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According to the above Table 8 and Fig 8 , with the increase of diatomite content, the ductility of modified asphalt shows a decreasing trend, and the curve trend changes obviously before and after the content of 12%.

Our results showed that from the age distribution, the prevalence of hypertension in the group of ≥40 years old presented an increasing trend from 1999 to 2018, and the prevalence of hypertension in adults in each survey year increased with the increase of age.

When evaluated by subpopulation Ar showed a decreasing trend in the culvert and barrier simulations relative to the no barrier simulation at all densities ( Table 5 ).

Overall, the overall regional gap of China’s water resources utilization efficiency showed a trend of first decreasing, then increasing, then decreasing and finally increasing substantially, which increased by 8.8 percent compared with the initial period.

The results indicated spatial autocorrelation in the model, which was highly significant (p-values 4.034e-09 and 0.001, respectively).

2 Related work With an increasing trend of using 3D stereo-projected images to create realistic virtual learning environments, there is an ongoing debate as to whether stereo-projected images are a necessary feature of simulators [ 16 – 18 ].

The effect size was set at an alpha level of p < 0.05 for statistical significance and p < 0.01 for a highly significant difference.

There is an increasing trend of starting own business as an alternative to seeking employment in developing nations [ 37 ] to cope with the growing unemployment rate in these countries.

[ 28 ] found that when using the multi-point DID model for empirical analysis, there may be significant estimation bias due to the presence of a "heterogeneous processing effect." To this end, this paper uses the twowayfeweights command in STATA software to test the possible "heterogeneity" of the model, drawing on the practice of De Chaisemartin et al.

In addition, the impact of the establishment of innovative cities on entrepreneurship has shown an overall trend of improvement in terms of the value of coefficients.

In terms of dynamic effects, in the first and second years of the establishment of innovative pilot cities, although the coefficients failed the significant test, the impact on science and technology entrepreneurship has shown an increasing trend.

The role of structural variables exerts a constructive impact on bridging the financial depth gap, albeit with modest significance.

The main conclusions are listed as follows: The deformation rate increased first and then decreased with both the increase of adhesive spreading rate and pressing pressure, and it showed an increasing trend with the increase of pressing time.

Page 10, line 217 ff: What does “clear tendency” mean in terms of significant results? A clear trend suggests something that is statistically not the case.

This result is in line with previous work reporting a negative—albeit marginally non-significant—correlation between IQ and discrimination thresholds in young boys [ 14 ].

Additionally, there is also a decreasing trend to choose shareholding in accordance with the order of plains, hilly areas, and mountainous areas, but it is insignificant. 5 . 2 . 4 . 2 .

Cities with lowest and lower synergy all showed a trend of divergent distribution, such as Songyuan, Mudanjiang, Shangrao, Zaozhuang, Chongzuo, Zhoukou, Zunyi, and Anshun.

However, there is a strong trend of preference for male versus female flowers by the insect species studied in the current work.

Food poisoning incidences in Malaysia showed an increasing trend over the past twenty years [ 4 , 5 ].

For both ‘known’ and ‘new’ index cases, we observed an increasing trend in the number of traced HRC, which may be explained by the relaxation of NPIs over time.

There was borderline significance in lifejacket wear among people who knew how to swim.

The level of Agtr2 in the kidney did not significantly change among the groups; however, both HD and HDS groups had a lower tendency than ND group, while HDJ group had an elevated trend compared with HD and HDS groups ( Fig 6A ).

The results demonstrated that the coupling coordination between the DIE and CCE in China demonstrated a gradual upward trend, and exhibited regional differences, showing a decreasing trend of east > middle > west.

Depression had highly significant correlations with family functioning among medical students in China [ 30 ].

In this experiment the age ranged from 6 years and 1 month to 10 years and 9 months, and only a slightly significant improvement was detected in the visual modality for same-trials, but none for any other setting.