Modern commercial domino sets are usually made of synthetic materials, such as ABS or polystyrene plastics, or Bakelite and other phenolic resins ; many sets approximate the look and feel of ivory while others use colored or even translucent plastics to achieve a more contemporary look.

Adrienne Mayor, in introducing a bibliography on the topic, noted that most modern folklorists are largely unaware of classical parallels and precedents, in materials that are only partly represented by the familiar designation Aesopica: " Ancient Greek and Roman literature contains rich troves of folklore and popular beliefs, many of which have counterparts in modern contemporary legends " ( Such as Mayor, 2000 ).

Creating new conventions of art-making, they made acceptable in serious contemporary art circles the radical inclusion in their works of unlikely materials.

A contemporary news article in the journal Nature noted this materials " strikingly high conductivity ".

Much contemporary casual clothing is made of knit materials that do not readily wrinkle, and do not require ironing.

The structure of the poem, according to McGann, is influenced by Coleridge's interest in higher criticism, and its function " was to illustrate a significant continuity of meaning between cultural phenomena that seemed as diverse as pagan superstitions, Catholic theology, Aristotelian science, and contemporary philological theory, to name only a few of the work's ostentatiously present materials.

The Gallery stages a comprehensive programme of temporary exhibitions of both historical and contemporary materials which reflect subjects and regions studied at SOAS.

Services include a small circulating collection of contemporary fiction, nonfiction, audiobooks, and Spanish and English language learning materials ; computer, Internet, and wireless access ; magazines ; and local and national newspapers.

Traditional Japanese bondage techniques use natural vegetable fiber rope ( hemp, jute, or linen ) exclusively, though contemporary Japanese Masters have been working with a range of rope materials.

Device performance was limited by the poor electrical conductivity of contemporary organic materials.

The collection includes a variety of modern and rare materials including official military documents, contemporary accounts and discourses, manuscripts, maps, graphic arts, literature, and many works on naval art and science.

As the magnetic field strengths required for such launches will typically be approximately 10 T, most contemporary railgun designs are effectively " air-cored ", i. e. they do not use ferromagnetic materials such as iron to enhance the magnetic flux.

A new edited collection of materials, edited by Marshall Goldsmith, describes many contemporary examples in large companies.

The term was not contemporary with the art it describes, but rather, is an invention of modern scholarship based on its similarity to Roman Architecture in forms and materials.

But as word of the contemporary English persecution made its way to the continent, Foxe began to collect materials to continue his story to the present.

As a small scale craft-based industry, contemporary art glass survives on the patronage of those with the means to buy, and supports artists who struggle to make a living using ever more expensive power and materials, and time-consuming, labour-intensive techniques which have changed little over centuries.

For the carbon, a variety of organic materials are specified by the contemporary Islamic authorities, including pomegranate rinds, acorns, fruit skins like orange peel, leaves as well as the white of egg and shells.

It covers a wide range of topics concerning the contemporary world and the role of art in that world, specific considerations of the materials of music, and the way those materials are shaped by contemporary composers.

CUUPS works to enrich and strengthen the religious pluralism of Unitarian Universalism ; promote the study and practice of contemporary Pagan, Earth -, and nature-centered spirituality ; enable networking among pagan-identified Unitarian Universalists ; develop educational / liturgical materials on Pagan spirituality for Unitarian Universalist congregations ; encourage theological inquiry into the contemporary Pagan resurgence ; promote inter-religious dialog ; and work for the healing of the Earth.

Individual compartments were designed to hold inkwells, pens, sealing wax, and other contemporary writing materials.

Among active contemporary analytical chemistry research fields, micro total analysis system is considered as a great promise of revolutionary technology.

A. Leo Lemay and P. M. Zall, ( Norton Critical Editions, 1986 ); 390pp ; text, contemporary documents and 20th century analysis

# no universal sequence of stages is apparent – analysis, design and implementation are contemporary and inextricably linked

From a psychoanalytical perspective, after the Lacanian notion of " the Real ", Slavoj Žižek offered new aspects of " the gaze " extensively used in contemporary film analysis.

Investigations have not yet discovered settlement or agricultural activity around the edge of Lindow Moss that would have been contemporary with Lindow Man ; however, analysis of pollen in the peat suggests there was some cultivation in the vicinity.

