“a positive trend”

In the adult group, a positive trend in overall survival was found when patients received radiation and/or chemotherapy following surgery.

The predicted values generally follow a positive trend relative to the actual values.

This suggests that it has a positive trend throughout the ten periods of the horizon.

Although the observed increase in dedicated rotations represents a positive trend, the reported lack of comfort among trainees signals areas that require attention and improvement.

We found a positive trend on the quality of life scores on the scales of the programme’s focus: physical and psychological well-being.

Additionally, as the crude oil concentration increased, a positive trend was noted in the Shannon and Chao index of bacteria and fungi in both A. splendens and P. alopecuroides soils, with the F40 treatment showed significantly higher diversity indices compared to other treatments ( p < 0.05).

As seen in Figure 2a , vaccine coverage among older adults was highest in Saudi Arabia, which demonstrated a positive trend from 8.4% in 2018 to a peak of 44.4% in 2022 before decreasing to 5.7% in 2023 and 15.6% in 2024.

We recorded only two species for which some of our respondents observed a positive trend.

In addition, they show a positive trend in the sustainability disclosure of banks over time.

We find fluctuations in the spatial overlap with sprat, with a positive trend for per‐capita predation.

The wrist active RoM of motion was evaluated for each patient at the beginning and at the end of the test therapy session and the results suggest a positive trend.

A subgroup analysis focusing on patients diagnosed since 2012 reveals a positive trend in treatment adherence over time.

For instance, from 2005 to 2006 to 2013–2014, there was a positive trend among preschoolers (2 to 5 years old) and young children (6 to 11 years old), i.e., a sustained plateau, however a recent report indicates a rebound [ 2 ].

On the other hand, progesterone, which is usually associated with favorable metabolic conditions and known to have antioxidant properties, 61 , 62 showed a positive trend with regards to the correlation with GSH, which is a major antioxidant factor.

There was a positive trend towards improvement of corrected binocular vision for far distances, if compared with monocular vision.

In particular, we observed a positive trend in impulsivity-related indices.

In line with numerous recent studies [ 3 , 29 , 30 ], we observed a positive trend towards increased fat-free mass in the eAA group as well.

Overall, there was a positive trend in all crops tested, with increased number of pea pods, and total harvested weight of daikon radish, plum purple radish, kale, peas, and tomato.

This is supported by similar results from other cross-sectional studies ( 16 , 34 ), together with a prospective study in which a positive trend was observed with GLA and DGLA and fatty liver ( 18 ).

Although preliminary updates show a positive trend as follow-up time increases, current data are not yet conclusive.

Though not statistically significant, the difference in absolute deviations between manifest refraction spherical equivalent and predicted refractive error, as determined via biometry after preoperative PFHO treatment versus baseline, showed a positive trend.

The results in Figure 8 suggest that there is a positive trend between the decrease of VAS and the improvement of QOL and the improvement of GAD-7 and PHQ-9 in this study.

In samples treated with the EtOAc extract, either alone or in the presence of Aβ 25–35 , the expression of anti-inflammatory cytokine genes increased by about 1.5–2 fold compared to controls at 24 h, while after 2 h only a non statistically significant increase was evidenced, indicating a positive trend. 2.3.

Over the next few days the patient began to have a decrease in the frequency of bowel movements, remained afebrile, and was able to tolerate oral intake without nausea along with a positive trend in his labs, as seen in Table 1 , and was thus discharged home.

Species richness was not correlated with the four moments of the trait-abundance distributions for both maximum plant height and SLA ( Supplementary Table 2 ) except in the case of the variance, where a positive trend was observed (r < 0.40 for maximum plant height and SLA).