Several Baseball Prospectus authors have invented or improved upon widely relied upon sabermetric measures and techniques.

Several other minor refinements were made to stethoscopes, until in the early 1960s Dr. David Littmann, a Harvard Medical School professor, created a new stethoscope that was lighter than previous models and had improved acoustics.

Several just-in-time compilation ( JIT ) techniques were pioneered and improved in Self research as they were required to allow a very high level object oriented language to perform at up to half the speed of optimized C. Much of the development of Self took place at Sun Microsystems, and the techniques they developed were later deployed for Java's HotSpot virtual machine.

Several luxurious hotels were built, and the improved market access provided by the railways also encouraged, initially, a rapid growth in wine growing: however, many of the department's viticulturalists were ruined by the arrival in 1872 of phylloxera.

Several weeks after its debut, Ottawa Citizen television columnist Bob Blackburn deemed the programme to be noticeably improved and predicted that if that trend continued " and if the program doesn't run dry on its slightly limited subject matter, Front Page Challenge might well become an institution on Canadian TV ".

Several years after the Poqet Prime and Classic, and some time after Fujitsu purchased Poqet Computer Corp., the new and improved Poqet PC Plus was introduced.

Several improved versions followed, and by the time The Blitz opened in 1941, the AI Mk. IV was available and offered greatly improved performance with a range between 20, 000 feet down to a minimum range of 400 feet.

Several historians argue that the plan was unfeasible for its time, due to the recent advances in weaponry and the improved transportation of industrial warfare.

Several important applications of astrography, including astronomical spectroscopy and astrometry require greater dimensional stability than film could provide, and continued using plates until digital imaging improved to the point of supplanting photochemical photography for these purposes.

Several new species were discovered, 47 publications were published, and the understanding of biogeographic boundaries was improved.

Several large companies including Fuji Television moved their headquarters to the island, and transportation links improved with the connection of the Rinkai Line into the JR East railway network in 2002 and the eastward extension of the Yurikamome to Toyosu in 2006.

Several representatives of the SP. A and, to a lesser extent, the CD & V and VLD parties, prefer an improved federal organisation of the Belgian state over a confederal one.

Several secret sharing schemes are said to be information theoretically secure and can be proved to be so, while others give up this unconditional security for improved efficiency while maintaining enough security to be considered as secure as other common cryptographic primitives.

He was quoted as writing: " Several months ago we made the decision to fold the party and fully support Stephen Harper and the new and improved Conservative party.

Several papers have since improved the performance of universal constructions, but still, their performance is far below blocking designs.

Several of these wagonways became plateways and then railways as technology improved.

Several improved models were added in the 1950s.

Several improved models were added in the 1950s.

Several strains of Pelagibacter ubique have been cultured thanks to improved isolation techniques.

Several important dentists helped to advance dental braces with specific instruments and tools that allowed braces to be improved.

Several improved components followed as the Army offered additional contracts for eventual production.

Several viewing platforms have been constructed and older constructions improved upon.

* Several computer operating systems have various methods of running software originally designed for older versions or other OSs:

" Several television versions have altered this slightly, having Banquo appear suddenly in the chair, rather than walking onstage and into it.

Several different computer printers were simply computer-controllable versions of existing electric typewriters.

Several of the Lancer / Ace Conan versions are rewrites by de Camp and Carter of non Conan stories.

Several versions exist, though they all have the same basic premise, that of a set of instructions given by the Great Goddess to her worshippers.

Several different versions of a Wiccan Charge of the God have since been created to mirror and accompany the Charge of the Goddess.

Several recent Tao Te Ching translations ( e. g., Lau 1989, Henricks 1989, Mair 1990, Henricks 2000, Allan and Williams 2000, and Roberts 2004 ) utilize these two versions, sometimes with the verses reordered to synthesize the new finds.

Several versions with and without narration ( File size = 3. 6 to 10. 4 MB ) ( Movie Length = 1m 8s )

Several decades after Pearson's work with early versions of meta-analysis, Glass published the first application of modern meta-analytic techniques and triggered their broad application across the social and biomedical sciences.

Several versions are available for the UNIX-based Mac OS X, including a text-mode version using Fink or MacPorts and two graphical versions, IrssiX, and MacIrssi.

Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.

Several versions of the Nights theme song " Dreams Dreams " appear throughout the games in the series.

Several versions of this myth have survived from ancient sources.

Several different versions of the course of events following the elevation of Silverius exist.

Several albums exist in 2 versions, the original Japanese version and the international version, each having differences in tracklistings.

Several different versions of this game were created.

Several versions of the film exist.

Several remixed versions of the 1993 theme were used upon the return of the NFL to CBS until the end of the 2002 season, when CBS replaced its theme with one composed by E. S.

Several official design studies were done, but most were basically smaller versions of the existing Shuttle concept.

Several versions of Slavebot have been widely circulated in the US and Europe and are the most widely distributed examples of this type of Trojan horse.

Several versions of XyWrite for DOS and Windows were also localized for use in European countries.

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 experimental versions of the Sheridan mounting a new turret carrying the NATO-standard 105mm gun were made, but the resulting recoil was so great as to make the vehicle almost unusable.

Several international versions of the show have recently changed or modified their version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.