“a decreasing trend”

In the subgroups, levels of curvilinear velocity (VCL), straight-line velocity (VSL), VAP, amplitude of lateral head displacement (ALH), LIN and STR showed a decreasing trend associated with the increased level of smoking.

After each round of SELEX, binding assays were performed to measure the dissociation constant ( K d ) value of the aptamer pool to ensure that its K d value exhibited a decreasing trend.

Genetic diversity of both mangrove species showed a decreasing trend toward northern latitudes along the Pacific coast.

However, a decreasing trend in the percentages of either CD34+ALDH br cells or ALDH br CD34+ cells was not observed with an increase in the duration of cryopreservation.

Human Study: Effects of Chemo-Radio-Immunotherapy on Immunological Parameters During the course of chemo-radio-immunotherapy, we observed a decreasing trend in the absolute amount of leukocytes ( Figure S5a ) and an increase in the monocyte subpopulation ( Figure S5b ) independent from the applied therapy.

Thr308 levels did go up compared to 3 h sample but still displayed a decreasing trend at 18–24 h (data not shown).

Straw Zn concentration showed a decreasing trend from 24.4 to 10.7 mg kg −1 while straw Mn concentration showed an increasing trend from 17.3 to 23.9 mg kg −1 with the increasing yield from GY1 to GY4.

A decreasing trend in IMD was seen with VolparaTM VDG breast density category (Table 1 ).

A decreasing trend was observed for the number of upregulated phosphopeptides, which decreased from 53.7% in the 1 h group to 40.0% in the 6 h group.

Pixels are labeled as water if they have low SWIR reflectance (less than 25%) and have either a decreasing trend in reflectance values from the visible to the infrared bands or have normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) values less than 0.3, or both.

Second, if tangible rewards were anticipated but never delivered, one would expect a decreasing trend on FV consumption during the intervention phase.

After excluding Acromyrmex volcanus where sample size was very small and two forage categories completely missing, the evenness trends in Figure 1B corresponded fairly well with the relative proportional forage acquisition data in Figure 1A with, from left to right, a clearly increasing trend in tree-leaf use, a decreasing trend in the use of flowers, and hump-shaped trends in the use of herbaceous leaves and fruit.

Despite an increase in max-K in the first follow up, it had a decreasing trend thereafter.

Overall a decreasing trend is noted in both sexes.

Then for 1999–2009, on a year-by-year basis, there was a decreasing trend in the SMR for total respiratory deaths, which the authors claimed might be related to improvements in the mining-extraction process 6 or to an easier access to health care services.

Our analysis showed a statistically significant, increasing trend for traditional meats expenditure and a decreasing trend for NNDF expenditure with an increase of age.

There was a decreasing trend noted in the prevalence of musculoskeletal malformations and prevalence of the CMs of other systems remained unchanged over the 20 year study period.

Result and Discussion Overall, the annual incidence of Salmonella infection showed a decreasing trend and the proportion came down significantly from 2% in 2005 to 1.0% in 2013 ( P < 0.001).

Mother's literacy status A decreasing trend in all forms of undernutrition is observed where the literacy status of mother increased.[ 22 ] Children of illiterate women were twice as likely to show signs of underweight and stunting as those who had at least completed high school.

Figure 2 , presents a decreasing trend for the Iranian rural households food and health expenditures over the time.

A decreasing trend in weight and BMI z-scores was also detected in GnRHa-treated patients shortly after stopping therapy, but did not reach significance (n = 37, see Table 2 ).

More importantly, Figure 5 shows that the increasing trend of distilled water conductivity with temperature changes to a decreasing trend with the addition of dispersants.

We found a decreasing trend of diabetes prevalence with increasing hours of overtime up to 100 hours per month.

In this study, the SOC changed slowly, and even had a decreasing trend in the 1960s.

HeLa cells transfected with CLOCK-WT-Luc and REV-ERBα showed a decreasing trend in luciferase activity that was dependent on the dosage of REV-ERBα ( Fig. 4B ), consistent with former report.