“a decreasing trend”

Figure 4 shows a decreasing trend in the mean age at diagnosis for hypercholesterolemia from 2008 to 2017.

Notably, the trabecular numbers of CSiMg10@CSiMg4 and CSiMg10@CSiMg4-p scaffolds keep on increasing at all the time point but showed a decreasing trend at 12 weeks.

Although the degradation mass showed a decreasing trend as the silica content increased, the difference compared to the sample containing no silica was not significant.

Albeit a steady historic increase in total AD items from ~5 million items per month in early 2016 to ~6 million items per month in late 2019, the overall cost of AD still maintained a decreasing trend, i.e., ~£21 million per month in early 2016 reduced to £16 million in late 2019.

A decreasing trend (slope) with different starting points in 1990 (intercepts) was seen in the trajectory plot of these countries, separately for each gender.

However, the fracture toughness exhibits a decreasing trend as the holding time increases.

In conclusion, there was a decreasing trend of the regulated POPs and metals but a potential increasing trend of the nonregulated PFASs in the Greenlandic population between 1994 and 2015.

The Sen’s Slope value map of the KB presents a decreasing trend from northeast to southwest.

The percentage of pixels in this area that showed a decreasing trend (D) reached its highest (36.3%) in the sub-period 1997–2003 and lowest in the sub-period 2003–2007 (1.8%).

Our findings differ from that of ESTUDES 2020 which reported a decreasing trend of RC and HED patterns.

Regardless of the route, increases in breath concentrations for the oxidative stress-associated VOCs (i.e., acetone, 2-butanone, and 2-pentanone) from the pre-exercise state were observed, whereas the isoprene breath concentrations showed a decreasing trend as the intensity of physical activity increased (from rest to the walk up to the run) ( Figure 6 ).

In Dujiangyan, forest and farmland are the main components of the ecosystem, and the amount of farmland change is the largest and has been in a decreasing trend.

From the perspective of the absolute values of the coefficients, its impact on the changes in the area of rural residential areas showed a decreasing trend from west to east.

2 b, the expression of EIF5A2 protein presents a decreasing trend following EOC cell growth from spheroid into the adherent state.

Noncontainerized throughput generally shows a decreasing trend from 1990 to 2012.

Nationally, there was a substantial rise in age-standardised incidence rates, while age-standardised death rates were identified to have a decreasing trend.

Results exposed a considerable impact on the viability of the isolate were observed at the concentration of H 2 O 2 increases, exhibiting a decreasing trend.

Fibre emissions showed a decreasing trend both in sequential washes and dryings.

In Figure 5 , both the half-lives of ARL3 T31A and ARL3 C118F protein showed a decreasing trend compared with the wild-type ARL3 protein.

In Figure 7 c, the diameter of end spheres D and the diameter of the middle section d were kept constant, while the length of the middle section was increased which resulted in a decreasing trend of surface-to-volume ratio.

While the differences were not statistically significant ( p > 0.05), there was a decreasing trend in comparison to the control group ( Figures 7B,D ).

The search equation for each network considered specific topics trying to obtain an advanced temporal evolution in terms of the addition of new nodes; that means 3 steps, a time to reach the interest of the scientific community, a gradual increase until reaching a peak and finally, a decreasing trend by losing of novelty.

At 1 and 2 min post-activation, a decreasing trend in sperm velocity was observed after diluting sperm in Ca 2+ -free ASW, however the observed decrease was significant at 4 to 20 min post-activation (Figs 6E–6H and S3 ).

The number of BA neonates receiving PPV appeared to have a decreasing trend, but this was not statistically significant (40% to 30%, p trend = 0.06).

Many reports have indicated a decreasing trend in soil fertility, including K concentration in soils of Nepal [ 19 , 27 ].