“an increasing trend”

During the past decade, an increasing trend of investigations concerning the possibilities of replacing the existing desulfurisation processes with the extraction of fuels by ecologically acceptable ionic liquids can be observed.

In general, an increasing trend in DPPH activity on cooking was seen in most of the GLVs studied.

In the H group, the peak airway pressure did not change noticeably upon positional change compared to the control, but was significantly elevated with an increasing trend with the passage of time.

Thus there is an increasing trend towards using degradable materials.

There was an increasing trend in job satisfaction from year 1 to year 3 of core training (i.e.

An increasing trend is seen towards the use of combination of a series of preservatives, with an extended action spectrum, because the specific activity of the parabens and the antioxidant character of these additives appear to increase with alkyl-chain length.

There is an increasing trend toward the use of patient-important outcomes, ideally developed with input from the patient population. 7 For spinal conditions, patient-relevant conditions might include pain relief, function, and productivity. 8 In a cost-utility analysis, quality-adjusted survival is calculated using a measure of utility combined with the health outcome in question.

In this study, we found that there was an increasing trend in carotid IMT values according to the number of risk factors ( Figure 1A ), and multiple CVRFs was an independent predictor of carotid IMT ( Table 3 ).

Changes in MDA and proline content MDA content showed an increasing trend under drought conditions ( Figure 7A) .

Still, an increasing trend in the proportion of severe episodes in LMICs seems consistent with a higher proportion expected in HICs.

We assumed these factors were likely to evenly affect all fatal crashes (eg, increased traffic volume along with booming economies, indicating increased exposure to risk of crash, would similarly contribute to an increasing trend in both alcohol-related and non–alcohol-related fatal crashes).

Both TSS and the average concentration of particle-bound P in the effluent showed an increasing trend over loading rate ( Table 3 ).

Discussion Using Taiwan's nationwide insurance database, we reported an increasing trend of acupuncture use for patients with TBI between 2000 and 2008.

There was an increasing trend in the overall number of patients in Ramadan period (n = 132, 45.4% versus n = 159, 54.6%), especially with duodenal ulcer (n = 48, 37.2% versus n = 81, 62.8%).

An increasing trend of RTC fatalities was found among four-wheelers.

In contrast, there is an increasing trend toward investigating chiral recognition in excited states.

Yet, the importance of obesity and overweight among children has not been accentuated as much until recently.[ 19 ] Overweight children and adolescents are at greater risk of being overweight as adults, and adults who are overweight are at higher risk of numerous health problems including hypertension, coronary heart disease, gallbladder disease, non-insulin dependent diabetes, and some cancers.[ 20 ] In Iran, an increasing trend in the prevalence of obesity has recently been documented in youth,[ 21 ] and adults.[ 9 ] Furthermore, it has been reported that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among Iranian children is comparable to those in western societies.[ 22 ] A high prevalence of the hypertriglyceridemic waist phenotype among Iranian children has also been documented,[ 23 ] which could make them to cluster metabolic abnormalities.

Overall cervical cancer mortality has been declining, but the declining trends showed only for older women; younger women showed an increasing trend [ 1 ].

Over the study period, physicians were providing the majority of dermatological lectures within podiatry (n = 118), with nearly twice as many advertisements as Podiatrists (n = 60) although an analysis of frequency counts suggested an increasing trend for more Podiatrists delivering lectures (Figure 7 ).

Similarly, age-adjusted breast cancer incidence has shown an increasing trend in pre-menopausal women 7 .

I do not foresee that open access, online journals will totally replace the traditional print format in the immediate future, although this may be an increasing trend with time.

Gefitinib treatment worked for the suppression of tumor growth, whereas intestinal apoptosis was significantly frequent in the mice treated with a high dose of gefitinib (100 mg/kg b.w.), and also the treated mice exhibited an increasing trend in the level of plasma alkaline phosphatase, GOT, GPT and (total-, direct- and indirect-) bilirubin.

Conclusion We found an increasing trend of median CD4 counts among PLHIV presenting to ART centres in Karnataka, an indicator of enhanced and early access to HIV care.

The findings of the current study revealed a decreasing trend in the moral distress mean score in the intervention group, while there was an increasing trend in the control group after the intervention.

These rates show an increasing trend compared with that of the previous year [ 11 ].