Do Ingredients Make the Difference?

Do ingredients make the difference?: finding the best cocktail of an anticoagulant with antiplatelets.

I n clinical practice, the need to add 1 or 2 antiplatelet agents to an oral anticoagulant (OAC) often arises in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The indications can be diverse, from primary prevention in patients at high risk for an ischemic atherosclerotic event to secondary prevention after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) to prevention of stent thrombosis. 1,2 Unfortunately, adding a...

Job Performance of Iranian English Teachers: Do Teaching Experience and Gender Make a Difference?

In the available teacher development literature, the linkage between teaching experience, as one the crucial factors in teacher development (Tsui, 2005), and English teachers’ job performance with regard to gender differences has remain widely underexplored. To fill up this lacuna, this study investigated whether there was any significant correlation between Iranian English teachers’ years of e...

Two Collaborative Feedback Models in EFL Writing Instruction: Do They Make a Difference?

Research in L1 writing has found numerous benefits of employing collaborative learning in the classroom. The research findings on group work provide clear evidence that engaging learners in group activities increases opportunities for students to engage in the negotiation of meaning, which further leads to better acquisition. The present study, implementing two different collaborative feedback ...

Do Different Cost Systems Make a Difference?

Cellular Heterogeneity: Do Differences Make a Difference?

A central challenge of biology is to understand how individual cells process information and respond to perturbations. Much of our knowledge is based on ensemble measurements. However, cell-to-cell differences are always present to some degree in any cell population, and the ensemble behaviors of a population may not represent the behaviors of any individual cell. Here, we discuss examples of w...