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A marginally significant difference was found for income.

Abstract Attention on work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) involves statistical surveys showing an increasing trend in the incidence of WMSDs.

Health Risk Assessments The concentrations of the PBDEs and metals considered in this study showed overall an increasing trend of health risks at the sites as the intensity of the e -waste activities increased in this order: Control sites < repair sites < dimantling sites < burning sites.

A nonsignificant trend was identified towards low-risk pregnant women expressing more perceived benefits of screening compared to high-risk-for-PE pregnant women.

It was clear to see that from 1990 to 2000, the most obvious land use transition dynamic degree was the built-up area at 19.5%, and it showed a positive trend.

It was clear to see that the total amount of arable, forestry land, grassland, and intertidal area was continuously decreasing, while the water area and built-up area had an increasing trend from 1990 to 2010.

For 3-day averages <35.4 μg/m 3 , we found the PM 2.5 -associated odds of hospitalizations was a marginally non-significant 1.79 (95% CI = 0.99–3.26).

By comparing the measured and simulated values of 10 monitoring points ( Figure 4 ), it is first seen that the variation trend between the measured and simulated temperatures and the wind speeds of the 10 monitoring points have a strong trend toward consistency.

However, the increase data for the air temperature in the entire study zone was affected by the different building environments, and the average temperature of the study zone increased relatively slowly, which could explain why the ΔT values had the phenomena with the lowest point, at least to a certain extent; (c) After 12:00, there was a low inflection point and a decreasing trend of ΔT values between the warming amplitude of the air temperature and the junction spacing of the street network.

At the grid cell level, we identified a marginally significant decrease in the risk of late-stage colorectal cancer per each one degree increase in continuous rurality index (OR = 0.94; 95% CI 0.90–0.99).

Indicators reflecting material aspects showed a trend of higher environmental noise exposure in low SEP-groups.

Considering the entire YREB, PM 2.5 showed a trend of firstly decreasing and then increasing with the increasing of urbanization from 2006 to 2016.

Generally, the number of hot spots shows an increasing trend during 2006, 2008, and 2010.

Fourth, source-sink effects for naphthalene may be significant, and can complicate the collection of representative samples and the identification of primary (not re-emitting) sources.

According to Figure 1 , the total number of publications on algal-bacterial symbiosis in wastewater treatment from 1998 to 2017 had shown an increasing trend, with slight fluctuations in individual years.

Contamination-level-assessment calculated by the geo-accumulation index (I geo ) showed that the pollution-level ranged from non-contaminated to extreme contamination, while the calculations of enrichment factor (EF) showed that EF values exhibited a decreasing trend: Cd > Hg > As > Pb > Cu > Co > Zn > Ni > Cr > V > Mn > Mg > Fe > Sr > Ba.

Previous research has suggested that there may be significant differences in risk variables and in socio-demographic profile between those with a diagnosis of DE and those with a diagnosis of AD [ 7 , 8 ].

Specifically, a significant trend of I → II → III → IV was observed.

Although food is reported to be the major route of transmission of the pathogen, previous studies [ 8 – 13 ] indicated that Listeria is capable of surviving conventional wastewater treatment process even after disinfection; thus suggesting that wastewater may be significant in the epidemiology of the pathogen.

Indeed, investigating the association between influenza infection and vaccination during pregnancy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk in a cohort study of 196,929 children born at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Zerbo and colleagues [ 16 ] found that influenza vaccination anytime during pregnancy was not associated with ASD risk (the adjusted HR was of borderline significance: 1.10; 95% CI 1.00–1.21).

Non-whites were diagnosed at a significantly younger age than whites and showed a trend towards fewer gender differences in the age of diagnosis.

Association between Levels of Indoor Particulate Matter with Heart Rate and Blood Pressure In the crude-model adjusted only for age and gender, there was a positive trend observed in HR with increasing exposure to each PM size fraction: an increase in one IQR for each of the exposure measures was associated with an approximate increase in HR of 3–4 bpm.

Maximum A-weighted SPL and Tr proved to be highly significant acoustical predictors for awakenings (road traffic noise served as reference category).

In 2013–2015, the concentration of PM 2.5 in 74 cities in China showed a decreasing trend, and the concentration of PM 2.5 in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region overall decreased by 27.4%; however, the decrease was only 9.9% in Beijing.

There is an increasing trend towards shorter hospitalisation periods with subsequent on-going therapies administered after discharge of such patients.