“a negative trend”

A “slight increase” denotes a positive trend indicating a gradual rise in precipitation levels, while a “slight reduction” indicates a negative trend signifying a modest decrease in precipitation levels.

The addition of medial side surgery showed a negative trend in the angle difference, suggesting that such surgeries may not fully correct deformities to the normal level.

Figure 2 displays international estimates from the Unesco Institute for Statistics showing a negative trend over time in that ratios improve with time.

* M D (blue circles): This group also shows a negative trend.

thaliana showed a negative trend (Fig.

A negative trend between the number of oocytes retrieved and embryo euploidy rate was observed using Visual Analytics software, especially when a higher number of oocytes were retrieved.

His spirometry parameters had a negative trend, with reduction of FVC by 51.2%, FEV1 by 51.2%, MEF 75 by 29.1%, and MEF 25 by 56.4%.

A detailed analysis of all time trends (Section C.1 in S1 File ) demonstrates that the changes are statistically significant at conventional levels in all three system support variables showing a negative trend (level of democracy, pride in citizenship, satisfaction with the political system), and that they are present in all four countries using the pooled estimates.

The present data, including 167 hemizygous males and 238 heterozygous females (Figure 1 and Figure S2A–F ), indicated a paradoxical protective effect of this variant in both genders, with a negative trend for all the FDF score items.

5 on the risk of being hospitalized or admitted to the ICU, relative to being asymptomatic, switched from a negative trend to a positive trend when ozone and temperature moved from their 25th to 75th percentiles.

Although not statistically significant after application of the Bonferonni correction, a negative trend between endometrioma diameter and follicle density was observed in the multivariate analysis.

An important finding is that despite a negative trend of greenspace coverage in Global South and Asian cities, people in these cities experienced a slightly positive change in greenspace exposure in the first two decades of the 21 st century.

We did not observe directional effects of tree richness on defensive traits but found a negative trend in trait variation.

Although we observed a negative trend between the DASH diet and FBG levels, this relationship was not statistically significant.

More specifically, a negative trend in length regeneration in relation to an increasing class of cone length was observed ( table 4 ).

So in ESCC tissues, we came to the conclusion that down-regulated miR-424-5p had a negative trend with the invasion and metastasis of ESCC.

A specific analysis of the effects of eating cheese on CHD has not been reported, although in one analysis, there was a negative trend between CHD and cheese consumption whereas the association with milk was positive [ 70 ].

For the change in Borg scale from week 1 to week 2 (week 2–week 1), a negative trend in calories burned, MVPA, and triaxial movement in week 1 were each associated with higher Borg scale changes, and thus worsening dyspnea ( Table 5 ).

Interestingly, a negative trend in the release of IL-2 was observed when murine splenocytes were stimulated with ABQ-48, ranging from 18.5 to 3.3 pg/mL.

In JJA, a negative trend in WSC is observed over the northeastern Weddell Sea (Fig. 7a ) and likely contributed to 100–500 m subsurface warming and sea ice decline there (Figs.

Similarly, a negative trend in freezing sea ice parcels in October along with increasing trends in freezing in November (−50.4 (−31,500 km 2 ) and 92.8 (58,000 km 2 ) parcels per year, respectively) are representative of a later end to the open water season 79 .

Furthermore, a negative trend was also observed in T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain-containing protein 3 (TIM3) and lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG-3) (Fig. 4 B).

31 However, an analysis of the changing epidemiology of lung cancer in the United States over the last 30 years showed a negative trend in lung cancer. 32 Our study suggests adjusted incidence rate of lung cancer may be related to nationality where the rates among Saudis were found to be higher compared with non-Saudi population in the Kingdom.

The results of the two industries (β4-6-21: Land Transportation and β4-6-24: Warehousing and Harbor Transportation) showed a negative trend. 7.

( 2011 ) found a negative trend in mean generation time of the P. xylostella pea‐adapted strain (DBM‐P) on “Oregon Sugar Pod” cultivar when consistently observed for more than 50 generations.