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In terms of the overall trend, the exposure levels indicate an increasing trend from 2005 to 2019.

Vulnerability shows an overall trend of increasing over time.

Affected by poor soil conditions, unreasonable farming structure and backward fertilization methods, the total amount and intensity of chemical fertilizer application in China have maintained an increasing trend for a long time.

The evolution of CFAI also showed a trend of increasing first and then decreasing, but the turning year was advanced to 2014, and the average annual growth rate of the two stages changed from 2.26% to −2.15% ( Figure 1 ).

There are likely to be significant flow-on effects of a safer night time environment for tourism and investment. 5.

Overall, there is an increasing trend towards using DES in healthcare to address issues at an operational level, yet less than 10% of DES applications present actual implementations following the modeling stage.

Concerning Hypotheses 3a and 3b, there was a marginally significant two-way interaction effect between PED at school and peer support.

People aged 65 years and over accounted for 4.97 percent, 6.16 percent and 8.87 percent of the total population in the world in 1960, 1990 and 2018 respectively, showing an increasing trend in the past few decades [ 2 ].

Some authors have not found a significant correlation between the presence of a congenital lack of permanent tooth buds and the jaw structure, while others believe that there may be significant correlations between agenesis and the facial skeleton structure [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ].

There was a highly significant difference in the overall scores representing COVID-19 knowledge between medical students and students of related subjects (median 17.5, 8.5–23, versus 16.5, 5–22.5, p < 0.0001, Mann–Whitney U test).

From the perspective of temporal evolution characteristics of RECC, the average value of RECC in Hubei Province during 2009–2018 showed a trend of first decreasing and then increasing.

While differences in age, BMI, and several musculoskeletal complaints between genders were statistically significant, differences in the years of service were only marginally significant.

PSs and LSs are concentrated in eastern coastal areas and exhibit an expanding trend, while ESs are concentrated in western mountainous and hilly areas and exhibit a decreasing trend overall [ 10 ].

In line with the first hypothesis, highly significant differences among environments were recorded.

Though there is an increasing trend of dining out [ 23 ], and food wastage at restaurants is frequently discussed in the media [ 17 ], still it was acknowledged that this sector is discussed less rigorously despite being recognized as a key challenge [ 25 ].

It is not surprising that baseline step averages were a highly significant predictor of 2-week and 6-month post challenge step averages.

While most demographic and occupational characteristics were not significant, marital status was marginally significant.

As technology becomes part and parcel of our everyday life, there is a clear trend that this evolution is taking place in the realm of lifestyle and psychosocial interventions in knee OA.

The decreased intake of total cholesterol recorded at the end of Ramadan is a positive trend.

Results described a positive trend in mobility scores (assessed using the PEDI, mobility items) and in cognitive scores (assessed using the PEDI (cognitive items), and by the Battle Developmental Inventory) after the intervention.

According to Model 1, the i-deal only directly predicts the unsustainable cluster (U-U), but only in a marginally significant way.

Similar to the previous study, we observed a marginal significance (U-P) or good significance (H-U) for the antagonistic patterns.

These results are similar to the world malaria report 2019, which speculated on a decreasing trend of malaria case incidence in the sub-Saharan region with a decrease of 40% or more by 2020.

As a whole, the annual water value in each province, except for Beijing, showed an increasing trend.

When testing the effects of the intervention, as shown in Table 2 , there was a marginally significant effect of time: the mean reaction time somewhat decreased from pre-test ( M = 1.19, SD = 0.36) to post-test ( M = 1.09, SD = 0.30).