“an increasing trend”

An increasing trend in | θ ′(0)| is found for increasing values of dimensionless thermal relaxation time γ .

[ 15 , 16 ] However, it is reported that the incidence of post-PNB infection has an increasing trend in several centers in North America and Europe due to significantly increased prevalence of FQ resistant bacteria these years.

The carrying capacity showed an increasing trend with the amount of toluene degraded in the individual experiments.

According to the final FBT dose, there was an increasing trend of MEDD, although this result was not statistically significant ( p = 0.227), even when the seven opioid-naïve patients were excluded ( p = 0.321) ( Table 3 , Fig. 1A ).

After KD treatment, the efficiency showed an increasing trend with treatment time prolonging.

Serum cortisol concentrations increased from baseline after all treatments, but no significant differences emerged between treatments (Table 2 ). Base excess showed an increasing trend after all treatments and there was a significant difference between baseline and T60 after ROM and V, but no significant differences were detected between the treatments.

CPT-1 showed an increasing trend in its expression with each levels of DR in both the fat depots, and MCAD and LCAD showed similar expression pattern except with 10% DR, which was not significantly different from its AL counterpart (Fig. 3 c).

In addition, echocardiography showed an increasing trend in the left ventricular wall and myocardial contractility as evidenced by a greater ejection fraction and fractional shortening in the hyperinsulinemic monkeys at 40 months of follow-up studies (Fig. 2k, l ).

On the other hand, there is evidence of resuspension enhancing from fall to winter 49 , which leads to an increasing trend in POC over the second half of the year.

The earliest report of the ACME element in Asia was in Japan, 2007 ( Shibuya et al., 2008 ), and an increasing trend was observed afterward ( Onishi et al., 2013 ; Urushibara et al., 2016 ; Aung et al., 2017 ).

In the colposcopy clinic of the largest obstetrics and gynecology tertiary teaching hospital in China, the detection rate of VaIN in all lower genital tract intraepithelial lesions was 11% (1,923/16,732) on average, with an increasing trend from 2013 to 2015 [ 8 ].

However, it should be noted that the maximum glucose consumption rate of the validation tests was characterized by a decreasing trend, whereas the corresponding rate of the CCCD test presented an increasing trend.

The TPR showed an increasing trend as the size threshold of the effective diameter increased.

An increasing trend is usually found in the initial implementation stage of the program, but the challenge to sustain the achievements of the program remains, especially in terms of implementation in the field [ 16 ].

During the 6-year study period, there was an increasing trend toward greater efficiency of basic medical service provision, benefits of basic medical service provision, effectiveness of common chronic disease management, overall satisfaction of community residents, and two-way referral effects.

We found an increasing trend in attacks for nonhunters in relation to the increase in bear population size, but the null model was also among top-ranked models ( Table 2 ).

Positive LST response showed an increasing trend with age.

Shorter DAPT is an increasing trend.

An increasing trend in weight, size, soluble solids, and anthocyanin were consistent with the phase transition from green-hard (0 DAA) to green-soft (50 DAA), pink-soft (60 DAA), and red-soft (80 DAA) developmental stages ( Supplementary Figure S6 ).

On the contrary, the thrombocyte (platelet) numbers increased and plateaued in the HD group, whereas they showed an increasing trend in the non-HD group after 10–17 days of follow-up (Fig. 2b ).

The proportion of autologous tissue reconstructions showed a decreasing trend, accounting for 50.8% of cases in 2014, 35.7% in 2015, and 28.0% in 2016; that of prosthesis-based reconstructions showed an increasing trend, from 49.2% in 2014 and 64.3% in 2015 to 72.0% in 2016 ( Fig. 5 ).

The results showed an increasing trend in the application of statistical methods and the use of statistical software packages.

However, between-subject variation of MCV and mean power showed an increasing trend with increasing load.

In other words, social hierarchy and differences in material wealth show an increasing trend as one enters the Late Neolithic, up to the emergence of political complexity in the Old World 38 , and we should therefore expect the bottleneck to increase in intensity, with the rising impact of wealth and social status on reproductive success in large-scale, stratified societies 39 .

The data were ordered such that a z C > 0 indicates an increasing trend while a z C < 0 indicates a decreasing trend.