“a slightly increasing trend”

( 1996 ) investigated the depth distribution of 239+240 Pu and 137 Cs at six sites in South Korea and found a slightly increasing trend of the 239+240 Pu/ 137 Cs activity ratio with increasing soil depth.

Trends in Incidence Rates According to Timing of CS The overall proportion of residents of the Worcester metropolitan area who were hospitalized for AMI at all central MA medical centers who developed CS was 5.2%; there was a slightly increasing trend in the frequency of CS in this population between 2001–2003 (5.1%) and 2005–2007 (6.0%) and a decreasing trend thereafter to 4.4% in 2009–2011.

In 2014, the best practice advocacy center New Zealand (bpac nz ) reported a slightly increasing trend (9.8%‐11.1% and 2.2%‐2.6% in polypharmacy and hyper‐polypharmacy, respectively) over the 5‐year period from 2009/10 to 2013/14 in the proportion of New Zealand patients having polypharmacy. 13 In 2017, the Health Quality and Safety Commission of New Zealand found that 33% of the elderly population used five or more long‐term medicines.

The area of proteinaceous fluid lakes with floating cell debris showed a slightly increasing trend with rising pressure levels (Fig. 5 a); however, due to high variability of the data and the complex baseline pathology of tumor tissue, this trend is not particularly informative in assessing the extent of damage caused by the treatment.

From 2004 to 2019, the incidence underwent a slightly increasing trend, while case numbers dropped dramatically in 2020 and 2021.

As Fig 10a shows, temperature exhibits a slightly increasing trend, which can lower water levels due to enhanced evaporation.

A slightly increasing trend was first seen among females during 2018–2019 (MbRR: 1.03, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.04) but followed by a substantial decrease during 2019–2020 (MbRR: 0.90, 95% CI: 0.89, 0.91), with an RMbRR of 0.88 (95% CI: 0.87, 0.89) ( Figure 3 ; Supplementary Figure 3 ).

Finally, involuntary turnover showed a decreasing trend for CAs and RNs but a slightly increasing trend for LPNs during the pandemic.

One study reported a slightly increasing trend for incidence of hepatobiliary cancer (i.e. liver and extrahepatic biliary tract cancer combined) according to the dose of exposure, with RRs of 1.00 (95% CI: 0.89-1.12), 1.04 (95% CI: 0.94-1.15), and 1.14 (95% CI: 1.03-1.26) for the first (median exposure: 0.01 unit-years), second (median exposure: 0.04 unit-years), and third (median exposure: 0.09 unit-years) tertiles of exposure [ 52 ].

A slightly increasing trend of the lattice parameter is generally observed when decreasing the size of the PuO 2 and ThO 2 nanocrystals that compose the samples (in comparison to the reported bulk PuO 2 and ThO 2 , Table 2 ).

Whereas occurrence probability showed a slightly increasing trend with increasing wave exposure, the highest predicted abundances occurred in the most sheltered sites (Figure 5 ).

Results The ASIR of gastric cancer per 100 000 population in Gansu Province showed a slightly increasing trend from 2010 (77.75; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 73.98, 81.52) to 2014 (85.20; 95% CI = 80.36, 90.04) and then started to decrease to 51.77 (95% CI = 49.14, 54.40) in 2018.

The analyses of islet function indexes suggested that there was no significant difference with HOMA-IR among the three tertiles; however, it did show a slightly increasing trend with increasing serum UA levels.

The global coke-making industry has a slightly increasing trend, whereas in Poland it has been maintained at a relatively stable level.

The trend of risky contacts closely followed that of all contacts, and both numbers exhibited a slightly increasing trend, which is consistent with the fact that society was slowly opening up during this period.

The ELS ratios (y) showed a slightly increasing trend with time, but there were no significant changes ( p = 0.83 in the cochleae, p = 0.11 in the vestibules, and p = 0.38 in the SCCs).

With increasing reaction temperatures, the content of NH 4 -N in hydrochars showed a slightly increasing trend, while that of NO 3 -N changed little, consistent with the research results reported by Kruse et al.

In contrast, the ‘Cardiovascular’ public R&D expenditure series follows a slightly increasing trend between 1982, interrupted in 1996 and followed by a steady rise until 2008.

The disorder parameters determined by the fits also show a slightly increasing trend with the exposure, however with a large scatter.

From O y-2 to O y-3 , the detrital minerals input showed a slightly increasing trend after the highest water level.

Along with the test progress, both coatings show a slightly increasing trend of the coefficient of friction, nevertheless their mutual relation is kept.

In comparison, Shanghai had decreasing trends for GPP max and EVI, but a slightly increasing trend for CUP (0.15 day year −1 ) and large increasing trends in population and nighttime lights (Figs S5 , S6 ; Table S4 ).

The N 2 O emissions in the agriculture and energy sectors reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), indicated a slightly increasing trend (AAGR: 0.8%) during 2007–2015.

The secrecy performance exhibits a slightly increasing trend with an increasing FoV.

Findings suggest that more than one in every five deaths were attributable to suicide, undetermined intent and accidental poisoning combined, with a slightly increasing trend over the study period as a percentage of all deaths compared to the early period.