observed trend
collocation in Englishmeaningsofobserveandtrend
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observe
verb[T]
uk/əbˈzɜːv/us/əbˈzɝːv/
formal
to watch carefully the way something happens or the way someone does something, especially in order to learn more ...
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trend
noun[C]
uk/trend/us/trend/
a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people ...
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(Definition ofobserveandtrendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofobserved trend
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Thus, seed mortality resulting from desiccation provides a potential explanation for theobservedtrend of an increasing spread of germination times with increasing t50.
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The persistence of wage inequality suggests costly skill acquisition while theobservedtrendsuggests that the cost to the marginal agent increases as more become skilled.
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However, anobservedtrendindicated lower adult sciarid emergence from casing substrate, which received biological control agents when compared with controls (fig. 3).
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The authors could not fully determine whether theobservedtrendwas due to infection or pre-exposure lower intelligence, which is often the case in such investigations.
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As no significant differences were found between replicates and theobservedtrendwas consistent, the results are presented by summarizing the data from the three experiments.
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Socio-economic factors have contributed to theobservedtrendof global losses, e.g., population growth, increased wealth.
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There is anobservedtrendof wider tornadoes causing worse damage.
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Although theobservedtrendwas not statistically significant, regression analysis indicated that the predicted trend explained over 97% of the variance in the data.
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Thus, theobservedtrendis that strong year class anomalies can have major impacts on population sizes and their future stability and growth.
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Until such data become available, interpretations of the causation of the observed trends are purely conjectural.
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It is difficult to quantify the relative impact of socio-economic factors and climate change on theobservedtrend.
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Older governmental data from 1997 suggest that 2.3% of the population never eat meat and theobservedtrendseemed to point towards less meat consumption.
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The final version stated that these results indicate that theobservedtrendin global mean temperature over the past 100 years is unlikely to be entirely natural in origin.
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The fractionation of olivine and plagioclase alone cannot explain the observed trends.
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For example, the observed trends for energy transport in a round free jet flow is by the large-scale convection motions.
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Potential changes in the prevalence rates of hypertension and smoking are calculated by extrapolating the observed trends during the period 1997-2000 over the period 2000-20.
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We therefore suspect that acquired resistance to infection and its relationship with parasite burden (both current and past) is the key to understanding observed trends.
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