“a slightly increasing trend”

They reported a slightly increasing trend in metal ion levels at a 10-year follow-up.

Furthermore, the T lum,l and T lum,h of these samples both increased obviously as the refractive indices of SiO 2 coatings increased from 1.16 to 1.42, and the values of Δ T sol also exhibited a slightly increasing trend at the same time.

The percentage of the three shortest duration NSPT procedures of all NSPT treatments provided performed by dentists (<10, ≥10, and ≥20 min) was similar across the age groups (8%–14%), with a slightly increasing trend for the <10 and ≥10 min procedures from the youngest to the oldest age group.

The simulated population showed a stable evolution and even a slightly increasing trend, with a positive stochastic population growth rate (rs = 0.023) and a positive deterministic population growth rate (rd = 0.024), with a λ > 1 (lambda = 1.024), again showing the trend towards a slight increase over years ( Figure 4 ). 4.

Furthermore, a slightly increasing trend in mortality rates was observed in both sexes, suggesting the need to enhance smoking control strategies, consider adoption of effective surveillance policies, and improve diagnosis and treatment methods.

Cluster III analysis From Figure 6 , a slightly increasing trend of BFE is observed such that the largest change is positive while the second largest change is negative.

The rabies epidemic is mainly concentrated in southern China, where Hunan Province continues to have a high incidence, with the highest number of cases in 2013 (83) and fluctuating lower thereafter, but with a slightly increasing trend in 2015 (75) and 2018 (78), and the following years with the number of cases in 2014 (65), 2016 (64), 2017 (71), 2019 (55) and 2020 (59), respectively [ 12 ], which is one of the most severely affected provinces in the current rabies epidemic.

The ABTS assay demonstrated a slightly increasing trend, while the FRAP assay showed a decreasing trend.

SDR due to cervical cancer showed a slightly decreasing trend in Greece and the European Union, while SDR due to LOCP cancer showed a slightly increasing trend in Greece, but a decrease in the European Union.

After the policy implementation period (from May 1, 2022, to December 26, 2023), treatment fees showed a slightly increasing trend.

However, the strain–energy ratio in the cement mantle remained nearly unchanged or showed a slightly increasing trend.

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.

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.

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 ).

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

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).

Because this line showed a slightly increasing trend, “time point” was incorporated as an additional factor (i.e. with a separate coefficient for each time point) in the analysis on the effect of age.

For environmental emission costs, Microgrid 1 shows a slightly increasing trend from morning to night, with the lowest of 54.47 yuan in 12:00–16:00 and the highest of 60.85 yuan in 20:00–24:00.

After 2012, however, transport accident mortality began to decline, falling from 23.8 deaths per 100,000 people to 15.7 in 2019, whereas non-transport accident mortality maintained a slightly increasing trend.

Although the average annual density in our study sites over the five consecutive seasons showed a slightly increasing trend (Fig. 2 ), we have not observed lynx expansion westwards into other surrounding areas within the lynx historical range 91 .

The hospitalization rate in the SOC group displayed a slightly increasing trend over the 11 years, whereas, in the TFM group, this rate decreased over time.

However, in a pandemic scenario, the BMMR shows a slightly increasing trend, reaching a ratio of 85.60/100,000 live births, with an 80% CI of [81.10, 92.75] in 2025.

At the end of treatment in the clinical trial, CN was 2.43 and E401G VAF was 10.9%, with a slightly increasing trend reflecting disease progression (Fig. 1 A).

From 1990 to 2017, the ASIR had a slightly increasing trend in high-SDI regions (EAPC = 0.21, 95% UI 0.12–0.30) and declined gradually in the four other SDI regions.

All these regression coefficients showed a slightly increasing trend (from low to high quantiles of LE distribution), while the positive association between LE and GDP per capita was stronger in higher quantiles of LE distribution (e.g., 10th percentile estimate of women = 0.23, 95% CI: 0.13–0.33, 90th percentile estimate of women = 0.32, 95% CI: 0.19–0.45) ( Figure 1 a).