<i>Tetranychus urticae</i> and <i>Tetranychus cinnabarinus</i>: Synonymous or not?

Septicemia and Sepsis Are Not Synonymous!

 Examples MS-DRGs distinguish between patients admitted with sepsis due to pneumonia, or septic shock, and sepsis due to other infections such as UTI or cellulitis, giving credit for increased severity of illness for patients with an “MCC” or major complication / comorbid condition. Operational definitions referenced by the Cooperating Parties on behalf of the American Hospital Association (A...

“Calcitriol” Is Not Synonymous with “Vitamin D”

Regarding the recent article by Shaygannejad et al. [1], we are writing to express serious concerns about the portrayal of the intervention and the authors' interpretation and discussion of the findings. Of predominate concern is that the authors utilized a calcitriol intervention in their study but referred to it as " vitamin D ". The erroneous use of the term " vitamin D " is of concern for s...

Good Laboratory Practices Are Not Synonymous with Good Scientific Practices, Accurate Reporting, or Valid Data

LEED, energy savings, and carbon abatement: related but not synonymous.

E to green the building industry are strongly linked to performance metrics such as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Yet, despite the importance of climate impact as a driver of green building choices, such standards typically address a basket of poorly quantified “green” attributes and, when they do address energy, they focus on conservation rather than carbon emissions so...

THE MDGs AND PRO-POOR POLICIES: RELATED BUT NOT SYNONYMOUS

The working paper asks whether the millennium development goals (MDGs) have created opportunities for enlarging pro-poor policy choices at the country level. It concludes that in most countries the policy framework is not yet aligned with the fundamental objective of reducing human poverty. Poverty reduction continues to be seen as an automatic by-product of economic growth and macroeconomic st...