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Mammalian Predation on Dummy Caterpillars Similarly to birds, mammals showed a decreasing trend of predation activity along the urbanization gradient ( Figure 4 ).

There is a decreasing trend from west to east in the proportion of H2.

Results according to treatments and weeks are presented in Figure 4 , where differences among treatments are shown, including a decreasing trend from week 1 to week 9 that was mainly evident for the treatments with no ant exclusion (ANs+/Ants+; ANs−/Ants+). 3.2.

In patients with basal cell carcinoma (BCC), all indicators of quality of life presented an impaired value one year after surgery, after a decreasing trend.

While also showing a decreasing trend, the decrease in intracellular S .

The thermal conductivity initially increased and was a decreasing trend with the incorporation of Ag-TNP, which was due to the elevated loading of nanofillers possibly causing agglomeration, which leads to poor dispersion within the polymer matrix and lessens the thermal conductivity.

Notably, a decreasing trend in %TBWL was seen in the ESG group and decreasing %TBWL presented after 6 mo for the IGB group, which can be explained by balloon removal at 6 mo.

Induction of ferritin in Caco-2 cells, showed overall a decreasing trend in the presence of increasing phytate concentration (Fig. 3 ).

Cluster 2 contained proteins which showed a decreasing trend and the average expression level of 182 proteins in the liver after 7 months of fasting was lower than that at 3 and 11 months of fasting ( Figure 3B ).

Consistent with these concentration measurements, the area under the curve/minimum inhibitory concentration ratio (AUC/MIC) of vancomycin showed a decreasing trend with increasing SIRS score.

Moreover, the proportions of those for whom the HCV RNA level exceeded 600,000 IU/mL showed a significant difference among the three groups of patients (chronic hepatitis, 50.3%; liver cirrhosis, 45.1%; and HCC, 38.9%), suggesting a decreasing trend of the HCV RNA level according to disease progression ( Supplementary Table 1 ).

Most of the trend reversals were negative indicating trends reversed from an increasing trend to a decreasing trend.

In contrast, the prevalence of CDV-antibody suspect and positive groups combined on SNI did not show a decreasing trend by year.

Among white children, nuts and seeds showed a decreasing trend ( S4 Table ).

The trends for CRF01_AE and CRF07_BC increased over time, whereas B had a decreasing trend.

Our 2002–2010 simulation results also indicate a decreasing trend and suggest that an ongoing harm reduction plan would both lower the number of new HIV-positive individuals and reduce the HIV reproduction number from 28 (during 1984–2006) to 1.1 (during 2007–2008). 4.4.

After the Korean government increased the price of cigarettes by 80% in 2015 as part of intensive efforts to reduce tobacco use, the overall smoking rate declined from 66.3% in 1998 to 39.4% in 2015, a decreasing trend that continues to the present day.

However, with increased operative experience using the robotic platform, surgical time did show a decreasing trend.

A decreasing trend existed but remained non-significant.

Overall, it was confirmed that the hydrophilic areas treated by O 2 plasma showed a decreasing trend in contact angle with increasing treatment time.

As mentioned about oil phase, G (IPM), F (white oil), H (soybean oil), and I (grape-kernel oil) showed a decreasing trend in their adjuvant efficiency, and nanoemulsion G was the best adjuvant with smaller and uniform particle size.

3 shows that G7 countries published the majority of articles from 1980 to 2011, but their world share of articles showed a decreasing trend from 67% in 1980 to 53% in 2011.

The contour lines for the mixture showed a decreasing trend in yield with an increase in the mixing ratio of R. crenulata and in contrast, an increasing trend in the yield with increases in the mixing ratios of P. quinquefolia and A. membranaceus ( Fig. 2 A). 3.3.

There has been an increasing trend in the number of EPAC visits for miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy since the opening of the clinic, whereas there has been a decreasing trend in the number of visits for hemorrhage.

The revision TKR rate showed an increasing trend and the revision THR rate showed a decreasing trend with the progression of time.