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In model 1, the control variables, GDP per capita, and whether the location was a pilot city, had highly significant effects on the establishment of the first CDW recycling plant.

In fact, the measurements showed a trend that ClinCheck ® accuracy decreases when moving posteriorly into the arch.

For this reason, there is an increasing trend in forest management to leave some forested areas as dedicated areas for recreation.

The Indonesian basic health studies (Riskesdas) found a decreasing trend of stunting prevalence from 1992 to 2013—from 45.9% to 37.2% [ 2 , 4 ].

From 2005 to 2015, the ellipse center showed a trend of deep development from northeast to southwest as a whole, and its distribution area was mainly concentrated in Zhumadian, Henan Province.

The serum iron concentration showed no significant differences among all four groups (SC, ICC, IDC, and IDD groups), although there was a decreasing trend from the SC group to the ICC, IDC, and IDD groups ( Figure 2 b).

The season in the study site was spring, and as the experiment progressed, the temperature showed an increasing trend.

Both of these studies indicate an increased risk of hypertension among women exposed to occupational noise, although the Zhao study just failed to reach statistical significance.

The migration rate is highly significant and positively correlated with the likelihood of child migration as expected.

An increasing trend was found in the prevalence of overweight and obesity and a decreasing trend for stunting, underweight, and wasting.

With increasing clay content, the permeability coefficient showed a decreasing trend with the order of P5>P2>P1>P4>P3.

For intracranial injury, the crude incidence rate in those aged ≥70 years was the highest, showing an increasing trend (216.3 individuals in 2008, 245.6 in 2017, p for trend = 0.381).

Although the differences did not reach statistical significance, there was a clear trend toward reduced TNF-α levels and increased IL-10 levels.

Only covariates that vary between the treatment and control group around the time of the introduction are likely to be significant.

The path from servant leadership to AME remains marginally significant, which means that servant leadership largely influences AME through the intervening role of psychological empowerment.

Higher I 2 values with highly significant Q test were seen for rainfall values deviating from 300 mm per week.

There was a nonsignificant trend toward improved referral time in the intervention group, but the time for referral was less than 6 h for only about 17% of newborns.

We did not observe an obvious trend in seasonality between the warm season (May–October) and the cold season (November–April).

A study in Malawi on school-going children in the Cooking and Pneumonia sub-study found lower FVC z-scores in children with higher exposure households although this was a small difference with borderline significance (0.22 z-score), but not for any other lung parameters [ 71 ].

In the present study, despite the lack of significant differences between control and exercise sessions, systolic blood pressure in the control condition showed an increasing trend at 30 min post-session, with mean differences of 5.53 mmHg and 5.00 mmHg compared to the multi-joint and single-joint sessions, respectively—both of which exhibited a decreasing trend.

Overall, a decreasing trend was observed in colorectal cancer screening ( Figure 1 ).

Virtually all evaluations were non-significant (see Table 3 below), except for the peak current density after one week of physical therapy, which was higher (marginal significance) in the case of patients treated by the therapist versus the robotic rehabilitation.

However, the per capita food N footprint of urban areas did not decrease with food consumption from 2015 to 2017, but showed an increasing trend ( Figure 3 ).

An increasing trend was identified in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong [ 11 ].

The average left eye visual acuity in the three assessments reached a significant level ( p < 0.05), demonstrating an increasing trend first, followed by a decreasing trend.