“a decreasing trend”

As a result of this perm-selectivity the proportion of HPI organics permeating the membrane increased from 9% to 12% in the feed to a decreasing trend of between 29% and 57% in the permeate, the percentage increasing with increasing membrane selectivity.

The mean 4 × 10 m shuttle-run values show a decreasing trend with age and sex, as shown in Table 3 .

8b , the crack growth velocity shows a decreasing trend, which is understandable as the aggregated strain energy reduces with the crack growth.

Although no data are available directly for our study site, data from nearby sites indicate a strong impact and declining reef health starting in the mid-1990s, with a decreasing trend in coral cover reported for MNP (west of Chichiriviche; from 55% in 1996 to 39% in 2011) and Los Roques National Park (north of Chichiriviche; from 44% in 1999 to 25% in 2012) 30 .

Conversely, a decreasing trend was observed in the control group (Fig. 2 ).

Sunshine hours exhibited a decreasing trend from autumn to winter, but then increased, from winter to spring, in both growth seasons ( Figure 1C ).

In summary, a decreasing trend of gastroschisis prevalence was observed in Liaoning Province over the last 10 year which was the most recent and detailed evidence for time trends in the prevalence of gastroschisis in China.

All cell lines demonstrated a decreasing trend of confluence or increasing efficacy in cell proliferation suppression in that PB > EB > EY.

In this acute experiment, LVHF and LHF mice consistently demonstrated a decreasing trend in RER during the TP2 fasting period, which continued to decrease during HF consumption in TP3 ( Figure 3 ).

In terms of accuracy, we demonstrated a decreasing trend across the increment of difficulty, but it was not significant after correcting for multiple comparisons (for p < 0.001, Bonferroni corrected, p′ < p/4) (see Supplementary Material Section 8 ).

Although the associations between DNA methylation levels and risk of UCC did not appear to vary substantially by genomic region, there was a trend of decreasing risk of invasive UCC in non-regulatory regions, and a decreasing trend of superficial UCC in regulatory regions.

With a decreasing trend at 4 weeks post-application, the value for fipronil was 1.09 ± 0.13 ppm, and for cyphenothrin was 0.43 ± 0.28 ppm.

Her repeat procalcitonin and white blood cell counts showed a decreasing trend.

The initial moduli of DCPU films eventually showed a decreasing trend after 14 days of degradation with a temporary increase at the beginning of the degradation period.

32 , 33 Hypoxic treatments (8% or 10% O 2 ) produced a decreasing trend in the number of BrdU+ cells (most of them maturating neuroblasts) at OB; however, the differences were not statistically significant ( Figure 3B ).

Allowing for the time dependent effect of deprivation, revealed a decreasing trend of the excess mortality over time during the first five years after the diagnosis of breast cancer.

The infection seems to have a decreasing trend overtime, which might be related to improved sanitation and better access to safe water but the pattern is not uniform across the entire country with existence of certain confounders such as mobility along borders especially to countries with high endemicity of HEV.

A decreasing trend in CBT values with depth was found above the oxycline, positively related to pH and D.O. while the trend reversed below the oxycline.

A decreasing trend in mortality was observed in both cohorts though the APC was −8.1 % (95 % CI −10.4, −5.7) in the combination code cohort and −3.5 % (95 % CI −3.9, −3.2) in the explicit code cohort.

The number of scale insect species described per author showed a decreasing trend in recent years ( Fig. 3B ).

The HR and MBP showed a decreasing trend during surgery, and had shown differences at 10 min in both groups ( Figs. 1 and 2 ).

The final experimental days of A+Vanc.group (days 10–20) had oscillating proportions of Staphylococcus (significantly decreased on days 12–16 and increased on day 20) and a decreasing trend of Enterobacter/Klebsiella resembling the original microbiome composition (Figure 3 ).

We observed a decreasing trend in rotation and torsion values with increasing age from 2 to 14 years old.

There was a decreasing trend in pregnancy rate with increasing age from 13.7% in <25 years' age to 10.22% in age group of 30–34 years but it slightly increased in the age group of >35 years though the difference was not significant ( p value 0.93).

The median weekly CFR for confirmed cases of EVD was 66% (IQR, 54%–79%), with a decreasing trend during the outbreak period (Figure 1 A ).