“an increasing trend”

Recent years have proven an increasing trend to simplify the general scheduling optimization problem without adversely affecting the scheduling efficiency and flexibility by introducing reasonable implementation-specific assumptions.

The number of dog- and cat-owning households is increasing in the US [ 8 ], and at the same time there is an increasing trend in the “humanization” of pets and pet products [ 22 , 23 ].

, 2009 ) and an increasing trend in adolescent suicides ( Bridge et al. , 2008 ).

The analyses of total volatile fatty acids (TVFAs) concentration of HARs ( Fig 2 ) showed that higher TVFAs concentration existed in the HARs of G1-G5 than in the pure ORS reactors, and there is an increasing trend with the increase of the KW content.

Our findings are particularly concerning in the light of recent studies reporting an increasing trend of antidepressant use among persons with dementia [ 2 , 7 ].

However, there was an increasing trend in the surgical success rate from ≥31 eyes onward ( Table 3 ).

Seizure-like behavioral responses can be induced in adult zebrafish by several pharmacological approaches and there is an increasing trend of utilizing zebrafish model in epilepsy research ( Kalueff et al., 2014 ).

The comparison of results of biological samples analyses shows an increasing trend in cyanide concentration that may suggest that environmental tobacco smoke might have an impact on human health.

Despite the increase in humpback whales regionally and the relatively recent introduction of hatchery salmon as a prey source, we found no evidence of an increasing trend in humpback whale predation at release sites across years.

Although the Col3a1 transcript level showed an increasing trend in both models, the alteration did not reach statistical significance ( Fig 4B ).

Interestingly, on the 5th day of differentiation (D5), miR-23b maintained an increasing trend whereas miR-23a did not (Fig. 4d ).

However, the prevalence of single HR-HPV exerted an increasing trend with age, and single LR-HPV infection was highest in less than 24 years age group and then decreased significantly with advancing age (Fig. 2b ).

However, a few regional studies, mainly in the tropics and subtropics, reported an increasing trend 21 , 22 in DTR and attributed it solely to the increase in T max , which may be ascribed to the influence of regional climate on the behaviour of DTR.

2 In Denmark, PCa has followed an increasing trend during the past decade, increasing by 35%, and the 2025 prevalence is expected to reach 90,000 cases. 2 Radical prostatectomy (RP) or radiation therapy is the curative treatment option recommended for patients with localized disease.

In our results, the trajectory of the temporal lobe-related network (IC 17; Figure 2 and Table 2 ), a quadratic decrease over age ( t = −4.59, p of age 2 = 5.66E-06), showed an increasing trend from 20 to 50 years old and was followed by an obvious decline.

As shown in Figs 4 and 5 , ET had an increasing trend, while relative humidity was decreasing.

Five of the six basins had an increasing trend of use to TWA.

Results The observed and predicted cancer incidence performed an increasing trend of cancer in Nepal every year; Female cancer incidence was higher than male cancer incidence ( Table 2 ).

The seston C:P ratios did not show a significant increase with N addition, although average C:P increased from 247 to 403 and C:P showed an increasing trend in low and medium DOC lakes after N fertilization (Table 4 ).

1 ), but the worrying issue is an increasing trend in the rate of deaths from AIDS during 2000–2015.

OS has an increasing trend in patients treated with rituximab without statistical significance.

Our results demonstrated a dose-dependent increase in early phase apoptosis in AGS and N87 cell lines and an increasing trend for late phase apoptosis in AGS cells, but not in N87 cells ( Fig. 3 ).

Time on the rod of the isradipine treated mice from the 1- and 2-week treatment subgroups also showed an increasing trend, however, no significant changes were observed (* P < 0.05, *** P < 0.001 compared with control; # P < 0.05 compared with MPTP treatment group, n = 10).

We observed a decreasing trend of HIF-1α protein levels and an increasing trend of HIF-2α and HAF protein levels over the duration of sunitinib treatment (Figure 4E ).

Although we found an increasing trend from 2007 to 2013 ( Fig. 2 ), our study revealed the striking underutilization of palliative care services in this patient population [ 18 ].