“an increasing trend”

An increasing trend can be seen when considering the planktonic growth and the biofilm formation as a whole.

In Saudi Arabia there has been an increasing trend in waterpipe smoking among teenagers and young adults 1 , 2 .

Intercropped pea exhibited an increasing trend in %N dfa and a decreasing trend in N dfa with increased maize density.

In our so-called modern era, where much of life is led head-down, staring at a touch-screen companion, there is an increasing trend to publish in preprint repositories [ 4 ].

However, the IRT analysis supports the conclusion that the response categories are not disordered: the discrimination parameters show an increasing trend and the depression score estimate based on the category “sometimes” (1.22) is clearly higher than the estimate based on the category “rarely” (0.57).

1B , the level of coupling exhibited an increasing trend from 1978 to 2002, was stable from 2002 to 2014, and then trended downward in 2015, indicating that since 2015, economic growth and environmental impact have shown a decoupling response.

Meanwhile, because of the rapid growth of the internet, recent years has witnessed an increasing trend of online health information seeking [ 8 ].

The pattern of mortality from ‘other pneumoconioses’ by tertile of cumulative exposure suggested that at least a proportion of those cases are asbestosis cases: we observed an increasing trend, similar to that observed for the ‘asbestosis’ category but with lower SMRs: I tertile: 1 obs, 1.18 exp., SMR: 0.85 (95% CI: 0.02–4.72); II tertile: 6 obs, 2.46 exp., SMR: 2,44 (95% CI: 0.90–5.31); III tertile: 26 obs, 4.39 exp., SMR: 5.92 (95% CI: 3.87–8.68) (data not tabulated).

In women, we observed an increasing trend at the first Joinpoint, with an APC of 18.7% (2004–2010), before seeing a slight decrease (− 3.4%) in the APC between 2010 and 2013, and a further increase of 18.6% in the last 3 years (2013–2015).

42 The studies appeared to report an increasing trend wherein patients relied on health information coming from outside the healthcare environment and their medical practitioners. 45 64 65 Doctors should not be threatened by this, and instead, they must acknowledge that guiding patients to other sources (self-help groups, internet sites, organisations) may be as important as time actually spent talking to them.

The SpreaD3 visualization in Figure 3 is an example of an increasing trend toward web-based software tools that can run in any modern browser, making them compatible with all major operation systems, without requiring any additional software packages to be installed by the user.

For example, in the male neonates there is an increasing trend to a peak of AMH activity at one month old which we felt was important to highlight (i.e. to partition).

A multi-national review of data on hospital visits between 1970 and 2000 found that the incidence of acute whiplash injuries due to vehicular collisions was approximately 0.3% with an increasing trend [ 4 ].

Medical education is no exemption with an increasing trend to use the social media and smart phones for teaching and learning.

In particular, an increasing trend in particle size was observed and size distributions broadened, as evidenced by PDI values >0.3 after 4 weeks, even though no visual aggregation was observed.

Subsequent analyses of cross-tabulations also showed that AF was more common in higher age groups, most common in MVR cases, showed an increasing trend with TR, and a decreasing trend with AS severity.

All the psychiatric rating scales showed an increasing trend on day 3 and at 1 week, which is due to the immediate deterioration of the symptoms in two subjects with akathisia.

Afterward, microglial activation is slowly evident in the white matter and cortex, with an increasing trend, mostly at 48–72 h after ischemia induction.

Perforation was increasing in the beginning, reached a plateau around 2009, and then showed an increasing trend in the last part of study period.

Further, an increasing trend similar to chitinases in expression profile of PR-2 (glucanases) was reported in T. erinaceum and Fol + T. erinaceum bioprimed root tissues ( Figure 6B ).

We observed an increasing trend for miR-143-5p expression in all cell lines following treatment with CF BAL fluid ( Supplementary Figure S2 ), and overall the fold-increase was 3.3 ( Figure 1B ). 3.2. miR-143-5p mediates repression of the CFTR 3′UTR via one binding site In order to assess the ability of miR-143-5p to regulate CFTR expression, we employed publically available software to identify putative MREs in the CFTR 3′UTR.

Taking the internal resistance as an example, as shown in Figure S15 , on comparing with the results for C-NMNM, the charge transfer resistance (R ct ) of P-NMNM shows an increasing trend during cycling.

Notably, an increasing trend of asthma prevalence is reported in the general population 3 as well as in children 4 .

Pyruvate carboxylase and G6Pase showed an increasing trend but did not reach statistical significance.

Allergic symptoms accounted for 1.2% of the overall ER admissions (10286/859224, with an increasing trend in their prevalence (2009:1.08% → 2018:1.47%).