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 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 of these cartridges were capable of playing more than one game and were typically priced at $ 19. 95.

Several fiction writers use the technique of inventing a piece of literature or non-fiction and referring to this work as if it actually existed, typically by quoting from the work.

Several hundred volts across a distance of several millimeters are typically used in this process.

Several musicians and bands have written songs entitled or including the phrase " Let's Roll ", with the songs typically referring to Flight 93 or Todd Beamer.

Several acts followed that revised and authorized new censuses, typically at the 10-year intervals.

Several bootleggers undertook their own remasterings of the entire Beatles catalogue, of both mono and stereo original releases, typically using premium vinyl pressings played and digitised with high-end audio equipment.

Several months are typically allowed for this design phase.

Several species have small heads of inconspicuous flowers surrounded by an involucre of large, typically white petal-like bracts, while others have more open clusters of petal-bearing flowers.

Several criteria are typically used to make a diagnosis of koro: penile ( or breast ) retraction, anxiety related to the retraction, fear of death as a result of retraction, and use of mechanical means to prevent full retraction.

Several multi-national commercial agencies exist, typically being Anglo-American, pan-European or global.

Several major groups of animals typically have readily distinguishable eggs.

Several species of trout are stocked each year, although they have not typically held over and survived the summers, due to an absence of cold, deep, oxygenated pockets of water in the lake.

Several of these share a similar formalism: if A is adjoint to B, then there is typically some formula of the type

Several of these characters are shown to have motive with respect to the potential demise of one their number ( typically an unlikeable individual ).

In the 1998 paper, CO2-induced global warming: a skeptic's view of potential climate change Idso said: " Several of these cooling forces have individually been estimated to be of equivalent magnitude, but of opposite sign, to the typically predicted greenhouse effect of a doubling of the air ’ s CO2 content, which suggests to me that little net temperature change will ultimately result from the ongoing buildup of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere.

Several treatment options are typically pursed for muscle dysmorphia:

Several of the earliest computers ( and a few modern as well ) used BCD rather than plain binary, typically having a word size of 10 or 12 decimal digits, and some early decimal computers had no fixed word length at all.

Several new technologies are typically demonstrated during Drupa.

Several techniques were employed to give the impression of stop-motion animation, such as using replacement mouths for lip-synch rather than the interpolation typically seen in computer animation.

Several lesbian, gay, and feminist authors ( such as Lillian Faderman, Stephanie Coontz, Jaclyn Geller and Esther Rothblum ) have done academic research on the topic ; these authors typically favor the social constructionist view that sexual orientation is a modern, culturally constructed concept.

Several companies in Austria, Italy, France and Belgium manufacture what is commonly known in North America as a Euro ( pean ) combination machine, which typically contains a sliding-table saw with a scoring blade, a shaper, a thicknesser, a jointer, and a mortiser.