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Scientists are also optimistic about the future carbon sequestration of China’s forests, and generally believe that it will continue to exhibit an increasing trend in the following years [ 24 ].

In addition, semantic network analysis indicates a clear trend associated with emotion (negative emotions had their highest scores in mid-to-late March, when the WHO announced the pandemic status of COVID-19) [ 20 ].

Positive autocorrelation increases the probability of type I error, namely detecting a significant trend despite one not being present [ 61 ].

Emissions of most key sectors in Fujian, Jiangsu, Sichuan, and Tianjin have been decoupled from industrial development, however without showing a clear trend towards peaking.

A decreasing trend in psychological inflexibility, perceived stress, psychological distress, and suppression of private events were observed in participants’ average total scale and subscale scores before and after the protocol implementation.

Similarly, demand for the suicide prevention helpline in the Netherlands decreased within the first months of the pandemic and started an increasing trend approximately four months after the first case in the country [ 12 ].

Although the interannual trend showed that the overall trend of rainfall was decreasing, this was due to the significant decrease in 2019, while both rainfall and GPP showed a decreasing trend in 2010–2015 and an increasing trend in 2015–2020 ( Figure 5 a).

The difference in the normal frequency of sexual activity was of marginal significance by education status ( p for interaction = 0.062) and was found to be influenced by family income status ( p for interaction = 0.017, Table 3 ).

With the effect of different levels of traffic volume, the three survival function curves by traffic volume all showed a decreasing trend in the pedestrian survival rate.

[ 50 ] reported a decreasing trend in PF levels and health status in the young generation.

They observed a decreasing trend, probably due to three factors: a reduction in crime, a decrease in the activity of the justice system and the release of inmates as a preventive measure [ 25 ].

The increase in the pollutant treatment upgrade scenario was about seven times greater, with a clear trend of carbon increase.

In 2018, the production level of Inner Mongolia in the northern part of the basin and Sichuan in the southwest improved further, while the development of the production function of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Ningxia in the middle reaches of the basin remained stagnant, forming a decreasing trend from the eastern and northern parts of the basin to the central and western parts.

(3) Results: no significant differences were found at baseline in maternal characteristics; nevertheless, certain outcomes showed a favorable trend towards the IG.

During 2010–2020, a balance between maintenance and conversion was reached between cultivated land and forest and grassland, although the area of cultivated land showed a decreasing trend as it continued to be converted into construction land, but the area of construction land decreased by 10.64% when compared to the previous period.

The positive carbon flow showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing from 1990 to 2020, but it still increased significantly overall.

Studies have suggested that the COVID-19 virus presents low genetic diversity but has an increasing trend and several hotspot mutations throughout its genome [ 78 , 79 ].

In males, there was an association of the highest Cu quartile with decreased eGFR (β = −0.023, 95% CI: −0.042 to −0.003) and increased UACR (β = 0.349, 95% CI: 0.171 to 0.527); serum Cu levels also demonstrated a negative nonlinear dose–response association with eGFR and a positive linear dose–response association with UACR in males, whereas females showed a marginally significant nonlinear positive association of eGFR with serum Cu levels.

Regarding the overall enjoyment of physical activity, the PACES score showed a highly significant difference each week between the HIIT and SSG groups.

For geographic factors, we observe that, compared with hospitals located in rural areas, hospitals located in urban areas are less likely to receive a reward; compared with hospitals located in the New England area, hospitals located in the Mid-Atlantic and West South Central areas show a significantly lower likelihood of receiving a reward; hospitals located in the East South Central area show a moderately significant less likelihood of receiving a reward, while hospitals located in other areas do not show a significant difference.

The central region showed an increase in the inputs of licensed physicians, registered nurses, and beds, whereas the medical equipment showed a trend of rising first and then falling.

The outputs of the central region also showed an increasing trend.

Furthermore, the sensitivity analysis regarding only the municipalities that reported data across all three time periods indicated that the majority of the results were robust while some became marginally significant with a smaller sample ( Table 2 ).

If the labor input decreased, the actual agricultural income showed a trend of constant and then decreasing until it decreased to 269 workdays, the optimal income obtainable would still be 20,160.52 CNY, and the risk value and agricultural land-use structure would remain the same (Combination IV).

UEC showed a decreasing trend with the increase in wastewater quantity, and the correction coefficient was −241 ( Figure 11 b).