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Conclusions The positivity rate of any STI among FSW remained stable, but underlying this was a decreasing trend in the chlamydia positivity rate and an increasing trend in the gonorrhoea positivity rate, suggesting a shift in STI risks among FSW over time.

Conclusion Entomophagy is general in Laos, and well accepted despite a decreasing trend in consumption over the last decade.

As shown in Table 4 , folate-deficient mice presented a decreasing trend in serum levels of P4 and E2 compared with normal mice.

The CO concentrations showed a decreasing trend up to about 50°N, indicating a decrease in local contribution by anthropogenic sources, such as fossil fuels, north of 50°N.

Another study in Tokyo, Japan found a negative association between temperature and HFMD when the average temperature is above 25 °C and a decreasing trend also appeared above 26 °C in a study in Beijing [ 15 , 20 ].

Incidence rates for skin Melanoma vary sensibly across Italy, with a decreasing trend moving from North to the South.

Narayanan B also found genital ulcer more common than warts (condyloma acuminata), similar to other studies.[ 4 6 ] Herpes genitalis was the most common (50%) among the genetic ulcers as found in previous studies.[ 5 7 ] Increasing trend of herpes genitalis has been found in other studies as well.[ 7 8 9 10 11 12 ] Our study found good number of chancroid patients (24.07%), in accordance with some previous studies.[ 3 13 ] However, overall a decreasing trend for bacterial infections like chancroid, syphilis, gonorrhea has been noted in the literature.[ 5 ] Next most common presentation in our study was vaginal discharge found in 22.83% patients. 57.14% of these had vaginal candidiasis, 23.81% trichomoniasis, 9.52% bacterial vaginosis, 4.76% gonococcal urethritis, and 4.76% had mixed infection.

8 Moreover, there is a decreasing trend in nutritional diseases, perhaps due to the effectiveness of nutritional intervention programs in Nepal.

In addition the Chinese study showed that protrusion showed a decreasing trend with increasing age.

The surgical duration for WAVS-assisted encircling buckling showed a decreasing trend, although there were no significant differences, probably because the surgical duration included the time spent on procedures other than marking, cryopexy, and final check of the fundus.

Although all metabolic fluxes show a decreasing trend whatever the culture conditions from 48–96 h, significant differences of behaviour raised in the latter culture stages comparing flux levels among cultures.

( 2009 ) reported most significant and rapid changes of over 80 % free of heavy metals in vermicomposted sludge with earthworms upon chemical analysis while Iordache and Borza ( 2012 ) reported a decreasing trend for lead, manganese, copper and zinc with lumbricoid earthworms.

2013, while the detection ratio of EV71 showed a decreasing trend ( Fig 2 ).

CT in exposure to Collagen/ADP showed a decreasing trend over time in ExHT and PaHT and significantly differed from CONT at Rec ( F = 7.6, p = 0.008).

We have found a higher rate of increased WC among pre-pubertal boys with a decreasing trend towards late/post-puberty, but the reverse trend was found in girls.

The δ 13 C values of AK specimens show a decreasing trend from the Upper Solutrean to the Azilian (~23–12 ka cal BP), ranging from δ 13 C −20.3 to −21.0‰ ( supplementary Table 3 and supplementary Fig. 1a ).

Soluble sugars, reducing sugars, total sugars, starch, and soluble protein showed a decreasing trend with increasing Cd under Cd stress alone ( Fig. 2a–d,f ).

observed a decreasing trend in Young’s modulus with increasing irradiances, reaching no statistically significant difference between the 18 mW/cm 2 and the control group.

jensenii displayed a decreasing trend with increasing pH while BV-associated BSP-encoding taxa displayed the opposite trend (Figure S1 ).

30 Polygamy, a decreasing trend in Nigeria, 31 32 is a culturally accepted practice in many communities; 33 it allows men to have as many children as possible whether or not they have the material resources to provide for the household—mainly due to son-preference 34 —and may be an additional factor for inappropriate feeding practices in Nigeria.

There was also a decreasing trend in T-scores at all sites with greater AUDIT scores.

However, there was a decreasing trend in DHEAS level noted for patients 35 years and above, but this was not significantly different from the average DHEAS level for individuals below 35 years.

In the present experimental conditions, the total bacteria and fungi plate counts in both the infested and control substrate samples showed a decreasing trend over time up to the end of the experiment, without climate simulation effects being observed.

The blank control showed the proportional decrease of both clonal cells and the normal cells in the cultured cells, but did not show a decreasing trend of the percentage of clonal cells.

The Mantel correlogram ( Fig 3C ) displayed a decreasing trend in the value of r M with increasing stream distance.