“a decreasing trend”

Additionally, hyphal density will exhibit a decreasing trend only when the root length density increases further (probably under drought conditions).

There was a decreasing trend in the Gini coefficients of PHCI physicians with bachelor’s degrees or higher and physicians with associate’s degrees.

Noticeably, based on these two parameters alone, annual malnutrition reportage for Malaysian HD patients with 10-year trends from 2006 to 2015 have shown an increasing trend from 46 to 62% with serum albumin < 4.0 g/L, in contrast to a decreasing trend of BMI < 25 kg/m 2 from 71 to 61% [ 8 ].

Although official statistics point to a decreasing trend in the timber sector as a whole, possibly indicating success against illegal logging, this seemingly intractable problem continues to beset the industry [ 11 , 23 , 24 ].

Will the owners of these lands want to hunt them in the future or use them simply as family get-aways? How will this affect the local deer population? A decreasing trend in hunters has been well-documented in the US ( 82 , 83 ) and in Michigan specifically ( 84 , 85 ).

Though not significant, the authors reported a decreasing trend of MIF levels in higher COPD-GOLD categories in this study [ 35 ].

In contrast, two studies did not find a statistically significant correlation between detention duration and quality of life [ 42 , 46 ], although a decreasing trend was found in one of these studies [ 46 ].

A decreasing trend in the physical activity level is in fact characterizing the present unsustainable lifestyle of large strata of the western population, also because individualized dieting and exercise programs implemented within public health interventions have not always succeeded in reaching their targets (see for example Catenacci et al., 2009 ).

There was a decreasing trend of children provided with treatment for malaria in the period under review.

In the following months she showed a decreasing trend of BCR-ABL1 levels, with acquisition of DMR and, at the last follow-up, 50 months after imatinib discontinuation, she is in MR 5.0 with undetectable disease.

However, the annual number of IPN outbreaks (including both freshwater and seawater environment) shows a decreasing trend over the last years, probably connected to widespread use of IPN-resistant salmon strains and a targeted effort to eradicate “house strains” of the IPN virus in hatcheries (unpublished work).

Following the summer months in 2012, the number of recruited reads, the number of proteins the reads matched, and the amino acid identity of the matches showed a decreasing trend, with potential increases reoccurring during summer months ( Fig. 5 ), a period when blooms of A. flos-aquae are most likely to happen.

show a similar pattern of incidence but report a decreasing trend among men [ 8 ].

If τ is greater than zero and statistically significant, there is an increasing trend; if τ is less than zero and statistically significant, there is a decreasing trend.

CD14 cells exhibited a decreasing trend, with a significant decrease at 9 and 18 dpi when compared to the UC.

baumannii presented a decreasing trend during the disease course (Fig. 4a and b ).

In the studied period, we observed a decreasing trend of the number of bladder tumors in the rural area and an increasing trend in the urban area ( Fig. 3 ).

Despite a decreasing trend in methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), there is emergence and rapid expansion of extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing K. pneumoniae coupled with fluoroquinolone resistance observed in this study.

Likewise, a decreasing trend in DNA methylation was observed among the CpG sites within the ND6 , and the HSP and LSP regions from the early stage (Fig. 2 ), which could potentially contribute to the active binding of the mtDNA replication factors to mtDNA, as is the case for POLG where it has been shown that the methylation status of exon 2 is associated with the binding of RNA polymerase II [ 19 ].

In all previous years, there was either no trend or a decreasing trend.

A decreasing trend was registered in esophageal cancer in F and of gastric cancer (GC) in both genders.

Modelling techniques predict a further great burden in adult pathology due to a decreasing trend in the age of the occurrence of severe cardiovascular events, especially for stroke [ 5 – 7 ].

The results show that there was a decreasing trend in the number of microbial species (OTUs) detected over the three stages.

2 shows a decreasing trend in black pixels, regions where HbT is too low to be measured, after the first 10 min of imaging.

Like in errors, there was a decreasing trend in RTs in the first test, but in the second test RTs remained stable throughout the test (Figure 4 ).