“a positive trend”

This is a positive trend because parental approval results in increased drinking ( Messler et al., 2014 ) and even heavy episodic drinking ( Kaynak et al., 2014 ).

For automatic measurements, we found a positive trend toward, but not a statistically significant correlation with ICP, which is likely related to an observed tendency of the automatic measurements to underestimate high diameters.

According to this table, a positive trend may be seen between the printing angle and Young’s modulus.

Thus, age and inflammation in elderly patients with cancer showed a positive trend.

31 The global distribution of research contributions in the field of dental MRI reveals a clear imbalance, though it is accompanied by a positive trend toward an expanding research landscape and increasingly dense collaboration networks.

Nonetheless, this also reflects a positive trend toward increased attention and a better representation of patients with BM in RCTs.

A positive trend was observed in the m-cellulose group, with a gradual increase in TBR as incubation time increased (Spearman's correlation coefficient ranging from 0.741 to 0.990, P < 0.05), especially from 5 to 15 min of incubation (Friedman test, P = 0.008).

For the non- BRCA mutation-related DCIS cases, a positive trend was observed with grade, and a negative trend with ER ( Table 2 ).

The amount of consumed meat has declined somewhat in recent years, while data from agricultural statistics indicate that poultry is now consumed slightly more and red meat slightly less [ 6 ], which is a positive trend in terms of health, but also considering greenhouse gas emissions.

Encouragingly, a substantial number of customers have expressed their contentment with CHPS services, indicating a positive trend in maintaining continuity of care with the majority rating their satisfaction as happy, good, and satisfied.

To investigate these expected changes, time series of coalitions’ contain-expand ratios were tested for statistically significant trends using Mann–Kendall Trend Tests , where a positive trend indicates an increasing level of containment (or decreasing level of expansion) and a negative trend an increasing level of expansion (or decreasing level of containment).

Moreover PFS was increased in patients with hyaluronan-high expression, 9.2 and 4.3 for PAG and AG, respectively, and a there was a positive trend in OS [ 66 ].

A positive trend in accuracy could be seen in both breeds.

Moreover, in the EGPA group, the correlation analysis between clinical scores and cytokines levels, at the baseline, showed a positive trend between eosinophils and IL-5.

A positive trend across quartiles was observed ( P for trend = .0001).

Over 33,887 miles of road sections (~5.3% of all road section within the CONUS and ~17% by length of the road sections experiencing HREs) show a positive trend of HREs.

Interestingly, the weaker improvement in cognition was in the tremor-dominant phenotype, while there was a positive trend in obese patients or those with insulin resistance (all patients included were nondiabetic).

The overall AAPC for 1999–2020 was 2.13 (95% CI: 0.82 to 3.46; p = 0.001), indicating a positive trend.

E2 activation of ERα as well as overexpression of KRT19 both showed a positive trend towards growth and metastasis of PTC which aroused our attention.

The R-Squared values exhibit a positive trend, suggesting a more effective explanation of the variability in the data as the number of clusters increases.

15 The lack of significant improvement in BCVA among the treatment-naive eyes was intriguing to note in our investigation, despite a positive trend toward visual gains.

Results of the meta-analysis In the randomized clinical trials, the FVC mean difference at 12 months between patients treated with CYC and patients treated with placebo or another immunosuppressant showed a positive trend in favor of the CYC group (mean difference = 4.15%), but did not reach statistical significance (95% confidence interval (CI) = -0.51 to 8.80; Figure 2a ).

It provides insights suggesting that a MAST program, of which an aerobic component includes Nordic-walking, may be used as a means of improvement of HRQL in terms of a positive trend in serum lipid levels, VO 2max , and body strength.

Our probit model statistically confirmed that there are more EJ designated papers in recent years, indicating a positive trend in the number of EJ papers over time ( Table 2 ).

Two studies reported negative effect sizes, suggesting lower MVPA after the playground intervention [ 32 , 33 ]; the remaining studies showed a positive trend or positive effect for improving MVPA.