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The water supply service of Nanjing and Suzhou showed a trend of fluctuation and rise.

These features might be significant advantages for SMEs in terms of good green management [ 15 ].

The result of the cumulative greenhouse effect (year-by-year) on global warming needs to be reflected on a longer time scale, so LST in the study area has a small trend change from 2010 to 2020, but global warming is indisputably happening.

A highly significant difference in Fe level was observed between eel (3.23 mg/kg) and all the other fish species and followed the following pattern: roach > bleak > carp > rudd > perch > eel.

From the perspective of time evolution, the comprehensive benefits of the PRD’s TEE system showed an increasing trend, in which the benefit index of the tourism and economy subsystem increased more rapidly, while the eco-environment subsystem was relatively unstable.

The Largest Path Index (LPI) of urban patches increased by 186.49% with an average annual growth rate of 5.48% ( Figure 10 b), and the largest patch was the central city of Nanchang, indicating a significant trend of urban expansion in the central city.

In the present cohort, at hospital discharge, the proportion of patients prescribed antidiabetic drugs decreased with an increasing trend over time, and only a few of them (nearly 10%—results not shown) had resumed their previous treatment at the 3-month follow-up.

Consequently, the subgroup means of cumulative needs also show highly significant differences ( p : 0.000).

Physician visits show a decreasing trend with the increase in MHRCN. 3.3.2.

Average haematocrit percentage was high among three (0.35%) clean-up workers, with a decreasing trend (4.84% per year).

These parameters showed a slightly increasing trend over time, which did not differ by age.

The trajectories of BUN were stable during the 2 years and showed an increasing trend at 3–5 years after the clean-up for both smokers and non-smokers.

With the intensification of human planting activities, ET values of urban industrial and mining land, forest land, and cultivated land changed largely ( Table 3 ), and the T:E ratio showed an increasing trend since 1982.

The cropland area was on a decreasing trend, but the number of cropland patches was increasing yearly.

The forest area showed a trend of first decreasing and then increasing.

The landscape loss index of cropland, forest land, and grassland showed a slightly increasing trend.

According to the evaluation results, the water quality showed a trend of gradual improvement.

From 2013 to 2018, WQI generally showed a positive trend.

The environmental pollution variables as a whole show a decreasing trend which contradicts the trend of government environmental auditing.

Issues pertaining to sustainability and resilience have become an important trend in spatial analysis literature [ 1 , 2 ].

The logistic regression results indicate that risk perception is marginally statistically significant, which shows the importance of this variable in predicting vaccination intention.

Compared to R1, the NH 4 + -N removal efficiency of the R2 reactor was unstable and showed a decreasing trend in NH 4 + -N removal efficiency on day 42.

There was an increasing trend in the number of visitors from 2018 (2.9%) to 2022 (12.3%) among Schedule caste and Schedule tribe females.

Although the mental status of these individuals varied both intra- and inter-individually over time, both underwent a complicated and lengthy process, showing a positive trend towards recovery from their traumatic loss.

In recent years, the intensity of environmental regulation in Shanxi has exhibited a decreasing trend, and has gradually returned to the national average level, indicating that the environment of Shanxi Province has been gradually improving since 2008.