Use of the conjunct forms of Vava and Yayya is increasingly scarce in modern contexts.

* Haithabu is the modern German spelling used when referring to the historical settlement, it is also often used in this way in anglophone academic contexts.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

In modern contexts, the term is sometimes used synonymously with " Kashubian " and may also include extinct Slovincian.

Although in modern British usage counties are referred to as " shires " mainly in poetic contexts, terms such as Shire Hall remain common.

Like most modern programming languages and unlike earlier Lisps such as Maclisp or Emacs Lisp, Scheme is lexically scoped: all possible variable bindings in a program unit can be analyzed by reading the text of the program unit without consideration of the contexts in which it may be called.

Caissa has been since been characterised as the " goddess " of chess, her name being used in several contexts in modern chess playing.

The focus of modern numismatics lies frequently in the research of production and use of money in historical contexts using mint or other records in order to determine the relative rarity of the coins they study.

The term is not particularly current in modern contexts because the region does not exactly correspond to the sovereign states of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, for which an alternative term, Benelux, was employed after the Second World War, though only to describe them as a trading union.

In modern contexts " gemcutter " typically refers to people who specialize in cutting diamonds, but in older historical contexts ; it refers to artists producing engraved gems such as jade carvings and the like.

Understanding a site in modern archaeology is a process of grouping single contexts together in ever larger groups by virtue of their relationships.

The term is also used by English-speakers to refer to similar oaths of allegiance in other feudal cultures, as with medieval Japan, as well as in modern political contexts.

The modern study of galvanic effects in biology is called electrophysiology, the term galvanism being used only in historical contexts.

In some contexts, modern practices of body modification and plastic surgery overlap with mortification.

Christopher I. Beckwith makes the extraordinary claim that the name " barbarian " should only be used for Greek historical contexts, and is inapplicable for all other " peoples to whom it has been applied either historically or in modern times.

Although the published studies are not entirely up to modern standards, they remain the most important source for the find contexts of portrait mummies.

In other contexts, " classical theory " will have other meanings — if a current accepted theory is considered to be " modern ", and its introduction represented a major paradigm shift, then previous theory ( or new theories based on the older paradigm ) will often be referred to as " classical ".

The more modern view is that " chemical potential " should mean the same thing as " electrochemical potential ", – but that in some contexts there is a separate concept – called here the " internal chemical potential " – that is the energy left when the " purely electrostatic component of electrochemical potential " is subtracted out.

Chinese martial arts are collectively given the name Kung Fu (( gong ) " achievement " or " merit ", and ( fu ) " man ", thus " human achievement ") or ( previously and in some modern contexts ) Wushu (" martial arts " or " military arts ").

It also differs from the Hebrew spelling Yeshu ( ישו ) which is found in Ben Yehuda's dictionary and used in most secular contexts in modern Hebrew to refer to Jesus of Nazareth, though the Hebrew spelling Yeshua ( ישוע ) is generally used in translations of the New Testament into Hebrew and used by Hebrew speaking Christians in Israel.

While the use of the terms " Kansai " and " Kinki " have changed over history, in most modern contexts the two can be considered the same.

" Political liberties being to a degree dependent on basic rights of political privacy and expression of views without retribution, this could be applied to modern contexts to argue strongly against such measures as Total Information Awareness.

But in modern transcultural contexts, where the terminologies used to describe people are more clearly seen, the issue of the terminology is perhaps more important than the term itself.

Not discussed here are some military problems of modern times such as undersea warfare, where the surveillance, sending, transmitting, and receiving are all so inadequate that networks and decision making are not the bottlenecks.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

In fact, modern scholarly opinion in the main has not retreated all the way back to the destructive scepticism of the first half of the nineteenth century.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

Bill Ruger's long-awaited Deerstalker ( under $110 ) is a new rifle action in a caliber that upsets all the modern theory of high-velocity fans ; ;

Companies of all types have made great advances in production capabilities and efficiencies -- in modern equipment and new processes, enlarged R & D facilities, faster new product development.

The colonial period has generally left people believing that government can, if it wishes, provide all manner of services for them -- and that with independence free men do not have to work to realize the benefits of modern life.

Of course, the list also excludes all writers who are fairly `` optimistic '' about the modern situation ; ;

True, we do not know how they were regarded in their day, but we need not believe the epic audience to have been more insensitive to the formulas than the numerous scholars of modern times who have read Germanic or Homeric poetry all their lives and still found much to admire in occasional occurrences of the most familiar phrases.

But it is our health -- more precious than all the money in the world -- that these modern witch doctors with their fake therapeutic gadgets are gambling away.

Suppose, he says, that the tables were turned, and we were in the Soviets' position: `` There would be more than 2,000 modern Soviet fighters, all better than ours, stationed at 250 bases in Mexico and the Caribbean.

Practically all the people of Laos, he explained -- about two million of them -- are rice farmers, and the means and motives of modern war are as strange to them as clocks and steel plows.

It was still a very big world, despite all the modern cant to the contrary.

There was a garage and a modern barn in the rear, all of it standing between two large flat fields planted in early potatoes.

Grant all this -- still, when modern Unitarianism and the Harvard Divinity School recall with humorous affection the insults Parker lavished upon them, or else argue that after all Parker received the treatment he invited, they betray an uneasy conscience.

Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries.

She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

In Britain, anthropology had a great intellectual impact, it " contributed to the erosion of Christianity, the growth of cultural relativism, an awareness of the survival of the primitive in modern life, and the replacement of diachronic modes of analysis with synchronic, all of which are central to modern culture.

Eventually, their bony fins would evolve into limbs and they would become the ancestors to all tetrapods, including modern amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

* Subclass Lissamphibia ( all modern amphibians including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians )

The Aramaic alphabet is historically significant, since virtually all modern Middle Eastern writing systems use a script that can be traced back to it, as well as numerous non-Chinese writing systems of Central and East Asia.