The simplest variant detection methods identify variants on a per-sample basis, one position at a time.
Meatballs, meatloaves, burgers, koftas – they're all just variants on a theme, and have been gracing tables for centuries.
Just like any other blues, all the songs were variants on a theme - "Since my baby left me, blah blah blah".
Dip into the weekend papers, the blogosphere & the musings of the twitterati, and you'll see multiple variants on a similar sentiment: "I can't quite believe it, and I never thought this would happen, but I find myself supporting Germany.
Ideas floated in the 80s included variants on a social dividend, whereby publicly listed companies would be required to issue a percentage of new shares each year (a process known as equity dilution) to be lodged in a citizen's trust that would provide all citizens with a growing dividend on the profits of the whole economy, thus converting monopoly capital into equitable income.
I felt the same way about the Carlo Domeniconi works played by Dale Kavanagh; the peeks of the Eastern Mediterranean in "Calata" from "Tryptichon" (1986) and the jazzy accents in "Toccata in Blue" (1997), composed for Ms. Kavanagh, were subtle variants on a basically mellow mood.
Terry Jones's film, starring Julie Walters as 'Christine Painter', offers umpteen variants on a single, Monty-Python-meets-Benny-Hill scenario: a grand (male) member of the establishment, dressed as a schoolgirl/maid/nanny/bathing beauty, being awkwardly chastised by amateur dominatrices.
For illustration, we directly compare the performance and robustness of several variants on a benchmark problem.
Causal decision theorists define expected utility using variants on a proposal by Savage (1972).
The introduced Global-best BSO (GBSO) is compared against other BSO variants on a wide range of benchmark functions.
We characterize the computation times of the different RAP variants on a desktop machine with a 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon processor and 4 GB RAM.
