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A decreasing trend of protein cluster count, which corresponds to a decrease in the thickness of the lubrication film, is found in all experiments.

Furthermore, MCL in position 1 (3.5 mm) is about 5 to 8 μm lower than in the other two positions (5.5 mm and 7.5 mm) for each shear rate, with a slight trend to higher differences for low shear rates.

The dependence of the lattice parameters, a , b , and c and, consequently, of the unit cell volume V , on the calcination temperature, exhibits a decreasing trend ( Table 1 ).

According to literature, the fresh and hardened bulk density of the mortars containing recycled aggregates show a decreasing trend.

The mechanical tests indicate a clear trend of stiffness and strength improvement along with the increasing share of PC phase in the structure.

Porosities in Table 1 follow an expected trend, decreasing downwards and to the right of the Table.

The overlay with the influence of MnS inclusions might be significant.

The change of these parameters for the different rolling conditions exhibits an increasing trend with respect to the decrease in the number of voids ( Figure 6 ).

In the case of M SL , pit depth has portrayed a decreasing trend with the increase in A MF .

Conversely, PP/PS/MWCNT systems exhibited an increasing trend for the storage modulus as a function of the annealing time, indicating that the presence of nanotubes effectively prevented coalescence; further measurements performed after the thermal treatment demonstrated the rebuilding of the CNT network structure, through the Brownian motion of the nanofillers into the melt.

tanδ showed a decreasing trend with increasing the nanofiller content, revealing a progressively more pronounced elastic-like response for the nanocomposites and a gradual fluid–solid transition, which was associated with a gelation phenomenon occurring in the system.

As indicated by Table 4 , the wear depth and grinding crack width exhibited an increasing trend with an increase in the normal load.

An increasing trend of ES versus temperature was proven, reaching a plateau value by observing the evolution of stabilization versus time.

As presented in Table 5 , the cross-section of deformed fibers exhibits a decreasing trend with temperature.

It can be observed from Figure 4 a,b that as the temperature rose, the thermal conductivity of both the composite and aerogel showed an increasing trend.

The experimental data were applied to evaluate linear, quadratic, and cubic models, and results indicated that the quadratic model was highly significant and suitable to represent the response of the RB4 dye removal.

Figure 9 presents the results of the bee phase area measured using Image-Pro Plus software 6.0 (Media Cybernetics Corporation, Rockville, MD, USA), in which the bee phase areas of the three asphalt mastics with different F/A ratios were less than that of the base asphalt binder and exhibited a decreasing trend with an increase of the F/A ratio.

In this study, an increasing trend in the metal concentration leachate was observed for fired clay bricks with the increase in CB content from 0% to 2% by mass.

This may be due to the usage of the stabilizer and the fiber inclusion that helps in lowering the dry density of the soil and the ability of the stabilizer to absorb a large amount of water, as for lime and alkaline activation; An increasing trend of the soil percentage loss was observed with the increase of the wetting/drying cycles for both soil stabilization treatments with an accumulation of 3% to 5% increment, except for the first cycles of treatment with lime.

Meanwhile, results based on the Stark-Fricke model had a clear trend, which first slightly decreased, then reached the highest value, followed by a decrease.

Both the normal and dry series showed a trend that the GF increased as the replacement ratio of the steelmaking slag increased.

With the increase in the load level, the difference of positive displacements between the two sides of the pre-notch shows an increasing trend.

The μ ′ values of Fe 3 O 4 exhibit a decreasing trend from 1.28 to 0.88 at 2–8 GHz and remain constant with slight fluctuations over 8–18 GHz.

The depth of the surface metamorphic layer exhibited a decreasing trend with some fluctuation with the increment of the tool rake angle (as shown in Figure 8 c).

The depth of the surface metamorphic layer exhibited an increasing trend with the increment of the tool rounded edge diameter.