Several perspectives or branches of such academic dictionary research have been distinguished: ' dictionary criticism ' ( or evaluating the quality of one or more dictionaries, e. g. by means of reviews ( see Nielsen 2009 )), ' dictionary history ' ( or tracing the traditions of a type of dictionary or of lexicography in a particular country or language ), ' dictionary typology ' ( or classifying the various genres of reference works, such as dictionary versus encyclopedia, monolingual versus bilingual dictionary, general versus technical or pedagogical dictionary ), ' dictionary structure ' ( or formatting the various ways in which the information is presented in a dictionary ), ' dictionary use ' ( or observing the reference acts and skills of dictionary users ), and ' dictionary IT ' ( or applying computer aids to the process of dictionary compilation ).

Several other less common academic positions also exist.

Several highly dramatized versions of Tubman's life had been written for children, and many more came later, but Conrad wrote in an academic style to document the historical importance of her work for scholars and the nation's memory.

Several academic papers exist.

* Several Cato Institute-affiliated scholars have achieved academic distinction, including Nobel laureates F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, James M. Buchanan, and Vernon L. Smith.

Several academic journals are published in the field of ( or closely related to ) rural sociology, including:

Several academic bodies exist to support behavior genetic research, including the Behavior Genetics Association, the International Society for Twin Studies, and the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society.

Several optimisations for Rete have been identified and described in academic literature.

Several books have been written about strippers and their work, including personal accounts and even academic studies by strippers themselves.

Several other less common academic positions also exist.

Several well-known approaches to team management have come out of academic work.

Several thousand faculty members serve a student body in different academic levels, from elementary to postgraduate.

Several academic associations and societies promote research in the field.

Several academic papers have pointed out the firm's continued use of the antibacterial agent Triclosan (' Active B ') in India because it is under review by the American Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ).

In his guide Cool Colleges, Donald Asher writes that the New Program was implemented to save the college from closing: " Several benefactors convinced the college to reject a watered-down curriculum in favor of becoming a very distinctive academic community.

Several well-known national publications rank EKU among the nation ’ s best for academic excellence, as a place to work, and for its services to military veterans, among other reasons.

Several programs at Eau Claire have been noted for their academic strength.

Several of its college textbooks, including The Norton Shakespeare, The Enjoyment of Music, A History of Western Music, and new and revised entries in the Norton Anthology and Norton Critical Edition series, have become best sellers in the academic fields.

Several thousand Pelicans were published over the next half-century and brought high quality accounts of the current state of knowledge in many fields, often written by authors of specialised academic books.

Several of these languages date from the early 1990s and are of academic interest.

Several papers exist that propose algorithms for scatternet formation, and many different approaches have been simulated in both academic and corporate R & D environments.

Several progressive professors were dismissed from the Central University of Madrid for promoting the ideas of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause ( 1781 – 1832 ), a German philosopher who advocated academic tolerance and liberty.

Several of the fellows of Crown College have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences or are otherwise notable for their academic work.

Several complete or partial editions of the Tanakh based on the Aleppo Codex have been published over the past three decades in Israel, some of them under the academic auspices of Israeli universities.

Several of the extinct Baltic languages have a limited or nonexistent written record, their existence being known only from the records of ancient historians and personal or place names.

Several historians on the basis of their investigations postulated the date of Mieszko I's birth to have been between 922 – 945 ; the activity of the Duke in his final years of life puts the date of his birth closer to the latter year.

Several historians are beginning to use the term as a description of the way people experience times, that is, as a layering of present experiences over faded pasts.

Several historians have interpreted the conclave to choose his successor as facing a choice between a diplomatic or a spiritual candidate, and they view Pacelli's diplomatic experience, especially with Germany, as one of the deciding factors in his election on 2 March 1939, his 63rd birthday, after only one day of deliberation and three ballots.

Several rock historians have claimed that rock and roll was one of the first music genres to define an age group.

Several historians have conjectured that this was the most commonly used method in ancient warfare due to its practicality.

Several other historians of the Zulu, and the Zulu military system however, affirm the mobility rate of up to 50 miles per day.

Several historians deny claims of orgies and mistresses, such as Robert H. Ferrell and Paul Johnson.

Several modern historians have concluded that Leo was homosexual.

Several historians have hypothesized that John II may have known of the existence of Brazil and North America as early as 1480 thus explaining his wish in 1494 at the signing of the Treaty of Tordesillas, to push the line of influence further west.

Several historians credit the Reform Act 1832 with launching modern democracy in Britain.

Several historians, such as Ross and Anthony Goodman, agree that Somerset left London to welcome Margaret in the south.

Several Romanian historians ( e. g., Vlad Georgescu ) suggest that Thocomerius followed Bărbat ( the latter had been mentioned in a letter of grant of 8 January 1285 issued by King Ladislaus IV of Hungary as the brother and successor of Litovoi, a voivode in modern Oltenia ).

Several modern historians have estimated the strength of Valens ' army.

Several modern historians have estimated the strength of the Gothic armies at 12, 000 – 15, 000.

Several groups and individuals have been labelled as vigilantes by historians and media.

Several historians have accepted the figure of 6, 000 Genoese mercenary crossbowmen.

Several economists and historians, amongst them Hufbauer and Schoot ( 2005 ), have analyzed some of the events and policy mistakes that precipitated the crisis of December 1994.

Several historians, including Walter Lord, speculated that the Texians were creating a diversion to allow their last courier, John Smith, to evade Mexican pickets.

Several historians of science suspect that either the multi-talented Emanuel Swedenborg or the brilliant inventor Christopher Polhem – also present at the meeting in Lund – may have been the true inventor behind this feat, or at least a main contributor.

Several townsfolk and local historians claim that Montrose played a significant role in the Northern Trail of the Underground Railroad, housing several slave families in the area.

Several notable historians and economists such as Eric Williams, Walter Rodney and Karl Marx contend that the global capitalist economy was largely founded on the creation and produce of thousands of slave labour camps based in colonial plantations exploiting tens of millions of abducted Africans.

Several other respected historians have similar views.

Several medieval chroniclers, including the author of the Life of Saint Edward, felt that the blame for Edward and Godwin's conflict in 1051 – 1052 lay squarely with Robert ; modern historians tend to see Robert as an ambitious man, with little political skill.