“a decreasing trend”

Table 1 shows a decreasing trend in the ratio which is expected in a functional therapy.

Results Effects of PPD and NAR on yield and composition of cotton Effects of PPD on biological yield, economic (seedcotton, lint) yield and harvest index With the increase of PPD (under the same NAR), biological yield increased significantly, and number of bolls per m 2 , seedcotton yield and lint yield showed an increasing trend, while harvest index decreased significantly, and boll weight, pre-frost yield rate also showed a decreasing trend ( Table 3 ).

The thickness has a seemingly increasing trend in younger phase [ 33 ], which follows by a decreasing trend ( Fig 3 ), but after adjusted by weight, we clearly showed the central corneal thickness has a decreasing trend by age.

Moreover, the plot of the node degree distribution showed a decreasing trend demonstrating that our network had scale free property indicating that it follows the role that “riches get richer” ( Supplementary Figure 2 ) [ 34 – 37 ].

Proportions with MIC 2 mg/L showed a decreasing trend.

In this study, the proportion of women with FGM was as high as 70% among studied participants in the previous years but it has seen a decreasing trend of FGM among young women in compare of old women and none of the study participants reported FGM on their daughters.

Conclusion: Our study found that a decreasing trend of case positivity rate from 2011 to 2013 in Sughd, though the overall laboratory workload was on the rise.

Tantalum addition to base SMA leads to a decreasing trend in corrosion rate ( C R ), particularly when 3.0 wt.% Ta was added.

Gradually in the following days, a decreasing trend in neutrophils and a reciprocal increasing trend in lymphocytes were observed.

Similarly for mortality, a high proportion of countries reported a decreasing trend in men (30 out of 36) and increasing trend in women (16 out of 36).

The median preoperative back and leg pain VAS score in the autograft and combination groups was 6 (5–7) out of 10, and the scores in both groups showed a decreasing trend on follow-up.

Discussion GC is the fourth most common type of cancer and the second leading cause for cancer-associated mortality worldwide, although it exhibits a decreasing trend of incidence ( 1 , 17 ).

In obesity research, there was a decreasing trend in miR-520c-3p from non-obese to morbidly obese patients [ 26 ].

Figure 2 and Additional file 1 : Figure S1 show that the expression of activating receptors NKp44 and NKp46 in total NK cells and their subsets in the CHB cohort exhibited a decreasing trend compared to HC subjects.

BMI, WC, SBP, DBP, TC, TG, HDL-C, and phosphate levels showed an increasing trend as 25-OHD concentrations increased, whereas calcium showed a decreasing trend in this regard ( P -trend < 0.05).

The volume of tweets that were referring to the leading party (SYRIZA) and its leader (Alexis Tsipras) had a decreasing trend during the pre-elections period ( Fig 4 ).

During the four developmental periods (63, 71, 87 and 145 DAF) after 55 DAF, the SCC areas of the two pear varieties exhibited a decreasing trend, and the areas decreased to the lowest level at maturity.

And the expression of TFPI2 had a decreasing trend with tumor progression of cervical cancer through inhibiting tumor cell apoptosis and angiogenesis [ 43 ].

With regard to stroke, a tendency for an increased risk with higher age at first birth has been reported [ 20 ], whereas a decreasing trend has been found for coronary heart disease [ 21 ].

In summary, as the time lag increases all the air pollution factors show a decreasing trend with the incidence of lung cancer and PM 10 appears to be one of the most significant factors influencing the incidence of lung cancer in Nanchang.

Overall, the K + content in the soil exhibited a decreasing trend, with the highest content in the topsoil.

This dependence on location of gene abundance measured by qPCR could explain why the bacterial and archaeal 16S rRNA gene abundance show a decreasing trend with depth in all cores (Figs 3 , S2 and Table S5 ).

Indeed, young immatures here had higher blood δ 15 N values than breeding individuals (data from a previous study on the same population [ 8 ]), but there was a decreasing trend towards lower values as they aged ( figure 2 ).

As shown in Figure 7 , with an increasing concentration of the purified ScFerHCH, the purple color became gradually thinner and the OD 562 value also showed a decreasing trend.

Post-hemorrhagic temporal analysis of microglial phenotypes demonstrated that M1-like microglia and monocytes/macrophages increased acutely as early as 6 h after hemorrhagic stroke, and exhibited a decreasing trend in the first 14 days after hemorrhagic stroke [ 22 , 74 ].