Recent climate variability and anomaly in the Great Lakes region provided a valuable opportunity in examining the response and regulation of ecosystem carbon cycling across different ecosystems.
We assessed recent temporal variability in environmental tungsten and cobalt in Fallon, Nevada, where 16 cases of childhood leukemia were diagnosed from 1997 to 2002 (Expert Panel 2004) and an additional case was announced in December 2004 (Nevada State Health Division 2004).
Annual, inter-annual, and decadal trends have also been studied recently to analyze the relationship between atmospheric forcing mechanisms (e.g., teleconnections) and recent Eurasian climate variability [52], [53].
In a recent study of variability of the normal urinary proteome by Nagaraj et al., it was shown that intrapersonal and interpersonal variability contributed 46%and47%7% to total variability, respectively [ 29].
These decadal to interdecadal modes have been investigated in relation to the climatic regime shift in the late 1970s or recent unusual tropical variability, although their mechanism is still unclear.
In recent years the variability of the cosmic ray flux has become one of the main issues not only for the interpretation of the abundances of cosmogenic isotopes in cosmochronic archives like, e.g., ice cores, but also for its potential impact on the terrestrial climate.
However, recent studies report variability in the accuracy of pre-operative staging of rectal cancer.
Similar results were observed in a recent study of variability in the human liver transcriptome [ 22].
At New Island, recent studies explored variability in provisioning and parent chick interactions (Catry et al. 2007; Quillfeldt et al. 2003, 2006, 2007a, b, c, 2008a, b, c, d, 2009a, b).
