Several years ago Stephen Hawking said that there was a fifty-fifty chance that an actual unification of the four fundamental forces – a Theory of Everything – would be achieved.

Several of the fundamental problems caused by the transition to sound were soon solved with new camera casings, known as " blimps ", designed to suppress noise and boom microphones that could be held just out of frame and moved with the actors.

Several fundamental principles tend to inform the organizations and sites dedicated to open publishing, though they do so to varying degrees.

Several lines of evidence suggest that mast cells may have a fairly fundamental role in innate immunity – they are capable of elaborating a vast array of important cytokines and other inflammatory mediators such as TNFa, they express multiple " pattern recognition receptors " thought to be involved in recognizing broad classes of pathogens, and mice without mast cells seem to be much more susceptible to a variety of infections.

Several fundamental disagreements identified by the New Conference and adherents included: allowing regular group Bible studies outside of the Sunday worship setting ; permitting open outreach & mission efforts ; use of email and the Internet ; Scriptural application of church discipline as guided by Matthew 18 ; and a perceived violation of the Scriptural principle of nonresistance, whereby majority disfellowshipped minority when they could not submit in good conscience to limited options forced upon them without prior conference council or discussion.

Several members of the Sons of Liberty were printers / publishers and distributed articles about the meetings and demonstrations the Sons of Liberty held, as well as about the fundamental political beliefs of the group and what they wanted to accomplish.

Several fundamental facts of mathematical statistics describe this phenomenon, including the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem.

Several fundamental theological beliefs distinguish the Ayyavazhi tradition from Hinduism.

Several statutory changes such as passing by the Parliament of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, further affected the law position on the doctrine of fundamental breach and liability limitations.

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

Several major North American drainage basins and many minor ones share a common border with the Columbia River's drainage basin.

Several patterns of linking the rings together have been known since ancient times, with the most common being the 4-to-1 pattern ( where each ring is linked with four others ).

Several subspecies of the common chimpanzee have been recognized:

Several clinical and experimental data have implicated the failure of blood – brain barrier ( BBB ) function in triggering chronic or acute seizures, some studies implicate the interactions between a common blood protein — albumin and astrocytes.

Several digraphs are common in English.

Several of the most common techniques for producing glass art include: blowing, kiln-casting, fusing, slumping, pate-de-verre, flame-working, hot-sculpting and cold-working.

Several common genotyping techniques include restriction fragment length polymorphism ( RFLP ), terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism ( t-RFLP ), amplified fragment length polymorphism ( AFLP ), and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification ( MLPA ).

Several traditional players have used hammers that differ substantially from those in common use today.

Several common analogies support slippery slope arguments.

Several libertarian socialists, notably Noam Chomsky, believe that anarchism shares much in common with certain variants of Marxism such as the council communism of Marxist Anton Pannekoek.

Several optional extensions are also available, including MIPS-3D which is a simple set of floating-point SIMD instructions dedicated to common 3D tasks, MDMX ( MaDMaX ) which is a more extensive integer SIMD instruction set using the 64-bit floating-point registers, MIPS16e which adds compression to the instruction stream to make programs take up less room, and MIPS MT, which adds multithreading capability.

Several cyanobacterial strains are also capable of diazotrophic growth, an ability which may have been present in their last common ancestor in the Archaean.

Several bands will share a common territory, with some members of one band joining another band, every so often.

Several common forms of SOD exist: they are proteins cofactored with copper and zinc, or manganese, iron, or nickel.

Several other less common academic positions also exist.

Several historical varieties of laudanum exist, including Paracelsus ' laudanum, Sydenham's Laudanum ( also known as tinctura opii crocata ), benzoic laudanum ( tinctura opii benzoica ), and deodorized tincture of opium ( the most common contemporary formulation ), among others.

Several elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, bahamuts, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc.

Several types of common " berries " are shown, only one of which ( the blueberry ) is a berry by botanical definition.

Several species are among the most common of seabirds, including the Wilson's Storm Petrel ( an estimated 20 million individuals ) and the Short-tailed Shearwater ( an estimated 30 million individuals ); while the total population of some other species barely reaches more than two hundred individuals.

Several sources from the High Middle Ages suggest that there was a common Carantanian ( that is, Carinthian ) identity that slowly vanished after the 14th century and was replaced by a regional Carniolan identity.

Several specific federal court rulings have set precedents regarding both court decreed name changes and common law name changes ( changing the name at will ).

Several of the common names for species within the Tilia genus have Linden in their names.

Several PBS stations also air some CBC programming However, these programs are syndicated by independent distributors and are not governed by the PBS " common carriage " policy.

Several disciplines have developed as separate branches of comparative law, including comparative constitutional law, comparative administrative law, comparative civil law ( in the sense of the law of torts, delicts, contracts and obligations ), comparative commercial law ( in the sense of business organisations and trade ), and comparative criminal law.

Several democracies, including India, Israel and the United States, take a flexible, eclectic approach, recognizing aspects of public international law such as territorial rights as universal, regarding other aspects as arising from treaty or custom, and viewing certain aspects as not being subjects of public international law at all.

Several important institutional changes took place in this period, such as free and mandatory schooling introduced 1842 ( as first country in the world ), the abolishment of a previous national monopoly on trade in handicrafts in 1846, and a stock company law in 1848.

Several studies have discovered that subjects who received no jury instructions comprehended the law better than subjects who received pattern instructions.

Several new processes had been introduced to English law under Henry II, including novel disseisin and mort d ' ancestor.

Several of the accused had argued that their experiments differed little from pre-war ones and that there was no law that differentiated between legal and illegal experiments.

Several attempted coups served to remind President Félix Pavia ( the former dean of law at the National University ) that although the February Revolution was out of power, it was far from dead.

Several safety provisions of probate law in the U. S. protect the decedent's assets from mismanagement, loss, and embezzlement, such as the requirement that the executor of the will be bonded, the real property insured, the executor ’ s sale of real estate monitored, and itemized accountings filed with the court during and at the end of probate administration.

Several measures of digital technology are improving at exponential rates related to Moore's law, including the size, cost, density and speed of components.

Several theories attempt to explain and quantify the relationship between animals and their food, such as Kleiber's law, Holling's disk equation and Marginal Value Theorem.

Several clans moved to Canada, in particular the Greater Toronto Area, home to what Canadian law enforcement call the Siderno Group, which has been here since at least the 1950s.

Several scenes involve the interaction of members of Professor Kingsfields's first year Contracts Law course and clearly show how the Socratic method is used as a framework for presenting concepts in contract law to the students.

Several federal law enforcement agencies are administered by the Department of Justice:

Several district courts require attorneys seeking admission to their bars to take an additional bar examination on federal law, including the following: the Southern District of Ohio, the Northern District of Florida, and the District of Puerto Rico.

Several physicists have presented calculations that show that the second law of thermodynamics will not actually be violated, if a more complete analysis is made of the whole system including the demon.