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The soil nutrient content during the lack of fertilization long term exhibited a slightly increasing trend; the reason may be that during the entire growth cycle of the crop, its aboveground growth is vigorous, and the residual branches, leaves, and roots return to the soil through the humification process, which increases the soil nutrient content.

BRCA2-mutation cancers always show a slightly increasing trend of the incidence to be lobular or tubulolobular carcinomas 19 , 20 .

The RMS roughness of the annealed AZO presents a slightly increasing trend compared to the as-deposited one, reflecting the increased average grain size which was also observed through XRD analysis. 3.4.

Acknowledging the sometimes wide confidence intervals, Scotland has been experiencing a slightly increasing trend since 1989 (95% CI 1986–1993) with an APC of 0.1% (−0.0 to 0.1).

After LNCFT, the PV and SSA of different coal samples showed a slightly increasing trend in micropores ( Figure 7 a).

A slightly increasing trend was observed between year of first calving and CULL50.

Neutralizing potency against GP CL was remarkable as early as 2 months after infection (approximately 80% neutralization), with a slightly increasing trend in the GP CL -specific neutralizing titer up to 9 months after infection ( Supplementary Figure 2 ).

— In terms of timing , the literature which was found relevant for our purposes shows a slightly increasing trend.

With the increase of cycles, the deformation during each loading shows a slightly decreasing trend, while the elastic deformation recovery during unloading shows a slightly increasing trend.

37 The intensity of NiO peak on the surface layers presents a slightly increasing trend with the increasing Ni concentration in the Ni/MA catalysts.

The prevalence of mild myopia in all age groups decreased significantly in 2022, but a slightly increasing trend was observed in myopia prevalence in children aged 8 to 13 years from 2022 to 2023.

The mean size ( Z average), which was calculated as a result of the auto-correlation function, demonstrated the presence of multiple size distribution and showed a slightly increasing trend as time progressed, as shown in Table S1. † The size profiles observed for pH 3.6 and 3 days of post incubation were 429.1, 432.0 and 596.9 nm with a polydispersity index (PdI) of 0.334.

Interannual fluctuation in MAP was relatively small, whereas GSP showed a slightly increasing trend from 2008 to 2015 when compared with MAP, but this was not significant ( p > 0.05; Figure 1 b). 3.2.

The prevalence rate of HIV-1 in South Korea remains extremely low; however, there has been a slightly increasing trend, particularly in men.

The incidence of eclampsia has remained fairly stable in Qatar at approximately 3/10,000 deliveries with a slightly increasing trend.

In the acutely damaged cochlear explants, the snRNA‐seq analysis showed no significant changes in Xaf1 expression level within the cochlear explants or in HCs of the Neo group (Figure 4A ), but there was a slightly increasing trend in the Neo group.

However, from the 31st to 43rd cases, a slightly increasing trend of bone graft deviation was observed.

Spatial-Temporal Evolution Characteristics of INRPI The mean INRPI values for 2000, 2010, and 2020 were 0.4424, 0.4429, and 0.4433, respectively, showing a slightly increasing trend.

The proportion of PK procedures decreased significantly in the beginning and showed a slightly increasing trend after a plateau around 2015.

Similar to argon plasma-treated samples, a slightly increasing trend was recorded during storage, reaching only about 6% by week 3.

Over the 5 years analyzed (2010–2014), EoL users have spent 11,650 hours on pages with information provided by WoRMS, with a slightly increasing trend.

The timing of the change point for CRE did not coincide with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as it exhibited a slightly increasing trend.

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).

The analysis of islet function indexes showed there were significant difference in FCP, P2hCP and HOMA-β among the three tertiles; however, it did not show a slightly increasing trend in HOMA-IR.

The expression of DMT1 showed a slightly increasing trend, but there was no statistically significant difference ( Figure 4(c-d )).