In its draft guidance Nice tells hospitals that they should develop "escalation plans to address risk to patient care posed by: variation in demand for A&E services, variation in nursing needs, and departmental overcrowding".
There is huge variation in demand for greater tax and spending powers across the UK, from Scotland where a majority of voters favour enhanced fiscal autonomy, to most of the English regions, where there is little appetite for any change.
(And, surprisingly, in all three years, we see a drop in inquiries in the second quarter — it may be that all my worrying last year was simply about a seasonal variation in demand that I had yet to comprehend).
Digonex, which also offers pricing services to hotels and car parks, has also secured a number of high-profile clients.Of the big North American sports, the fastest to adapt has been Major League Baseball (MLB), mainly because it has the highest game-to-game variation in demand.
Usually, different shipping lines are called on in order to manage variation in demand and disturbances.
To model the dynamic variation in demand across each working day, and also across longer-term time-scales, five different demand profiles are used in the simulations.
Because of a high variation in demand of four parts in three periods, cell configurations are significantly different from each other in three periods.
The need for treated water storage depends on the facilities supplying water to a distribution zone and on variation in demand in the zone.
Pertinent applications include cyclical process in general and those with a strong diurnal variation in demand such as potable water and waste water treatment systems.
We proxy heterogeneous variation in demand with net exit rates in the productive stratum of each firm, defined as the group of firms in the same industry and size class.
