The SSQ queries patients about their perceived level of change in each of the domains using a seven-point scale ranging from (1) very much worse, (2) moderately worse, (3) a little worse, (4) about the same, (5) a little better, (6) moderately better, to (7) very much better.
The fact that the RR peaks in Fig. 5 precede the mortality peaks in Figs. 2 and 3 may be taken to show that the smaller farmers, at least in the rural areas, respond earlier than those moderately better off to the crisis, with an increasing mortality.
The ProbCons results showed that aligners specifically designed to address these issues indeed perform slightly better to moderately better across all experiments but still suffer from a rapid loss in reconstruction accuracy with increasing sequence divergence.
The New York Times was a bit more restrained in its choice of words, calling the fourth quarter growth performance a "sign" that the euro zone might do "moderately better" this year compared to last (NYT January 15).
Over that decade of experience, we became convinced that merely encouraging people to be moderately better leaders is not likely to change that leader's behavior.
The news can be moderately better when it comes to the ability of yoga and tai chi to help people maintain their balance, reduce fatigue or improve stamina.
Of the remaining patients, 44% felt minimally to moderately better, 12% unchanged, 44% minimally or moderately worse compared with first presentation.
As outlined in the method section, it was not felt that scores from those reporting to be "moderately better" (n = 43, 21.9%) were definitive enough to be used in the production of a low risk of poor outcome category.
Harris creates this dystopia in order to redeem it, whereas Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" (2004), another vision of Nazi success, will derive from the rarer flip side of the redemptive impulse, a desire to make the past worse than it was, perhaps only to feel moderately better about the present.
While uniformly higher standards have been imposed on all pupils, research and common sense suggest that pupils do best when encouraged to do moderately better than their current performance and less well when expectations are either too high or to low.
Stoudemire was only moderately better, going 7 for 22 to finish with 23 points, 7 rebounds and 6 turnovers.
