“an increasing trend”

Conclusion Although there was an increasing trend in the odd of elevated right CIMT across the SUA quartiles, this association, however, was not significant.

The result shows that Indonesia's Food Security Index is fluctuating; generally, it shows an increasing trend ( Fig. 9 ).

Interestingly, for the adsorbed drugs on edge, the MSD plot initially has an increasing trend, and after adsorption on the CN edge, their mobility decreased.

When the ultrasonic amplitude was increased from 20 to 100%, the specific surface area of the vaterite samples showed an increasing trend and rapid enlargement, from the initial value of 12.27 to 20.91 m 2 /g at a probe immersion depth of 60 mm and a solution volume of 180 mL.

The concentration of atomic N shows an increasing trend with the values of 1.42, 3.60, and 7.17 at.% for the 0.125, 0.1875, and 0.25 of NH 3 /Ar ratios, respectively.

The degree of POC activation in the MCI and AD groups showed an increasing trend, indicating that olfactory adaptation had disappeared in the MCI and AD groups, which was in accordance with the results of Zhang et al.

The ion intensities of several FAs were found to be an increasing trend from the muscle to the epithelium to cancer tissue in ESCC, which was in good agreement with the expression of FASN, a critical metabolic enzyme for the de novo synthesis of FAs ( Sun et al., 2019 ).

Moreover, as can be seen from Figure 4 , which illustrates the distribution of conference and journal papers, there has been an increasing trend of research works in journals in the last 2 years.

Additionally, compared with CK, the 3 vegetable rotations showed an increasing trend for the observed species, Shannon index and Chao1 index of bacteria.

Globally, there is an increasing trend of nursing shortage, especially during this pandemic.

While, in patients of the 1st wave the levels of the marker showed an increasing trend with the stage [ 3 ].

In terms of protein quality, protein utilization and digestibility showed an increasing trend as the proportion of whey proteins increased in the diet.

Furthermore, compared with the SCU alone groups, cell viability of astrocytes showed an increasing trend in the combination groups, but the difference was not statistically significant ( Figure 2E , p > 0.05).

Moreover, there was an increasing trend towards neoadjuvant chemotherapy and a reduction in primary surgical cases during the lockdown periods.

It can be seen that with the increase of the content, the tensile strength and elongation at break of the MCC membrane both show an increasing trend.

In fact, Hoch and Dougher documented an increasing trend of preference for hybrid classes over the years that was correlated to improved student attitude and overall class satisfaction ( 119 ).

Another RCT conducted in inoperable lung cancer patients also demonstrated an increasing trend in time spent in physical activity in the control group participants who received exercise education materials, though in a smaller magnitude than the exercise group. 42 These may be explained by the possibility that participants who consented to participate in exercise-related research tended to have high motivation to increase exercise behavior.

In all three periods, harvested area and production showed an increasing trend while productivity showed a cyclical decreasing trend.

In the MK test, the negative value of slope indicates a decreasing trend, while the positive value of slope illustrates an increasing trend.

When the number of daily tobacco smoking > 20 was adopted, an increasing trend was also recognized. 3.3.

An increasing trend in response magnitude was observed with increased vanadium content in the constituent POMs wherein POM1 – POM3 exhibited responses of Δ G / G 0 = 0.17 ± 0.12%, 0.79 ± 0.19%, and 1.6 ± 0.11%, respectively ( Figure 2 d).

As for the general Iranian population, DM had an increasing trend with a higher prevalence among women similar to our study [ 26 ].

There is an increasing trend in lung cancer incidence and mortality among women [ 3 ].

For example, SVP s (PaF106G0100006115.01.T01, PaF106G0100006117.01.T02, PaF106G0100006114.01.T06, PaLWMG0100006313.01.T01, PaLWMG0100006315.01.T02, PaLWMG0100006312.01.T02) shows an increasing trend during kernel development, whereas, AGL9 s (PaF106G0100002725.01.T01, PaF106G0300011661.01.T03, PaLWMG0100002950.01.T04) show a gradually decrease during kernel development.

With numerous studies indicating an unsatisfactory outcome and a high nonunion rate following conservative treatment, an increasing trend has been seen toward operative fixation of displaced midshaft clavicle fractures[ 4 ].