“an increasing trend”

On the other hand, there was an increasing trend of plasma antibody titre in pigs following vaccination.

Dry matter percentage showed an increasing trend, with values ranging from 9.0% at the beginning of the harvesting period to 12.9%, on average, at the end, without differences between “Unbiofortified’ and ‘Biofortified’ treatments.

Considering that there is an increasing trend of NWFS with increased competition and 24–7 operations in a range of occupations (Nomaguchi, 2009 ), focusing on PWFS may help protect or improve employees' satisfaction and attitudes toward their work.

Results showed an increasing trend of PPARγ expression level which reached its highest level on day 15 ( Fig.1B ).

Although the incidence in all BC cases in urban areas showed an increasing trend, until peaking in 2040 (increasing 31.2% from 2010), the number of BC patients would continue to decrease in other areas.

An increasing trend of HIV prevalence was observed during 2009–13 among MSM in China.

In that case, oropharyngeal CPAP, recently defined and used with an increasing trend among neonatologists, can be an alternative technique.[ 2 ] A male infant, weighing 2550 g, delivered at the 36 th gestational week, was diagnosed as a case of charge (coloboma of the eye, heart defects, atresia of the nasal choanae, retardation of growth and/or development, genital and/or urinary abnormalities, ear abnormalities and deafness).

With both methods, an increasing trend is observed for the heterogeneity among live cell positions in eight ROIs.

An increasing trend in the level of 14,15-EET in t- AUCB-treated WT versus WT mice was observed at baseline and post-ischemia, but was not significant (p > 0.05, Fig 3A ).

We also detected an increasing trend in HRs across tertiles of GRS (p-trend = 0.0063).

Our results also showed an increasing trend in glycine levels which has previously been described as a short-term effect of bariatric surgery [ 35 ] and inversely related to type 2 diabetes [ 63 , 64 ].

Discussion An increasing trend of MRSA endemicity has been reported in healthcare facilities in Saudi Arabia, with CA-MRSA contributing to the burden of infections [8] .

However, The Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA) has recently reported an increasing trend in the incidence of fungal infection after corneal transplantation 8 .

IR prevalence clearly showed an increasing trend with BMI, from an overall 2.2 % among thin (underweight) children and 10.9 % in normal weight, via 26.5 % in overweight, reaching a remarkable 66.7 % in obese children.

Furthermore, compared with the other countries in the SEE region, the age-standardized burden of disease attributable to alcohol use in Albania was one of the lowest in the region but with an increasing trend during the last decade ( 24 ).

Calculating the in-frame percentage, representing the proportion of antibody clones containing the correct open reading frame, demonstrated an increasing trend from VH to VHH clones, however the P value was not significant ( P = 0.075, Fig 1D ).

However, the PPV values show an increasing trend afterwards.

In 2008, the IIAR and IOIR indicated an increasing trend again.

Seventeen SLNB patients and 13 ALND patients, whose L-Dex scores were considered normal but showed an increasing trend coincidently with self-report of minor symptoms, were treated conservatively with a compression sleeve with no patient progressing to BCRL at last follow-up.

The CCT showed an increasing trend at postoperative 1 week and then returned to preoperative levels at postoperative 12 months.

In contrast to this, allele number demonstrated increasing trend in these varieties released and notified between1940 to 1985, it remained nearly constant during 1986 to 2005 and again showed an increasing trend.

This confirms an increasing trend of methamphetamine use in border regions to Czech Republic like Saxony reported in the last years [ 51 – 54 ].

A recent report suggested an increasing trend of malignant mesothelioma incidence, and that it was still associated with a poor prognosis.

Yet, the Ghana 2010 Population and Housing Census Report showed an increasing trend of women joining the labour force [ 5 ].

Approximately 780,000 people in the United States are afflicted with this disease with an increasing trend of hospitalization and health care costs despite advances in medical therapy [ 1 , 2 ].