“a clear trend”

A clear trend was not observed for the average or the maximum diameters as the CNT content was increased.

This is also supported by Payne and colleagues [ 12 ], who mentioned a clear trend of students who would like to see an app specifically related to their university.

While our data suggest a clear trend, the mechanisms behind these gender-specific survival advantages remain to be fully understood.

This table shows a clear trend of an increase in selecting “Agree” instead of “Disagree” across the three levels.

After installing the auxiliary magnetic pole under the workpiece, the magnetic field gradient of the whole grinding area changes in a clear trend, and the magnetic abrasive renewal is more active during MAF processing, which significantly improves the utilization rate of the abrasive.

6 d, e demonstrate a clear trend, no significant difference was found between NTS + MMF and NTS + veh mice.

Although there have been few investigations exploring the strategies specifically in different age groups, results of five studies are relevant to a consideration of the elderly and have been included in a meta-analysis [ 154 ]; this demonstrates a clear trend towards increased mortality associated with a rhythm control strategy in the elderly.

Although we did not find a similarly strong relationship between ratings in SeiQoL-DW and McGill for the NOK, there is a clear trend in the same direction, which needs to be interpreted with regard to the small sample size.

Regarding mean retake number, a clear trend was seen where IOS was generally associated with higher retake numbers for both tooth- and implant-supported restorations in comparison with conventional impressions.

The results revealed a clear trend: with increasing crystallinity, the porosity decreased while the volume density increased.

A visual inspection of the plot shows a clear trend: while a majority of pairs exhibited low correlation (STTC ≈ 0), pairs with strong correlations appear to be concentrated at shorter physical distances, suggesting a relationship between network connectivity and spatial proximity.

Spatial distribution of rainfall Average annual rainfall over the 2017–2019 period ranged from less than 200 mm in the Saharan zone to more than 1100 mm in the pre-Guinean zone, with a clear trend from north to south.

The temperature development curves of concrete with varying GGBS contents reveal a clear trend.

However, the data regarding tumor-infiltrating NK cells are not completely unequivocal, showing a clear trend toward an association between the reduction in the number of cells and adverse outcomes [ 46 , 47 ].

Despite the limited number of sample pairs, there was a clear trend towards substantially lower DNA methylation signal obtained from post-surgery samples; the level of decrease varied greatly from about twofold to several hundred folds ( Figure 4(c,d) ).

The VM and EL plants showed a clear trend of decreasing AO activity from 4 h to 14 days after the UV‐C treatment.

Examination of IIV percentage by consumption group—population subsets based on total annual Medicare expenditures—did not reveal a clear trend.

The conditional probability of suicidal behavior was most prominent for the stressor of bereavement from losing a family and having conflicts with classmates, respectively, for both female and male students, with a clear trend of decrease with increasing level of approach coping skills.

A clear trend of high research interest in bone substitutes and regenerative medicine can be seen.

Nevertheless at a minimum, a clear trend is present: having the LS images and skin markings to assist during SLNB appears to yield more favorable morbidity outcomes for the patients compared to performing SLNB with only the probe or performing SLNB with dye alone.

There was a clear trend towards an increased clockwise rotation in more severe airflow limitation.

However, this surface roughness followed a clear trend according to the concentration of CLOP available in the vascular grafts, i.e., the surface of 5% CLOP-loaded vascular grafts was closer to the blank vascular grafts rather than the higher drug loadings (10% and 20% w/w).

Analysis of prescribed RT protocols demonstrated a clear trend towards longer treatment schedules and thus longer hospitalization rates in terminally ill cancer patients.

There was a clear trend in the predominance of negative results from soybean samples in 2022 and subsequent years, with no positive samples found in 2022 or 2023 and only 11.1% of samples found positive in 2024.

When CrAl 2 O 4 is encapsulated into polymer microcapsules at various loading levels (10–40 wt %, curves d-g), a clear trend emerges: reflectance improves with increasing CrAl 2 O 4 content.