“a slightly increasing trend”

The HST frequency also had a significant effect on intercity mobility and showed a slightly increasing trend for the prediction contribution.

The annual number of suicides and suicide rates in patients with CUD had a slightly increasing trend from 2010 to 2017 before an increase was found from 2017 to 2018 and onwards (Fig. 1 ).

Among the PSMAf mats, a higher absorption capacity is observed for PSMA@Phe with respect to PSMA@Tyr and PSMA@Gln, with a slightly increasing trend as the days of immersion elapse.

Under the dual influence of natural and social factors, the snail density showed an obvious fluctuation and a slightly increasing trend during the study period.

To evaluate the changes in vitamin C intake among the same population between different survey periods, we further focused on vitamin C intake in adults aged 18–49 years from nine provinces in the present study, which were 87.4 mg/day in males and 81.0 mg/day in females on average, and thus considerably lower than that in 1989 (117.2 mg/day for males and 111.0 mg/day for females), and showing a slightly increasing trend in males and a decreasing trend in females relative to vitamin C intake in 2009 (85.2 mg/day for males and 83.1 mg/day for females) [ 6 ].

It is noted that when the P 1 is close to 5500 kPa, the increasing system investment cost becomes gradually obvious, and then the EPC shows a slightly increasing trend.

In our study, we also did not find any significant differences in miR-155 plasma levels between the studied groups; there was only a slightly increasing trend with diagnosis progression.

Although early-onset myopia was more common in children, there was a slightly increasing trend in annual progression; moreover, while the retinal structure did not differ statistically significantly, the ERG changes indicated a steadily decreasing trend.

In the 2016–2020 birth year cohort, α decreased to 0.00624 reflecting a slightly increasing trend of average coancestry among parents but a stronger opposite trend in the individual coefficient of inbreeding.

For Northern Ireland, a low prevalence (> 1–10%) of test‐positive herds was reported, but with a slightly increasing trend.

Considering the three shoals as a whole ( Figure 6 D), it was found that most of the chemical indicators monitored gradually decreased from 2016 to 2018 (e.g., DOC: from 2.31 to 1.89 mg/L; TPH: from 0.11 to 0.10 mg/L; TN: from 2.49 to 1.46 mg/L; NO 3 -N: from 1.91 to 1.18 mg/L; and TP: from 0.28 to 0.25 mg/L), while AP showed a slightly increasing trend from 0.06 to 0.09 mg/L.

The OCP in PBS was relatively constant during the measurement up to 18 h (with a slightly increasing trend), an effect not observed in the protein-containing solution.

The Concentration Index exhibited a slightly increasing trend from 1990 to 1994, it then remained stable from 1994 to 2008 and began to decline after 2008.

Within the referred timeframe, between the dates of 01/01/2004 to 31/12/2017, a slightly increasing trend with some upward or downward deflection can be observed.

The daily mean, maximum and minimum temperatures followed a slightly increasing trend throughout the years (not shown), with average values equal to 16.2 °C (SD: 8.36 °C), 18.23 °C (SD: 8.39 °C) and 11.89 °C (SD: 7.77 °C), respectively ( Table 1 ).

During anoxybiosis, changes in TRE activity were consistent with changes in the transcript level of Ab-ntre1 , Ab-ntre2 and Ab-atre , with an obvious increase appearing at 3 days; however, the trehalose levels continued to be a little lower than the control nematodes with a slightly increasing trend ( Fig. 1 A,C).

The incidence of hemorrhagic fever in China has had a slightly increasing trend in recent years.

Both forearm bone and tibial shaft fractures showed a slightly decreasing trend and femoral shaft fractures showed a slightly increasing trend between 2005 and 2009 ( Fig. 1 ).

This amounts to a prevalence of 868.6 (95% CI: 865.6, 871.6) in the first study year (2018) and shows a slightly increasing trend to 936.9 (95% CI: 933.8, 939.9) per 100 000 people in Germany in the last study year (2021) ( Fig. 1A ).

It was found that the total nitrogen (TN) displayed a slightly increasing trend in the monoculture system even if there was no significant difference.

The trends before 6 months are not captured in Figure 2 but can be observed in Supplementary Figure S1 . Notably, for FG, the ATEs peaked at 4 months and then gradually decreased until 12 months, with a slightly increasing trend between 12 and 18 months (Supplementary Figure S1 ).

From 1980 to 2020, the MPA of Ningxia landscape types decreased from 213.93 ha in 1980 to 188.03 ha in 2020; the PD increased from 0.47 to 0.53; the LPI decreased from 37.23 to 21.54; the ED increased 26.7 to 29.2; the CONTAG decreased from 60.11 to 57.12; the AWMPFD remained basically with values of 1.29 and 1.28; the LSI increased from 154.84 in 1980 to 170.78 in 2010 and then slightly decreased to 168.78 in 2020; the AWMSI decreased from 60.68 to 51.23; both SHDI and SHEI exhibited a slightly increasing trend; SHDI increased from 1.23 to 1.32 and SHEI increased from 0.69 to 0.73 (Table 4 ). 3.2 Spatial–temporal distribution and change of habitat quality in Ningxia 3.2.1 Spatial–temporal distribution and aggregation characteristics The natural breakpoint method was used to classify the habitat quality level into five levels: very low (0–0.25), low (0.25–0.4), moderate (0.4–0.6), high (0.6–0.75) and very high (0.75–1).

Research shows a slightly increasing trend in MetS prevalence among U.S. adults during 2011–2016 [ 14 ], which may be due to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle [ 26 ].

A slightly increasing trend in cells treated with Nitrodi’s water (5.4 ± 1.15 μg/mL) was recorded in collagen deposition compared to control (3.7 ± 1.35 μg/mL).

Conversely, after the DIP payment reform, the proportion of inpatients with UEBMI in W City increased, whereas that in Z City showed only a slightly increasing trend.