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Compared with the water productivity simulation based on field experiments during 2012–2015, the projected water productivity in the two typical agricultural areas (Gaotai and Ganzhou) both exhibited an increasing trend in the future 30 years, which was mainly attributed to the significant decrease of the crop water consumption.

The difference between the two means is marginally significant at the 0.05 level ( t = −2.18, df = 167, d = 0.17). 3.3.2.

The requirement for economic evaluation fits within an overall trend towards evidence-based decision making in health care [ 1 ].

The observation in this study suggests that the differences in traffic activities between weekends and weekdays are not significant in Rubindi and Kyebando but may be significant in Mbarara.

The scale shows a positive trend. 2.6.

In general, the seasonal trend of CO 2 emission from all treatments showed an increasing trend and then a decline.

The fragmentation effect is highly significant despite a positive correlation between fragmentation and deprivation.

The fact that the addition of four-way interaction terms only reported a slightly significant increase in autonomous motivation for LTPA demonstrates the complex relationship dynamics embedded in school-community partnerships.

Thus, while the result provided by least squares was highly significant, the instrumental variable approach did not show any evidence for a positive causal association of GGT on alcohol consumption. 5.

Table 2 shows that the overall eco-efficiency in China was not so efficient compared with the optimal frontier level and showed a trend of declining first and then rising.

However, we tested this explanation by controlling for perceived job insecurity and despite the link between contract and PP was attenuated there remained an association that was still highly significant.

The virus loss was highly significant (60–70%) in the areas with the greatest effective distance (>30 km) from the WWTP ( Table 1 , Figure 2 ).

The spatial allocation and accessibility of medical facilities is theoretically and practically significant to gain an understanding of the current situation of medical resources.

Firstly, variability in personal exposures may be significant: even for the case studies in this work, where measurement data were of sufficient breadth to support a measurement-based exposure assessment, the uncertainty in the GM and 90th percentile, as characterised by the width of the credible interval from the adapted ART posterior, is non-trivial.

Similarly, TUNEL-positive cells ( Figure 3 A,B) in the PCD and DCT of Fin group were about one and a half times more frequent than the control; however, statistical values were borderline significant and only for DCT ( Table 4 ). 3.5.

In another study, it was also observed that a fluctuation of 20% in the haematocrit values has a highly significant association with DHF/DSS [ 44 ]. 4.5.

After reviewing a limited set of NSR-model predictions showing an increasing trend in predicted EO levels during 1938–1978, an EPA Science Advisory Board concluded that such “surprising historical behavior” was “unlikely” [ 8 ].

However, anger probably affected their judgment on these choices and weakened the learning process, leading to an increasing trend of risk-taking.

As can be seen from Figure 1 , the MSW volume in China shows an increasing trend but that in OECD European countries remains constant.

A decreasing trend was observed in WHtR(exp) in all percentiles, with the largest drop in the 90th and 95th percentile curve. 4.

There appears to be little sensitivity to the persistence of virions, environmental infectiousness and time lag; however, for environmental exposure rate, a weak trend exists in which parameter combinations with a higher exposure rate have a higher probability of reaching Patches 3 and 5.

SOC content of NS and ES had an increasing trend over the first 60 days, and then significantly decreased in ES, and marginally decreased in NS under CT ( Figure 3 b).

Similarly, the effects of marginal utility in fact may be significant when there is limited water available to multiple competing users, which will affect benefit or cost coefficients.

The downstream groundwater level showed a decreasing trend, suggesting that the reservoir deprived the downstream aquifer of the runoff, which it received under the natural flow regime.

In the multivariable logistic regression analysis, age 30–34 years, absence of self-reported vaccination, and having ≥2 sexual partners in the last 6 months were significantly associated with positivity for serological markers of HBV infection, and self-reported history of STI was borderline significant ( Table 5 ). 4.