“a slightly increasing trend”

A slightly increasing trend of FNP margination as a function of shear rate is observed for the two Hct values investigated.

Alarmingly, Papua New Guinea, as a representative of the Pacific Islands, showed some reversal and a slightly increasing trend in age-standardised mortality.

Overall, there was a slightly increasing trend in the number of scripts written for, and persons prescribed, opioids between 2013 and 2015.

If this were the case, the activation Δ G ‡ would show a slightly increasing trend with increasing solvent polarity.

Conversely, with the addition of PDMS powder, the friction coefficient exhibited a slightly increasing trend with increasing sliding cycles; however, significant differences in the friction coefficient were not observed during 50 000 cycles of sliding friction.

The results showed that the global grassland scPDSI value had a slightly increasing trend with the rate of 0.0119 per year (R 2 = 0.195), indicating that the global grassland drought lighter to some extent during study period.

However, a slightly increasing trend was noted in the regressivity since 2008.

There was a slightly increasing trend in hard coral cover in ten out of 11 sites in 2018, indicating the reefs are in a recovery process.

A slightly increasing trend of glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity (from 80 to 88 U/mL) was observed with the rising levels of dietary SeNPs (from 0.5 to 5 mg Se/kg), but a significant ( p < 0.05) effect was not observed.

JunB showed a slightly increasing trend, particularly following treatment with 20 μmol/l Salin, whereas Fra-1 and c-Fos were not significantly affected by Salin at concentrations ranging from 5 to 20 μmol/l ( Fig. 3B ).

In this study, the sucrose content, fructose content, and total soluble sugar content in the seeds of both rice varieties showed a slightly increasing trend, which peaked on the 10th day and then decreased continuously.

The risk of CVD incidence in ChinaHEART showed a slightly increasing trend, with the incidence gradually increased from 0.74% in 2021 to 0.97% in 2030.

There was a slightly increasing trend from the third decade of life in both sexes.

With increasing amounts of CO 3 2− ion (0.16–0.32 mmol), there is a decreasing trend in the biochar yield and a slightly increasing trend in oil yield.

The average incidence rate of melioidosis between 2005 and 2035 was predicted to be 11.42 to 12.78 per 100,000 population per year, with a slightly increasing trend.

During the self-monitoring intervention phase Vicky maintained a high level of initiations with moderate variability and a slightly increasing trend.

Our results indicate an almost flat behaviour, up to [Fe/H] ∼ 0.2, and then a slightly increasing trend, but we acknowledge that this trend might not be real since we could only measure upper limits.

However, a slightly increasing trend is observed but with the values still being lower than the matrix strength.

At the extraction time of 10 days, the extraction rate decreases from 48 m 3 /d to 45 m 3 /d as the lateral pressure coefficient increases from 0.56 to 0.78. However, extraction rate shows a slightly increasing trend as lateral pressure coefficient continues to increase. 4.2.3 Effect of Internal Friction Angle During gas extraction, the internal friction angle is a significant parameter affecting the interaction between coal particles and, thus, coal damage.

reported that PFOS elicited a slightly increasing trend in Nuuk women during 1998–2005, while we found, after adjustment for age, a declining nonsignificant trend [ 61 ].

From the Huangshanjie to Taliqike formations, the relative contents of norpimarane, 4α(H)-18-norisoparane, and rimuane exhibit a slightly increasing trend.

Overall, a slightly increasing trend in estimated population-weighted annual average concentrations was observed. 4.

In addition, a study in Beijing, China, indicated a slightly increasing trend in the incidence of dementia might be due to the change in diagnostic criteria and the improvement in diagnosis of dementia [ 12 ].

The total amount of extremely heavy precipitation (R99p) projected for the future did not change significantly in the four rice-producing regions, showing a slightly increasing trend.

Figure 4 presents the relationship between temperature and COVID-19 death cases, and it can be observed that with the decrease in temperature, the number of death cases is showing a slightly increasing trend.