“a slightly increasing trend”

The number of hip fractures is rapidly increasing, and the incidence of hip fractures demonstrated a slightly increasing trend until 2012.

Conversely, as shown in Figure 3 c, in PB2/IL-2 TBT-treated infected cells, the curve of red fluorescent cells undergoing lytic cell death shows a quite stable trend in the first 24 h and a slightly increasing trend in the successive 24 h, with fluorescence intensity levels always higher in respect to vehicle-treated cells.

The age-standardized incidence rate for AMI showed a decreasing trend from 2007 to 2011 and a slightly increasing trend from 2011 to 2016.

We show a slightly increasing trend in symptom burden; however, the symptoms queried in our study were different from those of the Memorial Symptom Assessment scale used by Eckerblad and colleagues, which may contribute to the discrepancy between the results.

Generally, the average CS value of the rubber materials exposed to high-pressure hydrogen showed a slightly increasing trend but those values changed within the error range.

For HaCaT cells, the beeswax remaining of waxed HaCaT cells exhibited a slightly increasing trend as comparing with waxed samples without arsenite exposure.

The GYP cohort shows a slightly increasing trend in the health service utilisation within the reference period except for the injury claims.

The proportion using this strategy showed a decline during the early 1990s to ≈11% in 1997, a slightly increasing trend from 1997 to around 2010, and further decrease thereafter.

During the last two years of reviewed papers—2018 and 2019—there seems to be a slightly increasing trend in research regarding technologies for multimorbidity (while in 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic began and research interests may have shifted).

Within each tested pH, there was a slightly increasing trend in growth rate when the incubation temperature increased from 15 °C to 37 °C.

There was also a slightly increasing trend in reported poor family relationships in 2021 compared with earlier years across all age groups, particularly among those aged between 15 and 35 years.

The result shows that although the total emission drops around 2011, the ratio shows a slightly increasing trend.

During the delay period, the γ burst shows a slightly increasing trend, which is consistent with the experimental observation by Lundqvist et al.

Based on Figure a, the 60CuFeO 2 –40ZnFe 2 O 4 nanocomposite exhibited higher H 2 selectivity, exceeding 98.7% in each reaction temperature condition, and the H 2 conversion efficiency of the 60CuFeO 2 –40ZnFe 2 O 4 nanocomposite also maintained over 90% conversion efficiency and had a slightly increasing trend with the temperature increase from 350 to 400 °C, which could be considered as the water gas shift in progress.

Interestingly, there was a slightly increasing trend in Maggi noodle purchases after the Scandal among the non-buyer though the volume purchased remained at the lowest among all groups.

Under T 1 –T 4 treatments (under Cd stress without electric field), Cd concentration in roots had a slightly increasing trend which ranged from 103.72 to 657.58 mg kg −1 .

However, this behavior was not observed with the other four models, where the errors showed a slightly increasing trend at the beginning of the predictions and stabilized as the time horizon increased.

Therefore, when we analyzed the obtained spectra, we focused on the peak of CO 2 , which also showed a slightly increasing trend throughout the 12-day monitoring (5 out of 12-day data are shown in Figure 7 ).

However, the distribution showed a slightly increasing trend towards higher fit P ‐values at 5 days, while decreasing trends were observed at 14, 28 and 90 days.

Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Monthly Trends of Postpartum Care Access During the prepandemic period (January to December 2019), White women experienced a slightly increasing trend in not scheduling postpartum care; with every 1 month, the probability of not scheduling postpartum care among White women increased by 0.7 percentage points (95% CI, 0.5-0.8 percentage points; P < .001) ( Figure 2 ).

In the United States (US), while paramount efforts had been made to prevent all premature births [ 11 ], a slightly increasing trend in PTB has been observed since 2010 according to the national birth data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [ 63 ].

The rate of AD showed a slightly increasing trend with no seasonal variation, and was predicted to be 3.81% (95% CI = 2.14–5.47), 5.24% (95% CI = 3.45–7.04), 5.35% (95% CI = 3.55–7.15), 4.84% (95% CI = 3.01–6.68), and 6.17% (95% CI = 4.16–8.18) for the next 5 years from 2019 to 2023 ( Figure 3 ).

It is found that in parallel to the rise in I CC from 0.1–10 mA, both V SET and V RESET show a slightly increasing trend in the positive and negative direction, respectively.

In some countries, a steady or slightly decreasing trend over the last few years can be observed (Bulgaria and Slovakia), while in Lithuania a slightly increasing trend is observed over recent years.

As shown in Figure 2 b, the viscosity of the Dioscorea japonica liquid showed a slightly increasing trend under acidic and alkaline conditions (within +7%).