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The study revealed that: (1) forests represented the largest proportion in the study area, followed by croplands and grasslands; (2) the biological community tended to progress toward climax between 1986 and 1995, but then it moved toward regressive successions between 1995 and 2005 before recovering; (3) the study area was characterized by a high proportion of dominant ecosystems, most of which were at their climax with stable ecological species groups, and which were connected by ecological corridors; and (4) during the period from 1995 to 2010, most landscapes showed a trend of fragmentation.

In particular, the results over time showed an increasing trend of difficulties in concentrating, but also fatigue.

Perceived causality of symptoms to the office environment decreased to a statistically significant degree in 2015–2020 for 11 symptoms, and there was an overall trend of decreasing perceived causality throughout the year groups for most symptoms.

According to the mapping graphic analysis of the obtained kaolinite, chlorite and illite contents, the distribution of kaolinite shows an obvious trend of decreasing from the nearshore to the sea, and the high values are mainly distributed in the Pearl River Estuary and the west coast.

The sedimentation rate in the survey area is characterized by a decreasing trend from the inner Pearl River Estuary to the offshore area; also, the deposition rate in coastal area is larger than that in the offshore area in the eastern and western of Pearl River Estuary, and there is a slightly high deposition rate area in the eastern Qiongzhou Strait.

In the inference made between the variables of mean time in years worked and each unit studied, using the Kruskal–Wallis statistical analysis, a quasi-significant p -value of 0.05755 was obtained.

It is observed that all the pollutants are showing an increasing trend.

Behjat and Tarazkar (2021) [ 20 ] applied the ratio of HDI to EF to measure EWP in Iran and the results showed a decreasing trend of EWP in Iran from 1994 to 2004.

The minimum Dagum Gini coefficients of EWP in Xinjiang and Xiuhe River basins from 2007 to 2019 were only 0.065 and 0.037, respectively, but both showed an increasing trend after 2013.

These studies found that suicide rates, both in the coastal areas severely damaged by the tsunami and in the evacuation area due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, increased again during the recovery phase seven to eight years after the GEJE [ 13 , 14 , 15 ], although the prevalence of post-disaster suicidal ideation showed a decreasing trend according to a previous study [ 23 , 40 ].

Such a decreasing trend of δ 34 S sulfate from the clean period to the pollution period after the CRP might be interpreted by the changes in the contributions of various sources and formation pathways to sulfate under different atmospheric conditions. 3.3.

There was no significant difference ( p = 0.058) between the groups, but a strong trend towards the “AR” group rating the task as less difficult.

According to our secondary analysis of the 2019 National Health Interview Survey data, the prevalence rates of ever use and current use of ENDS among young adults were 32.4% and 9.4%, respectively, following an increasing trend over the past decade [ 1 ].

Furthermore, the literature data on leadership effectiveness in healthcare organizations were slightly significant or discordant in results.

From 2012 to 2016, the outflow water of Danjiangkou Reservoir was 36.27, 26.71, 15.45, 28.19, and 15.01 billion m 3 , respectively, showing a decreasing trend, which caused the water level in the lower reaches of the Han River to drop by between 0.3 m and 1 m [ 40 ].

found one fairly significant correlation between the functional subscale and NHR [ 22 ].

This is a favorable trend, effectively offsetting the generally lower adsorption capacity in the range of increasing concentrations of adsorbate in aqueous solutions.

In general, the concentrations of the environmental pollutants PM 2.5 , PM 10 , CO 2 , CO, SO 2 , and NO 2 all declined to various degrees, while the concentration of O 3 showed an increasing trend.

As shown in Figure 3 g–i, with the increase of the catalyst filling rate, the removal rates of COD, total phenol, and chromaticity all showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing.

The technological innovation exhibited a decreasing trend from south to north and from east to west.

Conclusions Even if the associations were at the limit of significance, our results suggest that the concentration of environmental pollutants (PM 2.5 and NO 2 ) five years before cancer diagnosis is associated with TP53 -mutated NSCLC, using improved estimation methods to assess air pollution.

However, as this is unprecedented, it is difficult to indicate the cut-off points to assess a change that could be considered significant for the “responder”.

Despite an increasing trend of working life prolongation, little is known about the risk factors for financial reasons for working beyond the statutory retirement age (SRA), and how these reasons relate to health.

Land-use structure information entropy of the study area in different periods were calculated and presented an increasing trend.

The change rate of farmland was similar to that of built-up land, but it showed a decreasing trend throughout the period, and the dynamic degree was much smaller than that of built-up land, which showed the serious transformation of farmland into other land-use types.