The performance of the replacements – who have been culled from other leagues and low-level college conferences — during preseason games has been closely scrutinized and has varied widely, drawing concern from some coaches and players.
All input parameters were varied by drawing from their probability distribution.
The randomization factor (f r,Tsl1 ) is varied by drawing from a global truncated normal distribution with mean of 1.0 and specified CV, following the same approach used for m b,0 (see above).
The baseline transmission rate was varied stochastically drawing from a uniform distribution between 0.8 and 1.2 (ie, ±20%) each year to reflect between-year variation in transmission due to climatic [ 14] or other external variability.
But one of the grandest gurus of all, Tom Peters, a co-author of the 1982 best seller "In Search of Excellence," says the field is too varied to draw simple lessons.
"That is: Did they have this policy of practicing discrimination?" Wal-Mart has argued that the experiences of the women it employs -- the case could affect more than 1.6 million women, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs -- are too varied to draw any sort of conclusion about its practices, and that their claims should not be combined into a class-action lawsuit.
Although the specific complaints vary, Richard Williams drew some parallels between his daughters' situation and the issues Woods and his associates have recently raised.
Point is, the dialog is varied and is drawing in voices from a diverse range of disciplines that includes artists, designers, technologists, science fiction writers, philosophers and art historians.
As Figure 1 shows, the mouth of the line drawing varied for each cue (smile, frown, question mark for question, straight line for neutral, and X for rest).
Sources of self-management support were varied and involved drawing on support from family, friends, health-care professionals, colleagues, the Internet and so on.
