“an increasing trend”

Except for traffic accidents, which decreased by 17.1%, and accidental drowning, which decreased by 33.7%, all other categories showed an increasing trend [ 3 ].

This may suggest an increasing trend which appears mainly over the two last years.

Oxidative Stress Biomarkers and Antioxidative Defense Enzymes The SOD activity in the shoots of GC and LE decreased compared with CK, while there was an increasing trend in SP ( Figure 5 A).

For F98 rat GBMs, the SSM and 2CXM models demonstrated an increasing trend in the percentage of necrotic pixels due to JAS239 treatment from T3 to T8 compared to control animals ( Figure 3 A).

At different ratios, the degree of substitution keeps an increasing trend with increasing temperature until the temperature reaches the central point, and decreases after reaching the central point.

The sugar content had an increasing trend, while the acidity was decreasing during maturation and reached at harvest an average TSS of 17.9 °Brix and an acidity value of 4.86 g/L with no significant differences among the blocks.

Introduction Health benefits of the natural environment have long been discussed, and in recent years there has been an increasing trend to link forestry and public health.

There were 27 countries with an increasing trend of PWEL of PM 2.5 and Brunei, Myanmar, and Nepal were the top three countries with growth rates of 63.97%, 50.43%, and 45.74%, respectively.

The increase in carbon emissions in northeast China shows a trend of first rising and then falling and generally shows a slow upward trend, while an increase in carbon emissions in the other three regions shows an increasing trend year by year.

National reporting from 2017–2019 showed an increasing trend of completeness (55%, 64%, and 75%, respectively) and timeliness (55%, 64%, and 75%, respectively).

In Eastern European countries [ 6 ], a higher need for health system financing is observed based on the dynamic analysis carried out in the period 2000–2017, which reveals that public expenditure has been decreasing in most countries (the maximum reduction being reached by Bulgaria and the Czech Republic), while government taxation for social insurance had an increasing trend in most countries.

There is an increasing trend of PCS12 and MC12 values as the HRQoL category rises.

The incidence (per 100,000) in men aged 45–64 years showed an increasing trend and that in women aged 65–79 years greatly decreased, while the reduction in the incidence remained stagnant in men of the same age group ( Figure 1 ).

However, the AVG group showed an increasing trend in MPA and VPA.

The ESVs of the Dongting Lake show an increasing trend, with those of forestlands being the highest, accounting for approximately 44.65% of the total value.

Since 1970, the prevalence of allergic disease has been in an increasing trend worldwide.

Category 1 had ~100% completeness while other categories showed an increasing trend, especially in Category 4 and 5.

However, with the further increases in PAC, the T-EPS content decreased while L-EPS showed an increasing trend.

Regarding the CM sample series, there is an increasing trend of elastic modulus of CM with the temperature of heat treatment, as expected, and in coherence with the decrease in porosity ( Figure 8 , left).

Moreover, although there was no significant difference in lateralization, we found an increasing trend that EA could regulate the lateralization of human swallowing motor cortex excitability.

The diurnal BC concentration shows an increasing trend during peak hours.

Desorption of the solution showed an increasing trend after the first hour of incubation and up to 6 h.

The rest of the variables (CRF, IOPcc, IOPg) decreased the first day after surgery, then followed an increasing trend but stayed below pre-surgical levels.

Nonetheless, promising results from the first randomized trial comparing PA versus TA [ 13 ] plus the wider adoption of minimally-invasive techniques have supported an increasing trend toward PA in the last two decades [ 14 , 15 ].

Our study evidenced that serum IL-6—as an important promoter of inflammation—levels determined on the day of admission showed an increasing trend through higher IS tertiles.