“a decreasing trend”

The tensile strength, flexural strength, and notched Izod impact strength of the PLA/MKF/NTPA biocomposites exhibited a decreasing trend with increasing NTPA levels.

Specifically, during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011–2015), the AGTFP of each province in China showed a decreasing trend and fell to the lowest point of 0.138 in 2015.

The mechanical strength and modulus produced a decreasing trend as the filler content increased (0.3–0.7 wt.%), but the ductility was enhanced by 155% for the PP/WP 0.6 w.t% composite.

Introduction Despite a decreasing trend in global HIV incidence during the last decade, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have shown a significant rising trend during this period [ 1 , 2 ].

After wine-steaming, the concentrations of salidroside, hydroxytyrosol, and nuezhenidic acid in the kidney tissues of DN rats increased, while oleoside-11-methyl ester, 1′′′-O-β- d -glucosylformoside, specnuezhenide, G13, and oleonuezhenide showed a decreasing trend in concentration in the rat kidney tissue. 3.

The expression of MYC showed a decreasing trend under salinity.

In general, Class I area shows a decreasing trend year by year.

The highest percentages of WSOC (50–61%) were observed in the finest particle fraction (<0.49 μm), at all sampling periods, with a decreasing trend towards larger particles (12–29%; >3 μm fraction) ( Figure 1 a).

A community-based study showed an overall estimation of a 4.4% HCV seroprevalence in Taiwan [ 7 ]; however, the prevalence of HCV of less than 1.4% among people born after 1960 with a decreasing trend in new HCV infections might be one of the major causes of the decreasing incidence of C-HCC in recent decades.

We observe the largest percent increase in performance with respect to μ between 1 and 32 and notice a smaller percent increase in performance with respect to μ between 32 and 64, we observe a decreasing trend at μ = 128.

The metabolites in the PCa samples showed a decreasing trend in most cases, and only 2-(2-Methylbutanoyl)-9-(3-methyl-2E-pentenoyl)-2b,9a-dihydroxy-4Z,10(14)-oplopadien-3-one and acetylglycine showed levels 2.01- and 1.48-fold higher than those in the TFC group.

At the same time, the scores showed a decreasing trend in discrimination as follow‐up time increased.

Under Si application conditions, the Cd content of brown rice in YXYLS showed a decreasing trend, so YXYLS was also classified as a Si-inhibited variety.

In G2, the highest expression was registered in sampling II, again delayed by one sampling period relative to early anti-viral response genes, and the expression pattern showed a decreasing trend throughout the study.

In addition to the expected lack of increase of Hsi in populations replicated in the presence of ribavirin, it is noteworthy that indices 1 D and 2 D (Hill numbers for q = 1 and q = 2, respectively) show a decreasing trend in the effect of Rib ( Fig. 5 ).

observed a significant difference among low, medium and high gene-expanded groups, showing a decreasing trend [ 160 ].

According to Figure 8 , the area of climate suitable area of naked oat under the shared socio-economic path of SSP126 and SSP245 showed a decreasing trend from 2040 to 2060, especially under the shared socio-economic path of SSP126.

From the overall evolutionary trend, although the changing trend of internal disequilibrium varied between the upstream and downstream regions, the spatial Gini coefficient of each region showed a decreasing trend during the sample study period, and the internal disequilibrium of the development of the smart medical industry decreased.

3.2.3 Leaf antioxidant enzyme activity The SOD, POD, and CAT activities in woad leaves had an increasing trend at first and then a decreasing trend with the advancement of the growth period.

However, it should be noted that there was a decreasing trend in the laying rate and albumen quality when FPSD was increased to 9%, which indicates that excessive FPSD may lead to decreased performance.

New cases of TBIs were found to be higher in NH-I data than in AUTO-I, but a decreasing trend was found in both.

Hence, while the C/H ratio in coal was found to have a decreasing trend, that of the straw had an increasing trend after the anaerobic fermentation.

also reported a decreasing trend from 2009 to 2011 and that the rates of moderate or severe obesity remained almost stable thereafter in the Setagaya area in Tokyo, a metropolitan area of Japan 21) .

The amount of abscisic acid in leaves showed a decreasing trend in MDR and IDR in the first season (40% and 30%) and the second season (49% and 33%) compared with untreated ZnO NP plants.

During the decay period from 14 to 36 h, there was a decreasing trend in OD 600 of the four polysaccharides MRS and 0.5% glucose MRS cultures of 40%-LSP-UMSE, 60%-LSP-UMSE, 80%-LSP-UMSE and inulin, but the OD 600 of LSP was significantly higher than that of the carbon source of the inulin group, while it was not significantly different from that of the 0.5% glucose group significant difference and showed no decay-slowing effect.