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The designed model was highly significant, with model F-values as high as 932.94, and (P model > F) values < 0.0001.

As indicated in Table A10 , risk areas driven by a single factor exhibited a decreasing trend over the last 15 years.

In terms of the overall trend, the exposure levels indicate an increasing trend from 2005 to 2019.

Vulnerability shows an overall trend of increasing over time.

Affected by poor soil conditions, unreasonable farming structure and backward fertilization methods, the total amount and intensity of chemical fertilizer application in China have maintained an increasing trend for a long time.

The evolution of CFAI also showed a trend of increasing first and then decreasing, but the turning year was advanced to 2014, and the average annual growth rate of the two stages changed from 2.26% to −2.15% ( Figure 1 ).

There are likely to be significant flow-on effects of a safer night time environment for tourism and investment. 5.

Overall, there is an increasing trend towards using DES in healthcare to address issues at an operational level, yet less than 10% of DES applications present actual implementations following the modeling stage.

Concerning Hypotheses 3a and 3b, there was a marginally significant two-way interaction effect between PED at school and peer support.

People aged 65 years and over accounted for 4.97 percent, 6.16 percent and 8.87 percent of the total population in the world in 1960, 1990 and 2018 respectively, showing an increasing trend in the past few decades [ 2 ].

Some authors have not found a significant correlation between the presence of a congenital lack of permanent tooth buds and the jaw structure, while others believe that there may be significant correlations between agenesis and the facial skeleton structure [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ].

There was a highly significant difference in the overall scores representing COVID-19 knowledge between medical students and students of related subjects (median 17.5, 8.5–23, versus 16.5, 5–22.5, p < 0.0001, Mann–Whitney U test).

Some studies showed an increasing trend of obesity prevalence in SA [ 19 ], but the WHO estimates tell a different story [ 8 ].

In the period of time analysed in our study, there was an overall trend towards increasing reporting.

The performance of NO 2 and SO 2 at low concentrations was similar to that of PM 10 , but a decreasing trend was observed at high concentrations. 4.

Moreover, the employment rate of women was 50.8% in 2017, reflecting an increasing trend [ 5 ].

Some of the main findings are as follows: (1) During the sample period, CEE of Chinese cities showed a trend of gradual improvement, and the gap is significantly narrowed, but the average CEE is 0.4693.

On the one hand, considering all postpartum women currently performing exercise, although non-significant, the multiparous women showed a trend towards the performance of exercise with a higher frequency (almost double time) than the primiparous women.

This may be significant, because visitation to small pocket parks, which were closed in many cities during the pandemic, were not captured in our data.

A total of 61.5% (60.8%) of the whole area showed an increasing trend, whereas the area where reduction occurred accounted for 38.5% (39.2%).

According to statistics, the market size of hazmat logistics in China exceeded CNY 2 trillion in 2020 and the transport volume of hazmat every year in China shows an increasing trend [ 1 ].

A meta-analysis showed an overall of 8%−18% risk reduction for LC with daily 70–300 g fruit and vegetable intake, while the protective effect was attenuated after stratifying by smoking status, with only a marginally significant association among current smokers and an insignificant inverse trend in former or never smokers [ 37 ].

As with cultivated lands, the area of grasslands has also shown an increasing trend over the years, increasing by 1.28% from 1990 (36.85%) to 2015 (38.13%).

Moreover, we observed an increasing trend in published work on PFAS remediation in ICLS over the last nine years (2012–2021) based on our search criteria.

While social connectedness is not limited to (registered) civil status or having a guardian, these numbers suggested that social isolation may be significant among mothers in ASCs.