“an increasing trend”

Regarding NQO1 , an increasing trend was detected, but this increase was not statistically significant.

There has been an increasing trend in research activities in the crop since its oil was first characterized for novel properties [6] .

Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a chronic disease with an increasing trend in most of the Western Countries.

Starting from the forth week after surgery, however, the mean implant stability values show an increasing trend but never reach the baseline values.

As demonstrated the quality factor has an increasing trend and does not show a drop similar to what was seen in the case of consensus clustering based on k-means.

After 6 weeks of experimental period, the rats in HC group which fed a high-cholesterol diet exhibited an increasing trend in body weight compared with control group which fed a normal diet, but not yet reached to statistical significance (441.9 ± 16.3 vs . 415.7 ± 30.1 g, p = 0.070).

The green fluorescence from caspase-3 shows an increasing trend (right, Fig. 3d ) since caspase-3 responsible for the apoptosis was highly expressed in the neuronal cells directly exposed to amyloid beta.

Clinical measures only were observed as outcomes in almost one third of the studies, and an increasing trend was evident.

There was an increasing trend in inequalities in fertility rates related to education, income and residence from 1988 to 2008.

An increasing trend in all serious complications was observed during early implementation, whereas a significant decrease occurs in the later period (p<.001).

This has led to an increasing trend in the field to adopt this newer scale as the “gold standard” (Goetz et al., 2008 ).

These scenarios were 1) the “Increasing S” scenario, where natural survival probability exhibits an increasing trend over the course of the reconstruction, 2) a “Decreasing S” scenario, where natural survival probability gradually declines, and 3) a scenario where overall population abundance is relatively flat (on average) but there were periodic pulses of births every fourth year (years 4, 8, 12, etc.) with accompanying crashes in recruitment rate in alternative four-year increments (years 2, 6, 10, etc.).

Despite various prevention and intervention strategies that are implemented and enhanced by the government, the incidence of malaria still showed an increasing trend in Guangzhou.

It is the most common solid tumor diagnosed in women [ 2 ] and there is also an increasing trend in men.

CRC is the fourth most common cause of cancer after stomach, esophagus and lung in men and the fifth most common after breast, esophagus, blood and stomach in women in the Golestan region of Iran [ 2 ], with an increasing trend line [ 3 ].

Moreover, an increasing trend of expression was observed in these circulating blood miRNAs from the less advanced stages (I and II) to the more advanced stages (III and IV) when compared with controls ( p ?<?0.05) (Figure 3 A, 3 B and 3 C).

An increasing trend in height and base width of mounds/facets is observed for both angles of incidence with increasing Ar ion fluence albeit the effect is more prominent at 72.5°.

A trend analysis in the EARS-Net Annual Report 2011 showed an increasing trend for Europe, overall [ 6 ].

There is an increasing trend of transiently transfecting tumor suppressor genes into cancer cells to enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy and radiations.

Conclusions No reduction was observed in the incidence trends of invasive cancer of the uterine cervix; however, there has been an increasing trend in the number of in situ lesions with a consequent decline in mortality rates.

Participants with VCs in different areas were at a greater risk of death (all-cause or cardiovascular) in the unadjusted analysis (Figures 4 and 5 ) with an increasing trend with increasing VC scores (Table 2 ).

The GMTs of all 3 regions showed an increasing trend year by year.

The data show an increasing trend from 2010 through 2012 as well as a slight seasonal trend with higher visits observed in the spring/summer months as opposed to the autumn/winter months ( Figure 1 ).

For legionellosis, an increasing trend in the number of reported cases was observed in 2010 [2].

Moreover few studies reported an increasing trend of MNOW.