“an increasing trend”

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The incidence rates of lung cancer in many Western countries, including Sweden, have stabilized and even decreased in recent years among men, whereas an increasing trend is still evident among women ( Cancer Incidence in Sweden, 2007 ; Toh, 2009 ).

The incidence trend in pre-menopausal women was substantially stable (APC: −0.7; 95% CI: −4.7; 3.5), whereas at ages 50–69 and 70+ years, an increasing trend was observed, though the estimated APCs were not statistically significant.

Several recent publications have noted an increasing trend in incidence over time.

Additionally, we encourage proficiency in the use and maintenance of a Web server system, such as Apache [21] , as a survey of the bioinformatics literature clearly demonstrates an increasing trend towards the Web-based development, delivery, and utilization of bioinformatics tools and services.

tuberculosis -induced IL10 levels were comparable between PTB and ETB groups ( Figure S1A ) but there was an increasing trend of IL10 in the disseminated ETB group (median: PTB, 56; L-ETB, 134; D-ETB, 282 pg/ml).

However, what remains to be determined is whether or not there has been an increasing trend in the numbers of cases over the past years; and to confirm if indeed man-to-man transmission takes place.

Recently, several reports showed an increasing trend of GERD in Asian countries in recent years ( Ho et al 2005 ; Chen et al 2005 ; Lim et al 2005 ).

The results indicated an increasing trend of hydrophilicity of NLC-3P > NLC-5P ≈NLC-7P.

Statistical Analysis The Mantel-Haenszel test was performed to examine if there is an increasing trend for pTyr284-Ack1 and pTyr176-AKT with respect to different progression stages of breast or pancreatic cancer.

An increasing trend has been observed in the prevalence of lung cancers in non-smokers, especially females, though the underlying genetic basis is unclear.

An increasing trend in peak headspace NO concentrations was observed with increasing DO concentrations.

The values of the Higuchi rate constant was found to vary between 17.38±0.52 to 25.22±0.72% h −1⁄2 showing an increasing trend with decrease in the polymer payloads and increase in Eudragit RL levels.

During the past decade there has been an increasing trend of systemic and fatal infections with non albicans species such as Candida tropicalis , Candida glabrata, Candida parapsilosis , Candida lusitaniae and Candida lipolytica .

However, an increasing trend of atherosclerosis was also observed in a subgroup using DSA, indicating that the findings and conclusions in our study were not impacted by the use of MRA data.

In our study, the SIRs for smoking-related SPCs after a first primary SCC and SCLC did not change significantly across the calendar years, but we observed an increasing trend for overall smoking-related SPCs in male ADC patients ( P for trend=0.04), suggesting a time trend between tobacco smoking and a more important role in the development of ADC; this was not observed in female ADC cases ( P =0.74).

For example, when the activity of a neuron showed an increasing trend across trials, the criterion in the next trial was raised to make it more difficult to stretch the bar and to obtain reward ( Fig. 8 D ).

There has also been an increasing trend toward combined liver-kidney transplant if patients have AKI or chronic kidney disease prior to transplantation.

The intrinsically bursting CA3 neuron exhibits an increasing trend in rates of action potential firing evoked by somatic current injections of 0.15 nA ( Fig. 1 C ).

Results Two hundred and nineteen (57%) smokers in the study area had the intention to quit cigarette smoking within the next six months and all the process of change had an increasing trend across the stages.

An increasing trend with increasing age at first birth was most pronounced for lobular tumors and unspecified carcinomas; an association in the opposite direction was seen in relation to medullary and tubular tumors.

The annual mean levels of SO 2 have not exceeded the USEPA limit of 80 μg/m 3 , but the levels have shown an increasing trend in the last few years (Figure 2 ).

We observed an increasing trend of SCM in spring and winter but there was no statistical significance.

With cycling, the saturation magnetization values are showing an increasing trend.

In addition, there is no well-designed study which estimates the economic cost of alcohol consumption in Thailand, where an increasing trend of alcohol consumption has been observed [ 12 ].