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Lastly, there has been an increasing trend on the use of video games which counts as a sedentary activity and leads to excessive screen use. 24 This obesogenic behaviour needs to be taken seriously and tackled as it could have profound consequences which are not easily reversible.

However, while the eastern Fram Strait IRD record shows an increasing trend from the 1400s onward, the foraminifera record from Northeast Greenland has a slightly decreasing trend ( Fig. 2D ).

We observe that the short-term memory of the time series data exhibits an increasing trend in most of the countries ( Figure 2 ).

The expression level of six hub SFs in tumor patients has an increasing trend with the tumor progress stage.

The particle size and dispersion of MSP showed an increasing trend initally, but then decreased with increasing irradiation doses.

An increasing trend in the largest patch index and patch size for farmland, plantation, and settlement categories was observed across all years, suggesting intensified human activities in the landscape.

Comparison of Fukushima Prefecture and Other Prefectures As shown in Figure 7 , the ratio of the number of tweets about Fukushima Prefecture and other prefectures shows an increasing trend, and the interest in Fukushima Prefecture has risen.

Furthermore, a similar biphasic dose–response of the antifeedant activity against S litura larvae was also observed for jateorhizine, palmatine, and obakunone in Coptis chinensis . Notably, the enzyme activities of glutathione-S-transferase and carboxyl esterase in S litura larvae affected by the different components (jateorhizine, palmatine, obakunone, berberine, and coptisine) of C chinensis also showed a biphasic dose–response with an increasing trend at low doses and a decreasing trend at high doses.

How can we develop an integrative and effective framework (e.g., environmental policy, green technologies) to manage nutrient loading and associated hypoxia in Asia? (Q14) Globally, there is an increasing trend in the number of dead zones in the coastal marine environment as a result of eutrophication‐driven hypoxia, with the number of such zones at approximately 500 (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 2020 ).

However, a significant increase in AK release was observed after day 22, and an increasing trend continued until day 40.

Figure 1 A shows that the PI of human monocytes followed an increasing trend as the concentration of nonreduced Ig increased (Fig. 1 A).

Participants with MMS were more frequent in the TPP group (60%–89%) than in the PA group (37%–58%) throughout the study period, with an increasing trend in both groups over time (Figure S1 ).

3.4 Additional ecological patterns simulated by NN C‐part 3.4.1 NN C‐part instantaneous LUE and the ratio between diffuse to direct radiation The instantaneous LUE estimated by NN C‐part showed an increasing trend with respect to the increased diffuse to direct radiation ratio (here estimated by the proxy 1‐SW_IN/SW_IN_POT; Figure 8 a–d).

Positive NIPT results indicate an increasing trend of abnormal karyotypes including different segments of duplication and deletion, which could discover the presence of a heterotopic chromosome in either of the parents. 3 , 4 , 5 Whether chromosomal abnormalities are inherited or mutated, fetuses with unbalanced genetic material may have adverse clinical outcomes.

There is, however, an increasing trend of manufacturing collimators via 3D printing.

Similarly, when plasma 27HC levels were specifically compared with hepatic lobular inflammation in the same obese population, significantly lower plasma 27HC levels were observed in obese females suffering from hepatic lobular inflammation (Figure 1B and supplementary material, Figure S2B , left panel), while an increasing trend was found for plasma 27HC levels in obese males (Figure 1B and supplementary material, Figure S2B , right panel).

The primary care sector is also seeing increasing demand for its’ services against limited capacity, manifesting as longer waiting times, an increasing trend in telephone consultations, fewer patients having named GPs and home visits being less common than previously. 14 These factors have contributed to rising demand across the emergency sector. 15 The ‘NHS Long Term Plan’ 16 outlines how the NHS should evolve in the face of growing concern regarding funding, staff shortages, increasing equalities and an ageing population.

However, there is an increasing trend of people substituting regular cloth or surgical masks with clear plastic face shields and with masks equipped with exhalation valves.

This is in line with our results, which showed an increasing trend of catalase activity, where the lowest values were obtained in healthy controls, and the highest values were noted in subjects with atrial fibrillation.

There has been an increasing trend of drug abuse, and we have had a few patients arrive to the emergency room after passing out secondary to drug abuse presenting with compartment syndrome and rhabdomyolysis.

The probability of treatment increased with severity of illness and among hospitalized patients there was an increasing trend, from 23–100% ( Table 6 , Source of heterogeneity), with 90% (95% CI 80–97) of severely ill patients receiving antibiotics.

However, there is an increasing trend to consider a spectrum of social anxiety which takes account of those experiencing subthreshold or subclinical social anxiety, as those experiencing more moderate levels of social anxiety also experience significant impairment across different domains of functioning [ 19 – 21 ].

Further studies showed that the mRNA expression of β-MHC was lowest at day 1, followed by an increasing trend ( Figure 4B ).

The apo-Ca v 2.2 and Ca 2+ -bound Ca v 2.2 attained a stable state within a range of 11–15 nm whereas, C1-bound Ca v 2.2 demonstrated an increasing trend in the RMSD profile (18–19 nm).

There was an increasing trend in seroincidence with age during an outbreak for HCoV-229E in Tecumseh, Michigan 118 , but a similar analysis of HCoV-OC43 seroincidence in the same outbreak showed no such increase 126 .