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According to the FRAP assay, pretreated samples with N 2 and air plasma showed an increasing trend in antioxidant properties compared with control samples.

Prior research suggests that recording depressive symptoms rather than MDD as a psychiatric diagnostic category may be an increasing trend among physicians as it is less stigmatizing and better captures milder symptomology [49] , [50] .

There is an increasing trend toward the application of bioactive glasses in different areas of biomedicine, including tissue engineering and oncology.

Notably, remaining obesity indices including WHR ( p = 0.088) and WWI ( p = 0.073) showed an increasing trend albeit with a borderline statistical significance in women with obesity compared to ones with normal weight.

Joinpoint regression of diseases in classes A-B during the study period showed a decreasing trend in incidence and fatality rate for intestinal diseases, a decreasing trend in incidence but increasing trend in fatality rate for vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, and an increasing trend in incidence for sexually transmitted and blood-borne diseases ( Table 2 , Figure 2 ).

The total number of O&ER visits for CVDs showed an increasing trend with TV raised.

We also investigated the prognosis of patients with different IHC staining scores and found an increasing trend toward poor OS and RFS with the gradually increasing IHC score (Figure 2 F, G).

His chest x‐ray showed clearing of the infiltrates and his serial haemoglobin showed an increasing trend.

aeruginosa isolates from urine samples between 2015 and 2020 was examined, demonstrating an increasing trend in CPPA prevalence in recent years, with NDM-type CPPA isolates emerging as the predominant type during the COVID-19 pandemic period.

In the PDP plot we observe an increasing trend meaning a high number of previous arthritis claims is indicative for having more arthritis claims.

An increasing trend for the delivery efficiency is observed as a function of the incubation time in the presence of fuel (300 mM urea in PBS), which becomes significant compared to nontreated cells after 90 min and reaching a maximum of 58% positive cells 120 min after seeding.

The contribution of grassland and watershed are in the third and fourth places, respectively, and the ecological service value of grassland shows a decreasing trend, while that of water area shows an increasing trend.

For the four fish sauce samples, the amount and total concentration of volatile flavor compounds were observed to vary and presented an increasing trend over the fermentation period ( Supplementary Figure S1 ).

The internal difference in synergy of LX gradually decreased, and, from 2007 to 2020, the Gini coefficient decreased from 0.249 to 0.045, first showing an increasing trend with fluctuations and then a decreasing trend.

For two hydrophilic surfaces, on the other hand, an increasing trend in V CE is also observed with RH, similar to, but weaker than the hydrophilic–hydrophobic material combinations.

4 This study focused on 7 dietary risk factors related to CVD, including whole grain, soybean, nuts, vegetable, fruit, red meat, and sugar-sweetened beverage, and identified an increasing trend in intakes of these dietary factors in China from 2002 to 2018.

Amongst these patients with type 1 diabetes, we observed an increasing trend in the prevalence of smoking (11.7%, 32.0%, 36.4%), general obesity (8.4%, 11.6%, 17.1%), hypertension (16.8%, 24.1%, 52.2%) and dyslipidaemia (27.3%, 29.9%, 48.4%) with increasing age at diabetes diagnosis ( p for trend <0.001).

The daily average NEE (generally presented as net carbon dioxide uptake) has shown an increasing trend from 1984 to 2002, while a slightly decreasing tendency from 2003 to 2020, with slight fluctuations during these two periods (Fig. 5c ).

A study conducted in 2017 projected that there would be an increasing trend of the dengue incidence rate of 628 to 940 per 100,000 population from 2020 to 2040 in Malaysia ( 8 ).

The high resolution is closely related to the higher harmonic orders since the center-to-edge ratio shows an increasing trend at higher harmonic orders.

The isomerization ratio shows nonmonotonic changes with increasing temperature, including a decreasing trend at 25–250 and 300–350 °C and an increasing trend at 250–300 and 350–500 °C ( Figure 6 a–d). 3.3 Rock-Eval analysis The Rock-Eval parameters of original and residual solids are shown in Figure 7 .

Despite the fact that LUM expression values decreased in some tumor stages, from an overall point of view, the expression of LUM showed an increasing trend with the tumor stage. 3.2 Prognostic significance of LUM across cancers in pan-cancer To determine the prognostic value of LUM, Cox and KM analyses were performed to assess correlations between LUM expressions and patient survival indices.

An increasing trend in this function implies that nodes with high-degree are prone to bind to other nodes with high-degree, in which case the network has assortative behavior.

Few significant differences were found in the mean and SD of susceptibility value, with an increasing trend respectively [overall average QSM mean (ppm): −0.03±0.01, −0.03±0.01, −0.04±0.02 for normal controls, mild-OAs, and severe-OAs; overall average QSM SD (ppm): 0.09±0.01, 0.09±0.01, 0.11±0.02 for normal controls, mild-OAs, and severe-OAs].

Since an increasing trend in HDL-C serum levels occurred in pregnant women during the second trimester, and especially in the third trimester,[ 15 ] those studies examining plasma samples of pregnant women for this purpose were performed before the end of the second half of pregnancy.