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The total AGB showed a trend of 2.11 million tons, with an average decrease of 0.07 million tons per year.

Available data show a negative trend of gross anatomy hours in students’ curricula from a mean of 248.7 h in 1973 down to 143.6 h in 2001 [ 1 ] and 129 h in 2017 [ 2 ].

salsa community is well connected, but there is a decreasing trend of extension.

Oxidative Stress-Related Parameters TAS showed a trend to increase after MICT and had a significantly higher value after HIIT ( p < 0.05), but these reverted to baseline after the half-marathon ( Table 4 ).

The one confounder that was close to being significant was marital status; however, there is an association between being married and more obese [ 47 ] and therefore this would bias in favour of increased obesity in the local group. 3.2.

Abstract In today’s world, green development has become an important trend, and many countries regard the development of green industry as an important measure to promote economic restructuring.

By contrast, typically, a mother or father is needed by their young child—and that child needed by their parent—in highly significant, non-instrumental, persistent, and non-fungible ways: no one else will do.

A borderline significant risk increase was observed for the combined use of Vit D and CRTs (+|+) relative to the use of CRTs without Vit D (−|+) (aRR = 2.5, 95% CI = 0.90–7.1; P mc = 0.078).

This difference is highly significant with t(81) = 4.5, p < 0.000001. 5.2.

The 4Active intervention group showed a decreasing trend over time, whereas the active control group showed an increasing trend over time, indicating a beneficial intervention effect on negative affect. 3.4.

The results of the HLM unconditional average model and unconditional growth model indicated that from 2013 to 2018, the loneliness of Chinese older adults was at a medium level and showed an increasing trend, which is consistent with previous studies [ 6 , 53 ].

These studies show asymmetry and highly significant leptokurtosis in the distributions of birth weight in the four geographic regions, where leptokurtosis increases proportionally with altitude.

The rats fed with HFD + KO exhibited a decreasing trend in the weights of different adipose depots, in which WAT and RAT showed a diet main effect.

Ecological Water Demand Over the past 50 years, the ecological water demand of water, woodland, and grassland have all shown a decreasing trend except for wetland, but there were some differences ( Figure 8 ).

From Table 4 and Figure 6 d, with the increase of cultivated land area, the IWRreg also shows an increasing trend, and there is a good consistency between cultivated land area and IWR.

The annual average precipitation was 126.22 × 10 8 m 3 , and the precipitation showed a trend of fluctuating increase with a rate of 0.51 × 10 8 m 3 /y, in which precipitation increased sharply in the 1970s to 1980s. 3.2.

The average water supply and water demand were 271.88 × 10 8 m 3 , 467.85 × 10 8 m 3 , respectively, both TWS and TWD had a significant trend of reduction with a significance of 99% by Mann-Kendall test, and the rate of reduction was 1.87 × 10 8 m 3 /y and 12.22 × 10 8 m 3 /y; the gap has a significant increasing trend with a significance of 99% and a growth rate of 10.35 × 10 8 m 3 /y by Mann-Kendall test, and the average gap was −195.96 × 10 8 m 3 , which means the state was deficit constantly in the study area.

The variation coefficients of ATN, SOM, and soil C/N showed a decreasing trend with the increase in depth, but the variation coefficient at 20–40 cm was significantly higher than those at other depths. 3.2.

The variation coefficients of SAP showed an increasing trend with the increase in depth, but were significantly lower at 40–50 cm than at other depths.

In the regression models, survey year was entered first as a categorical variable to estimate differences between rounds; second, as a continuous variable to estimate an overall trend per year in the considered time period.

Nevertheless, an increasing trend in psychological health complaints has already been observed in the last 20 years, especially among older girls, in Canada [ 18 ] and in several European countries, like Sweden [ 19 ], Norway [ 10 , 20 ], and the UK [ 21 ], while life satisfaction showed an unclear evolution [ 22 , 23 ].

In the context of global warming, SU and precipitation showed an increasing trend: the change slopes were 0.178 and 18.007, respectively, whereas FD showed a decreasing trend in China from 2009 to 2017: its change slope was −0.589.

PM2.5 also showed a decreasing trend on the whole, especially after 2014, mainly because China promulgated the “Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan” in 2013, when government departments and enterprises took various actions to prevent and control regional pollution.

During the study period (2013–2019), a total of 1932 water samples were analyzed, with the average annual rate of Legionella -positive water samples of 8.9%, showing an increasing trend.

Accelerometer The analysis performed with the accelerometers underlines in EG a significant increase in minutes spent performing moderate physical activity and a decreasing trend of minutes spent in sedentary behavior.