“a decreasing trend”

Results All nerves exhibited a decreasing trend in diameter and signal intensity from the proximal to the distal end, except for the facial, maxillary, and auriculotemporal nerves.

For MAc, the highest values were recorded in 2007, 2008, 2010 and the lowest in 2012 and 2022, with a decreasing trend during the period analysed and with significant differences between zones located at different elevation.

Turbidity peaked in July at a mean of 10 FTU, followed by a decreasing trend.

Discussion The results of the analysis of the Korea National Children’s Oral Health Survey from 2010 to 2022 revealed an increasing trend in the experience rate of dental caries in primary teeth and a decreasing trend in the prevalence of dental caries in primary teeth.

The Arima model predictions suggest that Asian age-standardized rates will typically show a decreasing trend over the next 20 years, except for the ASIR, which shows an increasing trend.

Meanwhile, due to a noticeably increasing trend in minimum temperature during winter in the past 109 years (1912–2020), a decreasing trend in the number of cold wave days (–0.61 days/10 years) was also found.

At both the 3-month and 12-month postoperative follow-ups, the median scores showed a decreasing trend for both the total score (PRUNE-S sum) as well as for the subscales (Table 3 ).

The case fatality rate was also the highest in the pre-Delta variant dominance period at 1.15% and showed a decreasing trend until the Omicron BA.5 dominance period (0.07%).

The underwater friction force showed a decreasing trend with increasing M content, which may be attributed to the layered crystal structure of MoS 2 that facilitates interlayer sliding and consequently reduces the friction coefficient when incorporated into the coating.

2 What new information is presented? The total number of severe trauma patients from 2015 to 2020 was 48,953, over the six-year period, both the fatality rate and the severe disability rate among severe trauma patients showed a decreasing trend. 3 What are implications?

TB deaths according to sex were 1,107 (4.3 per 100,000) in 2017, 977 (3.8 per 100,000) in 2019, and 854 (3.3 per 100,000) in 2021 for males, and 709 (2.8 per 100,000) in 2017, 633 (2.5 per 100,000) in 2019, and 576 (2.2 per 100,000) in 2021 for females, showing a decreasing trend for both males and females but increasing by 1.4% (12) and 12.1% (62) in 2021 from the previous year, respectively.

Incidence of OHCA by City and Province in the Chungcheong Region Examination of the OHCA incidence over the past 5 years (2019–2023) showed a slight increase from 2020 to 2022, followed by a decreasing trend in 2023 ( Figure 1A ).

coli showed a decreasing trend from 2019 to 2021 but then increased drastically from 400 cases in 2021 to 571 cases in 2022.

Mostly, a bimodal curve was observed with peaks during spring-early summer and fall seasons, with the peak during spring-early summer higher than that of the fall, and showing a decreasing trend in summer and winter.

Recently, a decreasing trend has been noted in this regard in the ROK, with 485 cases reported in 2019, 356 in 2020, and 272 in 2021 [ 3 ].

S7 ), all GCMs project a decreasing trend in runoff due to increased evapotranspiration from increased temperatures.

coli has been showing a decreasing trend since 2019, from 17.8% in 2018, 19.2% in 2019, 18.0% in 2020, 14.3% in 2021, to 14.0% in 2022 ( Table 3 ). 2.

The number of Scarlet fever cases, a bacterial respiratory infectious disease, showed a decreasing trend in 2018 and 2019, followed by an increase to 2,300, 678, 505, and 803 cases between 2020 and 2023, respectively.

However, stroke showed a decreasing trend in age-standardized incidence.

The rate of severe disabilities showed a decreasing trend at 26.0% in 2021, but began to increase from 2019 onwards.

Moreover, as shown in Table 6 , the viscosity B -coefficients for all investigated systems exhibit a decreasing trend with increasing temperature.

Protein yield showed an increasing trend at first and then a decreasing trend.

Figure 3 a, the substrate S ( t ) shows a decreasing trend across all cases, reflecting the typical consumption behavior as the enzyme reaction proceeds.

The measured ambient temperatures were elevated during the forenoon but exhibited a decreasing trend in the afternoon.

Cell density showed a decreasing trend with increasing hydrostatic pressure, although the differences were not statistically significant (Fig. 2 c).