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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.

In addition, the results of trend test for higher values of this variable confirmed a decreasing trend for stress levels (OR = 0.85; 95% CI, 0.80-0.90). 4.4.

In the bulk soil ( Fig 2 ), the contents of clay and silt presented a decreasing trend with the increasing time while the sand content increased significantly.

The highest dosage of arsenic exposure showed a decreasing trend of total exploring time towards two objects during the LTM tests, indicating that arsenic exposure could also affect locomotor activity [ 29 ].

In the case of 20th May 2011, 6S’s RMSE attained the lowest point at k = 6 and 8, as noted in the previous section; however, at k = 8, TOA’s RMSE was still maintaining a decreasing trend; thus k = 8 was chosen to add to Figure 6 .

Among African Americans, there was a decreasing trend of the severity of acute respiratory infection with an increasing number of copies of C, C, and A allele of the three promoter SNPs rs1432623, rs11168068, and rs2400707, respectively (Fig. 1 ).

In the inset of Fig 3 we show what would be the result obtained from an ordinary differential equation displaying bistable behavior, in which the rainfall parameter oscillates in time and has a decreasing trend, inducing a regime change.

A decreasing trend for the parameter of failure to maintain set was found, but was not significant ( p = 0.305).

Fourth, our theoretical model was supported by in vitro studies in which the SFs of F98 glioma cells treated with Typ-Pt and irradiated with 160-kV rays showed a decreasing trend with radiation dose compared with a marginal decrease in SFs of cells irradiated with 6-MV photons.

A systematic variation was observed, with a decreasing trend in the mean differences as the average EQ-5D-3L index score increased.

MAP and systemic vascular resistance (SVR) did not differ between the groups at the examined time points, but SVR showed a decreasing trend over time in all three groups.

When compared between the two surveys, the overall pattern of death rates shows a decreasing trend for almost all causes, except for deaths due to malignancy.

Nevertheless, the main effects of HCV antigens should be TNF-α inhibition according to ex vivo data that showed a decreasing trend in the patient group.

Although a decreasing trend was observed in the SA content 20 d after infestation, this value was 1.16-fold higher in systemic leaves than in the uninfested control ( F = 81.362; df = 1,21; P < 0.05) ( Fig 3B ).

Similarly, the values of the exponent b also shows a decreasing trend over time, as can be seen in Table G in S1 File (except in TP 5 that will be explained in Discussions ).

BCL2 gene expression in bystander cells showed significant downregulation at 4 h and 24 h ( P < 0.05), but cells directly exposed showed a decreasing trend without significant change.

Furthermore, following intervention with TMZ, the ACCs and GSCs transfected with siRNA presented a decreasing trend in MRP1 mRNA expression levels with increasing concentrations of TMZ.

However, the ratio of soluble to insoluble protein (S % to P %) exhibited a decreasing trend as the induction temperature increased (Fig. 3E ).

The compressive modulus of the wet tubular scaffolds revealed a decreasing trend (from 3.5 MPa to 2.2 MPa) over the 10 day immersion time (see Figure 6 b), though the values were found to not be statistically significant ( p > 0.05). 2.4.