“a slightly increasing trend”

We observed a slightly increasing trend between the measured concentrations after 56 days in 2 replicates; this was however not confirmed by the other three replicates, which showed no differences to negative controls.

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.

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.

They reported a slightly increasing trend in metal ion levels at a 10-year follow-up.

The GYP cohort shows a slightly increasing trend in the health service utilisation within the reference period except for the injury claims.

In SSP-126 which is the lowest emission scenario, the LAI in China shows a slightly increasing trend of about 3.7 × 10 −4 per year.

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).

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.

For PCBs and PBDEs (excluding BDE209), the concentrations remained stable or showed a slightly increasing trend toward the end of the experiment, whereas a clearly decreasing trend for BDE209 and DPs was observed toward the end of the experiment ( Figure S2 ), despite continued exposure until the end of the experiment.

In terms of mechanical properties, the results are summarized in Figure 25 ; as we can see, strength (YS and UTS) showed a decreasing trend, but the EL showed a slightly increasing trend [ 40 ].

Although the head and neck regions were previously the most common sites of lymphangioma, there is now a slightly increasing trend in reporting gastrointestinal (GI) tract structure involvement in the literature.

The higher number of diagnoses with no procedure group had a slightly increasing trend in medical costs.

In females, both the ASMR and ASDR of high BMI-related CRC exhibited a slightly increasing trend and gradually stabilized ( Table 4 ; Figures 8C , D ). 4 Discussion In recent years, due to dietary and metabolic factors, as well as unhealthy habits such as smoking and drinking, the global incidence, mortality, and DALYs rates of CRC have been increasing annually and are expected to exceed 2,200,000 new and 1,100,000 deaths by 2030 ( 1 , 4 , 26 ).

Given the juice metabolite data, there was a minor change in weekly citrate concentrations, with a slightly increasing trend.

In patients with stage I-new tumors, the frequency distribution of TACS1,4,7 had a slightly increasing trend in three cohorts compared with patients with stage I tumors (except for a slightly decreasing trend of TACS7 in the internal validation cohort), while the frequency distribution of TACS5,6,8 had a slightly decreasing trend in three cohorts compared with patients with stage I tumors.

Overall, there was also a slightly increasing trend.

Overall, the adjusted seroprevalence (95% CI) was 93.51% (92.89–94.11%) at baseline and 93.92% (93.30–94.50%), 94.58% (93.98–95.16%), and 94.24% (93.60–94.79%) at three follow-ups, with a slightly increasing trend.

The assessment of severity variations during 2013–2020 was contradictory; the Charlson comorbidity index was not significantly changed during the whole analyzed periods, but a slightly increasing trend for both pre-endoscopic and after-endoscopy Baylor scores was recorded, which may suggest a potential trend toward more severe UGIB admitted cases.

The intensity bias shows a clear increasing trend for the arteries and a slightly increasing trend for the lesions in case of increased initial image noise.

However, in patients continually treated with metformin, the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease might render a slightly increasing trend [ 73 , 74 ], and the association between metformin treatment and the risk of dementia events in patients with T2D have not been fully confirmed yet.

The barriers for the oxyl states are small (<10 kcal/mol) and show a slightly increasing trend as we move from the early to the late transition metals.

GABRA1 expression in the human striatum follows a slightly increasing trend from prenatal to early postnatal developmental period, similar to the trend observed in mice in the current study ( Supplementary Figure S4A ).

It shows a slightly increasing trend, suggesting that the dynamics of the SnO 2 (110)/H 2 O interface have not yet obtained equilibrium within the 100 ps time scale.

Low levels (<28 μg mL −1 in the extract equal to 280 μg g −1 in the compost) were determined for PTA, and time-dependent changes showed a slightly increasing trend ( Figure 14 ).

Although a slightly increasing trend in renal indices was observed, this phenomenon was due to cardiorenal syndrome, which is naturally observed in patients with MD and advanced heart failure [ 18 , 19 ].