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However, the incidence rate of breast cancer in Thailand is still showing an increasing trend, as noted above [ 8 ].

The contribution of grassland and watershed are in the third and fourth places, respectively, and the ecological service value of grassland shows a decreasing trend, while that of water area shows an increasing trend.

The contribution rate of the cultivated land is located in the second place, with an average contribution rate of 26.55%, and the ecological value also shows a decreasing trend.

The lack of significant improvement in mortality rates due to falls in the Polish elderly population observed since 2009, despite a favorable trend in the first decade of the analysis, may be related to an increase in the dynamics of growth in the trend of the oldest people (i.e., those aged over 80), particularly noticeable in the last decade (from 6.4% to 8.5%).

However, the scale resilience index of Xinhe County showed an increasing trend during 2000–2015 and a decreasing trend after 2015.

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.

The two groups showed a trend towards low fruit consumption ( Table 3 ).

All those variables turned out to be highly significant predictors of delayed diagnosis on univariate analysis.

The CLUDD across the four periods first showed a decreasing trend, then an increasing one.

The trend was mainly U-shaped, with a decreasing trend from 2000 to 2005 and an exponential increase from 2007 to 2018, followed by a short decline in 2019 and a return in 2020.

Additionally, after nine months, there was a highly significant difference in the scores used to measure Internet addiction between the intervention group and the control group, indicating that the Healthy Internet Use Program helps reduce the prevalence of Internet addiction among teenagers [ 21 ].

From 2000 to 2020, both ESs supply and ESs demand showed an increasing trend.

In terms of spatial distribution ( Figure 6 ), the overall CCD of ESs S&D showed a decreasing trend from the southeast to the northwest.

With the increase in the PAC concentration, the COD removal rate showed a trend of initially increasing and then decreasing.

Lead in Blood (BPb) Although BPb has borderline significance, concentrations in the evening group (2.05 μg dL −1 ) were higher than in the indifferent and morning groups ( Table 3 ).

In DGS biscuits, both moisture and water activity decreased with the higher percentages of seeds, whereas in GS samples, these parameters tended to decrease without following a clear trend linked to the amount of seeds added.

The overall network efficiency of the provincial ETR spatial association network (SAN) in China presented a decreasing trend, decreasing from 0.7365 in 2000 to 0.6995 in 2019, indicating that stability has been enhanced after increasing the number of connections in the SAN of ETR.

Although the “Parental Stressors” factor does not correlate with the STAI-E7, the values do come close to being significant, which is confirmed by the criterion variable of perceived anxiety that is included in the study.

The relationship between the cumulative runoff and sediment yield of different measures exhibited a power function, with the increase of scouring flow and the runoff reduction benefit and sediment reduction benefit in different ecological protection-measured plots showing a decreasing trend.

also indicated that factor loadings above 0.3 may be considered adequate; significant 0.4 loadings and factor loadings greater than 0.5 would be considered practically significant [ 33 ]. 2.3.2.

Nevertheless, the visual inspection of the power spectra ( Figure 3 ) revealed an interesting trend of slower alpha frequencies in high consumers compared to the two other groups.

Except for the fourth wave in 2015, the prevalence of overweight followed an increasing trend in all evaluated waves, reaching its lowest percentage difference between normal weight and overweight in 2010.

The degree of soil pollution shows a decreasing trend centered on the ore sorting area and metallogenic belt ( Figure 2 ), and there is some correlation between the sources of pollution, which is related to human activities such as early and unreasonable exploitation of mineral resources and the random stacking of tailings [ 25 , 26 ].

There is a clear trend of a higher proportion of overweight in the male population, regardless of age group, and the proportion of obese people is more pronounced in the female population.

First, there was an increasing trend of sufficient knowledge of COVID-19 with the rise of lockdown level.