“a positive trend”

Conversely, the positive area indicates a prolonged period of consecutive days or weeks displaying a positive trend for that developer.

who demonstrated a positive trend of less recurrence with reduced post-operative symptoms with mini-SLET for the management of pterygium ( 20 ).

While some outcome measures did not reach statistical significance, the data indicated a positive trend over time towards improved health.

This is in accordance with most previous studies on the matter that describe a positive trend but no statistically significant association [ 27 ].

A linear regression of dN/dS ratio against age group showed a positive trend, although significance was not reached ( P = 0.18).

The second column shows a response of real economy and FCI by oil shocks, and the results mean that impact of international oil price increase on real economy and financial condition has similarity in different volatility states, specifically, it on financial condition shows a positive trend first and then negative trend, but it always shows negative impact on real economy.

While the sample sizes for both groups were relatively small (151 and 210, respectively), this indicates a positive trend that should be explored in future evaluations.

App + Sensor also showed a positive trend toward improvement (SMD = 0.23, 95% CI: −0.00, 0.47) but did not reach statistical significance.

Additionally, we found a positive trend of cumulative DPN prevalence over time from 1984 to 2019.

FM550 and its components, TPP and IPTP, are able to increase lipid accumulation in the presence of dexamethasone in human preadipocytes, although a positive trend, which did not reach statistical significance, was also observed in the presence of troglitazone for this end point in our study.

No significant OS improvement was observed in therapy-related AML, but there was a positive trend for the azacitidine-treated group.

Furthermore, a positive trend in vaccine acceptance among males vs. females ( 71 ), could be a result of a sampling bias thereof.

A positive trend in participants’ familiarity with the PV term was shown, with 69.6% of respondents expressing improvement post-workshop.

The implications of our findings for weight gain are unclear given that we did not find a significant difference in total caloric consumption related to ad exposure, though we did observe a positive trend for the association.

Regarding FFGs, scrapers/grazers and collector–gatherers were the only two groups showing a positive trend, the former in the montane and the latter in both the montane and subalpine/alpine zones ( figure 1 g–i ).

Genetic origins had no significant effect on Wr in piscivorous populations, although there was a positive trend of an effect toward local fish having the highest condition index values.

1 shows a positive trend between the number of facilitators for physical activity and the higher prevalence of engaging in ≥150 min/week of physical activity ( p -trend < 0.001).

Although the access to ICT of older individuals shows a positive trend, they are still at risk of falling behind the rest of the population.

Conclusions Most studies indicated a positive trend in alleviating symptoms of anxiety and depression during a quit attempt.

Furthermore, there is seemingly a positive trend of ultrastructural abnormalities and TCs reduction with the severity of pelvic EMs (data not shown).

The findings were less marked during between-group comparisons, but a positive trend towards significance was identified and DP exercises were at least as effective as other treatment strategies.

A positive trend was observed between total diet-attributable GHGEs and smoking, income, waist circumference, and total energy intake, whereas an inverse association was observed with a history of hypertension.

While this is in some ways a positive trend toward self-sufficiency in archaeological data processing, this also means that individuals who can access expensive resources are becoming specialists over others who may be based at less affluent locations and do not have such resources.

Figure 3 illustrates that, in general, vegetation cover in northwest China has experienced a positive trend over the years.

Second, we observed a positive trend of lower cardiovascular deaths as a proportion of all causes and lower AAMR from CVDs in patients with comorbid breast cancer.