Modern biotechnology can be used to slow down the process of spoilage so that fruit can ripen longer on the plant and then be transported to the consumer with a still reasonable shelf life.

Modern computer-monitors typically display about 72 to 130 pixels per inch ( PPI ), and some modern consumer printers can resolve 2400 dots per inch ( DPI ) or more ; determining the most appropriate image resolution for a given printer-resolution can pose difficulties, since printed output may have a greater level of detail than a viewer can discern on a monitor.

Modern consumer privacy law in a recognizable form originated in telecom regulation, when it was recognized that a telco, especially a monopoly ( known in most nations as a PTT ), had access to unprecedented levels of information about not only the direct customer's communications habits and correspondents, but also that of those who shared his or her household.

Modern consumer behaviour research methods often deal in aggregates that average out income levels and are too blunt an instrument to capture these specific situations.

Modern influences such as consumer goods, television, travel and radio are having an impact on traditional practices and culture.

Modern consumer marketing originated in the 1960s and 1970s as companies found it more profitable to sell relatively low-value products to masses of customers.

Modern Hager consumer unit fitted with MCBs and an RCD

Modern consumer units ( picture bottom right ) usually use DIN-rail mount breakers.

Modern drives ( certainly at time of writing in 2007 ) typically allow writing to both DVD-R and DVD + R discs making the difference largely irrelevant to the average consumer.

Modern methods have incorporated crewel and other embroidery stitches to add depth and differences not only by shading but by texture.

Modern designs include colored floss embroidery with the traditional white on white stitching.

Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors.

Modern CPUs are typically 2-operand or 3-operand machines — the additional operands specify which one of many general purpose registers ( also called " general purpose accumulators ") are used as the source and destination for calculations.

Modern empires were not artificially constructed economic machines.

Modern mainframes, notably the IBM zSeries, System z9 and System z10 servers, offer two levels of virtualization: logical partitions ( LPARs, via the PR / SM facility ) and virtual machines ( via the z / VM operating system ).

Modern slot machines are controlled by EPROM computer chips and, in large casinos, coin acceptors have become obsolete in favor of bill acceptors.

Modern virtual machines are implemented with either software emulation or hardware virtualization.

Modern day combine harvesters ( or simply combines ) operate on the same principles and use the same components as the original threshing machines built in the 19th century.

Modern technology has allowed machines to enhance human-power.

Modern routers are often used in place of traditional moulding planes or spindle moulder machines for edge decoration ( moulding ) of timber.

Modern pig casting machines produce stick pigs, which break into smaller 4 – 10 kg pieces at discharge.

Modern pachinko machines are highly customizable, keeping enthusiasts continuously entertained.

Modern machines tend to read blocks of lower memory into the next level of the memory hierarchy.

Modern sewing machines are designed in such a way that the fabric easily glides in and out of the machine without the hassle of needles and thimbles and other such tools used in hand sewing, automating the process of stitching and saving time.

Modern CRTs are much less susceptible to burn-in than older models due to improvements in phosphor coatings, and because modern computer images are generally lower contrast than the stark green-or white-on-black text and graphics of earlier machines.

Modern machines like the cotton picker have made the manual cultivation obsolete over time as they took over the work from the hand laborers.

Modern washing machines typically use powdered or liquid laundry detergent in place of more traditional soap.

Modern machines recover approximately 99. 99 % of the solvent employed.

Modern dry cleaning machines use a closed-loop system in which the chilled air is reheated and recirculated.

Modern tattoo machines use electromagnetic coils to move an armature bar up and down, Connected to said armature bar is a barred needle grouping that pushes ink into the skin.

Modern hillside combines level around 35 % on average, older machines were closer to 50 %.

Modern pinball machines ( especially those made after 1992 and using DMD animations ) usually require the Visual PinMAME ( sometimes referred to as VPinMAME or VPM ) program in order to work.

Modern machines are made by a small company in Neerpelt, Belgium, and dernys are either new or have the original frames with new 90cc engines.

Modern hobbing machines, also known as hobbers, are fully automated machines that come in many sizes, because they need to be able to produce anything from tiny instrument gears up to diameter marine gears.

