“a decreasing trend”

The mature periderm maintains the FHT levels although with a decreasing trend ( Fig. 5 ).

Like for HAV, a decreasing trend in prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii IgG is observed in the Netherlands from 46% in 1987 to 35% in 1995/1996 and 19% in 2007/2008 among women of reproductive age [ 10 ].

HCV prevalence has changed significantly world-wide, showing a decreasing trend in the developed world due to a decrease in infections among injecting drug users, the effect of harm reduction programs, and the reduced risk of transfusion-associated acute HCV.

The findings of the current study revealed a decreasing trend in the moral distress mean score in the intervention group, while there was an increasing trend in the control group after the intervention.

Data from both the studies, thus, show a decreasing trend in height-for-age z-scores till the 4 th year of age, indicating progression of stunting as age increases.

Trend in clinical findings and overall health scores A decreasing trend in sum of PALP findings (including severity) was seen during the test period (Additional file 2 ).

The body weight did not show any significant change although it there was a decreasing trend (Figure 1 a).

Conclusions Although a decreasing trend of outbreaks by year was observed in the study, the food services in schools and companies require more attention to hygiene and sanitation to prevent large outbreaks.

Interpretation & conclusion: HCV seroprevalence in our study was 0.39 per cent and a decreasing trend with age was observed.

Overall a decreasing trend in FD values with age was observed indicating that the WM structural complexity and WM volume decrease with age which is consistent with findings from Zhang et al [3] .

A decreasing trend was observed for all joint replacements analyzed, but it was greater for upper-limb operations than for lower-limb operations.

Results showed that although DPD values revealed an increasing nature after force application and BAP values showed a decreasing trend, only the former showed significant changes over time which implied that DPD dominates the earlier phases of tooth movement while BAP serves as an indicator of bone formation as soon as tooth movement stops.

Injury index values also showed a decreasing trend throughout most of the treatments, with no trend at treatment 5 where there were almost no injuries observed at any of the days post exposure.

Figure 1 illustrates the aftershocks geographical distribution and figure 2 shows a decreasing trend of the aftershocks in terms of number and magnitude over 30 days after the main shock.

Sesame oil, because of its phytoestrogenic components, 23 may exert negative feedback on the hypothalamus-hypophysis-testis axis and contribute to a decreasing trend in endogenous estradiol levels.

No significant changes on macronutrient composition were observed in this study, although there was a potential for a decreasing trend of fat intake throughout the intervention.

For super hydrophilic centrifugal microfluidic platforms (θ<40°), a decreasing trend of burst frequency with the decreasing of the contact angle can be expected due the increase of the wall adhesion effect.

Differently from what can be expected by simply looking at seroprevalence data by age, we found that the age group 0–4 was the most susceptible to infection; in fact, for each choice of the contact matrix, we found a decreasing trend of susceptibility to infection by age (see Figure 2a ).

Crop pollution has shown a decreasing trend since 1997 because of the increased per capita income of farmers.

Moreover, in Algeria, the increase was essentially linear, while in Tunisia, there was a leveling off and/or a decreasing trend from the 4 th to the 5 th quintile.

The attractive forces of the alkoxy chain increase with increasing chain length, which results in a decreasing trend for the nematic to smectic A transition entropy change.

As shown in Figure A.3 in simulations, the distance of the reconstructed trees to both the real tree and the species tree exhibits a decreasing trend for increasing sample size, with no sign of overfitting for any sample size.

Although we did not detect statistically significant differences between the M-Mg and D-Mg samples at each tested time point in terms of their mass loss and release of Mg ions, the average Mg ion concentration over time showed a decreasing trend for both samples.

Generally, cumulative exposure lag01 had larger effects than single-day exposure (lag0 to lag4) and the effects of cumulative exposures (from lag01 to lag04) showed a decreasing trend.

In both groups, the VAS score followed a decreasing trend from 0 to 15 min of post-injection.