Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, addressing the same committee, said that "short-term growth prospects have somewhat worsened compared to our spring forecast".
The fact that the CFIs somewhat worsened and the RMSEAs improved as new independent variables were added is a common phenomenon (Kenny & McCoach, 2006).
Patient global assessments of overall treatment outcomes will be measured by a single item consisting of a five-point Likert-scale question (much improved, somewhat improved, the same as baseline, somewhat worsened or much worsened) to assess the immediate and short-term treatment outcomes in all three conditions.
Clinical recovery and significant improvement were judged as cured and markedly improved, the cure-markedly effective rate, the primary outcome of this trial, was defined as the proportion of patients achieving clinical recovery or significant improvement; while somewhat improvement, no change, somewhat worsening and significant worsening were judged as not markedly improved.
Sentiment in Germany remained broadly unchanged (+0.3), while it worsened somewhat in the Netherlands (-0.9).... Employment plans were revised upwards in industry, services, retail trade and construction.
Fasting concentrations prior to treatment were ∼12 14 mM in diabetic mice, and in the vehicle-treated controls, worsened somewhat to ∼16 mM over 4 weeks.
Reduction in apparent podocyte number and podocyte density occurred as early as 2 weeks after STZ injection, and appeared to worsen somewhat by 6 and even further by 8 weeks after STZ administration.
GPE is evaluated on a seven-step global rating scale after surgery (ranging from better, an important improvement; somewhat better, but enough to be an important improvement; very small change, not enough to be an important improvement; about the same; very small change, not enough to be an important worsening; somewhat worse, but enough to be an important worsening; worse, an important worsening).
At the end of each week during the intervention period, subjects answered the following question: 'How would you consider your general abdominal discomfort in the past 7 d compared to the month before beginning the consumption of study product?', with the response options 'markedly relieved', 'somewhat relieved', 'unchanged', 'somewhat worsened' and 'markedly worsened'.
The UN's Children's Fund reports that in North Darfur, a comparatively peaceful part of the region, malnutrition, mortality rates and access to clean water have all worsened again after improving somewhat since the height of fighting in 2004.
The second EGD revealed that the reflux esophagitis had improved somewhat, but that the esophageal stricture had worsened.
