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 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 possible causes exist for these patterns of neurological dysfunction.

Several major cities exist either in the Andes or in the foothills, among which are Bogotá, Medellín and Cali, Colombia ; Quito, Ecuador ; Mérida, Venezuela ; La Paz, Bolivia ; Santiago, Chile, and Cusco, Peru.

Several offences of assault exist in Northern Ireland.

Several molecular mechanisms of antibacterial resistance exist.

Several ways of implementing this exist, and hot-wire devices can be further classified as CCA ( constant-current anemometer ), CVA ( constant-voltage anemometer ) and CTA ( constant-temperature anemometer ).

Several concepts that provide alternative definitions for the reaction mechanisms involved and their application in solving related problems exist.

Several allotropes of boron exist: amorphous boron is a brown powder and crystalline boron is black, extremely hard ( about 9. 5 on the Mohs scale ), and a poor conductor at room temperature.

Several substyles exist, including maibock or helles bock, a paler, more hopped version generally made for consumption at spring festivals ; doppelbock, a stronger and maltier version ; and eisbock, a much stronger version made by partially freezing the beer and removing the water ice that forms.

Several rating scales for the screening and evaluation of bipolar disorder exist, such as the Bipolar spectrum diagnostic scale.

Several methods exist to compute the value of without actually expanding a binomial power or counting k-combinations.

Several Hui restaurants serving Chinese Islamic cuisine exist in Los Angeles.

; Epiphenomenon / zombie reply: Several philosophers argue that consciousness, as Searle describes it, does not exist.

Several transcriptions exist.

Several different techniques exist to study cells are

Several hypotheses exist.

Several dialects of West African English exist, with a lot of regional variation and some influence from indigenous language.

Several incomplete sets of this form of croquet are known to exist, and one complete set is still used for demonstration games in the West of Scotland.

Several free and open source animation software applications exist as well.

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 kinds of cytochrome exist and can be distinguished by spectroscopy, exact structure of the heme group, inhibitor sensitivity, and reduction potential.

Several variants of democracy exist, but there are two basic forms, both of which concern how the whole body of citizens executes its will.

Several laboratory scale techniques for distillation exist ( see also distillation types ).

Several products exist to support such databases.

Several normal forms exist with different properties.