Although there were no startling developments in shotgun design this year, a number of new models and variations of existing models did hit the market.

Amphibians have a skeletal system that is structurally homologous to other tetrapods, though with a number of variations.

All amniotes have a broadly similar arrangement to that of humans, albeit with a number of individual variations.

* the logarithmic cost model, also called logarithmic-cost measurement ( and variations thereof ), assigns a cost to every machine operation proportional to the number of bits involved

The Crapsey cinquain has subsequently seen a number of variations by modern poets, including:

Frites are the main ingredient in the Canadian dish of Québécois descent known in both Canadian English and French as poutine, comprising fried potatoes covered with cheese curds and gravy, a dish with a growing number of variations.

There are a number of variations.

flamenco singing is not, strictly speaking, improvised, but based on a relatively small number of traditional songs, singers add variations on the spur of the moment.

It is verbal behavior that consists of using a certain number of consonants and vowels [...] in a limited number of syllables that in turn are organized into larger units that are taken apart and rearranged pseudogrammatically [...] with variations in pitch, volume, speed and intensity.

As more manufacturers licensed CP / M, it became a de facto standard and had to support an increasing number of hardware variations.

So a number of variations are played with extra rules that aimed to reduce black's advantage.

There are a number of variations of these cycles, most notably the Atkinson and Miller cycles.

A number of variations exist between the statements by Josephus regarding the deaths of James and John the Baptist and the New Testament accounts.

There were a number of variations on it.

The game is played with a set of 136 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols, although some regional variations use a different number of tiles.

This blending and variations have given rise to a number of varieties of Mexican cheeses.

There are a great number of variations between the extremes of free and decurrent, collectively called attached gills.

Oh Hell ( also known as Oh Pshaw, Up the River, Up and down the River, Bumble, Vanishing Whist, Diminishing Whist, Hell Yeah !, Peanuts, Stinky Fingers, Get Fred, Gary's Game, Diminishing Bridge, Shit On Your Neighbor, " Screw Your Neighbor ", O ' Shay, Juego de Daniel, Nah Pearse, Old Hell, German Bridge in Hong Kong, and many variations of " Oh Hell " with euphemisms and other swearwords ) is a trick-taking card game in which the object is to take exactly the number of tricks bid, unlike contract bridge and spades: taking more tricks than bid is a loss.

However, a number of variations to the established meter are common, both to provide emphasis or attention to a given foot or line and to avoid boring repetition.

The number of days with temperatures falling below freezing ranges from as few as three to as many as sixteen yearly, and with even wider variations deep in the interior.

There are a number of variations of Pai Gow poker that are popular in casino today.

Throughout a great and open area, not only will there be a greater chance of favourable variations, arising from the large number of individuals of the same species there supported, but the conditions of life are much more complex from the large number of already existing species ; and if some of these species become modified and improved, others will have to be improved in a corresponding degree, or they will be exterminated.

Sunspot populations quickly rise and more slowly fall on an irregular cycle of 11 years, although significant variations in the number of sunspots attending the 11-year period are known over longer spans of time.

In pure water the majority of molecules exist as H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, but a small number of molecules are constantly dissociating and re-associating.

In general, the half-life becomes shorter as atomic number increases, though an " island of stability " may exist for undiscovered isotopes with certain numbers of protons and neutrons.

Any number of other ways exist to be rich.

* In the RPG Shadowrun, a number of hyperstructures such as the " Renraku Arcology " exist by 2050, most of which are mega-corporate controlled.

* In the RPG Trinity, a number of hyperstructures exist, with the largest being that of the New New York Arcology run by the Psi-Order Orgotek.

This might sound complex, but first of all the number of di-atomic molecules that can exist at the temperatures of the atomizers used in AAS is relatively small, and second, the correction is performed by the computer within a few seconds.

In accordance with this, other civilizations, including more " successful " ones, should exist an infinite number of times on the " preceding " and the " following " pages of the Book of the Universe.

A number of important historical sites, artifacts and documents exist which shed light on early board games.

A number of formal and industry standards exist for bicycle components to help make spare parts exchangeable and to maintain a minimum product safety.

Steven Weinberg and a number of string theorists ( see string landscape ) have used this as evidence for the anthropic principle, which suggests that the cosmological constant is so small because life ( and thus physicists, to make observations ) cannot exist in a universe with a large cosmological constant, but many people find this an unsatisfying explanation.

; it is indeed the strongest Arrhenius base, but a number of compounds that cannot exist in aqueous solution, such as n-butyllithium and sodium amide, are more basic.

Because of this asymmetry, a number of isomers may exist for any given monosaccharide formula.

The interior of the nucleus does not contain any membrane-bound subcompartments, its contents are not uniform, and a number of subnuclear bodies exist, made up of unique proteins, RNA molecules, and particular parts of the chromosomes.

Furthermore, the history of a number of ongoing experiments in multiculturalism, such as in the European Union, India, South Africa, Canada and the United States, suggests that workable, if not perfected, integrative models exist.

A number of untitled synopses for Conan stories also exist.

Since Carmichael numbers exist, this primality test cannot be relied upon to prove the primality of a number, although it can still be used to prove a number is composite.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

A number of lossless audio compression formats exist.

A number of rough measures exist, sometimes leading to contradictory results.

Larger sets such as double-twenty-one can theoretically exist but are rarely seen in retail stores, as identifying the number of pips on each domino becomes difficult, and a double-twenty-one set would have 253 pieces, far more than is normally necessary for most domino games even with eight players.

A number of large ISPs have configured their DNS servers to violate rules ( presumably to allow them to run on less-expensive hardware than a fully compliant resolver ), such as by disobeying TTLs, or by indicating that a domain name does not exist just because one of its name servers does not respond.

The field of definable numbers is not complete ; there exist convergent sequences of definable numbers whose limit is not definable ( since every real number is the limit of a sequence of rational numbers ).

Other interoperability profiles exist in the DECT suite of standards, and in particular the DPRS ( DECT Packet Radio Services ) bring together a number of prior interoperability profiles for the use of DECT as a wireless LAN and wireless internet access service.

Because no set definition of what constitutes a lake and no procedures for counting the number of lakes exist, it has been impossible to ascertain exactly how many lakes the region has.