Several conventions have been held in recent months in hotels on a nonsegregated basis.

Several recent authors have theorised that the Ark was taken from Jerusalem to the village of Rennes-le-Château in Southern France.

Several publishers, including Grand River Books, Potomac Books ( formerly known as Brassey's Inc .), and Skyhorse Publishing have re-published the Factbook in recent years.

Several enumerations have occurred since then, with the most recent two being carried out by Statistics South Africa in 1996 and 2001.

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 recent accidents have helped make Indonesia's air transport system one of the least safe in the world.

Several of these articles advocated his staunchly feminist views, calling for the liberation of women in Chinese society ; alongside his early experiences with forced arranged marriage, this was possibly influenced by the recent death of his mother and his increasing romantic involvement with Yang Kaihui ( 1901 – 1930 ), the daughter of Mao's recently deceased mentor Yang Changji.

Several more recent games have been, in turn, influenced by Risus.

Several months after qualifying as a lecturer in philosophy, Adorno delivered an inaugural lecture at the Institute for Social Research, an independent organization which had recently appointed Horkheimer as its director and, with the arrival of the literary scholar Leo Lowenthal, social psychologist Erich Fromm and philosopher Herbert Marcuse, sought to exploit recent theoretical and methodological advances in the social sciences.

Several countries have closed their embassies in Zimbabwe in recent years to protest the policies of President Robert Mugabe, with the Czech Republic and Botswana being the latest to announce their intentions to do so.

Several African territories under European rule had achieved independence in recent decades.

Several recent authors suggested that the intake of simple sugars, and particularly fructose, is also a factor that contributes to insulin resistance.

Several locomotive classes have been powered by gas turbines, the most recent incarnation being Bombardier's JetTrain.

Several films have been declared ineligible by the Academy for the latter reason, the most recent of which is Lust, Caution ( 2007 ), Taiwan's entry for the 80th Academy Awards.

Several South Island nationalist groups have emerged over recent years including the South Island Party with a pro-South agenda, fielded candidates in the 1999 General Election.

Several of the Jamison Valley tracks including the Stairway itself were closed in recent years due to maintenance, but most have since been re-opened.

Several naked eye novae have been recorded, Nova Cygni 1975 being the brightest in the recent history, reaching 2nd magnitude.

Several proposals to build tidal harnesses for electrical power generation have been put forward in recent decades.

Several studies have been conducted in recent years to investigate what, if any, role static magnetic fields may play in health and healing.

Several recent additions, such as Argos, Lidl and Peacocks, are located in new retail spaces on the site of Pratt's but in common with other outer London high streets, retail recovery has been slow, and a substantial proportion of vacant space has been taken by a growing number of restaurants, bars and coffee shops.

Several other shopping centers dot the landscape of Oxford with the most recent being the construction of the Oxford Exchange, which is just off exit 188 on Interstate 20.

Several additions have been built since then, the most recent opening in 1994.

Several other amendments have been adopted since 1814, the most recent on February 20, 2006.

Several later eruptions occurred over the millennia before the most recent major eruption, which is traditionally dated as about 180 CE from Greenland ice-core records.

Several of the community's hills and ridges — such as the properties along Laurel Ridge Drive and Fredericksburg Drive — also have been developed in recent decades.

Several of Michael Jackson's videos show the unmistakable influence of the dance sequences in classic Hollywood musicals, including the landmark " Thriller " and the Martin Scorsese-directed " Bad " which was influenced by the stylised dance " fights " in the film version of West Side Story.

Several of the pioneers who migrated across the midwest to claim a part of Symmes ' tract are buried in North College Hill's oldest landmark, the LaBoyteaux-Cary cemetery.

Several former landmark pubs have been demolished for new projects since the late 1990s: The Dovecot, Bluebell Inn, Farmers Arms, Hillside, Eagle and Child, The Quarry Inn and The Quiet Man.

Several landmark buildings were constructed in Lujiazui to raise the image and awareness of the area.

Several of his judgments in the House of Lords have become landmark statements of law.

Several years later, both tried to buy out the other's interest, and the CRTC ended the contest by allowing the western group to take full ownership, a landmark change in Canadian broadcasting that ended the dominance of central Canada.

Several of his landmark Neo-Gothic buildings at Pitt are the Cathedral of Learning, Heinz Memorial Chapel and the Stephen Foster Memorial.

Several parishioners, who wanted to preserve St. Brigid Church, petitioned the San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board to prevent the academy from making changes to the church's exterior and interior features and to preserve the whole of the church as a historic landmark.

Several such landmark projects have since been developed, sometimes through open or closed architectural design competitions.

Several studies have shown an increased rate of cancer mortality for workers exposed to 2, 4, 5-T.

Several studies have tried to reconstruct the phylogeny of the genus.

Several studies published since 1990 indicate that cooking meat at high temperature creates heterocyclic amines ( HCAs ), which are thought to increase cancer risk in humans.

Several brain imaging techniques, such as EEG and fMRI, have been used for physical measures of brain activity in these studies.

Several in vitro studies indicated that high concentrations of chromium ( III ) in the cell can lead to DNA damage.

Several in-depth studies of salamander genera in fossil beds in Montana show that six of seven genera were unchanged after the event.

Several of these follow-up studies, which involved viewing in group settings, reported some limited success.

Several studies have specifically addressed Duesberg's claim that recreational drug abuse or sexual promiscuity were responsible for the manifestations of AIDS.

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 other studies have also found lasting cognitive gains.

Several demographic studies, including those by social work researcher Athena Kolbe have shed light on the current status of urban residents.

Several studies have suggested that hedge funds are sufficiently diversifying to merit inclusion in investor portfolios, but this is disputed for example by Mark Kritzman who performed a mean-variance optimization calculation on an opportunity set that consisted of a stock index fund, a bond index fund, and ten hypothetical hedge funds.

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

Several researchers include the island of Cyprus in Levantine studies, including the Council for British Research in the Levant, the UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department, and the UCL Institute of Archaeology, the last of which has dated the connection between Cyprus and mainland Levant to the early Iron Age.

Several clinical studies have shown that combined ECPs containing ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel can inhibit or delay ovulation .< sup > 107 – 110 </ sup ></ ref >

Several regression studies with David Meiselman during the 1960s suggested the primacy of the money supply over investment and government spending in determining consumption and output.

Several studies place the nucleariids as a sister group to the fungi.

Several epidemiological studies from different countries have reported widely varying prevalence rates for chronic pain, ranging from 12-80 % of the population.

Several detailed studies using various methods to measure growth curves among known specimens have demonstrated that there is actually only one valid Pterodactylus species, P. antiquus.

Several studies ( Alfredo Torero or Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino ) show that the oldest form of Quechua appeared in Cajamarquilla, Lima.

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

Several sources claim that during his studies he was more interested in religion than joining the military.

Several neuroimaging studies have emerged in order to identify areas associated with stuttering.

Several studies show that between 50 % and 73 % of women who have used this type of condoms during intercourse find them as or more comfortable than male condoms.

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