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Variations in song phrase transitions indicated a decreasing trend in deafened birds compared with intact birds, as a reduction of the total number of unique syllables was observed following auditory deprivation (Fig. 5a ).

The TB incidence in Nanshan showed a decreasing trend in the 25–34 and 35–44 age groups, with the greatest annual decrease (13.3%) in the 15–24 group.

In summary, with increasing chain length a decreasing trend can be observed for the PNEC values of the perfluorinated sulfonic acids as well as for the perfluorinated carboxylic acids with one exception (PFPeA).

Although there was a decreasing trend in risk ratios, the 99% confidence intervals were wide and overlapping.

The upper limbs were the most commonly injured body part followed by the lower limbs in all age groups, but this showed a decreasing trend with age: 46.4% in 0–1 year olds, 42.5% in 2–3 year olds, and 31.6% in 4–5 year olds.

The smoothed data (red lines, based on the 10-year running average, with a sampling proportion = 0.18) for TN10 and TX10 showed a decreasing trend, with fluctuations, but with a predominantly upward trend after the 1990s (Fig. 1 ).

Patients who experienced hypoglycaemia had a lower fasting plasma glucose level and values showed a decreasing trend with increasing severity of the hypoglycaemic event.

The use of these plants shows a decreasing trend which can be clearly attributed to factors such as uncontrolled harvesting, insignificant role of the government towards conservation and presumably the lack of conservation knowledge and strategies; these factors will soon irreversibly damage the floristic biodiversity of the area, and consequently, the rich ethnomedicinal knowledge will vanish forever.

In the current report of 4 years, average of 18 patients out of the 10,000 admitted patients died; this number was accompanied with a decreasing trend of mortality rate every year, because of the improvement of the healthcare.

The hemolytic panel including the reticulocyte count, haptoglobins, and peripheral smear was normal except for the raised LDH which gradually showed a decreasing trend.

Specifically, meteorological drought severity based on the standardized precipitation index (SPI) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) showed a decreasing trend in Xinjiang prior to 1997, after which the trend reversed.

amurensis leaves presented a decreasing trend.

In addition, the water cluster sizes showed a decreasing trend with decreasing film thickness in the case of hydrophilic substrates, which has also been observed in experiments of supported Nafion films.

Quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) results from the amplification of ZBTB16 (PLZF) transcripts in our in vitro model show a decreasing trend at 100 μM HBCDD and TBBPA, with ZBTB16 mRNA steady-state levels at 30% and 45% of DMSO-only negative control levels, respectively, which correlates with our staining data ( Figure S2 A).

The weighted prevalence of cotinine-verified smoking showed a decreasing trend with increasing age irrespective of the threshold urinary cotinine level.

On the contrary, a decreasing trend in fasiglifam exposure was observed with progressive hepatic impairment, while exposure to the inactive metabolite M-I increased.

As the most abundant group in Proteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria showed a decreasing trend in community abundances along the vertical depth, with the abundance changing from 29.3% in the surface zones to 13.2% in the Deep areas.

Results Breakpoint analysis revealed an estimated breakpoint around the year 2013 for the proportion of HBP patients, the following year there was a decreasing trend, however it was not significant.

Recent scenario shows that about 70% of these patients receive ADT, but with a decreasing trend over the time ( 4 ).

This is because vesicles with a size comparable to the wavelength of light, i.e., sizes > 1/10 the wavelength of light, stop acting like point particles and show a decreasing trend in scattering intensity with increasing volume 29 at the scattering angle used for measurements (90 ° ).

The results also showed a significant decrease of distribution of fecal coliforms with increasing residual chlorine, while a decreasing trend is observed from the dose of 0.8 mg/L. 2 Materials and methods 2.1 Study area Kermanshah city with 24,500 m 2 area and an altitude of 1200 m above sea level, locates in 47° and 4" east and 19° and 34" north in the west of Iran ( Fig. 1 ).

However, both a decreasing trend in poleward heat transport 30 , and increasing poleward heat transport 13 have been reported indicating that determining the strength of external forcing in the Arctic requires further investigation.

In the placebo group, subject E62 demonstrated γ -GTP values during visit 3 (120 IU/L) which exceeded the normal range, similar to visit 1 (133 IU/L), but this was determined to be unrelated to the ingestion of test food materials because the γ -GTP values exhibited a decreasing trend.

A decreasing trend for MEN2 incidence could have a similar effect.

There was a decreasing trend in major incidents over time.