“an increasing trend”

The amount of mercury in feedstuffs showed an increasing trend and ranged between 0.0126 and 0.0859 mgkg −1 .

It showed an increasing trend in Indonesia and Timor Leste among boys [ Figure 2 ]; and among girls in Timor Leste [ Figure 3 ].

Clustering coefficient (second row) followed an increasing trend at all three thresholds.

Steffan-Dewenter and Tscharntke [25] found an increasing trend of the slopes for polyphagous (0.07), strongly oligophagous (0.16), and monophagous species (0.22), while the comparable values from our study are 0.25, 0.35, and 0.59 ( Table 1 ).

coli isolates showed an increasing trend in resistance only to ampicillin, sulfonamide, and tetracycline ( Figure 3 , Table 4 ).

An increasing trend of hot flashes, sleep disturbance, physical and mental symptoms, muscle and joint pain, and other symptoms at different stages of menopause may affect women's quality of life [ 9 ].

Increasing number of globe-salvaging techniques are now available for retinoblastoma; however, the proportion of enucleations due to retinoblastoma seems to be increasing.[ 1 7 ] In our study, we found an increasing trend in the proportion of enucleations due to retinoblastoma over a 15-year period, from 38% to nearly 60%.

Although epidemiological studies have not yet yielded conclusive results on the chemopreventive and anticancer effect of tea polyphenols, there is an increasing trend to employ these substances as conservative management for patients diagnosed with less advanced prostate cancer.

Because even the raw phenotypic variance displayed an increasing trend, the latter explanation does not fully explain the observed trend here.

There was an increasing trend in median score but this was not significant ( P = 0.175).

These data show an increasing trend of predictability as the maximum constitutional probability score increases.

Conclusions This large prospective study of semen quality among young men of the general population showed an increasing trend in sperm concentration and total sperm count.

While use of a rigid catheter and acute intermittent PD continues to be the most common form of PD in a majority of centers (70% of centers surveyed), there is an increasing trend in the use of Technkoff catheters for providing manual or automated continuous PD in pediatric AKI in India, with seven centers using it as the primary modality.

The abundance and/or diversity of clones affiliated with Eurotiales, Hypocreales , Glomerales , Orbiliales, Mucorales and Tremellales showed an increasing trend with continuous cropping but clones affiliated with Agaricales , Cantharellales , Pezizales and Pyxidiophorales decreased in abundance and/or diversity over time.

The lifetime prevalence of physician-diagnosed atopic eczema showed an increasing trend in 6–7 year olds in Italy [from 14.3% (1994–95) to 17.0% (2002)] [66] and in the same age group in Portugal [from 18.6% (1993–94) to 21.0% (2002)] [67] .

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.