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The results demonstrated that the temperature in the study area exhibited an increasing trend, and is the main factor of altitudinal vegetation belts change in the Tianshan Mountains.

It can be seen that with the change of time, the average diagnosis time has a decreasing trend, which means that the later prevention and control measures are taken on time.

A recent retrospective study found a possible trend toward worse outcomes associated with corticosteroid use in cancer patients, although no analysis was performed to correct for possible selection bias in which sicker patients received those medications 11 .

Apparently, the swelling index evaluated at different temperatures ranging from 60 to 90 °C showed an increasing trend in the range of 6.25–9.64%, 7.42–10.90%, 7.47–10.68% and 8.49- 12.04% for FS, FSN, SS and SSN, respectively.

14 top rows, we observe that the motion activation time shows an increasing trend with the increasing vertical position while no obvious trend with the increasing horizontal position.

With the increasing initial speed, the relaxation time shows a decreasing trend, representing that pedestrians require a shorter time to accelerate compared to that for lower initial speed.

The TDR revealed a significant trend that corresponds to the edge between the basement complex and the sediments of the Eastern Dahomey Basin.

Combined stromal and tumoral assessment (overall status) showed a trend toward reduced C3 positivity in LNM (Fig. 4 C).

3 C) and plasma osteopontin showed a trend toward reduction in the clodronate-treated group compared with the HFHC diet-fed control (Fig. 3 D).

Similar to the number of edges, the network density is quite stable in April to June and has an increasing trend in July to December 2020.

A clear trend was established; PAC mutants with low levels of enzyme activity such as Y171F generated very few colonies at low (1 μg/mL) puromycin concentrations and none at higher concentrations (3–5 μg/mL; Fig. 3 b), while PAC mutants with higher levels of enzyme activity such as Y30F, retained their ability to promote efficient colony formation across all puromycin concentrations used, albeit with fewer colonies than the WT (Fig. 3 b and Supplementary Table S4 ).

The positive slope of the model indicates an increasing trend, while the negative slope of the model denotes a decreasing trend.

When the p- value was less than 0.05, we concluded that there exists a significant trend of thickness over time.

However, prevalence estimates from non-African American and other developed nations do not show a clear trend for gender variance in the prevalence of metabolic risk factors 65 , 69 , 72 .

Rarefaction curves showed a trend similar to that of the species richness index, with the highest rarefied species richness in Hsy-Cme and the lowest in Pgr (Fig. 3 ).

The association of seropositivity with any sick leave in the past was highly significant [OR: 3.34 (2.98–3.74)] and mostly due to sick leave longer than five days (Table 3 ).

Geographically, the ASR of liver cirrhosis caused by NASH presented an increasing trend in 20 regions from 1990 to 2017, except for the high-income Asia Pacific region (Fig. 2 C, Table 1 ).

In contrast, the high SDI region demonstrated the slowest increasing trend of ASR, and the high-income Asia Pacific demonstrated a decreasing trend among the 21 regions.

Prevalence of lymph node dissection and number of nodes dissected The prevalence of lymph node dissection showed a moderate increasing trend of borderline significance (Table 1 ).

In all treatments, the concentration of P had a decreasing trend over time and a slightly lower concentration was detected in biochar-treated soils, especially at seven DAS.

The entangled AVs may be significant for both groups or for one but not the other.

Additional NAFLD-specific phenotypes, such as inflammation and hepatocellular ballooning 31 , did not differ significantly between treatment groups in the samples analyzed, although there was a slight trend toward improved inflammation scores in the WD/LD-T group relative to the WD/WD-V group (Supplementary Table S2 ).

It did however, result in a highly significant reduction in the presence of nitrocellulose-bound ACP (Fig. 3 A).

In contrast, the incidence of acute and late genitourinary (GU) toxicities was higher after LDR-BT boost, and there was a nonsignificant trend for worse gastrointestinal (GI) morbidity 5 .

Detailed analyses showed that the positive relationship between diet diversity and latitude was statistically marginally significant only for the Eastern Mediterranean mainland localities.