“an increasing trend”

The materials showed an increasing trend at all three time points, and comparison between groups showed that cells in the Ta T70 and Ta T80 group were higher than that of Ta T60 group.

However, a discontinuity is observed above the Curie temperature ( T > T c ) where we observed an increasing trend of R T with increasing temperature in the La 3+ doped samples.

The three findings suggest an increasing trend of the side effect of lockdown as the major preventive measure against the COVID-19 pandemic, which gives an alert to the policymakers to re-evaluate the cost and yield of prevention strategies against COVID-19.

The results ( Figure 3 E) showed that an increasing trend in the signal strength of the T-line was observed with increasing Abs amounts.

The protein contents in the edible parts of the female (70.29%, 64.53%, 62.97%, and 65.55%) and male crabs (70.33%, 65.35%, 62.11%, and 68.65%) first showed a decreasing trend and then an increasing trend from the premoult stage to the postmoult II stage.

The literature reports uneven opinions on the effect of US on esters: some authors reported a lower content (attributable to a degassing effect) or non-significant changes after the treatment [ 15 , 20 ], while others observed an increasing trend [ 60 , 61 ].

Water, woodland, and urban land showed an increasing trend, while cropland and grassland showed a decreasing trend.

It can be seen that, initially, with the increasing number of principal component factors, the recognition rates in the training and prediction sets generally exhibited an increasing trend, while after the number of principal component factors reached 7, the recognition rates of the models stabilized, and then even exhibited a moderately decreasing trend.

The results show that (1) temporally, the EWP in the TGRA shows an increasing trend from 2010 to 2020, but the overall level is low.

It can be seen from Figure 9 that the level of safety culture among residents during COVID-19 had an increasing trend with the distance from the infected individuals, mainly because there were differences in risks of virus infection, and the closer the infected individuals, the higher the risk of virus infection.

The b* value showed an increasing trend over time.

Discussion In the current population-based retrospective cohort study of 7,998,620 planned pregnancies in mainland China, we measured the burden of macrosomic and LGA neonates attributable to high pre-pregnancy BMI during 2013–2017, and for the first time identified an increasing trend in this burden, as well as identifying populations at high risk of the burden.

As can be seen from Figure 7 , with the increase of IgY concentration, its free radical scavenging ability shows an increasing trend.

The Effect of Steps per min on Lower Limb Muscle Activation Our results showed that all tested muscles indicate an increasing trend of muscle activation, with a maximal increase of 44.4%, regardless of movement phases and environments.

From Figure 6 , it can be seen that the overall acidity of both raw milk and pasteurized milk showed an increasing trend during storage.

From the perspective of time evolution, the comprehensive benefits of the PRD’s TEE system showed an increasing trend, in which the benefit index of the tourism and economy subsystem increased more rapidly, while the eco-environment subsystem was relatively unstable.

In the present cohort, at hospital discharge, the proportion of patients prescribed antidiabetic drugs decreased with an increasing trend over time, and only a few of them (nearly 10%—results not shown) had resumed their previous treatment at the 3-month follow-up.

(2) The ecological risk level in Guilin showed a decreasing trend at the city scale, but some regions still showed an increasing trend at the county distribution scale.

Among them, deciduous broad-leaved forest (−2.43 × 10 4 km 2 , −0.59%) and evergreen broad-leaved forest (−1.86 × 10 4 km 2 , −0.44%) showed a decreasing trend, and evergreen needle-leaved forest (+0.94 × 10 4 km 2 , +0.91%) showed an increasing trend.

Its climate is characterized by warm and dry summers with an average annual temperature of 17.5 °C and with an increasing trend of 1.4 °C (in the case of Nicosia) [ 15 ].

The soil pH showed an increasing trend with the deepening of the tillage layer, and there were significant differences between the different cropping patterns ( p < 0.05) ( Figure 3 a).

Although China implemented an important policy in 2013 (i.e., Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan), the concentration of particulate matter dominated by PM 2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm) shows an obvious decreasing trend, while O 3 concentration shows an increasing trend, gradually becoming the dominant air pollutant in China [ 7 , 8 ].

Other findings were VEGF-positive structures with an increasing trend in relation to the staging of the disease, and a decreasing expression of protein gene product 9.5 (PGP 9.5) in relation to the staging of the disease.

The latest developments in the management of head and neck cancer show an increasing trend in the implementation of novel approaches using artificial intelligence for better patient stratification and treatment-related risk evaluation.

The incidence is approximately 0.2–0.5 per million people in the Western world, with an increasing trend, likely due to increased UV exposure [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ].