“a decreasing trend”

The results for the strength—appreciation of beauty—warrant caution due to the fact that the WL showed a decreasing trend over the same period.

The dominant member of Planctomycetales in the 454 sequencing was a ‘ Candidatus Brocadia’ with a decreasing trend from day 154 (24%) to day 189 (14%).

There was a decreasing trend for those of younger and older age.

We then see a decreasing trend at around a quarter of the rate of the past trend of −2.8 ± 2.8 million km 2 /decade.

Meanwhile, the contents of reducing sugars and total solids exhibited a decreasing trend, whereas the value of soluble solids increased during the first 48 h and subsequently declined.

Although age-standardized death rates show a decreasing trend in most countries, the absolute number of patients increases[ 3 , 5 ].

Although the addition of DAPA to the VA group (the DAPA+VA group) resulted in a decreasing trend in MDA levels compared to the VA group, this difference was not statistically significant ( Figure 2 A).

CL exhibited a decreasing trend following DSC, suggesting insufficient PEEP to counter Ppl may have contributed to atelectasis.

In contrast, a Russian study reported a decreasing trend of dyslipidemia along with decreased prevalence of overweight between 1989 and 2003 7) .

The GIS maps also indicated a decreasing trend of malaria cases after the distribution of LLINs during these two years.

On average, China currently exhibits 118 plant families per 25 km 2 , with a decreasing trend from southeast to northwest.

After adding CNTs under high-temperature dry friction, the friction coefficient of the PEEK-based porous composites still shows a decreasing trend, confirming that the inherent lubricity of CNTs plays a crucial role in dry friction.

A decreasing trend of both shank retraction angular range and retraction time can be observed with increased MT, with the shank tending to begin rotating backward earlier in the thinner shoe condition (refer to Figure 5 for a representative subject) but statistical significance did not met (refer to Figures 4A,B ).

Although there was an initial increase in lactate and glucose levels post-ROSC, both groups showed a decreasing trend toward baseline over time.

Although no statistically significant difference was found between the erythrocytic aggregated α-syn concentrations of PD and ET patients, there is a decreasing trend in ET subjects ( Figure 1B ).

[ 9 ] Although there was a decreasing trend in the lower limb PI, there was no significant difference in the PI when patients were returned to the horizontal position from the Trendelenburg position.

From 1998 to the most recent year available, male smoking rates have exhibited a decreasing trend (66.3% in 1998; 34.0% in 2020) due to anti-smoking campaigns, tobacco taxation policies, and altered social perceptions [ 3 - 5 ].

During the first 24 hours after hospital admission, although there were no statistically significant differences in medication utilization both singly and in combination in relation to the number of CVD comorbidities previously diagnosed, there was a decreasing trend in the proportion of patients who received effective cardiac medications as the number of cardiac comorbidities increased ( Table 2 ).

The IgA antibody levels peaked at week 2 and demonstrated a decreasing trend over weeks 4 and 6 post-immunization ( Fig. 2A and B ).

In this study, the mean NDVI initially continued to increase until 1997/98, before it showed a decreasing trend until mid-2000s.

The left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVDd) and left ventricular end-systolic diameter (LVDs) of 20 patients showed a decreasing trend during follow-up.

The short-term operational target is a decreasing trend in concentrations for all substances, while the medium-term target is to reach EU maximum levels in muscle meat of fish for, e.g., mercury, cadmium, and dioxins.

Notably, Acer3 upregulation was observed at 6 hours of reperfusion in I/R livers and showed a decreasing trend by 24 hours, although it remained higher than sham levels ( Figure 1, K–M ).

The ASDR and ASDAR of COCLDs due to NAFLD exhibited a decreasing trend across all five SDI quintiles.

In this study, we found that soil microbial community diversity presented a decreasing trend under increased precipitation conditions in 2016, which is in line with previous studies [ 11 , 49 ].