Various categories have been explored to find out about these `` empirical probabilities '' against which to measure the readings.

Various algorithms have been proposed, and these include considering the distance between the conceptual categories of words, as well as considering the hierarchical structure of the WordNet ontology.

Various ion thrusters have been designed and they all generally fit under two categories.

These devices are called optical crossconnectors ( OXCs ). Various categories of OXCs include electronic (" opaque "), optical (" transparent "), and wavelength selective devices.

Various prizes are awarded in different categories for creative displays.

Various types of bells fall into both categories.

Various scholars have debated the nature of such categories, as well as the definition of the term " third gender ".

Various categories of society participated in the modernization of the country.

Various noise models are employed in analysis, many of which fall under the above categories.

Various forms of German oppression in the cities affected not only the working class, but also the " middle strata "— the small and middle businessmen, and the lower categories of state and civic employees, for example.

"" Various award shows conferred accolades on the film and nominated it for several categories.

Various researchers also noted that prisoners are stripped of civil rights and are reluctantly absorbed into communities which leads to their further alienation and isolation.

Various monasteries were founded on these lines, but without any formal bond between them.

Various locations, including the parsonage, were considered.

Various third party replacement joysticks were also released, including those made by Wico.

Various refinements were made to the instrument, including the use of a so-called position-sensitive ( PoS ) detector by Alfred Cerezo, Terence Godfrey, and George D. W. Smith at Oxford University in 1988.

Various local legends were compiled by J. W. Burns in a series of Canadian newspaper articles in the 1920s.

Various rock and roll histories have asserted the singing group The Hollies were named in homage to Buddy Holly.

Various written accounts of bunyips were made by Europeans in the early and mid-19th century, as settlement spread across the country.

Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".

Various measures were carried out to improve conditions in the workplace.

Various live local programs with local interests were rapidly being created all over the United States in most major television markets in the early 1980s.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

Various MF signaling protocols were devised by the Bell System and CCITT.

Various spin-offs and modifications to the original Duke Nukem 3D were produced in the following years of the game's initial launch.

Various editions from the 3rd to the 9th were pirated for sale in the United States, beginning with Dobson's Encyclopaedia.

Various detection claims made starting in the nineteenth century were all eventually rejected by astronomers.

Various interior scenes were shot on a soundstage ; the final scenes were shot at the Sepulveda Dam, in Sherman Oaks.

Various Soviet directors were more concerned with artistic success than with economical success ( They were paid by the academy, and so money was not a critical issue ).

Various materials were found to absorb the energy from Radar waves, and were incorporated into special finishes that have since found widespread application.

Various explanations have been put forth throughout history to explain what fossils are and how they came to be where they were found.

Various other decisions were promulgated.

Various vendors and individuals ( even those who were not part of the original group ) can use the standards document to make products that implement the common protocol defined in the standard, and are thus interoperable by design, with no specific liability or advantage for any customer for choosing one product over another on the basis of standardised features.

Various bodies have defined ' high-rise ':

Various subcategories of blond hair have been defined to describe someone with blond hair more accurately.

Various definitions exist for the term parricide, with the biggest discrepancy being whether or not the killing has to be defined as a murder ( usually killing with malice aforethought ) to qualify as a parricide.

Various states have also defined their watercourse international boundaries by a median line, left bank, right bank, etc.

Various kinds of coronet may take the place of the torse, though in some unusual circumstances the coronet sits atop a torse, and is either defined as all or part of a crest.

Various governments have defined safety limits for exposure to RF energy produced by mobile devices that mainly exposes the head or a limb for the RF energy:

Various legal classes were defined by the individual legal rights that they enjoyed.

Various national governments have defined national heritage areas:

Various medical practises in chronic patient care ( such as for diabetic patients ) already have a well defined set of terms and actions, which makes standard communication exchange easier, whether the exchange is initiated by the patient or the caregiver.

Various frameworks were developed to help in understanding quality of process modeling techniques, one example is Quality based modeling evaluation framework or known as Q-Me framework which argued to provide set of well defined quality properties and procedures to make an objective assessment of this properties possible.

Various typographic points were defined, including the Truchet point by Sébastien Truchet ( 1657 – 1729 ), the Fournier point by Pierre Simon Fournier in 1737 and the Didot point by the Didot brothers, Francois Ambroise and Pierre Francois, in 1755 or 1767 or 1783, which was exactly two Truchet points.