“an increasing trend”

There is an increasing trend in the number of publications; in 1995–1999, there were 10 studies, in 2000–2004, there were 15 studies, and in 2005–2015, there was a clear jump in the analysis of driving forces, with 117 studies conducted.

Conclusions and Practical Implications Given that the presence of large NH chains is an increasing trend in developed countries, its potential negative impact on quality has become a big concern [ 17 ].

Due to the high cost of living in big cities like Beijing, there was a growing aversion towards marriage and childbirth and an increasing trend of late marriage and late childbirth [ 78 , 79 ].

Culture pond and farmland area showed an increasing trend while open water area and the community of arbor and shrub plants showed a decreasing trend [ 26 ].

Our study also found that the age–specific mortality rates decreased year by year in the four subgroups, but the percentage reduction was less for the elderly and even indicated an increasing trend for urban males over 70 years old.

Interestingly, the contribution of Plasma cells is associated with response to Nivolumab, and we observed an increasing trend of the Naïve B-cell population in good responders.

Without statistical validation, an increasing trend for elastic fibers between the ages of 16 to 40 was reported [ 42 ].

The 3 min iTBS/tsDCS group had significantly changed MEP values after the four-week intervention in post_10 min ( p = 0.003 *) and post_15 min ( p = 0.002 *), with an increasing trend ( Table 2 ).

Post hoc tests showed no difference between the control and DM group, although an increasing trend of binucleation was noticed in the DM group.

The content of GA3 showed a decreasing trend in ‘117’ and an increasing trend in ‘116’, and the content in the middle and late periods was higher in ‘116’.

Therefore, the serum FGF21 level after aerobic exercise may be affected by upstream regulatory factors, showing an increasing trend initially, and then decreasing.

However, the pace and patterns of change varied greatly between urban and rural areas and across different birth cohorts, with an increasing trend in smoking prevalence among rural men born in the 1990s.

As the number of daily reported cases is of an increasing trend, the perceived risk will continuously increase as well, consequently, maintain above the threshold in USA, hence B ( t ) maintained around zero.

In this study, an increasing trend in alpha diversity indices was observed in the H group.

Many studies have already shown that an increasing trend of biochemical parameters, such as CRP, IL-6, D-dimer, neutrophil, and lymphocyte count [ 4 , 5 ] gives only a limited picture of a patient’s clinical condition and the search for new biomarkers that positively correlate with the need for intubation and mortality is still of great importance.

These findings were inconsistent with those of the present study, as an increasing trend was noted in both vMBL and hMBL, whereas a reduction was observed in both groups.

Experiments showed that the mortality rates of both the SCs and YL showed an increasing trend with increasing salt concentration under NaCl stress ( Figure 3 A).

( 16 ) suggested that six ABC transporters, including ABCC5, ABCB1, and ABCG2, showed an increasing trend in the progression of NAFLD.

In recent years, the incidence of chronic renal failure in children in China has shown an increasing trend, which seriously threatens the health of children.

pneumoniae in our study and the supporting studies show an increasing trend and hence has become a major health concern [ 13 , 14 ].

To measure the strength of the trends in the indicators for each period, we use the Kendall’s τ correlation coefficient, in which positive values indicate an increasing trend, interpreted as declining resilience 29 .

Generally, stearic acid, L-histidine, and L-isoleucine showed an increasing trend with age, while L-aspartic acid decreased with age, consistent with our findings, as shown in Table S1 and Table S2 .

The total number of publications worldwide was analyzed and an increasing trend in the total publishing has been demonstrated (from 1 in 1984 to 310 in 2021).

Statistical analysis For VPT, an increasing trend with conversion to a decreasing trend at approximately 35 weeks was observed during UP at all three IJV locations.

Within the first year of diagnosis, 1.9% of all deaths were CVM-related and this percentage increased from 1.7% in year two to 2.7% in year three, to 3.4% in year four, to 7.7% in year five, and to 10.0% after 5 years, showing an increasing trend for percentage of deaths due to CVM along with patients' survival time.