The germline mutation rate varies across the mammalian genome at several scales: between adjacent nucleotides; over hundreds of nucleotides; over hundreds of thousands to millions of nucleotides; and ...

Institute of Slavonic Languages and Caucasus Studies, University of Jena, Jena, Germany This paper is concerned with the relationship between complexity and variation. The main goal is to lay out the ...

Correspondence to Professor Alex Bottle, School of Public Health, Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine, London, W12 7TA, UK; robert.bottle{at}imperial.ac.uk In healthcare, as in life, the adage ...

Healthcare managers, clinical researchers and individual patients (and their physicians) manage variation differently to achieve different ends. First, managers are primarily concerned with the ...

Variation is the differences between individuals of the same species, caused by genetic and environmental factors. Surveys into variation give data that are continuous, which means to come in a range, ...

Since no two things are exactly alike, variation affects us in every aspect of our lives. Surprisingly, most American managers still don't pay much attention to variation. When they do look at it, ...

A key risk-management tool in the complex world of derivatives margin trading is variation margin. Variation margin is used to fully collateralize derivative contracts and ensure the stability of the ...