What Do Cytogenetic Abnormalities after Autotransplant Really Mean?

Palliative care; what do you really mean?

Critical reflection. What do we really mean?

Do we really know what critical reflection means in the context of work-integrated learning, more specifically cooperative education? Critical reflection, in some form, is located within many higher education programmes, including cooperative education and many educators would say this is important for in-depth student learning. It is a form of reflection that is complicated as well as challeng...

Preemptive, preventive, multimodal analgesia: what do they really mean?

SUMMARY To improve postoperative pain management, several concepts have been developed, including preemptive analgesia, preventive analgesia, and multimodal analgesia. This article will discuss the role of these concepts in improving perioperative pain management. Preemptive analgesia refers to the administration of an analgesic treatment before the surgical insult or tissue injury. Several ran...

What do scaffold proteins really do?

Scaffold proteins play an important role in coordinating signal transduction cascades. However, their exact mechanism of action and the ultimate effect they have on the signal output remain unclear. Ferrell discusses how computer simulations have provided insight into the multiple possible functions that scaffold proteins may have. What remains is to test the predictions in real cells to determ...

What do software architects really do?

0164-1212/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jss.2008.08.025 * Tel.: +1 604 8275654; fax: +1 604 822 5949. E-mail address: [email protected] To be successful, a software architect—or a software architecture team, collectively—must strike a delicate balance between an external focus—both outwards: Listening to customers, users, watching technology, developing a long-term vision, ...