“a clear trend”

In terms of metacognitive strategies, there was a clear trend that higher-level learners were more strategic, since they were more likely to set plans, evaluate their plans, performances, and emotions, and assess task situations.

Conversely, the protocatechuic acid content did not exhibit a clear trend: it increased already at a CUO of 2.75 mmol m −2 (+97%) before reaching a maximum at a CUO of 4.93 mmol m −2 , came back to the control level at a CUO of 6.95 mmol m −2 , and increased again until the end of the exposure (more than 18-fold than the control; Figure 4 c).

The evidence gathered in this SLR suggests a clear trend towards automating the age identification within the context of BAA research.

Each data point represents one gene ontology, and a clear trend is evident.

While nozzle size did not show a clear trend, an increase in operating pressure resulted in a decreased %DSD in this size range.

A clear trend could be observed for SRC2 , expressed at higher levels in the variety Morellona.

As a clear trend seen within MV and HCMV double seropositive donors, MV-infected cells were considerably more potent to activate FcγRs when compared with HCMV-infected cells (Fig. 4 ).

124 Mammographic evaluation has a clear trend to underestimate the true disease size when IMPC is concerned. 97 , 98 , 122 False-negative rates in mammography evaluation have been reported as high as 12% for IMPC patients, 125 whereas patients with Invasive Lobular Carcinoma have false-negative rates higher than 14%, 126 and up to 19%. 127 Whe

We observed that tumor xenografts treated with lenalidomide in association with 5-FU presented a clear trend towards the (re)differentiation of single cells and global tissue architecture, resembling features of normal colon epithelium, indirectly supporting the beneficial activity of chemotherapy.

The results show a clear trend in biofilm formation across the different fabric types ( Figure 1 ).

Except for a few western provinces such as Xinjiang and Qinghai, there is a clear trend of deepening aging throughout the country.

AFM profiling of free-standing thin films, transferred onto silicon wafers, further confirmed that thicknesses remained below 250 nm, with a clear trend of increasing thickness with longer IP reaction times and elevated FTCS concentrations (Fig. 2g, h , Fig.

The PCA-based analysis method is an unsupervised evaluation method that often does not show a clear trend of separation between groups, especially when testing samples with complex backgrounds, regions, diets and other influencing factors.

The resulting plots showed a clear trend of increasing spectral amplitude with higher volumes of injected fluid, with both perpendicular and parallel data acquisition.

For BRCA1 mutation carriers, the association between ever use of oral contraceptives and risk of ovarian cancer did not show a clear trend according to age at first use of oral contraceptives (≤19 years [HR, 0.43; 95% CI, 0.28–0.65]; 20–23 years [HR, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.33–0.78]; >24 years [HR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.41–0.97]; P trend =.15).

The data points appear to be quite scattered and we do not observe a clear trend in this plot.

Regarding liver fibrosis, a clear trend was observed between increasing PR3 concentrations in the liver and fibrosis severity (Fig. 2 c).

On the contrary, the replacement series did not show a clear trend as the band downshifted at higher concentration (R3, R5—1631 cm −1 ) and upshifted at low concentration (R1.5—1637 cm −1 ).

Analysis of the HHI on a decadal scale shows a clear trend of spatial expansion of HW hotspots throughout each decade (see Supplementary Figure S4).

Interestingly, a clear trend that goes from the colitis mice group (DS) to the healthy one (CT) is visible along the PC1.

The changes in cytokine secretion after treatment were not significant, however, there was a clear trend toward a reduction in both mean IL-4 and INF-γ levels 6 months after treatment in all 6 individuals, 168.5±89 pg/ml compared to 235.5±214 pg/ml and 3330±2313 pg/ml compared to 4723±1921 pg/ml, respectively.

A clear trend towards international regulatory collaboration and electronic communications has emerged.

Although no significant difference was found either by Mann–Whitney rank sum or students t test between treated and untreated G1KD tumors, the TDG treated tumors did show a clear trend with reduced weight suggesting a residual effect of TDG on the remaining galectin-1 produced by the G1KD tumors.

Regarding handgrip strength, the data showed an increase in strength with increasing age, and there is a clear trend for post-menarche girls to report higher values than their pre-menarche peers.

depth scatter plot does not show a clear trend due to the influence of escarpments and terraces located on the edge of the summit plateau.