“an increasing trend”

A positive EAPC with the lower bound of the 95% confidence interval (CI) >0 indicates an increasing trend, while a negative EAPC with the upper bound of the 95% CI <0 reflects a decreasing trend ( 26 ).

Additionally, compared with the Con group, the Chao1, and Observed species indices showed an increasing trend with increasing CrPro supplementation levels, although differences were not significant ( p > 0.05).

An increasing trend in ASR was identified if both the EAPC estimate and its lower 95% CI were greater than zero, whereas a declining trend was observed when both the estimate and its upper and lower 95% CI limits were below zero.

From Fig 1(a) , it can be seen that the initial brightness of the luminescent coating shows an increasing trend with the increase of luminescent powder dosage.

These articles were published in 153 journals, and a total of 11,131 references have been cited ( Figure 2A ). Publication Trends Altogether these publications show an increasing trend from 2000 to 2024 for the period of every year as shown in Figure 2B .

The dengue fatality rate showed an increasing trend in the period 2001-2009.

Breast cancer mortality rates by macro-region showed an increasing trend in the East macro-region (APC +4.27; 95%CI 2.27;6.32) ( Figure 2 A).

The EWS analysis did not show clear patterns in the predator treatment; the CV was highly variable and displayed an increasing trend deviating significantly from the control since the addition of predators (Appendix S1 : Figure S8 ).

Graph 3 illustrates an increasing trend in prescribing antidepressants (N06A) over the given period.

Results Among 560,469 NHL-related deaths, AAMR declined from 12.86 (1999) to 8.26 per 100,000 (2020), with an increasing trend from 2018 to 2020 (APC: 0.89 [95% CI, −0.55 to 1.64]).

Fig 8 shows that when the skeleton structure of the SMA mixtures was still forming ( VCA mix > VCA DRC(n=25) ), the shear strength and dynamic stability of the SMA mixtures exhibited an increasing trend as the VCA mix of the SMA mixtures decreased.

The findings showed an increasing trend of the spatial heterogeneity and autocorrelation of rural entrepreneurship in Anhui, with geographic clustering of high, medium and low values as well as cold and hot spots.

However, the paw withdrawal latency values for thermal hyperalgesia could not reach the prelesion value within the experimental tenure of 20 days, although showing an increasing trend.

In the USA, there are currently no national guidelines or formal recommendations for gastric cancer prevention, although gastric cancer disproportionately affects Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans and American Indian–Alaska Native individuals 6 , and an increasing trend in young individuals (age <50 years) has been observed between 2016 and 2022, most notably in women 24 .

Combined with the percentage content of each element measured by XPS full spectrum analysis in Table S1, it showed that the relative content of Cl element in Mg/Al-LDH after adsorbing 2,4-D (pH = 5, 7, and 8) was higher than Mg/Al-LDH distinctly, and had an increasing trend with the decrease of pH.

citri infestation, TPC remained unchanged in most combinations but showed an increasing trend in ‘WM/CA’.

Introduction Overweight and obesity have become a global public health crisis, affecting approximately 20% of the population worldwide ( 1 , 2 ), with an increasing trend among young adults.

Our study revealed that NPT resulted in an increasing trend in scar SBF at each dosage.

The number of participants with low skeletal muscle mass ( P for trend<0.001) and weak grip strength ( P for trend= 0.009) also showed an increasing trend according to the NLR.

An increasing trend in crystallinity was apparent after treatment, indicating the hydrolysis of the amorphous cellulose matrix.

Final viscosity, which reflects the re-association of starch molecules upon cooling, showed an increasing trend with ultrasonication.

Similar transitions have been reported in other sub-Saharan African countries, with neoplastic and digestive diseases being among the conditions showing an increasing trend[ 12 ].

Additionally, SIRPα expression levels showed an increasing trend in normal tissues, stromal tissues, and tumor tissues of HCC (Figure 2C ) ( http://Lifeome.net/database/hccdb/home.html ).

Recent studies have shown an increasing trend in the incidence of iCCA in Western countries, differing from the stable or declining incidence rates observed for eCCA, while gallbladder cancer shows a higher incidence, particularly in Eastern Europe[ 9 , 23 ].

The TOC/COD findings from this study yielded an increasing trend as the landfilling proceeded, with the peak ratio reached in week 25.