“an increasing trend”

Both anxiety and attention problems seem to follow an increasing trend with age [ 27 ].

Two national telephone surveys of 1,539 and 2,005 adults, respectively, demonstrated an increasing trend in the use of CAM, including relaxation techniques, herbal medicine, massage, chiropractic, and acupuncture[ 1 , 2 ].

Those with mild pain had an increasing trend of 2.1, 2.4, 2.8, 2.9, and 3.1 chronic diseases, and those with severe pain also had an increasing trend of 3.0, 3.4, 3.9, 4.2, and 4.4 chronic diseases ( P < 0.0001).

Our results are consistent with data from previous studies in sub-Saharan countries showing an increasing trend on smoking rates as well as early smoking initiation in adolescence [ 20 ], suggesting that increasing youth smoking is a major public health concern in the entire region.

Such a linear effect across the utterance types is in line with previous monolingual research on metaphor comprehension, and indicates an increasing trend of resource intensity of mappings between concepts from literal, to conventional metaphoric, novel metaphoric, and anomalous utterances [ 18 , 29 ].

Figure 3 details the age effect and shows an increasing trend for individuals aged 25-65 years.

However, Bekele et al [ 3 ] found that although the abundance of Prevotella in the rumen of sheep did not differ significantly in the various ration groups, it showed an increasing trend in the concentrate-fed group compared to the roughage group, which was consistent with our results.

Percent mortality of the larvae which had a complete host switching cycle (natal host—auxiliary host—natal host) demonstrates an increasing trend in insecticidal efficacy (Figure 4 b).

acidilactici to adult artemia had an increasing trend ( Fig. 1 ).

Additionally, at each zein to CMCS ratio, an increasing trend with the increase in the amount of metal ions added was witnessed.

However, an increasing trend in E coli fluoroquinolone resistance of 10% from 2005 to 2012 has been documented [ 12 ], adding considerable weight to the argument of FQR organisms being implicated in the infectious complications identified here.

Among the other PTS, we can see that a significant number follow an increasing trend, including the bus systems in San Jose, New Orleans, Oklahoma City and Milwaukee.

An increasing trend for catalytic activity in the timeline suggests that after massive gene loss cellular organisms increased catalytic activity, binding function, enzyme regulatory activity, and transporter activity in order to adapt to new lifestyles.

Conclusions Considering the fact that Iran has a growing number of elderly and older age population and has an increasing trend of other CKD risk factors, such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, this country is likely to face a high burden of CKD in near future.

For birth order 2, 3 and 4 the MAC have an increasing trend for all three BDHSs.

The content of clay in the upper half of the core shows an increasing trend.

17 Our center (a designated hospital for HIV/AIDS care of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning) has also recently witnessed an increasing trend in NADCs, particularly lung cancer.

Although there was no significant difference in the volumes of control and breads with levan from uncontrolled pH and pH 4.5, an increasing trend was noticed, while a significant increase ( p < 0.001) was observed with levan from pH 5.5 and 6.5 ( Figure 6A ).

The change in the posterior disc height (L3/4: 1.38 ± 0.29 mm, L4/5:1.83 ± 0.28 mm, and L5/S1: 2.14 ± 0.62 mm) also had an increasing trend.

Interestingly, the relative expression of CmABCG1 and CmABCC2 showed an increasing trend during the second instar.

We found an increasing trend of infection risk from 2005 onwards.

Similarly, an increasing trend of antibiotic resistance (e.g., to amoxicillin, tetracycline, levofloxacin, and moxifloxacin) was also observed (Lee J.

Miniaturization (from microelectrodes/nanosensors to microfluidic platforms) is an increasing trend as a response to these needs to develop new miniature and portable analytical devices for environmental and food monitoring and diagnostics.

In comparison with being in the least deprived category than those in categories 3, 2 or 1 (most deprived) also showed increased odds of EP, with an increasing trend as deprivation worsened.

The study also found that gonadotropic hormone levels were elevated in significantly more patients with MB leprosy vis-à-vis patients with PB leprosy, and that the mean levels of these hormones showed an increasing trend from controls to patients with PB to patients with MB leprosy.