“a decreasing trend”

In 2013–2015, the concentration of PM 2.5 in 74 cities in China showed a decreasing trend, and the concentration of PM 2.5 in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region overall decreased by 27.4%; however, the decrease was only 9.9% in Beijing.

Nationally, the malaria incidence showed a decreasing trend during 2012–2016.

Similarly, α for different LBMs belonging to the same LN set showed a decreasing trend with corresponding frequencies ( Fig 8A ), while this trend could not be clearly observed in the ABM set, especially in the three- AN group ( Fig 8B ).

At the 4th, 8th and 12th weeks, the serum testosterone levels showed a decreasing trend in the rats treated with the cholesterol diet.

After recovery, the city still seems to be facing a decreasing trend without sufficient evidence to indicate a difference from the predisaster trend.

Muscular endurance There was a decreasing trend in partial curl-up performance in both boys and girls with advancing age, which was similar to the results of a previous Korean study. 5 Based on the PAPS partial curl-up criterion 26 , only a small proportion of boys were in the upper grades (grades 1 and 2), with a higher proportion in the lower grades (grades 4 and 5), while the opposite was true for girls (boys>grade 2: 16.9%, <grade 4: 47.4%; girls>grade 2: 32.4%, <grade 4: 28.1%).

Notably, the mice treated with free DOX showed a decreasing trend in weight, which indicated drug toxicity (Figure 6 C).

Although a decreasing trend in the urinary IL-10 in the group of patients with high serum uric acid was observed, the difference between the groups was not statistically significant.

Work capacity changes greatly throughout working life: generally, there is a decreasing trend over the years and chronic diseases, whose number typically increases with age, are associated with a poor work ability [ 26 , 27 ].

Corneal opacity was scored based on 0-3 with a decreasing trend at 12, 108, and 204 h after bacterial inoculation.

Also, the Doppler bandwidth at the jet tail in the 75% stenosis model shows greater temporal fluctuation over the cardiac cycle, and it expectedly showed a decreasing trend during end systole (100 ms after peak systole) since flow deceleration naturally favored reestablishment of stable flow conditions.

There was a variation in incidence and severity among the regions, with a decreasing trend from the humid forest zone towards the Sahelian zone.

Meteorological conditions in East Asia and Taiwan (1979–2017) The long-term analysis by the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) surface weather stations in Taiwan indicated an increasing trend of surface temperature and a decreasing trend of surface pressure (Fig.

Another study illustrated that the increased number of DNNND repeats (Block II) was related to a decreasing trend in QN susceptibility, and the increased number of NHNDNHNNDDD repeats (Block V) was related to increased QN susceptibility [ 28 ].

EWT and LFMC were less sensitive to water variation and EWT stayed relatively stable while LFMC showed a decreasing trend.

By contrast, when 28S was used, the expression of ERF7B gradually increased at 4 h, increased to its highest level at 8 h, rapidly decreased at 12 h, and then continued a decreasing trend at 24 h (Fig. 6 b).

Potassium levels were serially monitored and were on a decreasing trend and finally levels decreased to 4.5 meq/L.

Examples include chl-a for the OH salinity zone in summer and fall with decreasing trends from 1965 to 2015, but increasing trends from 1985 to 2015; the MH salinity zone in fall with a decreasing trend from 1965 to 2015, but an increasing trend from 1985 to 2015; the PH salinity zone in spring with a decreasing trend from 1985 to 2015, but nearly constant chl- a for the complete time series.

However, other population-based studies (Baltimore Pediatrics Eye Disease Study 26 and Multi-Ethnic Pediatric Eye Disease Study 27 ) and nonpopulation-based studies (both cross-sectional 32 and longitudinal 11 , 33 , 34 studies) found a decreasing trend with age for astigmatism.

We observed a decreasing trend on the archaeal diversity over the time with increasing CTS application rate, together with an increase in the community similarity.

Clearly, R Ω , the resistance of the solution and electrode, presented a slightly increasing trend from 10.8 to 17.5 Ω/cm 2 under the potential of 1.2 to 1.6 V; meanwhile, the R ct, the charge transfer resistance, gave a decreasing trend from 277.4 to 168.6 Ω/cm 2 .

Along the A-A’ profile, a decreasing trend of PAHs concentration in soil is observed, predominantly due to the fact that total PAHs concentrations usually decrease with the increase of the closeness to a contamination source [ 58 ]. 4.3.

A decreasing trend for the carbohydrate content from 74.69 ± 0.06 g/D.W. to 65.16 ± 0.08 g/D.W. found in F7 was observed ( Table S1 ).

The drug expenditure increased by 24.2%, although the share of drug expenditure as a part of the total expenditure experienced a decreasing trend.

The contents of HMs in the leachate showed a decreasing trend in accordance with the law of linear descent, which was consistent with the rule of HM leaching reported by Hu et al.