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Anxiety symptoms significantly decreased, and depressive symptoms showed a decreasing trend nearly reaching significance, in the intervention versus the control group [ 24 ].

In Greece, average and negative production anomalies of the 2011–2012, 2012–2013 and 2013–2014 seasons are explained with a decreasing trend in maize acreage (0.23Mha in 2009 decreased to 0.15Mha in 2016), but not with suboptimal weather conditions; as the positive yield anomalies for the three seasons (+2.3, +7.6, +0.1) confirm.

The line‐line model was the best model for the period pre-HFU and showed a decreasing trend followed by an increasing trend.

In patients with different age groups, a decreasing trend of FeNO 90 was found by about 12 ppb every 10 yr ( Table IV ).

Nevertheless, the PSEQ score in the SM + PT group showed an increasing trend (mean: pretreatment 38.6; midterm 46.8; posttreatment 47.6) while the PT group had a decreasing trend (mean: pretreatment 34.3; midterm 33.3; posttreatment 30.7). 3.2.3.

As a result of development and increased investment in the area of injury prevention and water safety regulation, a decreasing trend in the global incidence of unintentional drowning deaths has been observed [ 3 , 5 – 8 ].

A decreasing trend in antibiotic susceptibility (between 5 and 10%) was observed in the following cases: E. coli to nitrofurantoin, Klebsiella spp. to cefoxitin, Acinetobacter spp. to imipenem, Salmonella spp. to ciprofloxacin and Enterococci to ampicillin (Tables 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 ) (Fig. 3 ).

3 , and the findings indicated a decreasing trend in the five different riparian vegetation buffer zones from the upper parts of the riparian vegetation buffer zone to the river channel.

In comparison, the BDOC/DOC ratio of the other three feeds exhibited a decreasing trend of CM (60.7%) > ultrasonicated SS (54.2%) > SS (37.3%) > MS (33.5%).

Regarding the financial impact of concussion injuries, there was a decreasing trend since the implementation of the 7-day DL rule in 2011.

This is in contrast to patterns observed in many Western populations, for example, a decreasing trend in alcohol consumption levels during 1990s–2010s among adults aged 18–85 years in Switzerland [ 29 ] and in other southern, central-western and western European countries [ 30 ], and a reduction in frequent drinking (5+ days in the previous week) among adults aged over 16 years during 2005–2017 in the United Kingdom [ 31 ].

There was a decreasing trend in malaria test positivity rate (TPR) for every unit increase in month after spraying.

The wear rates and friction coefficients of these Cu-CNTs composites showed a decreasing trend with increasing CNT content.

With the continuous intervention, the FBG levels in OOPs treatment groups showed a decreasing trend compared with the MC group.

When the relative mass loss is higher than 4%, the CC index of PZT transducer #1 shows a fluctuating variation, but that of PZT transducer #2 shows a decreasing trend.

Soil pH displayed a decreasing trend with increased TW application rate, and chemical fertilizer treatment alone was slightly decreased over the control.

A decreasing trend for the availability of natural sand for the past 15 years has been reported [ 1 ].

Analyses of long-term measurements at NHL stations, Point Barrow (BRW, Alaska) and Alert Nunavut (ALT, Canada), reveal that this seasonal cycle has changed over time, dominated by a decreasing trend in the annual CO 2 minimum (Fig. 3a, b ).

When considering the IRs per 100,000 inhabitants by age group and sex ( Figure 2 , panel B), we observed similar IRs in males and females up to the 35–39 years age group, higher IRs in males than in females in the older age groups and then a decreasing trend in females after the 80–84 years age group.

Our results indicated that the relative mRNA level of igf2 showed a decreasing trend to 6 HPO and HPS and then increased until the complete loss of egg viability occurred.

As referred to in Figure 5 a and Figure 5 b, a decreasing trend was observed for all CIP loadings and applied magnetic fields in such a way that the storage modulus steadily decreased as the strain amplitude increased from approximately 0.01% to 1%, and it remarkably diminished beyond these values up to 10%.

Besides, d -Glucose, d -Fructose and d -Galactose showed a decreasing trend in the hull across seed development of MQ 1 and XQ 1.

Seasonal trends of summer mean air temperature (July–September) which is the key for glacier melt, showed a decreasing trend at several climate stations in the Karakoram region during 1961–2000 [ 17 ].

Longitudinal incidence rates of GTD show a decreasing trend in Asia ( Matsui et al., 2007 ; Shi et al., 2005 ), while some European countries have experienced increasing rates ( Joneborg et al., 2018 ; Lybol et al., 2011 ).

A decreasing trend in the levels of NO 2 has been observed in the period 2010–2014.