The key to our method is provided by the detailed analysis of the relation between mathematical languages and mathematical structures which lies at the bottom of contemporary model theory.

It is based on a corpus linguistics analysis of Oxford's 200 million word database of contemporary American English.

states that the contradictions are only apparent, and that " postmodernism " as a category and a phenomenon is important in the analysis of contemporary culture.

Eysenck, along with another contemporary in trait psychology named J. P. Guilford ( 1959 ), believed that the resultant trait factors obtained from factor analysis should be statistically independent of one another — that is, the factors should be arranged ( rotated ) so that they are uncorrelated or orthogonal ( at right angles ) to one another.

" Pink tide " is a term being used in contemporary 21st century political analysis in the media and elsewhere to describe the perception that Leftist ideology in general, and Left-wing politics in particular, are increasingly influential in Latin America.

The contemporary sociology of religion may also encompass the sociology of irreligion ( for instance, in the analysis of secular humanist belief systems ).

Modern re-classifications of the voice types for Mozartian roles have been based on analysis of contemporary descriptions of the singers who created those roles and their other repertoire, and on the role's tessitura in the score.

Statistician David J. Bartholomew, of the London School of Economics, said that Dr. Gould erred in his use of factor analysis, irrelevantly concentrated upon the fallacy of reification ( the abstract as concrete thing ), and ignored the contemporary scientific consensus about the existence of the psychometric g.

Jung is one of the best known contemporary contributors to dream analysis and symbolization.

While the method of analysis is characteristic of contemporary analytic philosophy, its status continues to be a source of great controversy even among analytic philosophers.

For this reason, methods based on introductory linear algebra texts are generally not suitable for implementation in software ; rather, one should consult contemporary numerical analysis sources for an algorithm like the one below, which does not amplify rounding errors unnecessarily.

In the final chapter of Book I, Hindemith seeks to illustrate the wide-ranging relevance and applicability and of his system in analysis of music examples ranging from the early origins of European music to the contemporary.

An important and valuable next step will be found in deep-cutting analysis of the major law systems of the contemporary world in order to lay bare their basic postulates – postulates that are too generally hidden ; postulates felt, perhaps, by those who live by them, but so much taken for granted that they are rarely expressed or exposed for examination.

In recent studies by Muslim contemporary thinkers that aim at ' renewing the impetus of philosophical thinking in Islam ', Nader El-Bizri offers a critical analysis of the conventions of methodology and historiography that dominate the mainstream academic and epistemic approaches in studying ' Islamic philosophy ' from ' archival ' standpoints, within Oriental and Mediaevalist Studies, which fail to recognize the fact that ' philosophy in Islam ' can still be a living intellectual tradition, and that its renewal requires a radical reform in ontology and epistemology within Islamic thought.

Whereas the first paradigm focused on ostensibly distinct " languages " ( scare quotes indicate that contemporary linguistic anthropologists treat the concept of " a language " as an ideal construction covering up complexities within and " across " so-called linguistic boundaries ), the unit of analysis in the second paradigm was new — the " speech event.

For example, toothmarks on cave bear remains in areas where cave bears are the only recorded potential carnivores suggests occasional cannibalistic scavenging, possibly on individuals that died during hibernation, and dental microwear analysis indicates the cave bear may have fed on a greater quantity of bone than its contemporary, the smaller Eurasian brown bear.

Strauss believed that such an analysis, as in Hobbes's time, served as a useful " preparatory action ", revealing our contemporary orientation towards the eternal problems of politics ( social existence ).

The Oxford branch was concerned mostly with the accumulation and analysis of economic facts, with a view to helping to understand the nature and magnitude of contemporary social problems and developing potential solutions for these issues.

Johansson notes “ more recent analyses within media and cultural studies ( e. g. Gamson 1994 ; Marshall 1997 ; Giles 2000 ; Turner, Marshall and Bonner 2000 ; Rojek 2001 ; Turner 2004 ) have instead dealt with the idea of a pervasive, contemporary, ‘ celebrity culture ’.” In the analysis of the celebrity culture, “ fame and its constituencies are conceived of as a broader social process, connected to widespread economic, political, technological and cultural developments .”