“a slightly increasing trend”

The content of (+)-pulegone, a main toxic constituent, obviously decreased from the growing stage to the stage of fruitage in ST leaves, but it showed a slightly increasing trend from the spikes’ formation stage to the stage of fruitage in ST spikes.

The concentration of nitrates showed a slightly increasing trend throughout the entire run, whereas ammonium nitrogen increased up to 6th week, and then dropped.

We found a slightly increasing trend in TT genotype frequency in HCC (18.9%) with respect to that of CHC (12.7%), but difference was not statistically significant (Fisher's test, P = 0.106) ( Figure 3 ).

Overall, the incidence of edentulism in older adults has shown a slightly increasing trend.

Dust and polluted dust were still the two dominant atmospheric aerosol subtypes; however, polluted dust became the dominant aerosol subtype, the percentage of which varied between 46% and 56%, showing a slightly increasing trend.

A slightly increasing trend of FNP margination as a function of shear rate is observed for the two Hct values investigated.

Overall, there was a slightly increasing trend in the number of scripts written for, and persons prescribed, opioids between 2013 and 2015.

If this were the case, the activation Δ G ‡ would show a slightly increasing trend with increasing solvent polarity.

Conversely, with the addition of PDMS powder, the friction coefficient exhibited a slightly increasing trend with increasing sliding cycles; however, significant differences in the friction coefficient were not observed during 50 000 cycles of sliding friction.

Before the policy, the amount of total steroid intake after the administration of rituximab until reaching PRMT and for six months afterward showed a slightly increasing trend, but not a significant one (total steroid intake until PRMT: β = 7.11, p = 0.380; total steroid intake over six months β = 3.38, p = 0.594).

However, a slightly increasing trend was noted in the regressivity since 2008.

A slightly increasing trend of glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity (from 80 to 88 U/mL) was observed with the rising levels of dietary SeNPs (from 0.5 to 5 mg Se/kg), but a significant ( p < 0.05) effect was not observed.

JunB showed a slightly increasing trend, particularly following treatment with 20 μmol/l Salin, whereas Fra-1 and c-Fos were not significantly affected by Salin at concentrations ranging from 5 to 20 μmol/l ( Fig. 3B ).

Although the average annual density in our study sites over the five consecutive seasons showed a slightly increasing trend (Fig. 2 ), we have not observed lynx expansion westwards into other surrounding areas within the lynx historical range 91 .

With increasing amounts of CO 3 2− ion (0.16–0.32 mmol), there is a decreasing trend in the biochar yield and a slightly increasing trend in oil yield.

During the self-monitoring intervention phase Vicky maintained a high level of initiations with moderate variability and a slightly increasing trend.

Our results indicate an almost flat behaviour, up to [Fe/H] ∼ 0.2, and then a slightly increasing trend, but we acknowledge that this trend might not be real since we could only measure upper limits.

reported that PFOS elicited a slightly increasing trend in Nuuk women during 1998–2005, while we found, after adjustment for age, a declining nonsignificant trend [ 61 ].

From the Huangshanjie to Taliqike formations, the relative contents of norpimarane, 4α(H)-18-norisoparane, and rimuane exhibit a slightly increasing trend.

Overall, a slightly increasing trend in estimated population-weighted annual average concentrations was observed. 4.

The total amount of extremely heavy precipitation (R99p) projected for the future did not change significantly in the four rice-producing regions, showing a slightly increasing trend.

The number of heavy rain days showed a slightly increasing trend, but the trend was statistically non-significant.

(II) The standardised incidence trend has stabilised in the more recent years after a slightly increasing trend between 2004 and 2015, with variations depending on cancer types as well as on sex and age.

Growth inhibition of vero cells As shown in Figure 6 , the antiproliferative effect of PSO on Vero cells has a slightly increasing trend in a concentration- and time-dependent manner.

All these regression coefficients showed a slightly increasing trend (from low to high quantiles of LE distribution), while the positive association between LE and GDP per capita was stronger in higher quantiles of LE distribution (e.g., 10th percentile estimate of women = 0.23, 95% CI: 0.13–0.33, 90th percentile estimate of women = 0.32, 95% CI: 0.19–0.45) ( Figure 1 a).