It doesn't really matter which month of the year you sow them, but they germinate best when they have a wide variation of temperature, very warm followed by cool in the same 24 hours.

There is a variation among regions in the United States when it comes to which handshape speakers prefer to use.

It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".

Assuming a fixed sample size, the technique gives more accurate results when most of the variation in the population is within the groups, not between them.

A variation of this logo with a black border was used until the 2009 NFL season, when the current logo was implemented.

Another variation is when Hera persuades Semele to force Zeus to show himself in his real form.

A variation which is known as the jumping calf kick is when the user jumps before performing the kick.

Strip poker is a traditional poker variation where players remove clothing when they lose bets.

It is often posited that pidgins become creole languages when a generation of children learn a pidgin as their first language, a process that regularizes speaker-dependent variation in grammar.

It was said that millions of years ago when the giraffe first appeared these animals had a variation of neck lengths.

During the early 2000s, the mean year-on-year demographic growth set a new record with its 2003 peak variation of 2. 1 %, doubling the previous record reached back in the 1960s when a mean year-on-year growth of 1 % was experienced.

*" What if ... starring Secret Wars: 25 years later " the children of heroes are teleported back to earth where sometime in the last 25 years, a variation of " Days of future's past " is shown when the group is attacked by Sentinels

* Double Sar ( also played in south Asia, a variation to Court Piece in which tricks are only captured when the same player wins two tricks in succession.

We obtain the same variation in probability amplitudes by allowing the time at which the photon left the source to be indeterminate, and the time of the path now tells us when the photon would have left the source, and thus what the angle of its " arrow " would be.

* Repeatability — the variation arising when all efforts are made to keep conditions constant by using the same instrument and operator, and repeating during a short time period ; and

Another variation is heat-resistant duct tape useful for sealing heating and ventilation ( HVAC ) ducts, produced because standard duct tape fails quickly when used on heating ducts.

Isaac Asimov, a confirmed atheist, answered a variation of this question: what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?

A variation of that name, Saavik, was later given to a female Vulcan when elements of several premises were combined for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and elements of Xon, such as his search to understand humans, would be transferred later into the character Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

For example, there is significant variation in limb morphologies amongst salamanders and in differences in segment number in centipedes, even when the respective genetic variation is low.

The thickness variation can be felt by the driver when it is approximately 0. 17 mm or greater ( on automobile discs ).

In 1974, when scholars discovered Bach's own copy of the first printing of the Goldberg Variations, they noted that over this variation Bach had added the heading al tempo di Giga.

In making his 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould considered playing this variation at a slower tempo, in keeping with the tempo of the preceding variation ( Variation 16 ), but ultimately decided not to because " Variation 17 is one of those rather skittish, slightly empty-headed collections of scales and arpeggios which Bach indulged when he wasn ’ t writing sober and proper things like fugues and canons, and it just seemed to me that there wasn't enough substance to it to warrant such a methodical, deliberate, Germanic tempo.

This variation of frequency also depends on the direction the wave source is moving with respect to the observer ; it is maximum when the source is moving directly toward or away from the observer and diminishes with increasing angle between the direction of motion and the direction of the waves, until when the source is moving at right angles to the observer, there is no shift.

The drama in the theater and the concert in the hall both have a fixed time, but the time is fixed by the director and the players, the conductor and the instrumentalists, subject, therefore, to much variation, as record collectors well know.

When Dave Wesely entered the service in 1970, his friend and fellow Napoleonics wargamer Dave Arneson began a medieval variation of Wesely's Braunstein games, where players control individuals instead of armies.

The Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, a variation of the original D & D geared towards younger players and edited by J. Eric Holmes, was released in 1977.

Another variation is to have the players hop, jump, walk backwards, or dance while they are walking around the chairs.

Yet another variation of Nim is ' Circular Nim ', where any number of objects are placed in a circle, and two players alternately remove one, two or three adjacent objects.

In Grundy's game, another variation of Nim, a number of objects are placed in an initial heap, and two players alternately divide a heap into two nonempty heaps of different sizes.

A game consists of a fixed number of hands, and each hand consists of dealing a certain number of cards to each player, depending on the variation and the number of players.

One variation is to make the maximum number of rounds on the way up no greater than 7, 8, or 9 rounds ( thus, even with four players, the players could opt to have the pattern of cards be 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, as playing 12 or 13 rounds up and then down again might be too lengthy for some ).

* In the Devil's Bridge variation, for the 1-card hand each player holds their own card on their forehead and looks at the other players ' cards, rather than their own, to bid.

; Community card poker ( also known as flop poker ): A variation of Stud, players are dealt an incomplete hand of face-down cards, and then a number of face-up community cards are dealt to the center of the table, each of which can be used by one or more of the players to make a 5-card hand.

Fortune Pai Gow is another variation which allows players to make a side bet on a poker hand ranking of trips or better.

Beach volleyball, a variation of the game played on sand and with only two players per team, became a FIVB-endorsed variation in 1987 and was added to the Olympic program at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

* Prisoner Ball: Also played with volleyball court and a volleyball, prisoner ball is a variation of Newcomb ball where players are " taken prisoner " or released from " prison " instead of scoring points.

Another three-player variation is " Sevens " in which one player plays against two players as a team, with the game being played to seven points ; if the two player team gets to seven first, the game is over, but if the solo player gets to seven first then the game continues to 14 ; if the solo player again reaches 14 first, then the game continues to 21, where the game ends regardless of whether the solo player or the two player team reach 21 first.

An improved variation, based more closely on the original Midi Maze, was Midimaze Plus from Robert and Werner Spahl featuring a compass and more detailed info on players.

Another variation asks players to write the first line of a novel using the title and the blurb read out from the back of the book as clues.

An informal variation of the game consists of the players exclusively submitting hilarious and outrageous definitions.

It has been played by mailing a drawing or collage — in progressive stages of completion — to the players, and this variation is known as " Exquisite Corpse by airmail ", apparently regardless of whether the game travels by airmail or not.

Another variation is to have each player have a " bank " of tiles in front of themselves, which affords players a clearer view of the " pool " of face-up letter tiles in the middle of the table.

Although such behavior is not technically against the rules, it allegedly flouts the principles behind table stakes poker to the extent that some players consider it an ethically dubious variation on ratholing.

This variation helps bridge the gap between advanced and amateur players.