Various cults and religions, such as Danza del Cordon and Afro-Cuban religion, incorporate Taíno spiritual practices.

Various sects of Christianity also spread throughout Iran, and Manichaeism developed from the two religions ; these were initially tolerated but later persecuted as the Romans followed the opposite route.

Various historians have argued that shamanism also played a role in many of the pre-Christian religions of Europe, and that shamanic elements may have survived in popular culture right through to the Early Modern period.

Various concepts of prophecy are found throughout all of the world's religions and cults.

Various forms of self-denial or voluntary suffering ( commonly referred to as Ascetism ) are practiced in various ways by members of many religions, including Sufism, and Shi ' a Islam which commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, in the 7th century battle of Kerbala.

Various other religions also have eschatological beliefs associated with turning and redemption.

Various groups from several religions support the Earth Charter.

Various religions have claimed examples of levitation amongst their followers.

Various religions forbid the consumption of certain types of food.

Various definitions of compactness may apply, depending on the level of generality.

After completing building the database and making it operational arrives the database maintenance stage: Various database parameters may need changes and tuning for better performance, application's data structures may be changed or added, new related application programs may be written to add to the application's functionality, etc.

Various parts of Libanius ' orations may suggest that both sides were justified to some extent while Ammianus blames Julian for " a mere thirst for popularity ".

Various point-like ornaments may be added to knitting for their look or to improve the wear of the fabric.

Various specialized segments of society may have their own internal law enforcement arrangements.

Various behavioral addictions, such as gambling addiction, may be classed as a disorder.

Various constituents of a gene, such as its control elements and its gene product, may be mutated so that the functioning of a gene or protein can be examined in detail.

Various insertional mutagenesis techniques may also be used to study the function of particular gene.

Various symptoms of infection: An infected person may have some or all symptoms, or may be asymptomatic.

Various tryptamine and phenethylamine / amphetamine derivatives such as αET, αMT, amphetamine ( itself ), methamphetamine, MDMA, 4-MTA, PMA, 2C-T-7, and 2C-T-21 may also have weak to strong MAOI effects at high doses.

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

Various archaeologists and historians of religion have also suggested that shamanism may have been a dominant pre-religious practice for humanity during the Palaeolithic.

" Various English translations use different vocabulary sometimes with different meanings ; usually this causes no important difference to the story: one speech / vocabulary / same words, plain / valley, asphalt / bitumen / slime, children / men, confound / confuse ; and sometimes the difference is important to later interpretations of the meaning of the story: may reach unto heaven / in the sky / will be in the skies ( examples from King James, Holman Christian, and R E Friedman versions ).

Various types of brain injury, occurring as a single event, may cause irreversible but fixed cognitive impairment.

Various methods may be used to maintain communications services, such as using alternate routing, different transmission media or methods, redundant equipment, and sites and equipment that are radiation hardened.

Various types of joints and stopcocks are available separately and come fused with a length of glass tubing, which a glassblower may use to fuse to another piece of glassware.

Various parts of the exoskeleton may be fused together.

Various materials may be used for a target, and the collisions will create secondary particles which may be guided outside of the cyclotron and into instruments for analysis.

Various adjectives may be used to describe the recipe content or origin, e. g. enchilada tapatia would be a recipe from Jalisco.

Various manufacturers started producing PCI busboards for the A1200 and A4000, allowing standard Amiga computers to use PCI cards such as Voodoo graphic cards, Sound Blaster sound cards, 10 / 100 Ethernet cards, and TV tuner cards.

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 methods use differing levels of heat and moisture and vary in cooking time.

Various forms of prepaid electronic toll collection systems are in place which allow quicker collection of toll, usually at a discounted rate, as well as use of dedicated toll plaza lanes ( for ENC system of the electronic toll collection ).

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 attempts have been made by engineers to mimic the process of facilitated transport in synthetic ( i. e., non-biological ) membranes for use in industrial-scale gas and liquid separations, but these have met with limited success to date, most often for reasons related to poor carrier stability and / or loss of carrier from the membrane.

Various heads of state use a multitude of different styles and titles, often with many variations in content under diverse constitutions, even in a given state.

Various companies licensed the Hummer trademarks for use on colognes, flashlights, bicycles, shoes, coats, hats, laptops, toys, clothing, CD players, and other items.

Various formulations of dihydrocodeine, a weaker opioid, are frequently used as an alternative for the aforementioned indications of hydrocodone use.

Various types of necked chordophones were in use in ancient Greek, Egyptian ( in the Middle Kingdom ), Hittite, Roman, Bulgar, Turkic, Indian, Chinese, Armenian / Cilician cultures.

Various translations into English of the Hebrew Bible use different spellings, or translate the Hebrew into " unleavened bread " or " unleavened cakes " ( azymes is found in some old translations ).

Various authors have compiled lists of simple machines and machine elements, sometimes lumping them together under a single term such as " simple machines ", " basic machines ", " compound machines ", or " machine elements "; the use of the term " simple machines " in this broader sense is a departure from the neoclassical sense of the six essential simple machines, which is why many authors prefer to avoid its use, preferring the other terms ( such as " machine element ").

Various species of penguins and other flighted or flightless water birds such as auks, cormorants, guillemots, shearwaters, eider and scoter ducks and diving petrels are avid swimmers, and use their wings to propel through water.

Various constitutions use different titles, and even the same title can have various political meanings depending on the constitution and political system of the state in question.

Various spellings were in use – Kedeleministre or Kideministre ( in the 12th and 13th centuries ), Kidereministre ( 13th – 15th centuries ) – until the name of the town was settled as Kidderminster by the 16th century.

* Various devices that operate with fluids use fuses or valves as a fail-safe mechanism.

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 manufacturers use different driver mounting arrangements to create a specific type of sound field in the space for which they are designed.

Various electric motors — brushless DC motors, induction motors and DC motors — use electric / electronic motor controllers.

Various industries use various specialized forms.

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.