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The softball throw remains at a high level from the beginning of the evaluation to the 1980s; however, a significant trend of decline is seen from the mid-1980s to 2000.

An interesting trend is that air travel volume rather increased while airfares rose, regardless of high oil prices.

The obtained WHO-5 results showed an increasing trend ranging from 2.2 to 6.7.

However, significant or marginally significant interactions regarding the availability of head rotation and binaural/monaural hearing were observed with those of availability of head rotation and binaural/monaural hearing ( p < 0.10 ), binaural/monaural hearing and obstacle width ( p < 0.05 ), availability of head rotation and obstacle distance ( p < 0.10 ), and binaural/monaural hearing and obstacle width and distance ( p < 0.05 ).

Although there was no national data on prevalence of obesity among Arab poor countries such as Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, indicators from cross-sectional studies in urban areas showed a trend to a high prevalence of obesity.

The SIRs for prostate cancer were also similarly below 1.0, although the SIR in Cohort 3 was borderline significant (SIR = 0.76, 95% CI 0.57–1.00).

Regarding the latter, there was an increasing trend in publication from 2014 to September 2023, where the articles recorded the following trend: 1 paper each in 2014 and 2015, 3 papers in 2016 and 2017, 4 papers in 2019, 6 papers in 2020, 3 papers in 2021, 17 papers in 2022, and 23 papers in 2023. 3.2.

However, the National Statistical Office has reported an increasing trend of fertilizer use in Thailand [ 29 ].

The extent of GSH conjugation and presence of polymorphic phenotypes in these tissues may be significant in understanding the sites of action of dichloromethane, and potential differences in site concordance between species.

A limitation of our study is the lack of data on the work activity of the patients, which meant we could only hypothesise the possible relation between metals and ALS pathogenesis on the basis of the highly significant correlation observed, which suggests an interaction.

Overall, an increasing trend in the number of hospitalizations due to RSV was observed between 2007 and 2019, with a slight drop in RSV seasons 2013-2014 and 2014-2015.

The BV of Sb in the east Taihu lake was the highest (1.49 ± 0.13 mg/kg) and showed a trend of gradual decrease along the river.

The water yield showed an increasing trend from 41.8 billion m 3 in 1990 to 63.6 billion m 3 in 2015 ( Table 4 ).

Ireland has reported earlier of an increasing trend in ‘ever’ asthma and wheeze symptoms but it is unclear whether symptoms of severe asthma have changed significantly between the four Irish ISAAC waves (1995, 1998, 2002/2003, 2007).

However, under certain circumstances, dermal contact with bioactive toadflax secondary compounds could be fairly significant, especially for organic producers or others engaged in routine or frequent, unprotected weed pulling activities.

In the 2023 study, while low parental education and urban residence were only marginally significant for emotional problems and anxiety symptoms, respectively, no significant effects were found for all other mental health outcomes.

The percent rates of HIV deaths for Cameroon, Nigeria, and South Africa showed decreasing trends from 2005 to 2006 whilst United States showed an increasing trend from 2004 to 2006.

PC1 exhibited a nonlinear relationship with morbidity, showing an increasing trend in morbidity when PC1 was not significant in mortality.

They projected that the environmental impact would be highest for Indonesia, with a clear trend for higher consumption of ASFs, vegetable oils, and fats for all the countries [ 29 ].

The percent rates of HIV cases for Cameroon showed a decreasing trend after 2000, declining as much as 9% in 2006.

While only a portion of the studies ( n = 4) could be pooled, this analysis suggests a possible trend of increasing hypertension among highly annoyed groups when compared with not annoyed or moderately and not annoyed groups.

AnnAGNPS simulation results of annual loading over 100-year indicate that P loading has an increasing trend, and this increasing tread increased significantly for the one and half of the existing application rate ( Figure 3 ).

This pattern of results indicated a decreasing trend in socioeconomic disparities in belief in harmfulness of “light” cigarettes.

In Figure 1 d, “AI and mental health” demonstrates an increasing trend; however, the starting RSV was slightly lower than “AI” alone.

Increasing Se supported a decrease in abnormal sperm head morphology, and increasing nickel (Ni) was associated with an increasing trend for abnormal sperm head morphology.