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There were also two cross-lagged pathways that were approaching significance.

Worldwide research has followed an increasing trend, with optimum publication levels in latest years.

High adherence to French recommendations on diet and physical activity showed a highly significant association with reduced risk of depression [ 24 ].

The average number of hours adolescents spent sleeping were 7.86 h in Year 1, followed by 6.94 h in Year 2, and 6.75 h in Year 3, also showing a decreasing trend.

However, the per capita food N footprint of urban areas did not decrease with food consumption from 2015 to 2017, but showed an increasing trend ( Figure 3 ).

We did not observe an obvious trend in seasonality between the warm season (May–October) and the cold season (November–April).

There was a nonsignificant trend toward improved referral time in the intervention group, but the time for referral was less than 6 h for only about 17% of newborns.

The path from servant leadership to AME remains marginally significant, which means that servant leadership largely influences AME through the intervening role of psychological empowerment.

With increasing clay content, the permeability coefficient showed a decreasing trend with the order of P5>P2>P1>P4>P3.

The migration rate is highly significant and positively correlated with the likelihood of child migration as expected.

From 2005 to 2015, the ellipse center showed a trend of deep development from northeast to southwest as a whole, and its distribution area was mainly concentrated in Zhumadian, Henan Province.

For example, perceived behavioural control proved to be an insignificant predictor of behavioural intention in Turkey and Jordan, yet highly significant in Poland.

Although the confidence interval for this value indicates a great variability in the data, this could indicate a possible trend [ 48 ].

The presence of a barely significant correlation between monthly anomalies of KD onset and easterly wind event frequencies might instead be connected to the fact that these last wind regimes are more typical of months when the KD onset is less likely to occur (specifically January, April, and July).

The strong seasonality in the variability of the two indices may lead to a borderline significant value of correlation between the two time series.

For all statistical analyses, significance was determined by corresponding P values of <0.05 as ‘significant’ and 0.05 < P < 0.10 as ‘marginally significant’. 3.

Our finding on the vertical distribution pattern of SOC density agrees with many previous studies showing that SOC distribution tends to exhibit a decreasing trend towards deeper soil layers [ 17 , 18 ].

Although there was an overall trend of risk decrease, prevalence in several districts presented an increased trend, such as Rasuwa (11.1%, 12.1% and 18.9% in 2006, 2011 and 2016 respectively) in Central Region and Achham (6.9%, 18.2% and 20.5% in 2006, 2011 and 2016 respectively) in the Far-western Region of Nepal.

The release center of Zn showed a trend of shifting from south to north, which was mainly due to the gradual exploitation of Zn resources from the south to the north and environmental policy [ 21 , 32 ]. 3.2.

The P- value for the overall model was 0.0044, which demonstrated that the quadratic equation model was highly significant [ 30 ].

Discussion This risk assessment found that some e-cigarettes may be significant sources of metal exposures, capable of increasing the risk of cancer and non-cancer respiratory and CNS health effects.

It can be observed that the sum of the length of different service areas generated by our C-VD and the general N-VD shows a decreasing trend for an increasing bandwidth.

In the condition that all factors including air pollution level are kept constant at their average, the average NPC incidence is 32 (≈(e 3.6453 + e 3.2523 )/2) per 100,000 population nationwide, and the average annual NPC incidence growth rate is approximately 42% (≈(1.0688 − 0.2203)/2) nationwide, indicating an increasing trend in NPC incidence over time. 3.3.

Similarly, the health effects of SO 2 in the current period are positively associated with both NPC incidence and its growth rate, but not quite statistically significant like NO 2 .

Blood Indicators Compared with the control group, both lipid metabolic indicators (i.e., CHO, HDL-c, and LDL-c) and blood glucose metabolic indicators (i.e., GLU and INS) exhibited a decreasing trend in the intervention group after 8 weeks of intervention.