 b and it shows that Germany has the highest value but is characterized by a decreasing trend.

The second country in terms of consumption per capita is Italy which shows an increasing trend up to 2010 and then a decrease.

The important finding is that the areas in southern China with low incidences of HB, such as Hubei, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong, show an increasing trend, which is consistent with the conclusions of multiple studies [ 14 , 42 , 43 ].

At the same time, with the increase of the adsorbent, the adsorption capacity showed a trend of first increase and then decrease.

The heart rate reduction was close to the level of significance, but a statistically significant difference was not shown ( p = 0.059).

This finding was similar to the present study performed in Taiwan, in which the incidence of PSVT was 24.83/100,000 person-years in 2001, and a decreasing trend was observed from 2001 to 2012.

Correlation analysis between BMI, peak and average plantar pressure in the static condition found only a moderately significant correlation in the weightlifting group for the non-dominant limb.

On the other hand, the actual intervention (columns 2 and 4) was highly significant in predicting the reduction of diarrhoea.

The latter would serve to corroborate the near significance of “no-shows for scheduled clinic visit” in this study.

The linear fitting of the trend of glacier deformation shown in Figure 9 shows that the overall glacier deformation in the study region exhibited a decreasing trend from 2017 to 2018.

After the start-up stage, the removal efficiencies of NO 3 - –N in all of the reactors showed a trend of first stabilization, then decrease, increase, and then finally re-stabilization.

Being a primipara, on the other hand, was slightly significant (1.69;1.39–2.05) also in influencing the choice of giving birth in a freestanding midwifery unit.

Travel time for various modes of transportation would make the results of this study more practically significant.

Their age at enrollment at AMPATH is also predictive of enrollment in the NHIF (AOR 2.16; CI 0.94–4.94), but this result is marginally significant.

The results indicate that China’s overall ecological efficiency is still at a low level, and the overall distribution pattern is high in the east and low in the west; the efficiency level in the production stage is declining, while the stage of environmental governance and social input are showing an increasing trend.

Evans and Adenomon [ 25 ] reported an increasing trend of about 6% in malaria incidence in Central Nigeria during the rainy season while Nanvyat et al.