“an increasing trend”

However, in another study conducted in 13 European countries between 1990 and 2000, the prevalence of current cigarette use indicated an increasing trend in most of the studies countries ( 18 ).

Game meat is traditionally consumed in Northern Italy (4 kg/year per capita in hunters families) [ 11 ] with an increasing trend linked to the growth of wild ungulate populations [ 12 , 13 ].

In addition, aging among the farming population is an increasing trend [ 21 ].

An increasing trend was seen for the metabolite 4-A, up to E60 and a slight dip at E70; DHT being the principal physiologically active metabolite, we established that EMD was optimally effective at a concentration of 30 μg/mL; this concentration was used for subsequent experiments.

The incidence rate of dengue shows an increasing trend from 44.3 cases/100,000 population in 1999 to 181 cases/100,000 population in 2007 [3] .

There was also an increasing trend in mild and moderate depression among both boys and girls whose parents had low education and had unemployed during past year (Tables 5 and 6 ).

Our data indicated that transcripts encoding hAT family dimerization domain containing protein, transmembrane protein, Leucine Rich Repeat family protein, dehydrogenases, and spectrins, among others, showed an increasing trend during successful parasite development.

( 24 ) Earlier surveys reported an increasing trend in using sedation protocols, ranging from 52% in Germany ( 28 ) to 80% in the UK.

In the present analysis severe morbidity requiring hospitalization due to non-AIDS malignancies did not show an increasing trend over time.

There appeared to be an increasing trend in the number of individuals who tested positive to RBPT or ELISA as the duration of work at abattoir increased except for those who had worked for over 20years.

The prevalence of MetS worldwide is approximately 20-30% in general population and it is apparently on an increasing trend.

In the cross-section, the carbon content showed a decreasing trend from the cathode to the anode, while the sulfur content showed an increasing trend from the cathode to the anode and then to the poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) layer.

If there is a tendency for evolutionarily related proteins to be more flexible when they are part of complexes with more nonhomologous subunits, then we would expect these values to show an increasing trend.

Globally, cowpea has shown an increasing trend in its cultivation area from 2.41 m ha to 10.68 m ha over the last five decades (FAOSTAT 2012 ).

For residents taking the junior examinations, we observed an increasing trend in improving correlations with actual scores, whereas for the senior examinations, the trend noted was a decreasing correlation between predictions and actual scores ( Figure 1 ).

An increasing trend in the number of publications is detected in this period, the total number of articles showing a 6.7-fold rise, more noticeable in international publications.

As shown in Figure 4(a) , the accumulation of Nrf2 proteins in the nucleus presented an increasing trend over the PTS (16 μ g·mL −1 ) treatment time of 0 to 6 h.

There was an increasing trend in the prevalence of hypertension by exposure to road traffic noise at 63, 125 and 1000 Hz in all subjects and in men.

Meanwhile, Mexico during 1922–1955 faced overlapping burdens of disease and an increasing trend of NCDs among the younger age groups, due to poverty and inability to afford healthcare ( 17 ).

In addition, all the curves exhibit an increasing trend and the two blue curves seemingly decrease after w N ≈ 2000.

Here, GR activity showed an increasing trend under salinity stress in both p68 overexpressing transgenic lines and WT plants but maximum significant increase was seen in p68 transgenic lines ( Figure 6H ).

Some 9% of the UK population suffer from advanced periodontitis according to the 2009 Adult Dental Health Survey (ADHS) as compared to 6% as recorded by the 1998 ADHS suggesting that there is an increasing trend toward more severe disease in the UK, possibly due to greater retention of natural teeth [ 7 ].

4 Most middle income countries have been affected by an increasing trend in CVD, while the trend in high income countries is on the decline. 5 Metabolic risk factors include obesity, 6 hypertension, type 2 diabetes, high serum cholesterol, and dyslipidemia. 7 Estrogen also affects the CV system through its impact on CV risk factors such as the lipid profile.

[ 25 ] showed that runoff of Jinjiang basin in China exhibited an increasing trend in summer to early autumn, while in the remaining periods of a year it shows a decreasing trend analyzed by the hydrological model.

While over 10- and 20-year periods the general trend (increasing, decreasing, or stable) is accurate, over 3- to 5-year periods within the 10- and 20-year periods, count data will suggest that populations at leks alternate from exhibiting an increasing trend to decreasing trend [28] .