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31 This activity showed an increasing trend until the mid-1960s, and a decrease has been observed since then. 31 – 33 Associated with this intense activity and the availability of fish, especially in the coastal zone, the habit of fish consumption in Portugal has become favorable.

Findings: Before the intervention, there was an increasing trend in the monthly average growth rate of the three categories of medicines, but significant only in emergency medicines and paediatric medicines.

As shown in Figure 5 A, there was an increasing trend in miR-1270 levels from normal ovarian tissues to cisplatin-sensitive ovarian cancer tissues and then to cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer tissues, and the differences among the three groups were significant (p < 0.01).

There is, however, an increasing trend of nonoperative management of grade III lesions with improved survival likely reflecting an improvement in critical care, nutrition and infection management.

Additional file 1 : Figure S6a shows an increasing trend for overlaps during the iteration.

The compressive stress decreases gradually after the dynamic peak stress, while compressive strain shows an increasing trend on the whole.

suppress-copyright no pmc-prop-is-real-version no pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes pmc-license-ref CC BY-NC OPEN-ACCESS TRUE 1 Introduction The prevalence and mortality of cardiovascular diseases (CHDs) rank first among urban and rural residents in China with an increasing trend.

These statistics indicate that there is an increasing trend of ESBL-producing Shigella in the district.

Consistent reporting of student demographics in many sample populations was also lacking, although we observed an increasing trend of reporting of gender in LSE articles over time.

They present an increasing trend of TC (see Additional file 1 ).

Phenol and pigment content The content of phenol was measured in plant during various stages of water-deficit; exhibited an increasing trend ( Fig 2A ).

For example, a study in Zimbabwe conducted between 1999 and 2001 reported that they observed an increasing trend of HIV incidence among the educated individuals, which was rather unexpected; however, this might have been due to a higher socio-economic status, a factor reported to be associated with HIV infection in the region of Africa ( 19 , 20 ).

Meanwhile, the above- and below-ground biomass showed an increasing trend with increasing amounts of N addition up to the N5 treatment, and then decreased in the N6 treatment (Table 1 ).

Antibiotics residue in milk was first detected in 60s and then with an increasing trend with highest after 2,000 (188).

The expression level of the ACCα gene showed an increasing trend with increasing LO inclusion level, and those in LO50, LO75, and LO100 groups were significantly higher than those of the LO0 and LO25 groups ( P < 0.05).

Quantification of the double fluorescent population revealed an increasing trend in conjugation efficiency from 91.5 ± 0.23% in 1:2 batch to 98.7 ± 0.14% in 1:10 batch.

Over the years, service life showed an increasing trend.

Similarly, previous studies indicate an increasing trend of conduct problems from the 70s until the 90s, 2 , 4 which since then seems to have levelled off.

Coarseness and strength in ESC showed an increasing trend; while coarseness and strength in NEC showed a decreasing trend, and volume in ESC was decreased, as shown in Fig 2 .

As shown in Fig 7 , the GI of Bok choy ( Brassica chinensis L.) in the compost pile exhibited an increasing trend in the different treatments and in the different composting stages.

However, IAV-specific CD8 + T cell counts showed an increasing trend both in the CD45 + and in the CD45 - subsets on day 4 post-challenge ( Fig 6E ).

Satisfaction with knowledge and follow-up by the family doctor and pediatrician showed an increasing trend (APC = 7.939, 95%CI 3.965 – 11.914).

A study on this theme identified an increasing trend in hospitalization and mortality rates in Brazil from 1996 to 2012.

However, HCC cells transfected with siRNA‐PDPK2P showed decreased PDK1 and P‐AKT expression and an increasing trend in caspase 3 expression.

Though an increasing trend in the seminal ADA levels was noted with increasing leukocytospermia, further studies with a higher sample size and the determination of the normal range of seminal ADA would be required to establish these findings.