“an increasing trend”

Despite observance of an increasing trend between 2004 and 2010, screening rates did not show an increase in 2011, and a stable pattern was observed instead compared to 2010 ( Table 1 ).

In contrast, the rate of express saccades showed an increasing trend between the two periods in five participants for both targets (n°3, 7, 8, 11, and 12; see Figure 3 ) and left target (n°1, 6, 7, 11, and 12; see Figure 4 ), and in four participants for right target (n°3, 8, 11, and 12; see Figure 5 ).

Even if the best field of research were to include all the three topics, this is not so common; anyway the importance of multivariate techniques is acknowledged with an increasing trend and really many research groups include at least one expert on the subject.

We found that these loci had an increasing trend in the number of repeats ( Fig. 1 ), whereas the remaining VNTRs showed an unvarying number of repeats (data not shown).

Other studies found an increasing trend of VTE incidents in surgical procedures of longer duration and complexity, but the increase was not always statistically significant.

In the event of 'unpolished rice' and 'sticky rice', the survey showed an increasing trend in 2001 and 2005 compared to 1998.

The incidence of RRT-treated AKI in populations has been reported to vary between 8 and 30 per 100,000/year [ 5 - 12 ] with an increasing trend [ 11 , 12 ].

Presence of haemolysis at any degree was associated with a reduction of about 8 μg in DNA yield, with an increasing trend according to the degree of haemolysis.

Previous studies in Ethiopia reported a decline in mean birth weight and an increasing trend of LBW from 1970's to 1990's and 22.5% incidence of LBW among health institution deliveries in the south western part of the country [ 16 ].

In contrast, the content of EPS extracted from the stored raw samples showed an increasing trend with the storage time.

Glucose load induced a decline in the plasma H 2 O 2 level in sham-operated group, while the other three groups showed an increasing trend.

There was an increasing trend among all racial groups for unintentional poisoning deaths, but for suicide poisonings the increasing trend was noticed only among whites.

Although not significant, the ORs for Q2 and Q3 were all larger than 1.0, and an increasing trend was seen in OR from Q2 to Q4.

A gradual increase in the proportion of nets with any type of holes showed an increasing trend from 19.6% after 18 months to 73.7% after three years, which is in agreement with results obtained from western Uganda [ 16 ].

From the efficiency scores presented in Table 4 , it can be noted that all the banks' average efficiency is on an increasing trend.

, 2009 ) have suggested an increasing trend in the incidence of congenital cryptorchidism when compared with previous studies ( Buemann et al. , 1961 ; Scorer, 1964 ; Group JRHCS, 1992 ).

However, an increasing trend has been reported in studies from Japan and China ( 18 , 19 ).

There are studies that have shown an increasing trend of infection rate in 1–5 year old cats rather than in younger animals [ 42 , 53 ].

Within the single cytokine category, TNFα producers showed a higher frequency compared to IFNγ producers, and in some patients (such as PT#2) these cells showed an increasing trend post vaccination ( Fig. 2A ).

Previous studies have also found that the warming-induced decline in growth persists despite the fact that the water use efficiency of trees shows an increasing trend in many regions [12] , [13] , [14] .

However, there is an increasing trend of sexually transmitted infections among high-risk group such as HIV-infected patients, teenage with multiple sexual partners, and men who have sex with men (MSM).

falciparum malaria showed an increasing trend, but this was not statistically significant ( p = 0.210) when compared to healthy controls (0.103 ± 0.01).

Abstract Background Little is known about the epidemiology of HIV in Japan, though newly-identified cases amongst men who have sex with men (MSM) show an increasing trend.

The number of strains sensitive to all four drugs tested showed an increasing trend i.e. 6.9% to 21.4% [ Table 3 ].

TLC also showed an increasing trend and was 19,500/ μ l on the 18 th day after admission.