“an increasing trend”

9 , 10 Actually, the incidence of KD has recently shown an increasing trend in many regions, especially in Asian countries. 3 – 5 , 7 In Shanghai, a well-developed city in China, the incidence of KD increased from 16.8 to 55.5 per 100,000 children <5 years old from 1998 through 2012. 6 , 11 Coronary artery lesions (CAL) are still the main factors affecting the long-term prognosis and mortality of KD.

(2015) who also observed an increasing trend of PSNA with greater N application.

While, there is an increasing trend toward fewer and larger clusters, there are oscillations present within the data, especially during the middle of the time period, around the month of March.

This is similar to a previous report in which the amine groups showed an increasing trend for the removal of metal ions from wastewater. 3.5.

Gene expression levels of all Pdk isoforms ( Pdk1–Pdk4 ) showed an increasing trend as early as 1 h after LPS injection ( Figure 1D ).

Generally, the mean proficiency testing performance scores showed an increasing trend from 75% in the first (2016) to 82% in the second (2017) and to 90% in the third year (2018) (Fig. 3 ).

Subject terms: Atmospheric science, Atmospheric dynamics, Palaeoclimate Proxy reconstructions show a decreasing trend from the Middle to Late Holocene, which conflicts with model results showing an increasing trend.

Recently, diabetes has witnessed an increasing trend in a nonstop manner in all countries of the world, i.e., both developed and developing countries.

A decreasing trend was found in anxiety, depressive and withdrawal symptom while self-esteem showed an increasing trend after BF compared to baseline.

Various previous studies have reported that musculoskeletal disorders constitute a high proportion of job-related diseases experienced by nursing service workers and show an increasing trend every year [ [11] , [12] , [13] ].

An increasing trend in air temperature during the past 25 years may have contributed to reduced N leaching by a prolonged growing season with increased potential for N uptake by plants.

A warming climate, changes in hydrology and decreases in acidic deposition are considered to be the major driving factors behind trends in carbon export, but are also causing an increasing trend in total nitrogen fluxes (Rankinen et al. 2016 ).

Breast carcinoma mortality exhibits an increasing trend and is the leading cause of deaths among women with cancer [ 4 ].

On the other hand, the antioxidant status of chicken meat depicted an increasing trend from treatment T 1 to T 6 , however, the trend was not significant in case of ABTS values of chicken breast meat.

Interestingly, the proportion of group A compared to group B AKRs showed an increasing trend from the algae to higher plants and tended to be relatively stable ( Figure 2 ).

After 6 h of exposure, a turning point was observed and root GSH levels revealed an increasing trend.

The maximum recovery and residual stresses of the CR0.7 fibers also showed an increasing trend with increasing temperature.

Generally, an increasing trend in food supplement use among children and adolescents has been observed [ 57 ], that are given mainly to prevent or treat illnesses [ 58 ].

Over the last few decades, the prevalence of smoking has decreased, while an increasing trend in overweight and obesity at a younger age has been observed across many countries and regions [ 24 ].

It was important to note that the F p2 corresponding to the maximum R a (the data in the black-dotted box in Figure 6 a) presented an increasing trend with increasing F p1 .

At this time point a very pronounced increase was also observed in the ovaries ( Figure S5C ), whereas in the CA an increasing trend was observed from D4 to D12 ( Figure S5B ).

Regarding the beams with three different water–cement ratios, it can be inferred from Figure 10 that the chloride concentration at a given depth (the reinforcement position in Figure 10 ) shows an increasing trend with an increase in the water–cement ratio, especially for the specimens with the high water–cement ratio.

From 2009, there was an increasing trend in pediculosis prevalence among the prisoners, which persisted until 2014.

Under the condition of leaching time varied from 20 min to 40 min, the extraction efficiency of Al and Si exhibited an increasing trend, due to the proceeding of dissolution of NaAlO 2 and Na 2 SiO 3 .

According to this reported Figure, all materials indicated an increasing trend with HAZ, and CS by varying P L .