Several organizations, such as the American Association of Variable Star Observers and Center for Backyard Astrophysics, exist to help coordinate these contributions.

Several organizations concerned with antimicrobial resistance are lobbying to eliminate the unnecessary use of antibacterials.

Several secular holidays are observed, such as Earth Day or, Arbor Day, or Labor Day, both internationally, and across multi-country regions, often in conjunction with organizations such as the United Nations.

Several modern religious movements, for example the organizations within the New Thought Movement and the Unity Church, may be said to have a particularly idealist orientation.

Several Latter Day Saint organizations make their headquarters in Independence, just east of the city.

Several incarnations of political groups promoting lesbian issues have evolved ; 13 lesbian organizations were active in Mexico City in 1997.

* Several gay rights organizations, such as Lambda Legal, and the Lambda Literary Award derive their names from the use of a lower-case lambda as a symbol for gay and lesbian rights.

Several organizations, typically government sponsored, exist globally to qualify and approve such lubricants by evaluating their potential for environmental harm.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Several reports have been published by various governmental and non-governmental organizations to present alternatives to the ozone depleting substances, since the substances have been used in various technical sectors, like in refrigerating, agriculture, energy production, and laboratory measurements

Several multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the UN Development Programme also provide assistance.

Several organizations exist that assert that conversion therapy can help diminish same-sex attraction.

Several of the FARC leaders appeared on the Justice Department's Consolidated Priority Organization target list, which identifies the most dangerous international drug trafficking organizations.

Several police organizations condemned this study and suggested more studies like this would make them hesitant to pull over visible minorities.

Several sealed and stamped letters are planted in public places, addressed to various entities, such as individuals, favorable organizations like medical research institutes, and stigmatized organizations such as " Friends of the Nazi Party ".

Several bands, groups, and organizations with members claiming Tuscarora descent reside in North Carolina ; they have organized and split in various configurations.

Several organizations developed from the popularization of Blavatsky's ideas and are considered new religious movements.

Several Unitarian organizations still promote Christianity as their central theme.

Several organizations established in Iran since the late 1990s offer a unique blend of interdisciplinary research.

Several organizations, such as British Greyhounds Retired Database, Greyhound Rescue West of England, GAGAH, Adopt-a-Greyhound and Greyhound Pets of America, and the Retired Greyhound Trust try to ensure that as many of the dogs as possible are adopted.

Several international organizations work to promote international co-operation on standardization ( harmonization ), including publishing various EMC standards.

Several brochures and flyers were published in national languages and special group for contacts with other youth organizations was established.

Several sports clubs were founded across the entire territory, among them were some of the largest and oldest sports organizations of Mozambique like Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques established in 1920.

Several different ADLs have been developed by different organizations, including AADL ( SAE standard ), Wright ( developed by Carnegie Mellon ), Acme ( developed by Carnegie Mellon ), xADL ( developed by UCI ), Darwin ( developed by Imperial College London ), DAOP-ADL ( developed by University of Málaga ), and ByADL ( University of L ' Aquila, Italy ).

Several New England realtors were invited to participate in a small colloquium of property lawyers, political scientists, economists, social psychologists, social ethicists and theologians.

Several liberals, including Adam Smith and Richard Cobden, argued that the free exchange of goods between nations could lead to world peace, a view recognised by such modern American political scientists as Dahl, Doyle, Russet, and O ' Neil.

Several foundation-related engineering problems, such as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, prompted scientists to begin taking a more scientific-based approach to examining the subsurface.

( Several other scientists, including Ralph Cicerone, Richard Stolarski, Michael McElroy, and Steven Wofsy had independently proposed that chlorine could catalyze ozone loss, but none had realized that CFCs were a potentially large source of chlorine.

Several hundred such trials have been conducted by investigators over the past 25 years, including those by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory ( PEAR ) and by scientists at SRI International and Science Applications International Corporation.

Several scientists have suggested complete eradication of mosquitoes would not have serious ecological consequences.

Several female scientists also made contributions to work at the lab at this time due to women not generally not being preferred for professorships at universities.

Several bog bodies are notable for the high quality of their preservation and the substantial research by archaeologists and forensic scientists.

Several of these discussions were published in the form of books or as parts of books, and introduced a wider audience ( among scientists ) to Krishnamurti's ideas.

Several scientists were interested by Jansky's discovery, but radio astronomy remained a dormant field for several years, due in part to Jansky's lack of formal training as an astronomer.

Several of these scientific tools ( the UV spectrometer, the mass spectrograph, and the devices to measure pressure and temperature ) were developed in collaboration with French scientists.

Several of these scientific tools ( the UV spectrometer, the mass spectrograph, and the devices to measure pressure and temperature ) were developed in collaboration with French scientists.

Several Norwegian scientists argued against an extension, Kreyberg saying, " If it is a question of handing Dr. Reich over to the Gestapo, then I will fight that, but if one could get rid of him in a decent manner, that would be the best.

Several of the scientists responsible for the early research ( Richard Wilkinson, Ray Dakin and John Winslow ) founded Optical Disc Corporation ( now ODC Nimbus ).

Several years later, Japanese scientists recognized that they had also collected a lunar meteorite, Yamato 791197, during the 1979 field season in Antarctica.

Several hundreds of scientists from academia, research institutes, government and industry have contributed to the project.

Several scientists, including Dr. Bradley T. Lepper, Curator of Archaeology, Ohio Historical Society, hypothesize that the Octagon earthwork at Newark, Ohio, was a lunar observatory oriented to the 18. 6 year cycle of minimum and maximum lunar risings and settings on the local horizon.

Several scientists and researchers see a close connection between constructivism and modeling and simulation.

Several scientists have called for an end to subsidies paid to deep sea fisheries.

Several scientists have expressed similar sentiments.

Several of the scientists whose work is sourced in the book have written rebuttals to Wells, stating that they were quoted out of context, that their work has been misrepresented, or that it does not imply Wells ' conclusions.

Several of the key British scientists visited the United States early in 1942 and were given full access to all of the information available.

Several overlapping networks of scientists and scholars began to coalesce around neuroethics-related projects and themes.

Several important 20th century scientists ( Fisher, Dobzhansky ) whose work confirmed Darwin's theory, were also Christians who saw no incompatibility between their experimental and theoretical confirmations of evolution and their faith.