Use is a more flexible variable and second home users are a larger and socio-economically more heterogeneous group than the owners.
By contrast, the Chinese who emigrated in large numbers to the Malay Peninsula in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were both a more heterogeneous group and a largely transient population that tended to establish self-contained communities.
Our experiment replicated one Ogilvy and Mather performed in Thailand; we conducted our own because we wanted to see the effect on a more heterogeneous group of Western smokers.
Based on the results of the first intervention, we proposed a set of design recommendations that were validated with a larger and more heterogeneous group in a second intervention.
However, a more heterogeneous group of patients was enrolled in this study consisting of both hypertrophic and atrophic non-unions [13].
People with axial spondyloarthropathy are a more heterogeneous group and have a higher proportion of women and more marked genetic differences compared with people with classical ankylosing spondylitis.
The reason for these differences may be that patients with bone metastases are a more heterogeneous group including those with one or two bone metastases as well as patients with massive engagement and prerequisites of substantial bone marrow infiltration.
No consensus exists whether patients can be managed with primary surgical repair when there is a significant delay in presentation or diagnosis, although a study carried out in a more heterogeneous group of patients with oesophageal ruptures could not demonstrate a relation between mortality risk and delay in presentation [[15]].
The GEPT samples gathered by Cheng et al. were from students who passed the listening and reading tests and formed a homogeneous ability group, while the present study did not limit the samples to those who passed the listening and reading tests and can be considered a more heterogeneous group.
The patients with a SALS diagnosis without a SOD1 gene mutation appeared as a more heterogeneous group possibly because of multiple disease pathways.
However, children with moderate NE form a more heterogeneous group with respect to outcome.
