“a slightly increasing trend”

The decrease in friction that occurs after the running-in phase does not lead to stabilisation but shows a slightly increasing trend.

Congenital birth defects and hearing loss due to meningitis, however, have shown only minor fluctuations over time, with congenital birth defects maintaining a slightly increasing trend, while the prevalence of hearing loss due to meningitis has a substantial decrease.

However, after PTM treatment, FT3 levels decreased gradually and were normal by the end of PTM treatment, although TSH was still at a low level with a slightly increasing trend.

In contrast, for patients with liver-related events, there was a slightly increasing trend of the non-invasive indicators within the first year, with no significant change through the following 5 years ( Supplementary Figure 3A – D ).

The annual incidences of operations for myelopathy varied between 5.8 and 8.3/100,000 people; however, a slightly increasing trend was observed.

Rietbergen et al reported a slightly increasing trend with increasing age although this was not statistically significant [ 16 ].

For environmental emission costs, Microgrid 1 shows a slightly increasing trend from morning to night, with the lowest of 54.47 yuan in 12:00–16:00 and the highest of 60.85 yuan in 20:00–24:00.

The CVs in Qiaotou and Chaoyang showed a slightly increasing trend.

The dielectric properties of the manufactured EP/HNT composites were analyzed via BDS, which proved that there is a slightly increasing trend in the values of the dielectric constant and an insignificant difference in the values of the loss factor as a measure of dielectric losses.

Overall, the C value over the past 50 years showed a slightly increasing trend during the whole growth season, benefitting potato growth in northern China.

The period effects for incidence, death, and DALYs showed a slightly increasing trend from 1990 to 2015 (Fig. 4 , Supplementary Table S3 , Fig.

The deep microvascular density in the parafoveal and perifoveal regions merely showed a slightly increasing trend, but the deep microvascular density at the fovea significantly increased at 1 month (P < 0.05), as shown in Table 3 .

The time series lake water volume data was reconstructed for 2011 to 2018 based on the empirical model and the total lake water volume showed a slightly increasing trend during this period (71.35×10 8 m 3 ).

In the MCMA, a slightly increasing trend in O 3 concentrations has begun to be recorded.

The volume of medical specialization trainees and graduated medical specialists During the years 2009–2017, the number of specializing physicians, as well as the number of graduated medical specialists, has shown a slightly increasing trend in the University of Tampere (Table 1 ).

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

Three latent classes of screen time trajectories identified by the GMM Over the six years, children's screen time on smart devices (smartphones, PCs, and tablets) showed a slightly increasing trend.

The weekly number of admissions was almost stable during the pre-COVID period, with a slightly increasing trend from October to March (flu period).

0.1%; Ptrend = 0.013) in contrast to the MHnO cohort, which showed a slightly increasing trend (0.1% vs. 0.1% vs. 0.1% vs. 0.2% vs. 0.25; Ptrend < 0.001) from 2016 to 2020. 3.4.

Impact of Loading Rate As shown in Figure 5 a–d, with the increase of loading rate, B 1 (calculated using Formula (1)) and B 2 (calculated using Formula (2)) show a slightly increasing trend, and the values of B 1 and B 2 of coal and marble are larger than that of the other two rocks under load and displacement control modes.

3 E, the particle size of NR/TMZ/miR-375 and NPs depicted a slightly increasing trend within 7 days in PBS (pH = 7.4).

However, a slightly increasing trend was observed in SFI values for each group from the third week onward.

Moreover, the results reported in Table 1 show a slightly increasing trend as the storage time increases.

However, the total DCW exhibited a slightly increasing trend as the activator concentration was increased (Table 3 ).

Confronting the estimated means of time spent grazing during each period, a slightly increasing trend can be observed in all time slots, especially when comparing P1-P3 to P4-P5, indeed, both groups showed higher grazing activity in P4 and P5 when compared with the other periods of trial.