“a slightly increasing trend”

In high-income countries there is also a decreasing trend in smoking behaviour among men but still a slightly increasing trend among women.

The researchers observed a slightly increasing trend of ICS prescription, but the effects of the asthma guideline dissemination on this trend was not evaluated.

Occupational particulate matter, gas, and fume exposure The age-standardized DALY, YLL, and death rates of COPD attributable to occupational particles declined in all SDI regions, but the YLD rate presented a slightly increasing trend in later years (Additional file 2 : Fig.

On the other hand, the Jut and LPLA fabrics show a slightly increasing trend in their LAC value in brackish water along the different cycles, even exceeding their LAC Max value in the forth–fifth cycle of operation.

Although memory B cells in general decreased following combined treatment, the FCRL4+FCRL5+ B cells (B4_FCRL4), defined as “atypical memory B cells” [ 62 ], exhibited a slightly increasing trend in MPR patients (Fig. 4 B).

The CDR initially had a value close to 1 from 2004 to 2014 with a slightly increasing trend resulting in a value > 1 between 2014 and 2019.

It can be seen from the results in Table 6 that when the content of GMS increased, the water repellency score showed a slightly increasing trend because the greater long-chain alkane content and the larger amount of –CH 2 CH 3 orientationally aligned on the fabric surface to form an effective water-repellent layer.

Another fact supporting the idea of strong photoinhibition induced by the experimental treatment is that the chlorophyll fluorescence signal showed a slightly increasing trend in KK (while actinic light was switched on—see an arrow in Figure 1 , subplot B) and even increased when the actinic light was switched off (marked with an asterisk).

In addition, according to the statistical results, involvement in eHealth technology is also experiencing a slightly increasing trend. 4.

The Austrian data, in contrast, show a slightly increasing trend for the relationship between exposed ABs and the total ABs (from 15.53 percent in 1919 to 16.47 percent in 2012; the highest value is 16.62 percent in 1970) and a strong increase in the values.

In Slovenia, the estimated incidence of endometrial cancer for 2020 is 38 cases per 100,000 women with a slightly increasing trend over the last 50 years (average annual increase, 2.8%) [ 3 ].

The addition of cricket powder showed a slightly increasing trend in water ab-sorption.

A similar tendency was observed for GI viruses with a 66% reduction, whereas a slightly increasing trend in viral gastrointestinal infections was noted in May 2020 after the opening of nurseries and kindergartens (green arrow in Figure 1 ).

4 is examined, it is seen that the number of murdered women followed a slightly increasing trend until 2020 and reached its highest levels in 2019.

Seasonally, winter precipitation exhibited a slightly increasing trend and spring air temperature exhibited a significantly increasing trend in the RRB.

In our MRI findings, we see the same trends, with a slightly increasing trend of g-ratios when axon diameter indices increase.

After 56 days, the shrinkage deformations between the sea concrete (1.07 mm/m) and the control concrete (0.97 mm/m) had a fading character; - the combination effect of sea concrete as an SCHSC with textile reinforcement on the tensile strength (3.6 MPa) shows equal results to the control concrete (3.3 MPa) with a slightly increasing trend.

In patients between 5 and 60 years of age, hospitalization rates showed a slightly increasing trend, from 9.18 (95% CI 9.14–9.22) to 19.45 (95% CI 19.41–19.49) per 100,000 population.

The proportion of MP less than 20 μm shows a slightly increasing trend since 1980 ( SI ), potentially due to an increase in creation/emission of smaller MP directly into the atmosphere from human activities (e.g., laundry (dryer) emissions, ineffective incineration, agricultural practices 43 − 45 ) or/and an increase in macroplastic waste loss to the environment that has degraded over time (in situ or in transport) resulting in increased MP and an increase in atmospheric transport.

For crystallinity ( Figure 3 b), a slightly increasing trend can be assumed, with higher T cal leading to higher crystallinities.

A slightly increasing trend of ∑TSV in males and ∑TBV in females was detected from FW to SW and AW.

However, the proportion of non- albicans BSIs showed a slightly increasing trend.

Regarding the enzymatic treatment of the samples, ZEN and α-ZEL are not showing any significant change during the applied process in none of the two matrices, although a slightly increasing trend can be observed.

However, we did not observe a significant difference in the rate of growth inhibition between miR-106b group and blank control group; although a slightly increasing trend of cell survival rate and G0/G1 phase was seen in Hep-2 and TU212 cells.

The selectivity for O 2 /CO shows a slightly increasing trend.