The German forces were technologically sophisticated and numerous ; the Danish forces comparatively tiny and used obsolete equipment ; partially a result of a pre-war policy of trying to avoid antagonizing Germany by supplying the army with modern equipment.

The territory was potentially very rich-the Prussian Imperial province of Posen had been the breadbasket of Wilhelmine Germany before 1914, possessed an excellent rail and road network, and a comparatively healthy and well educated workforce ; Litzmanstadt had developed a fairly sophisticated industrial base during the 19th century.

Compared with other methods in number theory, sieve theory is comparatively elementary, in the sense that it does not necessarily require sophisticated concepts from either algebraic number theory or analytic number theory.

Astrophotography has become more popular for amateurs in recent times, as relatively sophisticated equipment, such as high quality CCD cameras, has become more affordable.

It has been noted that this was a key part of the process of the reduction of the Indian economy from sophisticated textile production to a mere supplier of raw materials which occurred under colonial rule, a process described by Nehru and more recent scholars as " de-industrialization.

In recent years, these yachts have evolved from fairly simple vessels with basic accommodation into sophisticated and luxurious boats.

* July 20 – Pluto reaches, according to sophisticated mathematical calculations, its second most recent aphelion.

In recent years, with the advent of more sophisticated brands of computational modeling and more innovative approaches to the study of language acquisition, these criticisms have multiplied.

More recent studies using more sophisticated methodologies have generally refuted these findings: density, land use and public transport accessibility can influence travel behaviour, although social and economic factors, particularly household income, usually exert a stronger influence.

Lollipop sequence number spaces are a more recent and sophisticated scheme for dealing with finite-sized sequence numbers in protocols.

More sophisticated load balancers may take into account additional factors, such as a server's reported load, recent response times, up / down status ( determined by a monitoring poll of some kind ), number of active connections, geographic location, capabilities, or how much traffic it has recently been assigned.

Anthropologist Colin Groves has stated that Morgan's theories are sophisticated enough that they should be taken seriously as a possible explanation for hominin divergence and Carsten Niemitz has found more recent, weaker versions of the hypothesis more acceptable, approaching some of his own theories on human evolution.

More recent efforts to map the internet have been improved by more sophisticated methods, allowing them to make faster and more sensible maps.

In recent years, professional Shakespeare scholars have increasingly reviewed the work with a new eye, and have concluded that some passages are as sophisticated as any of Shakespeare's early histories, especially King John and the Henry VI plays.

In the early days, Norwegian black metal songs were recorded on four-track tapes, but in recent times, the music has become more sophisticated.

The advent in the 1970s of computer design tools such as NEC capable of calculating the radiation pattern of parabolic antennas has led to the development of sophisticated asymmetric, multireflector and multifeed designs in recent years.

Numerous banks and nations have incorporated many types of countermeasures in order to keep the money secure ; however, extremely sophisticated counterfeit notes known as superdollars have been detected in recent years.

As FITS has been generalized from its original form, the world coordinate system ( WCS ) specifications have become more and more sophisticated: early FITS images allowed a simple scaling factor to represent the size of the pixels ; but recent versions of the standard permit multiple nonlinear coordinate systems, representing arbitrary distortions of the image.

PERTIS machines at larger stations have also in recent years given way to more sophisticated self-service ticket machines, but displaced machines have then been placed at smaller stations not previously so equipped.

* The recent explosion of web-based Green business certifications demonstrate a more sophisticated form of greenwashing.

However, recent research demonstrates that it is possible to accommodate left-recursive grammars ( along with all other forms of general CFGs ) in a more sophisticated top-down parser by use of curtailment.

Games such as Republic: The Revolution ( music composed by James Hannigan ) and Command & Conquer: Generals ( music composed by Bill Brown ) have utilised sophisticated systems governing the flow of incidental music by stringing together short phrases based on the action on screen and the player's most recent choices ( see dynamic music ).

More recent criticism has pointed to the subtle, shifting symbolism of the pearl as one of the poem's chief virtues, recognizing that there is no inherent contradiction between the poem's elegiac and its allegorical aspects, and that the sophisticated allegorical significance of the Pearl Maiden is not unusual but in fact has several quite well known parallels in medieval literature, the most celebrated being probably Dante's Beatrice.

More impressive, it captures the decade's distinct, decadent glamour ... also succeeds at something very difficult: re-creating the ethos and mentality of an era ... Paul Thomas Anderson ... has pulled off a wonderful, sprawling, sophisticated film ... With Boogie Nights, we know we're not just watching episodes from disparate lives but a panorama of recent social history, rendered in bold, exuberant colors.

The winner of the most recent 2012 Think Tank awards ( held at the Royal Society of Arts on the 10th of July ) was Bruegel, based in Brussels, for their sophisticated and detailed analysis of the Eurozone crisis.

The recent experiments on animal language are perhaps the most sophisticated attempt yet to establish human / animal communication, though their relation to natural animal communication is uncertain.

In recent years, more sophisticated irrigation controllers have been developed that receive ET input from either a single on-site weather station or from a network of stations and automatically adjust the irrigation schedule accordingly.

" Thus in the example above, Hecuba presents herself as a sophisticated intellectual describing a rationalized cosmos yet the speech is ill-matched to her audience, Menelaus ( a type of the unsophisticated listener ), and soon it is found not to suit the cosmos either ( her infant grandson is brutally murdered by the victorious Greeks ).

