“an increasing trend”

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recently revealed that until December 2017, 1,167.44 million people in India used mobile phones.[ 2 ] A similar trend has been observed all over the world.[ 3 ] Not surprisingly, problem behaviors associated with mobile phone use have also seen an increasing trend.[ 4 ] Among the disturbances seen are behavioral addictions (mobile phones, Internet, etc.), emotional disturbances reportedly due to excessive smartphone use, and phantom vibration syndrome (PVS).[ 5 6 ] PVS, although termed a “syndrome,” is not really a disease or disorder.

among medical students in the presmartphone period had reported mobile phone addiction in only 18.5% medical students, which suggests an increasing trend toward mobile phone addiction.[ 21 ] In contradiction to previous studies by Yildirim et al .,[ 22 ] Sharma et al .,[ 6 ] and Nikhita et al .,[ 9 ] the present study did not find the female gender at a higher risk of mobile phone addiction.

At the same concentration, the percentage of spermatozoa with reacted acrosomes show an increasing trend, but in a non-statistically significant manner.

The activated Treg (FrII) fraction exhibited an increasing trend after anti‐PD‐1 treatment (Figure 3 E).

These studies on MRSA infection among hospitalized patients have also revealed an increasing trend of MRSA prevalence from 0.4% in 1999 to 28% in 2010 [ 15 , 16 ].

[ 35 ] found an increasing trend of skin tannins with irrigation.

As it can be seen in Table 3 , an increasing trend in the rotational barrier is observed, with an increase of the distance between the indolylic and the boronic moiety.

The utilization rates of RT are ~50% in Europe and ~30% in Japan [ 21 , 22 ], and a recent study showed an increasing trend for using RT for treating cancer patients in Korea [ 23 ].

Nowadays, there is also an increasing trend in making biosensors which include immobilized HRP for the removal of hydrogen peroxide.

PREG increased in amygdala and plasma and showed an increasing trend in hippocampus.

Utilization of essential oils (EOs) as an alternative to synthetic antimicrobials is an increasing trend nowadays.

The inhibitory activities of proanthocyanidins against starch hydrolases were observed that there was an increasing trend as the Malay cherry leaf matured.

However, associations were stronger with all cancers combined ( P for trend = 0.02) and female breast cancer ( P for trend = 0.02) among participants with longer time from diabetes diagnosis to baseline. In persons without a prior diagnosis of T2DM, there was an increasing trend in the associations between RBG level and risk of all cancers combined, stomach cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, and female breast cancer ( P ’s for trend ≤0.02 for all; Table 5 ).

Recent years have seen an increasing trend of targeting clinically relevant genes.

The overall level of LC3B-II and the ratio of LC3B-II to LC3BI were both decreased in MKN-45-DIRAS3-shRNA cells and p62 showed an increasing trend, though this was not significant, suggesting that silencing of DIRAS3 may decrease the level of autophagy in MKN-45 cells.

We observed an increasing trend over time of earning by soil selling.

2013 ) clearly indicate an increasing trend in the number of reported floods exceeding severity and magnitude thresholds.

Meanwhile, the transcription levels of FPS in T-3, T-4 and T-5 all manifested an increasing trend compared with the WT cells (4.22, 3.34 and 3.51 folds of the WT cells, respectively), which demonstrated that over-expression of FPS in T-3, T-4 and T-5 had been realized ( Figure 7 B).

The figure portrays an evolution in complexity of modelling of the cardiovascular system over the past 20 years and evidences an increasing trend towards FSI modelling.

Proportions of detection generally declined with age for other enteroviruses, whereas EV-A71 and CV-A16 showed an increasing trend with age, particularly in mild cases ( Technical Appendix Figure 2).

There was an increasing trend from 40 to 55 °C and this was probably due to the decrease in the solvent viscosity and the increase of the lipid solubility at higher temperatures.

If a suspicious lesion is newly detected, or if the serum AFP level is elevated in an increasing trend for two consecutive tests, dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging will be performed to confirm the diagnosis.

Quantitative and Differential Leukocytic Count Results from Figure 4 show an increasing trend in total leukocyte cell population from 6 to 24 h.

An increasing trend from 77.2 to 83.3 in the absorption coefficient of all- rac -source was observed with increasing doses from 25 to 200 mg/kg feed while RRR-source reached an average of 86.8 absorption coefficient at a dose as low as 25 mg/kg feed.

Although an increasing trend of ALP and BGP activities was demonstrated in the OVX group, no statistically-significant changes were observed.