“an increasing trend”

In addition, there is concern over increasing rates of disease recurrence (including relapse and reinfection) after anti-TB drug therapy and an increasing trend of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant (M/XDR) TB worldwide.

In Sri Lanka, a national registry is not available for patients who undergo colonoscopies, but data from isolated institutions clearly show an increasing trend.

Using a pre-recruited on-line panels for survey research in medicine is an increasing trend [ 35 ].

19 – 24 In a broader perspective, there is an increasing trend for the development of cost-effective metal-free catalysts, to substitute for noble metals.

It is worth noting that the incidence rate of ocular metastasis seems to show an increasing trend after diagnosis of CNS metastasis.

It can be seen from Figure 6 a that the storage modulus of sample D-4 increased at first and then decreased, while other samples showed an increasing trend with loading.

In contrast, an increasing trend was found in the mean age of participants during the last 5 years.

The ORs showed an increasing trend in quartile groups with longer TUG intervals compared with quartile groups with shorter TUG intervals ( p for trend < 0.001).

Concerning the CXCR4 ligand, we observed an increasing trend in mRNA CXCL12 levels in dry eye patients.

According to Figure 7 and Table 1 , an increasing trend in current density was observed as the temperature increases from 90 to 120 °C, but the photocurrent density decreased drastically by 87.40% from 120 °C (0.1944 mA/cm 2 ) to 130 °C (0.0245 mA/cm 2 ).

The mass of deposited MnO 2 reached 0.600, 1.134 and 1.733 mg, thereby presenting an increasing trend with prolonged deposition time.

The fracture degree shows a slight fluctuation around 1% at different temperatures, while the fracture complexity shows an increasing trend with the rise of temperature.

Pesticide detection The pesticide residue analysis, including the results from the earlier study by Jansen and Harmsen ( 2011 ), indicated that overall detections of pesticides showed an increasing trend across the sampling years, but decreased in the final year of our study, with lower amounts of pesticides detected in 2015 (Fig. 3 ).

Conclusion The review identified an increasing trend in the publication of accountability initiatives in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR).

In Figure 4 , an increasing trend of the sub-G0/G1 population of HT29 cells was seen as the dose of DK1 increased.

TWIST1 mRNA expression displayed an increasing trend from 0–6 h post-treatment and then maintained a high expression level compared with the untreated group ( Fig. 4A ).

Although there is an increasing trend in the number of coexisting species, the maximum number of coexisting species in this increase is still significantly smaller compared to a static microhabitat locality except for the global dispersion where microhabitat locality changes every one thousand generations (see Figure 3 b).

In the present analysis, the proportion of patients with HbA1c <7.0% was lower in treatment categories B-2 and C than in treatment category B-1, and the proportion of patients with HbA1c <7.0% in treatment category C among those ≥75 years of age did not exhibit an increasing trend from 2005 to 2013 ( Table 3 ).

Discussion Several studies have been conducted to find out the pattern of cancer in Nepal which show an increasing trend for most of the cancers in the Western region of Nepal (Kumar et al., 2015; Sathian et al., 2013; Sathian et al., 2010; Bhatt et al., 2009).

Intriguingly, an increasing trend of antimicrobial activities was recorded for the metabolites extracted from both the fermentation states.

For Mangere Central, juveniles show an increasing trend, with numbers consistently more than double the adult numbers for the three periods ( Figure 1 ).

In addition, Canada has observed an increasing trend in both the number of evacuations and evacuees as a result of the wildland fires occurred within the WUI over the period 1980–2014 [ 9 , 13 ].

On the one hand, the first eigenvalue is clearly the most relevant one and it is associated both to visible pulsatility as well as an increasing trend.

From this is can be concluded that there exists an increasing trend between 1981 and 2014, however, it is not significant for most physicochemical parameters.

Nowadays, there is an increasing trend in estimating the health risk using soil contamination indices, soil-plant transfer factors, and metal contents in edible plant parts [ 25 , 31 , 274 , 275 ].