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This underlines our observations of a decreasing trend of BSI rates in ICUs participating in the German hospital infection surveillance system [ 17 ].

They used the Intercontinental Marketing Services Health Office-Based Medical Claims Database and found a decreasing trend of surgical management of Dupuytren’s with an increased incidence of CCH injections from 2010 to 2013. 15 Like the results of Lipman et al., 14 Zhao noted that despite the changes in injections and surgical procedures being performed, there was no significant change in the amount of NA’s being performed.

congolense satellite DNA monomer gene expression in the flies inoculated with GZP-1 and WT 30 showed a decreasing trend in trypanosome numbers over time.

A decreasing trend of acute hospitalization associated cost was observed with adjusted exponentiated cost estimates from Q2 to Q4 being 0.52 (95% CI: 0.32, 0.83), 0.40 (95% CI: 0.23, 0.68) and 0.33 (95% CI: 0.20, 0.54) when compared with Q1 suggesting expected acute hospitalization associated cost decreased by 48, 60 and 67% for Q2, Q3 and Q4 respectively when contrasted with Q1.

23%, p=0.015) than patients with a decreasing trend.

The proliferation index (PI) in PPDL tissues ( Figure 3B ), shows a decreasing trend of the proliferation in islet/MSC - culture, whereas islet/MSC + culture had a significant increase in the trend of the PI from day 5 up to day 12.

There was a decreasing trend in BOD in the drain and the river except at the sampling site D5.

Moreover, the examination of the coagulation time revealed a decreasing trend and when was converted into coagulation activity, it was observed that the coagulation activity increased, with the coagulation activity on the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth days being 0.18, 0.22, 0.27, 0.38, and 0.42 U/ml , respectively ( Figure 2 ).

There was also a decreasing trend in blood products utilized between 2003 and 2013.

CAT Activity A decreasing trend with increasing processing days was observed for CAT activity in the salami during processing ( Figure 4 ), and the CAT activities of the treatment groups were significantly higher ( p < 0.05) than that of the control group.

However, a decreasing trend of antioxidant capacity of hydrolysates after fractionation has been found [ 19 ].

As the flow rate increased, the average size of vesicles showed a decreasing trend, and sonication reduced in size as well.

In contrast, at the FGS and MS stages, the diversity of endophytic fungi in tobacco showed a decreasing trend with increasing altitude, which was paralleled by a decrease trend in alpha diversity.

This study even showed a decreasing trend in the number of circulating CD34 + cells in patients with MI, with the number of CD34 + cells significantly lower on day seven than at admission but still higher than those in control patients [ 211 ].

Compared with subjects in undetected BPA group, subjects in group of the highest BPA tertile had significantly lower sperm concentration with a decreasing trend with BPA levels.

For example, at station Guangzhou, daily precipitation extremes show a decreasing trend at high temperature around 23–25 °C, which is consistent with the steep decrease in the duration of PAE of which the shift point is also located in 23–25 °C.

For the HD condition during SOT-5, there was a decreasing trend.

CHO and MCHO curves exhibit a decreasing trend for x > 0.4.

In our study, the relative abundance of Prevotella has a decreasing trend in the model group without significant difference, compared with control group.

pmc-prop-is-scanned-article no pmc-prop-preprint no pmc-prop-in-epmc yes pmc-license-ref CC BY issue-copyright-statement © The Author(s) 2018 Introduction Gastric cancer is one of the main diseases leading to cancer-related death with estimated 951,600 new cases and 723,100 deaths in 2012, although a decreasing trend has been observed in stomach cancer incidence and mortality rates worldwide 1 .

Additionally, hyphal density will exhibit a decreasing trend only when the root length density increases further (probably under drought conditions).

There was a decreasing trend in the Gini coefficients of PHCI physicians with bachelor’s degrees or higher and physicians with associate’s degrees.

Noticeably, based on these two parameters alone, annual malnutrition reportage for Malaysian HD patients with 10-year trends from 2006 to 2015 have shown an increasing trend from 46 to 62% with serum albumin < 4.0 g/L, in contrast to a decreasing trend of BMI < 25 kg/m 2 from 71 to 61% [ 8 ].

Although official statistics point to a decreasing trend in the timber sector as a whole, possibly indicating success against illegal logging, this seemingly intractable problem continues to beset the industry [ 11 , 23 , 24 ].

Will the owners of these lands want to hunt them in the future or use them simply as family get-aways? How will this affect the local deer population? A decreasing trend in hunters has been well-documented in the US ( 82 , 83 ) and in Michigan specifically ( 84 , 85 ).