Variation

Variation
Author: Benedikt Hallgrímsson
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2011-05-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080454461

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was based on the observation that there is variation between individuals within the same species. This fundamental observation is a central concept in evolutionary biology. However, variation is only rarely treated directly. It has remained peripheral to the study of mechanisms of evolutionary change. The explosion of knowledge in genetics, developmental biology, and the ongoing synthesis of evolutionary and developmental biology has made it possible for us to study the factors that limit, enhance, or structure variation at the level of an animals' physical appearance and behavior. Knowledge of the significance of variability is crucial to this emerging synthesis. Variation situates the role of variability within this broad framework, bringing variation back to the center of the evolutionary stage. - Provides an overview of current thinking on variation in evolutionary biology, functional morphology, and evolutionary developmental biology - Written by a team of leading scholars specializing on the study of variation - Reviews of statistical analysis of variation by leading authorities - Key chapters focus on the role of the study of phenotypic variation for evolutionary, developmental, and post-genomic biology

Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits: A Hands-on Field Guide

Variation-Aware Design of Custom Integrated Circuits: A Hands-on Field Guide
Author: Trent McConaghy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2012-09-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 146142268X

This book targets custom IC designers who are encountering variation issues in their designs, especially for modern process nodes at 45nm and below, such as statistical process variations, environmental variations, and layout effects. It teaches them the state-of-the-art in Variation-Aware Design tools, which help the designer to analyze quickly the variation effects, identify the problems, and fix the problems. Furthermore, this book describes the algorithms and algorithm behavior/performance/limitations, which is of use to designers considering these tools, designers using these tools, CAD researchers, and CAD managers.

Variations

Variations
Author: Juliet Jacques
Publisher: Influx Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2021-06-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1910312789

'Jacques's voice sings out loud and clear – wistful, drily humorous, stiletto-sharp.' – The Observer Variations is the debut short story collection from one of Britain's most compelling voices, Juliet Jacques. Using fiction inspired by found material and real-life events, Variations explores the history of transgender Britain with lyrical, acerbic wit. Variations travels from Oscar Wilde's London to austerity-era Belfast via inter-war Cardiff, a drag bar in Liverpool just after the decriminalisation of homosexuality, Manchester's protests against Clause 28, and Brighton in the 2000s. Through diary entries of an illicit love affair, an oral history of a contemporary political collective; a 1920s academic paper to a 1990s film script; a 1950s memoir to a series of 2014 blog posts, Jacques rewrites and reinvigorates a history so often relegated to stale police records and sensationalist news headlines. Innovative and fresh, Variations is a bold and beautiful book of stories unheard; until now. 'Everything about this book—from the conception, to the language, to the execution—makes me wish I'd been the one to write it. Except I couldn't have. Juliet Jacques is a complete original and this book is the proof.' – Torrey Peters

Wood Variation

Wood Variation
Author: Bruce J. Zobel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642740693

Wood is the usual end product of a forestry operation. Because of its importance, numerous studies have been made relative to wood prop erties, the causes of wood variation, and how best to develop wood for desired products. There is voluminous literature related to these subjects, but it is neither well known nor appreciated by foresters because the publications are often not available or are not well understood by the forester or by those who use the wood. Frequently, the literature is confusing and contradictory, making it difficult for the nonspecialist to use what information is available. In order to produce and use wood efficiently, the variation pat terns within trees, among trees within species, and among species must be understood. This also requires some knowledge of the causes of variation and the effects of different wood properties upon utiliza tion. The information about variation patterns, their causes, and con trol and effect upon the product must be known by the tree grower, the tree breeder, and the tree harvester as well as by those who ultimately convert wood into a final, salable product.

Regular Variation

Regular Variation
Author: N. H. Bingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1989-06-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521379434

A comprehensive account of the theory and applications of regular variation.

Necrophilia Variations

Necrophilia Variations
Author: Supervert 32C Inc
Publisher: Supervert 32c Incorporated
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Fiction. NECROPHILIA VARIATIONS is a literary monograph on the erotic attraction to corpses and death. It consists of a series of texts that, like musical phrases, take up the theme and advance it by means of repetition, contrast, and variation.Written in a style that ranges from the lugubrious to the ludicrous--from purple prose to black humor--NECROPHILIA VARIATIONS uses literary means to probe the psychopathology of sexual perversion. Eros, the book asks, is naturally drawn to beauty, and yet nothing would seem to be less inherently beautiful than a cadaver. How is it that a necrophile ends up confusing the two, discovering beauty in what most people would find repugnant? How does he come to desire that which would seem to be intrinsically undesirable? If you have ever contemplated the curious points of contact between eros and thanatos, then Necrophilia Variations will be sure to delight you with its depictions of death, desire, and deviance.

Understanding Variation

Understanding Variation
Author: Donald J. Wheeler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book provides techniques to become numerically literate and able to understand and digest data.

Human Variation

Human Variation
Author: Aravinda Chakravarti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781936113255

"A subject collection from Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine."