“a decreasing trend”

The health score indicated a decreasing trend across the four waves Fig. 2 .

A decreasing trend in average bacterial diversity was observed with depth, similarly to what has been found in similar studies under dry conditions ( Warren-Rhodes et al., 2019 ).

Intracellular AC D and CP A produced by MC+ followed a decreasing trend when exposed to low density DM (2w), with significant difference on day 3 in comparison with the control ( Figure 4 A,B, Table 2 ).

Examining the LOWESS line for the entire cohort, we observed an increasing trend for AHI with time from baseline until certain PI's use time point (peak) followed by a decreasing trend of AHI subsequent time points.

A decreasing trend of the average initial spin polarization with increasing thickness of the 2D/3D graded samples is observed.

As we can see, in the order from healthy, to adenoma and CRC samples, there is a decreasing trend of node degree among the enzymes enriched in healthy controls (nodes with blue circles).

We observed a decreasing trend in drug efficacy as a function of increasing historic drug pressure, yet further research is needed to identify factors that are contributing to this variation and to determine whether reduced efficacy can be linked with the known β-tubulin SNPs.

Sequential fractionation of the top- and subsoil microaggregate size fraction revealed a decreasing trend in proportions and concentrations of P Resin after clear-cut, which however were not significant.

As presented in Figure 2 , the CA724 values for healthy adults along the longitude it first increased from west to east and then decreased slightly in the extreme (the red curve), while it showed a decreasing trend from south to north along the latitude (the blue curve).

The levels of VEGF (ng/l) in the healthy control, observation (mild) and observation (severe) groups were 73.78±15.32, 47.45±11.02 and 33.62±6.19, respectively, showing a decreasing trend and statistically significant differences in intergroup comparisons (P<0.05; Fig. 1 ).

In‐hospital mortality Overall unadjusted in‐hospital mortality rates followed a decreasing trend among all groups over time ( P ‐trend < 0.0001 for cancer vs. 0.0003 for non‐cancer group).

Comparing the Arrow device used in the adhesive group with the device used by Xie et al, 4 the latter had lower values (10.84 N) at the immediate time point, and also exhibited a decreasing trend in average values at 15 days (6.23 N) and 30 days (1.8 N), and an increasing trend at 60 days (45.69 N), all indicating a significant difference.

However, the mean amount of TAM shows a decreasing trend after DIV4 ( Figure 1B ).

Among medium-FAS boys, a significant increase in VPA was observed in six countries (Luxembourg, Macedonia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden), whereas a decreasing trend in VPA was observed in nine countries (Canada, the Czech Republic, England, Estonia, Iceland, Italy, Slovakia, Switzerland and Wales).

From 2014 to 2017, there has been a decreasing trend in verbal and relational bullying but a relative increase in sexual bullying, cyber bullying, and other unclassified forms of bullying [ 2 ].

Though the tensile strength and yield strength of the 4 test steels all show a decreasing trend with the increase of cooling rate ( Figure 9 a,b), the decreasing rates of S3 and S4 are significantly lower than that of S1 and S2.

As children aged, Hb concentrations increased, while the prevalence of anemia showed a decreasing trend.

A cellular flux analysis of the conplastic fibroblast cell lines demonstrated that the levels of maximal respiration and the spare capacity in B6-mt ALR fibroblasts exhibited a decreasing trend compared to those in the B6-mt BPL fibroblasts ( Figure 2 D).

There was a decreasing trend of the Pb concentrations in more than 50% soil samples, but an increasing trend was found in over 75% wheat samples between 2015 and 2016.

The LAI showed a decreasing trend since the late 1990s over vegetated areas of 64.72, 72.62, 62.73, and 80.11% for GLASS, GLOMap, LAI3g, and TCDR datasets, respectively (fig.

There was a decreasing trend in HDL-C in the YH1 group but no significant difference between groups.

This low frequency of DM is concerning, as this could be related to a misdiagnosis of the disease; however, the increase in the percentage of cases reported over the years may indicate a decreasing trend in misdiagnosis.

From Table 3 , shear stress change rate of MRG-50 is almost constant along with the magnetic field strength, while that of MRG-70 shows a decreasing trend.

The diffusion coefficients measured using ARICS show a decreasing trend with increasing particle size ( Figure 6 ), as expected based on the Stokes-Einstein equation.

A general feature of semiconductors consists in the occurrence of two different regions in the trend of the absolute value of the Seebeck coefficient versus the temperature, namely an increasing and a decreasing trend at low and high temperatures, respectively, separated by a maximum [ 42 ].