“an established trend”

Consequently, as the particle size decreases, the band gap widens (an established trend in quantum-confined systems).

While there is now an established trend for the use of cementless components at both primary and revision surgery, 2 local antibiotic delivery is not therefore available for cementless arthroplasty.

Introduction Due to the recent advances in cardiovascular therapeutics, the growing use of short-term mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices is now an established trend.

More importantly, the unprecedented trend of population ageing, an established trend globally but more significant in the developed world (Appendix B ), will also contribute to a greater susceptibility of populations to RID (Cohen, 2000 ).

The atomic-oxygen resistance of poly(BAF-oda-fu) fell along an established trend line based on its fluorine content.

In SSA, late presentation to care is an established trend associated with health inequities, gender disparities, socioeconomic and cultural factors that have ultimately increased cervical cancer mortality rates [ 3 , 5 ].

Criticisms arise from the assumption of an established trend of innovation from the Global North to South, but nevertheless the paradigm shift it represents remains essential to decolonisation debate.

There is an established trend towards their early administration in the current recommendations [ 6 , 29 , 30 ].

This is an established trend in other health systems ( 41 , 42 ).

The use of alcohol in concert with cigarettes is an established trend, and this has been shown in numerous prior studies.

It is important to note that RPG loss is an established trend across diverse angiosperm lineages [ 49 ].

In the context of sustainable tourism, an established trend in developed countries, cycling tourism offers tourists the opportunity to explore and discover little-known areas that are often located in mountains or areas with different characteristics ( 4 , 5 ).

Following an established trend in recent years, NSTEMI are increasing and, given the characteristics of the greater chronic morbidity of these patients, their prognosis is also worse [ 3 , 4 ].

This motivated us to propose and launch this Special Issue aiming at attracting papers on a wider range of topics related to Sonoprocessing of Materials with a view of becoming an established trend in the Journal and promote links and collaborations between scientists with complementary interests.

As countries become increasingly industrialised, there is an established trend of increasing IBD prevalence in middle- and low-income countries [ 12 ].

With the alternating development of jamming and anti-jamming research, it has become an established trend to explore new technologies and possibilities to improve the performance and intelligence of the anti-jamming schemes for a WSN in different application scenarios.

However, because only patients with an established trend of lesion expansion are suitable for the trial, a thorough pretrial screening process is necessary.

The Path to the Work Programme: A Radical Departure from an Established Trend On coming to power in 1997 after almost two decades in opposition, New Labour quickly embarked on a series of ‘activating’ New Deal welfare-to-work schemes.

However, it is an established trend that women’s ice hockey is getting closer to men’s hockey, and the future of the game will be more of a perfect blend of physical and technical skills.

Some consumers’ interest in local food might have increased and could further increase in the near future, as the demand for local food products revealed to be an established trend resulting from consumers’ economic, environmental, social, and health related motivations, which might at least partly grow in relevance during the Covid-19 pandemic ( Hobbs 2020 ).

This clear deviation from an established trend gives an unambiguous indication that the occurrence of the pandemic has indeed had interruptive impacts on knowledge productivity in crowd dynamics 3 .

While not directly definable to an established trend given the small sample size and time frame resolution, the average trends over time, especially averages at later time points may reflect progression toward chronicity, as chronic states are not simply escalations but maladaptive responses to pain ( Woolf, 1995 ; Woolf and Doubell, 1994 ).

An established trend is the continued use of biocatalytic methods, which have successfully replaced the well-established chemical methods to produce enantiopure alcohols.

We believe this may be attributable to factors such as earlier mortality associated with fragility and the use of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders, the latter of which has an established trend of increased utilization with advancing age [ 29 ].

The selection of the heating rate and duration of thermal load exposure follows an established trend in studies [ 28 , 29 , 30 ] on the thermal behavior of alkali-activated materials, where heating rates typically range from 1 to 10 °C/min and the exposure duration from 1 to 4 h.