“a slightly increasing trend”

This study quantifies spatially compound locust risk across and within the top 10 hotspot countries, revealing a slightly increasing trend for the inter-country compound risk in areas that contribute actively to locust dynamics towards the later periods.

All groups of diagnoses had a seasonal trend over the observation period, with hospitalisations for influenza showing, overall, a slightly increasing trend between 2008/09 and 2018/19 and those for all selected diseases associated with influenza presenting an overall slightly declining trend (Fig. 1 ).

Human brucellosis has been recorded in all regions of Greece; however, the incidence rate has gradually decreased from 3.01 ( n =331) in 2005 to 0.28 ( n =65) in 2020, with a slightly increasing trend from 2012 to 2014 ( Figure 4 a).

The electric field intensity of Point A showed a negative correlation change with the increase in offset, whereas that of point B showed a slightly increasing trend.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic In ITS analyses of overall antidepressant sales, there was strong evidence for a slightly increasing trend before the pandemic (+0.02 DDD/TID per month, 95% CI 0.01 to 0.03), no evidence for an immediate change in May 2020 (+0.42 DDD/TID, 95% CI −0.39 to 1.24), and very strong evidence for an increase in trend of antidepressant sales after May 2020 (+0.20 DDD/TID per month, 95% CI 0.15 to 0.24; figure 2 , table 1 ).

No significant change is observed in EAPE values with a change in tree parameters, however, EAPE values have a slightly increasing trend with an increase in sample size which shows a trend of unbiasedness for larger sample sizes.

The results of RCS (Figure 3 ) analysis showed that the odds of psoriasis displayed a slightly increasing trend with increasing DII, there was no nonlinear association observed between DII and constipation.

Alarmingly, Papua New Guinea, as a representative of the Pacific Islands, showed some reversal and a slightly increasing trend in age-standardised mortality.

Results Based on the scalar-to-function regression model results, there was a slightly increasing trend between daily blood glucose measures and HbA1c. 61% of variation in HbA1c could be predicted by the three preceding months’ blood glucose values measured before breakfast ( P < 0.0001, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${R}_{adjusted}^{2}=0.61$$\end{document} ).

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.

In addition, trend analyses of annual kiremt and belg maximum temperatures in the study area show a slightly increasing trend, with the exception of Guba Qoricha, Boke, Daro Lebu, and Mieso's Mann-Kendall test, with an alpha of 0.05 confidence level. value was not statistically significant regional weather stations ( Table 5 ).

The Concentration Index exhibited a slightly increasing trend from 1990 to 1994, it then remained stable from 1994 to 2008 and began to decline after 2008.

With reference to the 100 DKK / kg original price, the willingness to pay showed a slightly increasing trend ranging from about 54 to 63% reduction in the price, on average 37 DKK for cod fillets, 46 DKK for minced beef, DKK 40 for pork cuts, and 46 DKK for chicken breast.

As soon as there was the increase in H 2 PO 4 − /PO 4 3− and SO 3 2− concentrations ( Figure 7 b), the stress–strain curves exhibited a slightly increasing trend and the sample breaks at a lower strain at break.

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

Soil P did not greatly vary among planting dates and densities, however, soil P exhibited a slightly increasing trend with the delayed planting and it averaged 6.92, 10.30, 9.238, 11.82, 7.55, 10.80, and 9.82 mg kg -1 for the April 23, May 1, May 7, May 14, May 22, May 30, and June 5 plantings, respectively, while it averaged 8.91, 9.31, 9.61, 9.39, 10.17, and 9.59 mg kg -1 under the 54700, 64600, 74600, 88000, 101700, and 120100 pph, respectively, in 2019.

This shows a slightly increasing trend of subjective improvement of those attending PT, although it did not reach statistical significance.

Compared to the other cations, Ca 2+ concentration was less affected by salinity, showing small, generally non-significant fluctuations and a slightly increasing trend with increasing salinity, observed mainly after one and eight days of treatment.

While the middle-age group (50–69) experienced significant declines, the oldest age group (> = 70) experienced a slightly increasing trend.

3 and shows a slightly increasing trend.

We observed only a slightly increasing trend in the number of phase 3 trials during this period, in terms of annual trial number ( Figure 6 C ).

For boys, a slightly increasing trend by period was observed, which was not significant before 2012.

A slightly increasing trend of positive affect was also observed when they slept 5 hours less than their usual sleep hours.

At the extraction time of 10 days, the extraction rate decreases from 48 m 3 /d to 45 m 3 /d as the lateral pressure coefficient increases from 0.56 to 0.78. However, extraction rate shows a slightly increasing trend as lateral pressure coefficient continues to increase. 4.2.3 Effect of Internal Friction Angle During gas extraction, the internal friction angle is a significant parameter affecting the interaction between coal particles and, thus, coal damage.

Along with the increasing turf age (subsequent years of observation), a slightly increasing trend was observed in turf visual value in this area (R 2 = 0.1179).