Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.

Several of these papers remarked on the difficulty of obtaining good, clean digital audio for research purposes.

Several other TCP / IP prototypes were developed at multiple research centers between 1978 and 1983.

Several perspectives or branches of such academic dictionary research have been distinguished: ' dictionary criticism ' ( or evaluating the quality of one or more dictionaries, e. g. by means of reviews ( see Nielsen 2009 )), ' dictionary history ' ( or tracing the traditions of a type of dictionary or of lexicography in a particular country or language ), ' dictionary typology ' ( or classifying the various genres of reference works, such as dictionary versus encyclopedia, monolingual versus bilingual dictionary, general versus technical or pedagogical dictionary ), ' dictionary structure ' ( or formatting the various ways in which the information is presented in a dictionary ), ' dictionary use ' ( or observing the reference acts and skills of dictionary users ), and ' dictionary IT ' ( or applying computer aids to the process of dictionary compilation ).

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.

The first synthesis by Marshall D. Gates, Jr. in 1952 is considered a classic in the field .. Several other syntheses were reported, notably by the research groups of Rice, Evans, Fuchs, Parker, Overman, Mulzer-Trauner, White, Taber, Trost, Fukuyama, Guillou and Stork.

Several historical anthropologists have done field research Nevis and in Nevisian migrant communities in order to trace the creation and constitution of a Nevisian cultural community.

Several private institutions, including the Institute of Noetic Sciences, conduct and promote parapsychological research.

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 have purchased property and maintain ongoing collections of SF literature available for research, as in the case of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, the New England Science Fiction Association, and the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.

Several research spacecraft have been designed and partially or completely constructed, including Skylon, the DC-X, the X-33, and the Roton SSTO.

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

Several were set up by the Philippine government for the specific purpose of providing research input into the policy-making process.

Several early German and French scholars compiled old works and conducted new research on birds.

Several menhaden research projects, currently unpublished.

Several medieval scholars were considered to be magicians in popular legend, notably Gerbert d ' Aurillac and Albertus Magnus: both men were active in the scientific research of their day as well as in ecclesiastical matters, which was enough to attach to them a nimbus of the occult.

Several species of ascomycetes are biological model organisms in laboratory research.

Several of the networks are linked to international research programs ; all involved multiple partners.

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 research groups have independently developed simulation software that agrees well with experimental findings in a wide range of engineering applications, including adhesive powders, granular flow, and jointed rock masses.

Several vaccine candidates are currently in various phases of research and development, including a number of ongoing clinical trials.

Several bilateral agreements provide a solid framework for cooperation in areas such as healthcare, defence, and technological research & development.

Several colleges and research institutions which are situated in Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellignat have settled in the department of Ain.

Several health research institutes, including the Heritage Medical Research Centre, Medical Sciences Building, Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research, and Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation, are also located at this site.

Several financial institutions, both banks and insurance companies, have been sounded out.

Several international financial institutions have praised the economic reforms introduced by former president Álvaro Uribe ( elected 7 August 2002 ), which include measures designed to reduce the public-sector deficit below 2. 5 % of GDP in 2004.

Several schools and other institutions have been named in his honor and he holds honorary degrees from universities and colleges across the country.

Several institutions, besides those already mentioned, played important parts.

Several awards, concepts, and institutions are named after Fermi, such as the Enrico Fermi Award, the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station, a class of particles called fermions, the synthetic element fermium, and many more.

Several offices and institutions in the United States have incorporated representations of the fasces into their iconography.

Several of these institutions were transferred to the United Nations after the Second World War: the International Labour Organization, the Permanent Court of International Justice ( as the International Court of Justice ), and the Health Organization ( restructured as the World Health Organization ).

Several European institutions have found their base in Maastricht.

Several fundamental common law institutions may have been adapted from similar legal institutions in Islamic law and jurisprudence, and introduced to England after the Norman conquest of England by the Normans, who conquered and inherited the Islamic legal administration of the Emirate of Sicily, and also by Crusaders during the Crusades.

Several institutions of higher learning are also located here, along with the European headquarters of W3C.

Several important therapeutic techniques were pioneered at St. Elizabeths, and it served as a model for later institutions.

Several small treaties were signed with Estonia and Latvia in 1939 and 1940 concerning the emigration of Baltic Germans and the liquidation of their educational, cultural, and religious institutions.

Several campaigns of 20th-century excavations have been led by North American institutions, including New York University and the University of Toronto, as well as a Pennsylvania State University team led by Donald Redford.

* Houses of worship: Several churches and other religious institutions call Prince Frederick home.

Several institutions have formed an I-School Caucus ( see List of I-Schools ), but there are numerous others besides these with comprehensive information foci.

Several agencies and institutions are created along the same lines and they exercise authority in certain matters.

Several Sámi institutions are located in Guovdageaidnu / Kautokeino, including:

Several institutions are setting up archives to preserve the original plates, preventing valuable historical astronomical data from being lost.

Several institutions and buildings are named after Trenchard, including the University of Ibadan's Trenchard Hall, and RAF Cranwell's Trenchard Hall.

Several of the university's institutions retain the institution's traditional name, " University of Nevada ," including the alumni association, the student government, and the athletics department ( which refers to the university's teams simply as " Nevada ," a practice held since the late 19th century ).

Several institutions and buildings in Oklahoma bear Albert's name.