Modern police forces make extensive use of radio communications equipment, carried both on the person and installed in vehicles, to co-ordinate their work, share information, and get help quickly.

They quickly recruited drummer David Robinson and bass player Rolfe Anderson, and christened themselves " The Modern Lovers ".

) It moved quickly up to the top of the Modern Rock Charts, eventually hitting the No. 1 spot.

The first single stateside, " Fascination Street ", reached number one on the American Modern Rock chart, but was quickly overshadowed when its third US single, " Lovesong ", reached number two on the American pop charts ( the only Cure single to reach the US Top 10 ).

Modern defences were quickly built alongside existing medieval fortifications and, in many cases, castles successfully withstood more than one siege.

His fortunes changed with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, whose dislike of Modern Art quickly led to its suppression by the state.

The pseudo Old English carol " God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen " first appeared in 1833, in Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, a collection of seasonal carols gathered and apparently improvised by William B. Sandys ; after its brief appearance in Dickens ' " A Christmas Carol " ( 1843 ), it quickly developed its reputation for being 16th century or earlier.

Modern advocates of Say's law see market forces as working quickly – via price adjustment – to abolish both gluts and shortages.

Soon after their second hit, Modern Talking released the single " Cheri, Cheri Lady " which also quickly climbed to the top of the charts in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Norway, meanwhile entering the top-10 in Sweden and The Netherlands.

" This significant event and the subsequent struggle of African-American migrants to adapt to Northern cities was the subject of Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, created when he was a young man in New York. Exhibited in 1941 at the Museum of Modern Art, Lawrence's Series featured the young artist and he was quickly perceived as one of the most important African-American artists of the time.

Modern Screen quickly became popular and by 1933 it had become Photoplay magazine's main competition.

With semi-automatic weaponry in games such as Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare seemingly limited to firing as quickly as a player can press the required button, the scroll wheel / macro egregiously abuses this limitation, allowing them to fire pistols and the like far faster than was originally intended.

Tate Modern opened in May 2000 and quickly became a major tourist fixture of London.

Modern plant cultivars can also fairly quickly produce new landraces through undirected breeding.

The album soon peaked at number two on the United Kingdom music charts and featured a single and music video, " Feed the Tree ", that quickly was rated number one on the Modern Rock Tracks Survey.

" Loser " quickly ascended the charts in the US, reaching a peak of number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and topping the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

" Inside Out " quickly rose to the number 1 spot on the Modern Rock charts and topping Billboard's Heatseekers new artists chart.

Fontenelle quickly followed with his Digression sur les anciens et les modernes ( 1688 ), in which he took the Modern side, pressing the argument that modern scholarship allowed modern man to surpass the ancients in knowledge.

As of late June, the single started receiving major airplay in Modern Rock quickly rising up the Mediabase Alternative chart jumping from No. 115 to No. 65 and was also the second most added song on Alternative stations the week of June 13, 2007.

Setting up shop at an Oxford, Ohio radio station broadcasting at 97. 7 FM, this newly formed " Modern Rock " station ( quickly dubbed " The Future of Rock & Roll ") immediately benefited from a large youthful audience at adjacent Miami University as well as listeners in urban and suburban areas of Cincinnati and Dayton, but a majority of its broadcast area was rural.

Modern cosmology now suggests that the Planck epoch may have inaugurated a period of unification or Grand unification epoch, and that symmetry breaking then quickly led to the era of cosmic inflation, the Inflationary epoch, during which the universe greatly expanded in scale over a very short period of time.

The paces turns uncontrollably high and somewhat erratic before it stops with sounds of heavy breathing and segues into " Camera Obscura ", where it immediately starts with a sample of Andru Donalds ' vocals in " Modern Crusaders " being reversed and sections of " O Fortuna " being followed up quickly.

Both stations were sold to Saga Communications and WFMI was quickly switched to a Modern AC format, becoming WXPT on May 14, 1997.

The song debuted at number 12 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and quickly rose to a peak of number 2, held off the top by Alanis Morissette's hit " You Oughta Know ".