“an increasing trend”

Alternatively, if pubertal growth appears more sensitive to external conditions than pre- and postnatal growth, we should detect an increasing trend in all studied variables.

It is known to be related with an increasing trend of gram-positive infections, acquisition of resistance in gram-negative species like E. coli to fluoroquinolone and increased fungal infections, which requires reevaluation of the benefits and adverse effects of antimicrobial prophylaxis 2, 3, 5, 14–18) .

6) ), whereas the CAT activity showed an increasing trend and rose significantly at the concentration of 25 % PEG (Figure 6 (Fig. 6) ).

Although there was an increasing trend in total echoscore and EBDA as the severity of the MR increased, those were statistically not significant.

The expression of soluble CD163 was only slightly elevated in SIRS patients compared to control group ( S3B Fig ) and also normalization to the admission day did not yield significant differences but an increasing trend is visible ( S3D Fig ).

We observed an increasing trend for research output to be published in open-access journals for 2007–2011.

Soy/fish/meat/egg supplied by most of the world continents kept an increasing trend, but Japan and Taiwan have been showing a decreasing trend since 1996.

The H/L cross peak amplitude shows only an increasing trend.

Additionally, note that the corrosion rate (3 g/L) show an increasing trend from 4 h to 6 h, which can be attributed to the existence of small amount of gluconic acid originated from glucose.

Symptomatic stenosis The efficacy of CEA has been established in symptomatic patients with moderate and greater stenosis, and the efficacy of CAS has also been proven in multiple RCTs 13 , 14) through its noninferiority compared to CEA, leading to an increasing trend in the number of CAS performed.

The frequency of Grade II meningiomas has shown an increasing trend to 18%, 26%, and 30% when the WHO 1993, 2000, and 2007 criteria were applied, respectively. 21 , 22) Grade III meningiomas have accounted for 1–3%. 2 , 22) Grades II and III meningiomas occur far less frequently in the skull base and spine, and the occurrence of tumors in the “non-skull base” is an independent risk factor for Grades II and III meningiomas. 23 , 24) Currently, histologic grade is the best predictive factor for local recurrence.

The development of eHealth and mHealth tools is an increasing trend.

Malic acid analysis using HPLC Results of malic acid analysis using HPLC method showed that the concentration of malic acid in control samples was preserved with an increasing trend from 1st week to 3rd of storage periods (Fig. 2 ).

Especially the branched chain amino acids valine and leucine, 4-methyl-oxovaleric acid and PUFA-containing long chain TGs tend to show an increasing trend between the three groups, with significant differences between the G+/LVH+ and the control groups.

The incidence of CLH has exhibited an increasing trend.

BiP protein also showed an increasing trend with cooling ( Fig. 2 B and D).

In addition, our study showed an increasing trend of prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes with increasing age (χ 2 for trend = 18.03, P <0.01).

On the other hand, bleeding duration showed an increasing trend across the VAS.

P-tau protein in CSF in diabetic rats showed an increasing trend, becoming significantly different from the controls at day 60 and day 75.

For population of the CPP fields, there was an increasing trend for completeness of all fields except for allergies and personal traits for patients with >3 years of patient data on the EMR (Fig. 3 ).

Other than the traditional brothels in the designated red-light districts, there is an increasing trend of heterosexual men who have paid or casual sex with female EE workers [ 22 , 23 ].

Finally, the expression of Unigene29057 and Unigene20441 showed an initial decline followed by an increasing trend ( Fig 4 ); however, since individual WRKY genes have been found to function in both environmental stimuli and plant development [ 27 , 73 ], it may be that these two genes are involved in both cold acclimation and flower development.

Additionally, other minerals, such as Mn and Zn, also appeared to decrease in A17, while Ca, K, and S displayed an increasing trend in DZA leaves (Supplementary Table 1 ).

An increasing trend of adopting QI activities in hospitals in Taiwan may be caused by the effect of coercive pressure, normative pressure, and mimetic pressure.

These results in the BLUP selection scenario are between 16 and 22 % lower than for the random selection scenario, with an increasing trend over time.