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Also in China, the inflation threshold effect is also highly significant and robust [ 7 ], while the synchronization between business and inflation cycles is obvious across Chinese province as China’s economy has been liberalized and modernized [ 8 ].

A systematic review and meta-analysis conducted on Iranian children and adolescents showed an increasing trend in weight gain [ 4 ].

Empirical evidence suggests an increasing trend in the aged population in Ghana.

The distribution of WY in Sichuan Province displays a decreasing trend from southeast to northwest, as well as strong geomorphological distribution characteristics. 3.2 Spatial variations in the effects of driving forces on ecosystem services The spatial variations in the effects of driving forces on ESs were identified by mapping the local regression coefficients of each driving force from the GWR model using ArcGIS 10.6 software (Esri, US).

Although summer PET exhibited an increasing trend from 1970 to 2020, 35 stations showed negative trends in summer PET, 11 of which were significant decreases.

A negative trend in PET was found at 23 stations (41.1%); the trend was statistically significant at eight stations (14.3%) at a 95% confidence level.

In the SC-CQ region, on a seasonal scale, more sites showed an increasing trend than a decreasing trend, except in summer, which confirmed the existence of the evaporation paradox generally in the months of summer.

Moreover, a relatively low S Ws was found in the SC-CQ region, while changes in W s were found to play a significant role in the PET changing as the W s of most stations showed a significant trend ( Fig 5 ).

There was a positive trend in PET for approximately 58%, 68%, 38%, 73% and 73% of all surveyed stations at annual, spring, summer, autumn and winter, respectively.

Additionally, the LR algorithm is, from the investigated models, the only one which accommodates for possible interactions among predictor variables, which may be significant in the present problem.

Although there might appear to exist a slight trend for patients without GABAergic drugs to show more improvement in CU and less improvement on the WAB, the opposite directions of the trends make it likely that these trends are not reliable or meaningful.

Nevertheless, the authors agree with the reviewer’s comment that the differences in the writing characteristics among each HD subtype might be significant or interesting topics to be explored further.

Although densitometric analysis of the Western blot images did not show statistically significant differences in the levels of GPIIb, GPIIIa, and PF4 between plasma and serum ( P = 0.19, 0.18, and 0.057, respectively; Student t -test) owing to large variances between individuals ( Fig 5D ), a clear trend of a selective increase in platelet-associated proteins in serum is in good agreement with the results observed in mouse blood experiments ( Fig 4 ).

Accordingly, our study found an increasing trend of CHE, irrespective of the measurement methods applied, where the absolute level of CHE was substantial in 2016.

With increasing distance from the working face, the air leakage speeds show a decreasing trend.

The change in obesity was borderline significant (p-value 0.05), the other changes were not statistically significant.

The level of sTREM-1 was similar between the groups, although a decreasing trend was seen for the co-infected group ( Fig 1A ).

Before policy introduction both the intervention and control CCGs had an increasing trend in the rate of primary knee replacement surgery per 100,000 population aged 40+ per quarter.

Index of Multiple Deprivation, proportion Aged 15-24 and 25-44, and ethnicity groupings Other White, Indian-Pakistani-Bangladeshi, and African-Caribbean-Other Black-Other, are highly significant predictors of lower uptake.

This suggests that there may be significant diversity in the demographics of the non-English speakers in the study population.

Males, however, exhibited a marginally significant decline in LC 50 during the second assessment ( Table 4 ).

The difference between the ratings for affiliation-related and neutral tasks F (1, 61) = 3.65, p = .061, η p 2 = .06, as well as the difference between power-related and neutral tasks F (1, 61) = 3.02, p = .087, η p 2 = .05, was only marginally significant, indicating that the participants liked affiliation-related tasks more and power-related tasks less compared with neutral tasks.

ACADEMIC EDITOR: I suggest using a statistical trend analysis (e.g., Mann–Kendall trend) to evaluate the increase or decrease in the number of cases over the study period.

As may be noticed, the location selection problem has been becoming more and more popular and should have an increasing trend in the future sustainable urban life. 5.3 Managerial implications Since the LMD process is one of the crucial city logistics issues, managers and postal traffic engineers must take a lot of effort to make it as efficient and sustainable as possible.

Analysis of the data indicated that development of the root system was inhibited when seeds were planted at a depth > 5cm and that root traits exhibited a decreasing trend in general with increasing soil depth ( Table 4 ). 3.5 Effect of sowing date and sowing depth on germination and seedling growth of P . ostii ‘Fengdan’ Sowing depth had a significant effect on the growth of P . ostii ‘Fengdan’ seedlings.