“a decreasing trend”

We found a decreasing trend of cocaine use cases from 2010 to 2014 followed by an increase during the subsequent years.

Although IL-6 showed a decreasing trend following the training, the difference was not significant.

BOD concentrations showed a decreasing trend, while COD exhibited an increasing trend in the river.

The number of MDs showed a decreasing trend from 2011 (n=30) to 2020 (n=6).

A meta-analysis of 24-hour urinary sodium excretion found a decreasing trend in the north but an increasing trend in the south ( 9 ).

Lag 1–5 and 1–10 concentrations were on average higher than lag 1 concentrations due to a decreasing trend in concentrations during the study period.

The protein contents of the raw and pasteurized milks remained nearly constant at around 43% during the digestion period, whereas those of the homo–past and homo–heat sheep milks showed a decreasing trend as the digestion progressed, especially after 60 min.

Other indicators, such as hemoglobin (Hb), urine osmolality, and total iron binding capacity (TIBC) followed a decreasing trend in relation to the increasing severity of CKD.

The adherent hFGCs showed typical morphology and an increasing trend in number between D3 and D6 when grown in gelatin ( Figure 2 A) and vitronectin ( Figure 2 C) but not on laminin ( Figure 2 B), and a decreasing trend in matrigel was observed ( Figure 2 D).

Several molecules showed a decreasing trend from healthy to mastitis affected cows.

The range of the knee joint extension showed a decreasing trend with the increase of gestational weeks.

Chen and co-workers also observed significant changes in HOMA-IR levels and fasting insulin and showed a decreasing trend in fasting blood sugar (FBS) after consumption of 220 g of yogurt fermented with L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus and S. thermophilus for 24 weeks [ 27 ].

Although the control group also showed a decreasing trend, the reduction was not the same as in the intervention group.

(2) Shanghai’s CBCS increased from 1659.44 × 10 4 Mg to 1789.78 ×10 4 Mg, though the amount of Shanghai’s coastal carbon sequestration showed a decreasing trend in three periods: 51.28 × 10 4 Mg in 1990–2000, 42.90 × 10 4 Mg in 2000–2009 and 36.15 × 10 4 Mg in 2009–2015, respectively.

In monthly and high-risk drinking rates for adults from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, there was a decreasing trend between 2007 and 2019 in men, after a peak in 2010, while women showed an increasing trend, reaching a peak in 2017 [ 15 ].

Clusters 2 and 5 have different patterns at 6 h but showed a decreasing trend at 24 h ( Figure S4 ).

However, a decreasing trend was likely to emerge one year after surgery [ 32 ].

Monitoring of cell behavior in microwells at the same location over time revealed that cell aggregates formed on day 1 ( Figure 5 A) and aggregate size showed a decreasing trend over the 14 days of culture ( Figure 5 B).

Although cancer was the main cause of death in several countries in this period, a decreasing trend in mortality from all cancers was observed in most of them, which was not observed in Brazil, where mortality rates from all types of cancer remained unchanged.

According to Table 4 , the pandemic in China, Korea, and Japan can be effectively controlled before April 30, 2020, and new cases will gradually show a decreasing trend.

Influence of the body-size on the predator behavior A decreasing trend in the visit length was observed throughout the different instars of E . americanus (45.00, 41.11 and 38.04 min for the 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd instar, respectively), but no significant differences were recorded ( H = 5.44, df = 2, P = 0.07).

of differential pressure fluctuations and Sauter bubble diameter of the collection zone indicated that with an increase in J w , the average bubble diameter exhibited a decreasing trend ( Figure 6 ).

Then it shows a decreasing trend up to 2003, which implies that nodes become closer during dot-com bubble.

In general, under the existing global climate change scenario, the ecological risk faced by the QTP show a decreasing trend under the influence of climate factors, and the decrease in ecological risks is much higher at higher elevations than at lower elevations.

The mean CT value in-stent showed a decreasing trend with the increase in the monochromatic energy level, and at 80 keV energy level, the CT value was (345.54 ± 93.43) HU (Table 1 , Fig. 2 ).