“a decreasing trend”

Although grassland presents a decreasing trend, while, its area has increased dramatically in recent years, mainly due to the Jiangsu government’s coastal land use plan to plant 333 km 2 of grass area artificially in coastal Jiangsu 16 .

The Simpson index in our study showed a decreasing trend ( Table 1 ) and reflected the increasing heterogeneity of ecosystems from glacial snow to glacial soil.

Over the past several decades there has been a remarkable reduction in environmental sources of lead and a decreasing trend in the prevalence of elevated blood lead levels [ 2 ].

However, there was a decreasing trend in the frequency of the A allele with increasing proportion of European ancestry.

12 , as the sensitivity decreases, the total virus number and the contact time shows a decreasing trend.

If we take a closer look at the integrated area of the aromatic protons, b 1 does not change overtime; while b 3 showed a decreasing trend and b 2 increased overtime.

In addition, co-treatment with α-asarone showed a decreasing trend in both parameters, but the difference for Feret's diameter measurement was not significant.

A good example is North America, where the west coast experienced a decreasing trend while on the east coast, water consumption per capita increased.

It was observed from the MVDL swine isolates a decreasing trend in the frequency of S .

[ 33 ] found that in patients who still took antihypertensive drugs according to the original treatment plan during the study period; the BP was significantly lower in the acupuncture group compared with the sham group after 6 weeks of treatment; the change of BP in the subgroup of 35 patients without antihypertensive drugs showed a decreasing trend.

Overall, a decreasing trend in both parasitological prevalence and seroprevalence of S. mansoni infection was observed among screened individuals in Dhofar Governorate during the period under study.

Both interrupted time series studies conducted in Chile [ 45 ] and Brazil [ 32 ] showed a decreasing trend after PCV introduction in children aged <2 years contrasting with non-decreasing trend in rates in age groups not targeted by PCV.

We also found that the SRB showed a decreasing trend from 2012 to 2014 but increased slightly again in 2015.

Cardiac disease was detected as a major cause of death and did not show a decreasing trend in 5-year cohorts since 1999.

From this year onward, and accounting for its inter-annual variability, each site precipitation exhibited a decreasing trend (Fig. 4 ).

It was noteworthy that both CA activity and the protein abundance for spots 1328, 1339, and 1361 exhibited a decreasing trend upon severe drought stress.

A decreasing trend of N-P-N amplitude appeared as the flash intensities decreased.

Conclusion Despite a decreasing trend in the mortality of finisher pigs transported for slaughter in Europe, our study suggests that current transport conditions are not efficient at ensuring the welfare of pigs during transport for longer distances and the protection of pigs against the negative impact of extreme ambient temperatures.

Starting from September, R-factor has a decreasing trend.

The trend coefficient was -0.066, which indicated a decreasing trend.

In the Southeast, despite having the highest average rate for the period (34.35), there was a decreasing trend (-0.39 per year).

[ 42 ] In contrast, our patients did not show a significant thinning of the choroid, but looking at the absolute values, a decreasing trend (mean change −18.7 μm) could be assumed, which probably would have become statistically significant if we had a bigger sample size.

The majority of texture descriptors exhibit either an increasing or a decreasing trend that varies with decreasing PEGDM hydrogel stiffness ( Fig. 4D ).

A decreasing trend of breast feeding is occurring in Sweden but compared to England the numbers are still high [ 13 ].

The percentage point (p.p.) changes in SPR according to time measured as calendar months following IRS, revealed a decreasing trend in malaria morbidity in the first 3 months following each round of IRS.