Various theories exist regarding the origin of the name itself.

Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time ; its political structure ; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici ; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

Various theories and views of truth continue to be debated among scholars and philosophers.

Various theories have claimed that Gediminas was either his predecessor Grand Duke Vytenis ' son, his brother, his cousin, or his hostler.

Various theories have been put forward for the nickname, including the descendant relation to cotton duck fabric, the waterproof characteristics of a duck bird, and even the 1942 amphibious military vehicle DUKW which was pronounced " duck ".

Various theories and legends exist about the stone's history prior to its residence at Scone:

Various psychoanalytic theories explain homophobia as a threat to an individual's own same-sex impulses, whether those impulses are imminent or merely hypothetical.

Various theories on who supported him and why are postulated based on what he did while in office, but all agree that Sulla was correct in his distrust.

Various theories have been put forward to explain the occurrence of hallucinations.

Various theories abounded regarding his disappearance ranging from his death by accident or foul play to McDermott staging his disappearance to avoid child support payments to his ex-wife, actress Yvette Nipar.

Various theories have emerged to explain the purported physical differences between them and their fellow Bantu-speaking neighbors, the Tutsi.

Various government officials and men aboard the Maddox have suggested similar theories.

Various scientists have formed their own theories to explain how the " 20th century manufactured " anatase in the Vinland Map ink could have got into genuine medieval ink.

Various theories have been proposed about the origins and development of the valkyries from Germanic paganism to later Norse mythology.

Various theories have been promoted.

Various conspiracy theories and other such hypotheses have arisen to speculate about the origins of HIV / AIDS.

Various other recent social theories concerning gift economies exist.

Various other theories of aging exist, and are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Various theories have attributed the wave of extinctions to human hunting, climate change, disease, a putative extraterrestrial impact, or other causes.

Various theories have been discussed as to Adams's failure to reply, such as his general nervousness, procrastination and disorganisation.

Various theories in mechanics by physicists during the same period of time, notably fluid dynamics and Newton's laws of motion, led to the foundation of modern aerodynamics.

Various conspiracy theories circulated about what those purposes might be.

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 writers suggest that religious or philosophical belief-systems should be seen as worldviews rather than a set of individual hypotheses or theories.

Various theories include jealousy for Versace's role as a " gay icon ", as well as necessity and opportunity in some of the other murders.

Various methods of pulsing, scanning, and displaying these sound waves are used to detect submarines, map ocean floors, and even communicate under water.

Various of the apartments are of the terrace type, being on the ground floor so that entrance is direct.

Various theorists have differing, though similar, legal philosophies which are considered to fall under " anarcho-capitalism.

Various designs exist and many are home produced from lead or improvised with heavy objects.

Various symbol sets are used to represent numbers in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, all of which evolved from the Brahmi numerals.

Various markets are held in the Market Hall, for example: Tuesdays – retail market, which also stretches into the town hall car park and temporarily the Cattle Market, while Brewery Yard car park is regenerated ; Wednesday – flea market ; 4th Thursday of the month a farmers ' market ; Friday – retail market ; Saturday – retail market ( also in the town hall car park ); 3rd Sunday of the month – antique fair ; 2nd Saturday – craft fair.

Various conflicting accounts are given in Classical Greek mythology of the birth of Artemis and her twin brother, Apollo.

Various violations are generally called " fouls ".

Various ordinances and laws are decreed.

* Various: several short sources, none of which have much connection to each other, and are fairly independent of the rest of the text.

Various smaller communities, such as the Old Catholic and Independent Catholic Churches, include the word Catholic in their title, and share much in common with Roman Catholicism but are no longer in communion with the See of Rome.

Various legislations first introduced by the British are still in effect in their modified forms today.

Various types of colloids are recognised: inorganic colloids ( clay particles, silicates, iron oxy-hydroxides, ...), organic colloids ( humic and fulvic substances ).

Various chemical admixtures are also added to achieve varied properties.

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 orders are in place for 100 locomotives from China and various freight wagons and passenger coaches.

Various theorists are split as to whether the rules are the only determinant of moral behavior or not.

Various careers within the fields of sports and entertainment are commonly associated with celebrity status.

Various examples of celebrity turned entrepreneurs included in the table below are:

Various CVD processes are used for integrated circuits ( ICs ).

Various forms of coercion are distinguished: first on the basis of the kind of injury threatened, second according to its aims and scope, and finally according to its effects, from which its legal, social, and ethical implications mostly depend.

Various muzzle loading arms, to scale ; numbers 1, 10, and 11 are identified as carbines.

Various Shandong snacks are also worth trying.

* Various utilities are provided for converting between Windows and Unix paths and file formats, for handling line ending ( CRLF / LF ) issues, for displaying the DLLs that an executable is linked with, etc.