Various paranormal interpretations appeared in the popular culture, and one of the more outspoken proponents of rods as alien life forms is Jose Escamilla, who claims to have been the first to film them on March 19, 1994 at Roswell, New Mexico, while attempting to film a UFO.

Various modern compiler static code analysis techniques ( such as elimination of dead code: for example, code which uses the processor but produces internal results which are not used or output ) make the use and design of synthetic benchmarks more difficult.

Various styles dictate the curve of the fingers and thumb, as do the style of piece ; a more pronounced curve and lighter hold on the bow is used for virtuoso or more delicate pieces, while a flatter curve and sturdier grip on the bow sacrifices some power for easier control in strokes such as detaché, spiccato, and staccato.

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 reasons have been suggested for the resistance to the Celsius system in the U. S., including the larger size of each degree Celsius ( resulting in the need for decimals where integer Fahrenheit degrees were adequate for much non-technical work ), the lower zero point in the Fahrenheit system ( which reduces the number of negative signs when measurements such as weather data were averaged ), and the more intuitive alignment of its 0-100 scale to the ordinary range of outdoor temperatures seen in most of the U. S. ( e. g., 0 ° F

Various factors have so far stymied more diversification ( a small market of 1 million people, dependence on French imports, inability to capitalize on regional markets, lack of entrepreneurial zeal among the Gabonese, and the fairly regular stream of oil " rent ").

Various scholarly disciplines ( such as law, economics, anthropology or sociology ) may treat the concept more systematically, but definitions vary within and between fields.

Various sites list documents by Charles Lasner, the creator of the alt. sys. pdp8 discussion group, and related documents by various members of the alt. sys. pdp8 readership with even more authoritative information about the various models, especially detailed focus upon the various members of the PDP-8 " family " of computers both made and not made by DEC.

Various other symptoms, such as numbness of the extremities, generalized weakness, loss of smell, and loss of coordination, are reported more rarely ; none are specific for IIH.

Various gospel, blues and swing recordings used the phrase before it became used more frequently – but still intermittently – in the 1940s, on recordings and in reviews of what became known as " rhythm and blues " music aimed at a black audience.

Various suggestions have been made regarding a precise definition of RISC, but the general concept is that of a system that uses a small, highly-optimized set of instructions, rather than a more specialized set of instructions often found in other types of architectures.

Various species of mosquitoes are estimated to transmit various types of disease to more than 700 million people annually in Africa, South America, Central America, Mexico, Russia and much of Asia, with millions of resultant deaths.

Various religions may use these terms in more specific ways.

Various countries have national journalism codes which range from one extreme of, " Suicide and attempted suicide should in general never be given any mention " ( Norway ) to a more moderate, " In cases of suicide, publishing or broadcasting information in an exaggerated way that goes beyond normal dimensions of reporting with the purpose of influencing readers or spectators should not occur.

Various schools and colleges have emerged with courses in Music Production and more so in electronic music production.

Various disease states make body tissues more resistant to the actions of insulin.

Various halal food authorities have more recently permitted the use of a recently developed fail-safe system of head-only stunning where the shock is less painful and non-fatal, and where it is possible to reverse the procedure and revive the animal after the shock.

Various European institutions have also prepared their own standards, more or less related to those produced by the Joint Committee.

Various ceremonies and prayers call for throat singing in Tibetan Buddhism, often with more than one monk chanting at a time.

Various ways of averaging bilateral PPPs can provide a more stabile multilateral comparison, but at the cost of distorting bilateral ones.

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Various alternative and more flexible canvas primers are commercially available, the most popular being a synthetic latex paint composed of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate, bound with a thermo-plastic emulsion.

Various public figures and humorists, such as Jon Stewart of The Daily Show and Garry Trudeau, creator of the comic strip Doonesbury have popularized some more famous Bushisms, particularly those of George W. Bush.

Various wrappers were developed by Microsoft that took over some of the more low level functions of the Windows API, and allowed applications to interact with the API in a more abstract manner.

Various kits exist, but one of the most famous names is the Volkswagen Beetle-based " Wombat " ( previously called a HummBug, until the threat of a lawsuit from General Motors forced them to change both the name and the design of the grill to make it look less like the real thing ).

Various studies have found that, even in this corrected form, the test is less powerful for testing normality than the Shapiro – Wilk test or Anderson – Darling test.

Various dated references show membership at less than a hundred each in two of the surviving groups.

Various innovations in programming style and defensive programming are designed to make these bugs less likely, or easier to spot.

Various antibodies are generated ; some bind closely to the viral proteins and target them for phagocytosis ( ingestion by specialized cells and destruction ), but some bind the virus less well and appear instead to deliver the virus into a part of the phagocytes where it is not destroyed but is able to replicate further.

Various contemporary sources contend that Noyes himself was the subject of criticism, although less often and of probably less severe criticism than the rest of the community.

Various augmentations, such as glass, fibers, and rebar, have made concrete less vulnerable, but far from impenetrable.

Various contractions result in long vowels ; stressed vowels ( marked with acute accents in Berger's transcription ) tend to be longer and less " open " than unstressed ones ( as opposed to ).

Various departments of the OSS survived the agency's dissolution, however, and less than two years later the Central Intelligence Agency was founded, a realization of Donovan's hopes for a centralized peacetime intelligence agency.

Various theories of why the Spanish flu was " forgotten " include the rapid pace of the pandemic, which killed most of its victims in the United States, for example, within a period of less than nine months, resulting in limited media coverage.

Various studies have reported that people spend less and less time interacting with others in real life and those who spend more time online tend to be less socially apt.

Various ideas regarding the origins of lex talionis exist, but a common one is that it developed as early civilizations grew and a less well-established system for retribution of wrongs, feuds and vendettas, threatened the social fabric.

Various translators have worked to translate Classical Chinese poetry into English, with greater or less accuracy.

Various substitutions were devised to convey the essence of the oath, but with less offence ; these included " bleeding ", " bleaking ", " cruddy ", " smuddy ", " blinking ", " blooming ", " bally ", and " ruddy ".

Various tourist attractions and landmarks emulated by the park ( such as the real Hollywood, the Hollywood Sign, piers, mountains, and beaches ) were located less than an hour away from the park.

Various near-field techniques that operate less than 1 wavelength of light away from the image plane can obtain substantially higher resolution.

Various findings suggest that task-oriented care produces less satisfied residents.

Various reports suggest that the energy requirements for producing pulp from kenaf are about 20 percent less than those for wood pulp, mostly due to the lower lignin content of kenaf.

; Compression: Various schemes can be employed to shrink the size of the source data to be stored so that it uses less storage space.