The score of erythema was read and recorded by the Draize scoring method as score 0 for no erythema, score 1 for mild erythema (barely perceptible- light pink), score 2 for moderate erythema (dark pink) and edema, score 3 for moderate to severe erythema and moderate edema, and score 4 for severe erythema (extreme redness) and edema.
The skin response following application of the MN-containing plasters was graded as only barely perceptible (0.5) or mild erythema (1), regardless of the length of time the MN array remained within the skin.
Formed barely a year ago by a mild-mannered professor of macroeconomics at Hamburg University, Germany's newest political organisation does not pull your usual protest-party crowd: there are college lecturers, lawyers, doctors, judges, academics, company directors.
Then came the wind, mild at first, barely moving through the thick air.
The company simply inserted a small piece of paper into the product's box containing some mild statements that barely even seemed to be warnings.
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FROM a mild winter that barely slowed construction and into the spring, builders and blue-collar workers have been hitting pay dirt on former farms in the Hamptons, a hot spot for second homes fueled by Wall Street money and low mortgage rates.
But the satire is so mild that you barely notice it, and the closest that the show gets to being anything other than nice as pie is a send-up of Mariah Carey at the memorial service warbling, and declaring: "Michael not only wanted to touch us, he wanted to touch our children, too".
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ICD scores were rated as 0, 0.5, 1, 2 or 3, which represent either: a negative, a barely perceptible macular erythema, a mild erythema, a moderate-intense uniform erythema or an intense erythema, vesiculation or erosion, respectively.
By midsummer there is a mild riot -- no, barely an uprising; hardly even a movement -- of identically colored impatiens blandly filling the pot.
