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There was a clear trend in peak broadening as a function of voltage, as shown in Figure 3 a, indicating an increased dislocation density with decreasing charging voltage.

In Figure 4 a, the measured data showed that the change of the brightness index L * of the two dyed straw was basically the same, and both curves showed an increasing trend.

The curves of dyed straw chromaticity index a * showed a decreasing trend, while the curves of the chromaticity index b * adopted first and then rose, shown in Figure 4 b,c, corresponding to the incremental reflection of whiteness, indicating the discoloration of the surface of straw.

As the reaction time increased, the whiteness value of the composite powder showed a decreasing trend, which was because the precipitation was not fully formed when the reaction time was 10 min.

All MRE samples showed an increasing trend in the storage modulus parallel with the increase of the magnetic field.

For the radial displacement, the changing trends are almost the same from an overall perspective, i.e., the radial displacement at each representative moment shows a decreasing trend along the side generatrix.

It can be seen that the radial displacement is increased from top to bottom, showing an increasing trend with the decrease of the inner ring thickness.

The sphericity of these agglomerates follows a decreasing trend by increasing their size. 3.4.

The results revealed by HE staining were validated by the expression of CD31 endothelial marker, which recorded a weak signal at the first week, with an increasing trend up to week eight.

B2 + 14% HVA and B4 + 14% HVA asphalt do not show a decreasing trend of stress within 30% of the strain and does not reach the fatigue failure point within 30% strain range, which indicate a better fatigue resistance performances after modified by HVA. 4.

For all specimens, the rutting depth of asphalt slabs had an increasing trend with the prolonging of repeated tracking.

In contrast, the m value showed a decreasing trend with the decline in testing temperature.

The microhardness results indicated a positive trend from the addition of silicon carbide to the Al alloy resulting in increased hardness from 60 HV to 110 HV for 6% SiC p addition, which was about 57%.

Although the authors of [ 14 ] find that layer height is slightly significant—and although it seems that the following assumption holds: the higher the height layer value, the greater the improvement detected regarding resistance—this cannot be assured, as the errors calculated for the multiplicative factor and the exponent in both equations mean that they can be the same.

Both showed a trend of increasing first and then decreasing, and the optimum RHA content is also the same, 2%, 4%, and 6% respectively.

It should be noted that, once again, AMFR does not seem to show a clear trend in roughness variation when values of 300 g/min or 600 g/min are selected, although it is true that, for the latter value, the roughness seems to decrease when TFR presents levels of 300 mm/min and 900 mm/min.

In contrast, CTE x in the x direction exhibits an increasing trend under the applied stress condition ( Figure 7 a, CTE x ).

Clearly, the shear peak strain of FFAMC test specimen showed an increasing trend with the increase in coalescing agent addition amount.

The tensile peak strain of SCAMC test specimen showed a decreasing trend on the whole with the increase in silane coupling agent addition amount; that was the minimal at the silane coupling agent addition amount of 3%, which was reduced by 66.6% compared with that of SECC; while that was slightly increased when the addition amount was increased to 4%, but that was still smaller than the SECC test specimen.

Characterization of Fibrous Material The average diameter of fibers had an increasing trend with speeding up the syringe pump in most of the cases except 10 wt.% of PHB, where increased feeding speed resulted in a decrease in average fiber diameter ( Table 2 ).

Levene’s test is clearly significant, Sig. = 0.001 with F = 24.813, which means that the homoscedasticity criterion is not met since the variances are significantly different.

With the increase of the annealing temperature, the strength keeps decreasing, while the elongation shows an increasing trend at the beginning and then a decreasing trend after the peak of 32.5% (annealed at 350 °C).

However, the |Z| 0.01Hz value of M0 maintains a decreasing trend from the initial 4.57 × 10 4 to the final 2.02 × 10 4 Ω·cm 2 , with a rate of decrease of 29.29% and 52.14% after immersion for 72 and 144 h, respectively.

With an increase in the amount of silica fume, UCS showed a trend of increasing first and then decreasing, which is similar to the experimental results of silica fume mixed with concrete presented by Wetzel et al.

For SBS and AR asphalt mixtures, there is a decreasing trend of Tg with the increasing content of fine aggregates from Z to D.