“a decreasing trend”

The microhardness, shear strength, and compressive strength of the composites had a decreasing trend with graphene contents of 0.5–1.5 wt %.

With the increase in reaction temperature, the value of I D /I G basically presented a decreasing trend, indicating that the structural order in samples was partially restored.

With regard to the obtained microhardness results, there was a decreasing trend with continuing the thermal cycling of the specimens.

LF morbidity management and disability prevention In the Cook Islands, the prevalence of chronic disease had shown a decreasing trend for the three to four decades before PacELF began, probably because of reduced transmission and improved living conditions.

Due to regulations on the discharge of wastewater, concentrations of many hazardous compounds showed a decreasing trend and surface water quality has improved.

The Shannon diversity index which considers evenness in addition to richness suggested a decreasing trend for lignin-adapted consortia but an increasing trend for xylan-adapted consortia over time.

4(b) , when a gate voltage of 1 V is applied, the current gain shows considerable gap dependence along a decreasing trend before reaching saturation around a gap of 2 mm.

The excess adsorption attains a maximum, followed by a decreasing trend at higher pressures.

During this period, the TP in water showed a decreasing trend (Fig. 1 ), thereby limiting the growth of phytoplankton and periphyton.

If a dose demonstrated a predictive probability of .10 that the final P value of the ABT-126 dose versus placebo would be ≤.05 for three consecutive interim evaluations or the predictive probabilities showed a decreasing trend for three consecutive evaluations with the last evaluation reaching the threshold of .10, then no additional subjects would have been enrolled in that dose group.

This change signals the end of the surge in prescribing and the start of a decreasing trend in prescriptions.

Table 3 shows there was a decreasing trend of stillbirths among those who were referred to health institutions (heath centres and hospitals); from 91.7 to 25.1 per 100 births (Mantel-Haenszel chi-square for linear trend 40.16; P<0.001).

Monitoring of the total cell concentration of cell line 1 over storage time revealed a decreasing trend in total cell concentration for all the methods.

Our results do, however, indicate a decreasing trend.

LIYV quantification for these five constructs by RT-qPCR showed a decreasing trend for the viral RNA amount along the increased CE length, consistent with the symptom development and the immunoblot results ( Figure 5 C).

bornmuelleri venom on the levels of IL-10 in the spleen of mice A decreasing trend of IL-10 levels can be observed 6 h after injecting the mice with 1 mg/kg M. bornmuelleri venom, as compared to the control ( Fig. 6 A).

The fracture fractal dimension showed a decreasing trend with the rise of temperature, which is rational because at a lower temperature, especially lower than the glass transition temperature of the binder, the brittleness of binder is enhanced, so more transgranular and trans-particle fracture will occur; while at a higher temperature, especially higher than the glass transition temperature of the binder, the viscosity of the binder is enhanced so more intergranular and inter-particle fracture will occur.

Despite the fact that the relative density follows a decreasing trend with the increase of the ammonia flow time, it should be noted that hardness follows a growing tendency.

The optimized mechanical properties appears at 0.1 wt% CNTs content and when the CNTs content is over 3.0 wt%, the mechanical properties show a decreasing trend.

When comparing to the abundance of DEGs between two different anther development stages, the number of downregulated genes was significantly increased during anther maturation, and on the contrary, the number of upregulated genes had a decreasing trend ( Figure 4 ), implying that the genes’ expression and the activity of anther in the initial development stage are more vigorous than the later stages.

As expected, both interactions show a decreasing trend in the number of coexisting species as the number of changes in microhabitat locality increases for both local and global dispersion.

On the other hand, the second eigenvalue shows a decreasing trend, again consistent with those cases when the local average force is reduced at the end of the force recording period.

While trends in the incidences of congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) remained stable in Taiwan (2004–2011) [ 28 ], a decreasing trend (−31%) was reported in Glasgow (UK) (1980–1997) [ 10 ].

In the present study, we set January 2006 as a cut-off time point and we observed that PFHxS concentration did not change before and after January 2006, whereas PFOS concentration showed a decreasing trend during both periods.

From 2000 to 2014, well water usage follows a decreasing trend, with the first 4 years reporting usage above 100 mm, and the last four years reporting usage below 80 mm ( Figure 4 b).