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It shows a decreasing trend of energy consumption intensity in Zhejiang, which implies that Zhejiang’s overall energy efficiency has been improving continuously.

Given the correlation of 0.999 between DR and RR in Table 3 , it is not surprising that both categories are insignificant for AO in the first column when they appear simultaneously, while RR is only marginally significant.

Correlation analysis showed that the economic loss of PM 2.5 -related health impacts was still significantly positively correlated with the population, GDP, population density, and gross industrial production of the region, especially the extremely significant correlation with GDP and gross industrial production.

From 2015 to 2017, the economic loss in Jiayuguan, Jinchang, Baiyin, Zhangye, Pingliang and Longnan maintained a decreasing trend, while the changes of economic loss showed opposite trends in Lanzhou and Wuwei.

This effect may be significant for thoron measurement because thoron has a shorter half-life than radon.

Difference about education years was meaningfully significant with a medium to large effect size when comparing the older male with the older female. 3.2.

The mean values found for mesopic visual acuity -considerably lesser than the ones obtained by subjects in the photopic test- present also a decreasing trend with age, if the first three groups (ranging between M = [8.12–8.21]) are compared with adults over 65 ( M = 5.25).

Regarding age ( Table 3 ), for participants aged 65 years or older, only mobility showed a significant difference in terms of disability level between the two groups ( p < 0.05); moreover, although statistically nonsignificant, the relationship domain showed a higher disability level in the ABI group than that in the SCI group, with a p-value of 0.05, very close to statistical significance.

For all regions, there was always a minority of respondents who perceived a decreasing trend in HIA practice (range: 0.0-33.3%).

In Europe (74.6% [47/63]), North America (73.9% [17/23]), and the East Asian and Pacific (55.0% [11/20]) regions, an increasing trend in HIA use was perceived by the majority of respondent HIA.

However, a certain tendency close to significance was observed in anxiety, with the highest values belonging to the control group.

The Cohort effect on the incidence of tuberculosis showed a decreasing trend in India from 1908 to 1962 and from 1987 to 1997.

The net age effect in China and India showed a negative trend, while the cohort effect decreased from the earlier birth cohort to the recent birth cohort.

The net cohort effect in the United States showed an unfavorable trend, mainly due to rising smoking rates and the emergence of an economic crisis.

Moreover, online purchasing is an increasing trend among young generation due to variety of options and affordable price.

Such a result is comparable with that obtained by Spagnolli et al., in which the implementation of an organizational model for intensity of medical care was associated with a decreasing trend in mortality over the six-year period [ 36 ].

Our findings are important, because understanding specific relationships between FMS and PA may be significant for improving specific skills or a specific PA intensity.

The 73.92% villages showed an increasing trend ( Table 2 ), and the growth rate rates of the villages have been unbalanced: four villages experienced high speed ( Figure 3 b), nine villages with low speed ( Figure 3 c), and four villages at medium speed ( Figure 3 d).

For the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP)6 climate change scenario, Scripps Research Institute [ 20 ] suggests a possible trend in emissions ( Figure 10 ) which shows an immediate drop followed by a recovery when activities resume.

Significant changes in behaviour are expected and predicting the impact of the pandemic on different sectors is of highly significant societal interest [ 24 ].

Researchers in the field of developmental psychopathology framework have suggested that both child and maternal characteristics may be significant predictors of the quality of mother–child interactions during early childhood [ 23 , 24 , 25 ].

Among them, the supply–demand ratio of FP on cropland shows an increasing trend.

The primary productivity in the southern area had an increasing trend over the past 100 years.

The value of total organic carbon (TOC) in the northern area was relatively high, with an average value of 0.532% over the past 100 years, with a decreasing trend in recent years.

Unconventional oil and gas production provides a decreasing trend of groundwater quality (chloride, nitrate) over time in the Permian Basin, West Texas [ 5 , 6 ].