A somewhat more sophisticated example of a space with a non-abelian fundamental group is the complement of a trefoil knot in R < sup > 3 </ sup >.

For he, following the example of no previous general, with teachers summoned from the gladiatorial training school of C. Aurelus Scaurus, implanted in the legions a more sophisticated method of avoiding and dealing a blow and mixed bravery with skill and skill back again with virtue so that skill became stronger by bravery's passion and passion became more wary with the knowledge of this art.

During the Chinese Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 AD ), not only landscape art was improved upon, but portrait painting became more standardized and sophisticated than before ( for example, refer to Emperor Huizong of Song ), and reached its classical age maturity during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368-1644 AD ).

The Norse had a strong sense of naval architecture, and during the early medieval period they were advanced for their time, compared to other European nations ( earlier shipbuilding techniques, for example those of Mediterranean peoples, such as ancient Greece and Rome, were far more sophisticated and varied, especially in terms of joinery ).

Sometimes, detection is made by heuristics ; for example, a compression application may consider files whose names end in ". zip ", ". arj " or ". lha " uncompressible without any more sophisticated detection.

Since Maeshowe is the largest and most sophisticated example of the Maeshowe " type " of tomb, archaeologists have suggested that it is the last of its class, built around 2800 BC.

The most sophisticated example of this is the Sommerfeld – Wilson – Ishiwara quantization rule, which was formulated entirely on the classical phase space.

Physicalism is also called " materialism ", but the term " physicalism " is preferable because it has evolved with the physical sciences to incorporate far more sophisticated notions of physicality than matter, for example wave / particle relationships and non-material forces produced by particles.

For example the following industries have identified the use of static code analysis as a means of improving the quality of increasingly sophisticated and complex software:

* Some modern CPUs and microcontrollers ( for example, TI OMAP ) or sometimes even DSPs may have boot ROM with boot code integrated directly into their silicon, so such a processor could perform quite a sophisticated boot sequence on its own and load boot programs from various sources like NAND flash, SD or MMC card and so on.

For example, telephony software can combine with your modem to turn your computer into a sophisticated answering service.

As the car example demonstrates, the ability to make multiple simultaneous recordings of the same subject — through the use of several DAT or multitrack recorders — has made sound recording into a sophisticated craft.

His series often challenge popular views of history: for example, Terry Jones ' Medieval Lives ( 2004 ) ( for which he received a 2004 Emmy nomination for " Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ") argues that the Middle Ages was a more sophisticated period than is popularly thought, and Terry Jones ' Barbarians ( 2006 ) presents the cultural achievements of peoples conquered by the Roman Empire in a more positive light than Roman historians typically have, while criticizing the Romans as the true " barbarians " who exploited and destroyed higher civilizations.

Gunplay is relatively rare on the part of the IMF, as its methods are more sophisticated and subtle like those used by con men to fleece the gullible, although several episodes in the early seasons ( for example, the second season episode " The Spy ," as well as in the pilot episode ) do show the agents shooting people when necessary ( usually underlings or enemy soldiers ).

Provided that the edges are either already sorted or can be sorted in linear time ( for example with counting sort or radix sort ), the algorithm can use more sophisticated disjoint-set data structure to run in O ( E α ( V )) time, where α is the extremely slowly growing inverse of the single-valued Ackermann function.

Like Simonides and Pindar, however, Bacchylides composed lyrics to appeal to the sophisticated tastes of a social elite and his patrons, though relatively few in number, covered a wide, geographical area around the Mediterranean, including for example Delos in The Aegean Sea, Thessaly to the north of mainland Greece and Sicily or Magna Graecia in the west.

These sixteen categories are pramāṇa ( valid means of knowledge ), prameya ( objects of valid knowledge ), saṁśaya ( doubt ), prayojana ( aim ), dṛṣṭānta ( example ), siddhānta ( conclusion ), avayava ( members of syllogism ), tarka ( hypothetical reasoning ), nirṇaya ( settlement ), vāda ( discussion ), jalpa ( wrangling ), vitaṇḍā ( cavilling ), hetvābhāsa ( fallacy ), chala ( quibbling ), jāti ( sophisticated refutation ) and nigrahasthāna ( point of defeat ).

Over the years, smuggling has evolved into a sophisticated service industry, with certain routes and enclaves used by smugglers becoming practically institutionalized ; for example: from Mexico and Central America to the United States, from West Asia through Greece and Turkey to Western Europe, and within East and Southeast Asia.

His very sophisticated — and complicated — way of procuring willing women for his " outfit " can only be understood if one considers the morally repressed society of the late 1940s: Again and again, he assumes the role of John Hanson, a student in some provincial college ( for example in the Midwest ), pretends falling in love with a female student, makes her pregnant, forces her to have an illegal abortion, and then deserts her.

Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e. g., as a means of murder or execution ; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, knife, wire, or by other more sophisticated means such as a guillotine.

While the assembly line remains the most famous example of a workflow from this era, the early thinking around work was far more sophisticated than is commonly understood.

More sophisticated algorithms can exploit other information on the scene known a priori ( for example, symmetries in certain cases allowing the rebuilding of three-dimensional co-ordinates starting from one only position of the camera ).

For example, Lowell staff built a sophisticated high-speed camera for use on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ).