It can be variously seen as a sub-genre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction ; different alternate history works may use tropes from any or all of these genres.

Many sources list the domestic dog as Canis familiaris, but others, including the Smithsonian Institution and the American Society of Mammalogists, more precisely list it as a subspecies of C. l. familiaris ; the red wolf, eastern Canadian wolf, and Indian wolf may or may not be separate species ; in the past, the dingo has been variously classified as Canis dingo, Canis familiaris dingo and Canis lupus familiaris dingo.

In some systems, bishops may be subject to higher-ranking bishops ( variously called archbishops, metropolitans, and / or patriarchs, depending upon the tradition ).

An example is the past tense suffix -⟨ ed ⟩, which may be pronounced variously as,, or ( for example, dip, dipped, boom, boomed, loot, looted ).

Petrarch was moved to defend Celestine vigorously against the accusation of cowardice and some modern scholars ( e. g., Mark Musa ) have suggested Dante may have meant someone else ( Esau, Diocletian and Pontius Pilate have been variously suggested ).

This example, in slightly different guises, is important in algebraic geometry, topology and projective geometry where it may be denoted variously by PG ( 2, R ), RP < sup > 2 </ sup >, or P < sub > 2 </ sub >( R ) among other notations.

This group may variously be known as a ' Deacon Board ', ' Board of Deacons ' ' Diaconate ', or ' Deacons ' Court '.

At the shoulder, tigers may variously stand tall.

Spacecraft subsystems comprise the spacecraft " bus " and may include: attitude determination and control ( variously called ADAC, ADC or ACS ), guidance, navigation and control ( GNC or GN & C ), communications ( Comms ), command and data handling ( CDH or C & DH ), power ( EPS ), thermal control ( TCS ), propulsion, and structures.

The identity of his wife is variously given: generally as Dione, but whose name may simply mean " The Goddess ," or perhaps as the Pleiad with that name ; or as Eurythemista, a daughter of the river-god Xanthus ; or Euryanassa, daughter of Pactolus, another river-god, both of them in Anatolia ; or Clytia, the child of Amphidamantes.

Alternatively, alpine skiers may pursue the sport in less controlled environments ; this practice is variously referred to as ski touring, backcountry skiing, or extreme skiing.

The terms protagonist and main character are variously defined and, depending on the source, may denote different concepts.

The Egyptian pronunciation of is not fully known, but may be reconstructed as *, based on the Ancient Greek borrowing Thōth or Theut and the fact that it evolved into Sahidic Coptic variously as Thoout, Thōth, Thoot, Thaut as well as Bohairic Coptic Thōout.

The name of the dish may be spelled variously as cebiche, ceviche, or seviche based on regional location ; all three spelling variations are accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy, the official institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language.

As an academic discipline, it refers both to a set of objects of study and a method by which they are studied -- the method may be called variously " oral traditional theory ", " the theory of Oral-Formulaic Composition " and the " Parry-Lord theory " ( after two of its founders ; see below ) The study of oral tradition is distinct from the academic discipline of oral history, which is the recording of personal memories and histories of those who experienced historical eras or events.

He is probably the most famous of the ancient High Kings, and may have been an authentic historical figure, although many legends have attached themselves to him, and his reign is variously dated as early as the 2nd century and as late as the 4th.

Scholars have variously proposed that Gullveig / Heiðr is the same figure as the goddess Freyja, that Gullveig's death may have been connected to corruption by way of gold among the Æsir, and / or that Gullveig's treatment by the Æsir may have led to the Æsir-Vanir War.

A flight surgeon is a military medical officer assigned to duties in the clinical field variously known as aviation medicine, aerospace medicine, or flight medicine ( NB: although the term " flight surgery " is considered improper by purists, it may occasionally be encountered ).

Other fully interlocking puzzles may have tabs and blanks variously arranged on each piece, but they usually have four sides, and the numbers of tabs and blanks thus add up to four.

It has also been variously suggested that bubbles may be rational, intrinsic, and contagious.

Though the traditional daffodil of folklore, poetry, and field may have a yellow to golden-yellow color all over, both in the wild species and due to breeding, the perianth and corona may be variously colored.

`` The accommodations may not be the poshest, but man!!

The race problem has tended to obscure other, less emotional, issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

Nevertheless, it may be helpful to cite one example -- that of employment -- for, as will be shown below, it cuts across both facets of the new concept.

A measure of its widespread acceptance may be derived from a statement of the International Congress of Jurists in 1959.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

What these fragments are and how they activate the go order may not be revealed.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.

or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.

The approach to the depiction of the experience of creation may be analytic, as it is for Miss Litz, or spontaneous, as it is for Merle Marsicano.

He examined it carefully, handed it back and said, `` Eh bien, you may leave France ''.

Whilst the magnification of both the field ion and atom probe microscopes is extremely high, the exact magnification is dependant upon conditions specific to the examined specimen, so unlike for conventional electron microscopes, there is often little direct control on magnification, and furthermore, obtained images may have strongly variable magnifications due to fluctuations in the shape of the electric field at the surface.

Gardner believed that the Kodak technicians may not have examined the photographs entirely objectively, observing that one had commented " after all, as fairies couldn't be true, the photographs must have been faked somehow ".

# Under certain conditions, involving primarily complete absence of threat to the self structure, experiences which are inconsistent with it may be perceived and examined, and the structure of self revised to assimilate and include such experiences.

For example, if a flat-panel display is examined under a magnifying glass, the pixels may appear as follows:

The two cost-effectiveness estimates of DDT residual spraying examined were not found to provide an accurate estimate of the cost-effectiveness of DDT spraying ; furthermore, the resulting estimates may not be good predictors of cost-effectiveness in current programs.

In Scots Law, Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh ( 1953 ) provides authority that where a witness has particular knowledge or skills in an area being examined by the court, and has been called to court in order to elaborate on that area for the benefit of the court, that witness may give evidence of his opinion on that area.

A licensed physician, psychologist, social worker, or nurse practitioner who has examined the patient or a police officer may bring a potential patient to the emergency room for forced evaluation without approval from a judge.

Fourteen years later, Libanius said that Julian was killed by a Saracen ( Lakhmid ) and this may have been confirmed by Julian's doctor Oribasius who, having examined the wound, said that it was from a spear used by a group of Lakhmid auxiliaries in Persian service.

Various constituents of a gene, such as its control elements and its gene product, may be mutated so that the functioning of a gene or protein can be examined in detail.

Ultimately, there is no way to measure whether a particular phylogenetic hypothesis is accurate or not, unless the true relationships among the taxa being examined are already known ( which may happen with bacteria or viruses under laboratory conditions ).

For instance, a particular medicine may have different effects on different subpopulations, and these effects may be obscured or dismissed if such special subpopulations are not identified and examined in isolation.

Scholars who have examined these claims tend to believe that while the slave songs may certainly have expressed hope for deliverance from the sorrows of this world, these songs did not present literal help for runaway slaves.

There is not a criminal in a European jail, there is not a criminal in the South Sea Islands, whose indignation would not rise and over-boil at the recital of that which has been done, which has too late been examined, but which remains unavenged, which has left behind all the foul and all the fierce passions which produced it and which may again spring up in another murderous harvest from the soil soaked and reeking with blood and in the air tainted with every imaginable deed of crime and shame.

The bird in the hand may be examined and measurements can be made including standard lengths and weight.

In the UK, loads may be hand examined at the factory gate before being accepted.

This material may be examined by metal detector for stray finds but unless the site has remained untouched since its abandonment there is invariably a layer of modern material on the surface of limited archaeological interest.

Urban forensic entomology studies may also indicate the appropriateness of certain pesticide treatments and may also be used in stored products cases where it can help to determine chain of custody, when all points of possible infestation are examined in order to determine who is at fault.

The animal also may be cut open and its entrails examined to determine whether the cure was effective.

On the other hand, writer and genocide scholar Taner Akçam acknowledges that in the case of Van, the deportations may have been driven by military necessity and states the resistance in Van should be examined as a separate case.

He is asked by the policeman to volunteer to have his hard disk examined by him, and Messenger agrees, knowing that ( a ) his secret journal may be read ( and all his womanizing come to light ), and that ( b ) you cannot really delete anything from a hard disk once you have stored the information there, so there would be no point in delaying the investigation.

This may be due in part to the fact that the first examined specimen was found to have undigested pieces of a monkey in its stomach.