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The white blood cell count demonstrated a decreasing trend from 5.85x10 9 /L±0.41 to 2.12±0.14x10 9 /L indicating that; white blood cells during the 35 days storage reduce; RBC count demonstrated a slightly decreasing trend from 5.36±0.41 x10 12 /L to 4.91±0.40 x10 12 /L indicating that red blood cells during the 35 days storage are slightly decrease; HGB level demonstrated a slightly increasing trend from 15.47±0.45 g/dL to 15.89±0.25 g/dL indicating that haemoglobin level during the 35 days storage is slightly raised; while platelet count demonstrated a decreasing trend from 188.90±19.67x10 9 /Lto93.80±8.26 x10 9 /L indicating that platelets during the 35 days storage are depleted ( Figure 1 ).

Its expression level revealed a slightly increasing trend at 150 mM compared with 75 mM of NaCl.

[ 27 ] A slightly increasing trend of hepatotoxicity was also seen in fezolinetant group.

As the Al content increases from 6 at.% to 14 at.%, the combustion enthalpy of the alloys has a slightly increasing trend ( Figure 7 a), from 10.826 KJ/g at x = 0 at.% to 11.749 KJ/g at x = 8 at.%.

[ 48 ], climate warming, reflected by a slightly increasing trend in mean annual temperature and a rise in torrential rainfall over the 1962–2000 period, alongside land cover modifications, may have favored a more frequent occurrence of flash floods and landslides [ 49 ].

The electric field intensity of Point A showed a negative correlation change with the increase in offset, whereas that of point B showed 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 .

Our metabolomics results suggest that LD serves as a link between adipocytes and macrophages and show a slightly increasing trend in KO mice after 10 weeks of HFD feeding, reaching a significant difference by 16 weeks of feeding.

Since we observe qualitatively that there is a slightly increasing trend in waves 6–10 that lags behind the expected trend based on the extrapolation of waves 1–5, we test this in two models.

According to the analysis, the results show a slightly increasing trend when n is less than 6, and a significantly decreasing trend when n is greater than 6.

A slightly increasing trend can be detected prior to 1950.

On the contrary, the measured refractive index rather shows a slightly increasing trend along the laser beam propagation direction.

The combinations of mexiletine plus dofetilide and of lidocaine plus dofetilide generated sigmoid-like effect profiles, which were similar in shape to the ranolazine effect profile in Study A: The 10% to 40% quantiles were negative with a transition to positive in the mid-repolarization phase, and a slightly increasing trend up to the 100% quantiles.

A slightly increasing trend in incidence per age group was observed.

At 24 mo of age, estimation of VC in birth cohorts 2004–2009 showed moderate coverage levels with most traditional vaccinations at 73–80% and a slightly increasing trend across cohorts.

Generally, no matter how the genes were selected, the prediction accuracy of the model (denoted by thick lines in Figure 4 ) shows a slightly increasing trend with the included genes and approaches the peak when 3000 genes were employed.

Conclusions There was a slightly increasing trend in the number of clients who accessed contraceptive services at the family planning clinic in UCH, Ibadan from 2018 to 2022.

A slightly increasing trend for the highest score is indicated.

Diabetes (mostly type 2) contributes substantially to both YLLs and YLDs and although the age-adjusted DALY rate has declined somewhat compared to 1990, a slightly increasing trend was noted in the last decade [ 42 ].

A slightly increasing trend (~99.4 m 3 /s/decade) is observed for the minimum winter discharge (the lowest daily discharge throughout the winter months (December-January-February)), in the second part of the 20 th century (Fig. 5a ).

However, the average COF showed a slightly increasing trend from 0.061 to 0.065 in the range of 0.3 wt.% to 0.5 wt.% MoS 2 QDs.

The barriers for the oxyl states are small (<10 kcal/mol) and show a slightly increasing trend as we move from the early to the late transition metals.

Both genes were similar although Bmp7 showed a slightly increasing trend which was insignificant ( Figures S3 K and S3L).

Following the 2021 IRS campaign, a slightly increasing trend was observed in both districts, although it was not significant and there was no significant difference between IRS and control districts (P > 0.05).

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).