“an increasing trend”

Recent years have seen an increasing trend in cyber-attacks targeting ICSs.

For the rest of the scenarios, including S5, S7, and S9, an increasing trend in the achieved DSR from the cases with 0, 3, and 6 sectionalizing switches was evident.

A few similar studies have shown an increasing trend in EE associated with perceived psychological distress at a cross-sectional level during the COVID-19 pandemic and during previous infectious disease outbreaks, but as far as we are aware, there are few that have conducted a long term follow-up from larger populations.

All varieties showed an increasing trend of ABA concentration in leaves with increasing drought stress, but statistically significant changes, compared to the control, were observed only at 65% reduction of VSMC in varieties Silvija (46.5%), Rujana (41.7%), Pepeljuga (35.7%), Bubnjar (27.1%), and Fifi (24.3%) ( Figure 2 A).

Effect sizes for CT display an increasing trend correlated to disease progression.

The compression set percentage showed an increasing trend as a function of the BLF loading, with a maximum of 16.0% at 10 phr of BLF.

Thrombomodulin showed an increasing trend in ICU patients compared to ICU and control groups.

In the control group, the microbial diversity values were higher on the 0 and 3 d of storage, and the diversity index on 3 d was higher than that on 0 d, indicating that a variety of microorganisms showed an increasing trend in the early stage of storage.

The pre-exponential factor (A) which is an indication of the frequency of collisions between reactant molecules, depicted an increasing trend with temperature for all the mask components, which can be addressed by the fact that increasing temperatures result in an increment in kinetic energy of the molecules.

The SD showed an increasing trend in all four seasons, with growth rates of 0.0674, 0.008, 0.018, and 0.021 respectively.

It has been shown that the use of social media in Iran has an increasing trend and includes a significant population (about 40% based on the Digital 2020 website), and is a safe way to gather data in the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic.

FPG displayed an increasing trend with the increasement of VAI.

Immediately after a decrease in the number of patients in May 2021, an increasing trend started due to the Delta variant representing the fifth peak.

Meanwhile, the proportion of underweight showed an increasing trend, though not monotonously.

MetS has become a serious public health issue around the globe [ 2 ] with an increasing trend over time [ 3 ].

Our literature analysis showed an increasing trend in applications of VR and AR in pediatric nursing classes and exercises since 2019, along with increasingly many effectiveness analyses, and these trends reflect the social context and needs of educational sites.

From the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, the incidence rates of ED visits decreased in all age groups, except the group of aged 19–29 years, which maintained an increasing trend.

These results indicate an increasing trend in the SIV coverage among Swiss pharmacists during the pandemic period.

A negative i value represents a downward trend, while a positive i value represents an increasing trend over time.

In addition, the incidence of structural failure showed an increasing trend during the subsequent revision surgeries, representing the cause of failure in 40–50% of cases of further revisions after the first one.

This may be due to an increasing trend in Pe.Cir in 18 mo CTRL/HBW ( Figure 10E ).

For cancers that were diagnosed in the first six months of the pandemic, an increasing trend in diagnosis of late-stage cancers and a decreasing trend in diagnosis of early-stage cancers were observed, as a reflection of the initial effects of extended lag times to diagnosis ( Carvalho et al., 2022 ).

There was an increasing trend in aviation emissions until the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to a previous study on historical trends of PAHs in sediments (Feng et al., 2019 ), the proportion of two–three-ring PAHs in sediments showed a decreasing trend from 1912 to 2007, ranging from 70 to 40%, four-ring PAHs were relatively stable, while five–six-ring PAHs showed an increasing trend year by year, rising from 10 to 40%.

Although cervical, interstitial tubal, and cesarean scar pregnancy, which are ectopic pregnancies with intrauterine implantation sites, are rare, they have exhibited an increasing trend with the recent widespread use of assisted reproductive technologies and the increased rate of cesarean delivery[ 1 - 3 ].