“a slightly increasing trend”

A slightly increasing trend in the burden of breast cancer in the recent birth cohorts indicated the effect of generational experiences.

The main findings of this study are as follows: Over the past 22 years, the grassland NPP in Tajikistan has shown a slightly increasing trend [0.01 gC/(m 2 ·a)].

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.

The mean values of SCORE2 across Lp(a) quintiles were as follows: 6.46 for Q1, 6.47 for Q2, 6.53 for Q3, 6.58 for Q4, and 6.64 for Q5, showing a slightly increasing trend across quintiles.

(II) The standardised incidence trend has stabilised in the more recent years after a slightly increasing trend between 2004 and 2015, with variations depending on cancer types as well as on sex and age.

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

The ASDR of China, South Korea, and Global MM showed an overall decreasing trend from 1991–2021, North Korea was a slightly increasing trend, while Japan and Taiwan province were more fluctuating ( Figure 5 ).

In Fig 8(a) with a slope ratio of 1:2, the reliability index values show a decreasing trend for all RF types (stationary RF, RF type 1, and RF type 2) with the minor autocorrelation distance, while in Fig 8(b) with a slope ratio of 1:1, the reliability index values show a slightly increasing trend.

The trends before 6 months are not captured in Figure 2 but can be observed in Supplementary Figure S1 . Notably, for FG, the ATEs peaked at 4 months and then gradually decreased until 12 months, with a slightly increasing trend between 12 and 18 months (Supplementary Figure S1 ).

After 2010, most groups were quite stable with a slightly increasing trend for a few years for almost all groups (Fig. 1 and Supplement Table 3).

Ontogenetic trajectory of septal spacing The measured septal spacings of the early conch in Pachydesmoceras denisonianum reveal a nearly stable pattern with a slightly increasing trend (standard deviation = 1.93°) ( Fig. 5B ).

Specific to the transition context, SIB occurred at variable rates during the baseline phase, ending on a slightly increasing trend before the treatment package was introduced.

For women, the earlier cohorts exhibit a slightly increasing trend in alcohol-attributable harm that stagnated around the 1957 cohort and started to decline with the more recent cohorts, but the CIs are wider than with men.

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.

Conclusions There was a slightly increasing trend in the number of clients who accessed contraceptive services at the family planning clinic in UCH, Ibadan from 2018 to 2022.

The BA6 sLORETA values, displayed in Figure 6c , demonstrated a slightly increasing trend as the number of trials decreased, for both ME and MI, and for all movement classes.

Based on Figure a, the 60CuFeO 2 –40ZnFe 2 O 4 nanocomposite exhibited higher H 2 selectivity, exceeding 98.7% in each reaction temperature condition, and the H 2 conversion efficiency of the 60CuFeO 2 –40ZnFe 2 O 4 nanocomposite also maintained over 90% conversion efficiency and had a slightly increasing trend with the temperature increase from 350 to 400 °C, which could be considered as the water gas shift in progress.

From 2012, this age group exhibited a slightly increasing trend along with children older than 12 (OR 5: 1.1).

A slightly increasing trend in incidence per age group was observed.

Complementarily, the lowering deceleration phase (Phase 2) shows a slightly increasing trend from 0.34 s (25.0%) in S1 to 0.41 s (28.5%) in S5.

Using a lower BMI cut-off, the prevalence of confirmed HFpEF and suspected HFpEF according to the H 2 FPEF score revealed a slightly increasing trend, while the prevalence of no HFpEF revealed a decreasing trend.

WY and WC showed a slightly increasing trend, with a rate of 2.03 mm/year and 1.30 mm/year during 1983–2022, with a maximum value in 2015, and a minimum value in 2011.

The period effects on prevalence risk exhibited a slightly increasing trend.

A slightly increasing trend can be found in BP with the increased age regardless of gender from both commercial device and this system, and excellent measurement robustness and accuracy, with 0.11 ± 3.68 mmHg for DBP and −0.05 ± 4.61 mmHg for SBP, was achieved by the TSMS, as shown in Figure 16c .

As shown in Figure 4f , the ohmic loss for case A1 exhibits a slightly increasing trend at current densities above 1.6 A cm −2 .