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While trends in the incidences of congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) remained stable in Taiwan (2004–2011) [ 28 ], a decreasing trend (−31%) was reported in Glasgow (UK) (1980–1997) [ 10 ].

In the present study, the association between longer TV viewing at baseline and an increase in relative body weight was almost significant while that of game using time at baseline was not.

The PM 2.5 concentration profile shows a decreasing trend as the altitude increases with the concentration median of 53 μg m –3 on the ground and 44 μg m –3 at the 100 m altitude.

Therefore, the BC similarly showed an increasing trend during the morning rush hours, and had a 3–6% proportion of PM 1 , even in the outdoor environment of the apartment building.

The reliability of the PSPP Spanish version was highly significant (α = between 0.89 and 0.69) and the internal consistency ranged from 0.70 (physical strength) to 0.80 (sport competence) [ 9 ].

Several studies have described a decreasing trend in amenable mortality, as well as the existence of socioeconomic inequalities that affect it.

Zuo and colleagues even found a highly significant correlation [ 22 ].

In line with earlier population based studies, depression was diagnosed in health care more frequently among women, among those with the shortest unemployment period, among those who had made frequent visits to health care, and among non-manual workers [ 14 , 38 , 39 ], even the difference between non-manual workers and manual workers did not quite reach statistical significance.

A slight trend for the 50% cut-point to decrease with increasing loading was evident, but the effect was generally small, even with the exceptionally high loadings.

The overall related research showed an increasing trend, with 2015 having the most published works fitting the search criteria. 3.2.

Moreover, there are intricate interactions (which we call the nexus) between FEW, and the nexus will be extremely significant for the sustainable development of future society [ 4 ].

This growth in unemployment rates in the foreign population marks the seasonality of jobs, revealing an unfavorable trend for foreigners as compared to the native population.

The results of research on the correlation between crisis and mental health based on the 2008 global economic crisis indicate that the crisis is an important and highly significant factor that has a negative impact on mental health [ 35 ].

Overall Trend Analysis By evaluating the value of the above four types of service functions of the Qilihai Wetland in different years, it can be concluded that the overall ecological service value has shown an increasing trend.

As shown in the table, this analysis showed differences only in PA that were marginally significant, with a tendency to decrease at one month, and stabilized between the third and fourth measurements.

The findings suggest that overall personality functioning may be significant in influencing individuals to adopt the protective measures recommended by authorities.

Data and Privacy Issues Due to the rapid development of sensor technology, there is an increasing trend in science in using spatiotemporal data from wearable sensors.

The Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration has the most significant increase in ULUE and the improvement of ULUE of eastern coastal urban agglomeration shows a clear trend of point-to-plane and belt-like expansion.

From 2010 to 2016, the ULUE of various regions in China rose steadily, and the differences among regions showed a trend of continuous convergence.

The difference between a single- and two-parent household may be significant as the number of possible income earners and active caregivers are different.

We do find highly significant negative correlations with being female (columns 2 and 3), having more education, being engaged in sports and being employed (column 3).

These effects were highly significant with SeMet treatment, probably due to better absorption and utilization by the plant.

The subcellular distribution of Cd in the shoots showed a trend similar to that in the roots ( Figure 2 B).

Differences were considered statistically significant when p < 0.05 and were considered highly significant when p < 0.01. 3.

Nowadays, there is an increasing trend in estimating the health risk using soil contamination indices, soil-plant transfer factors, and metal contents in edible plant parts [ 25 , 31 , 274 , 275 ].