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Age is known as the strongest risk factor for periodontitis, and we also found a clear trend in our study.

Land-lost farmers’ psychological status showed a trend of deterioration [ 47 ].

Finally, among the past 30-day adult e-cigarette users who were ever smokers, those who were former smokers were about one and a half times more likely (95%CI: 1.00, 2.12) to report using a non-tobacco flavor category or some flavor combination versus tobacco alone compared to current smokers, after adjustment, though this association was of borderline significance (see Table 4 ). 3.6.

It has been found that victim participation was a highly significant predictor of parole decision making: When the victim submitted impactful evidence against release, the prisoner was less likely to be granted parole [ 63 ].

In the group of men with primary and secondary education, we observe an increasing trend and the growth is more rapid in the group with secondary education.

adult vaping prevalence shows an increasing trend since 2010 with a possible leveling off since 2014.

This study found that with the warming of the climate, the geographical distribution of high potential areas changed under the two scenarios, and the area of distribution range generally showed an increasing trend and gradually expanded to the high latitudes.

Indigenous suicides are often not effectively identified by coroners and therefore there may be significant under reporting [ 20 ].

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.

SO 2 /NO 2 in the economic zone of Western Sichuan Plateau showed a decreasing trend, while in the relatively clean ecological zone this ratio showed an increasing trend.

When the SDCP was greater than 0.1, the estimate of coefficients of the MCCRM was more precise than those of the CSHM, and the difference was highly significant.

(2) From 2001 to 2017, the NDVI in the TP shows a slight trend of increase, with a growth rate of 0.01/10a.

Areas with extremely significant reduction trend of NDVI value in the growing season show an obvious trend, and the growth rate is greater than that of the extremely significant increase area ( Figure 6 ).

The area where NDVI value of meadows and grasslands shows a decreasing trend is declining, and the areas with significant increase and extremely significant increase of the NDVI value in forest lands (coniferous forests and broad-leaved forests) are increasing significantly.

Trend Analysis Method Based on the analysis of the variation trend of NDVI in the growing season in TP during 2001–2017 with the method of linear regression, the formula is: (2) θ s l o p e = n × ∑ i = 1 n ( i × N D V I i ) − ∑ i = 1 n i ∑ i = 1 n N D V I i n × ∑ i = 1 n i 2 − ( ∑ i = 1 n i ) 2 where n represents a time series, n = 17; NDVI i represents the NDVI value of the year i ; θ slope is the inter-annual variation slope of a pixel NDVI; positive value of θ slope indicates that the NDVI shows an increasing trend, and vice versa.

CZ, WH, and SN experienced an increasing trend of OI, while a decreasing trend was observed in the other cities.

The effect of anthropogenically generated heat is highly significant and should be considered when optimising patient flow.

[ 37 ] reported only statistically significant increased odds for hyperactivity/inattention and a nearly significant increase for total difficulties.

Overall, there is relatively little change in HHI overtime in developed countries; though there is a slight trend toward less concentration.

The current study found that the lactate dehydrogenase activity and urea level were surprisingly the highest in the goalie/substitute group, compared with the midfielder/defender group, and a decreasing trend of the levels of these variables over time was noticed in these groups (a significant negative correlation of LDH and urea with match-time for the season).