In the Art Modern period following World War II, jewelry designs became more traditional and understated.

* Modern didgeridoo designs

Modern designs call for compact weapons retaining firepower.

Modern designs ( Sarich and Paggio ) use air-assisted fuel injection, which avoids this loss and provides more efficiency than comparably sized four-stroke engines.

Modern designs tend to have a very wide beam and a flat bottom aft, to provide buoyancy preventing an excessive heel angle and to promote surfing and planning.

Modern designs may also include a steerable nozzle for guidance, avionics, recovery hardware ( parachutes ), self-destruct mechanisms, APUs, controllable tactical motors, controllable divert and attitude control motors, and thermal management materials.

Modern Hall thrusters have achieved efficiencies as high as 75 % through advanced designs.

The original designs are part of the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution.

Modern biplane designs now exist only in specialist niche roles and markets such as aerobatics and agricultural aircraft.

Modern airliners are usually low-wing designs with two engines mounted in underwing pods.

Modern calligraphy ranges from functional hand-lettered inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the abstract expression of the handwritten mark may or may not compromise the legibility of the letters ( Mediavilla 1996 ).

Modern Spiritualists often have art or jewelry with sunflower designs.

Modern high performance CPU chip designs incorporate aspects of both Harvard and von Neumann architecture.

Modern monocoque designs include a virtual keel.

Modern designs allow performance approaching the theoretical maximum Carnot efficiency and the largest built in 1999 by the USA generated 250 kW.

Modern hollowpoint bullet designs use many different methods to provide controlled expansion, including:

Modern circuit designs are generally developed using a schematic capture and simulation system, and tested in software simulation before the first prototype circuits are built on a printed circuit board.

Modern designs are little different from the first folding field cameras from the 19th century.

Modern designs use either aluminium or silver.

Modern technology has improved component and frame designs, and many tandems are as well-built as modern high-end road and off-road bikes.

Modern designs, like their traditional counterparts, gain significant stability when heavily laden amidships.

Modern consumer embroidery machines quickly stitch appliqué designs by following a program.

Modern calligraphy ranges from functional hand-lettered inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the abstract expression of the handwritten mark may or may not compromise the legibility of the letters ( Mediavilla 1996 ).

Six of them are now Grade II listed buildings and all are now very sought after. Further houses mostly of contemporary flat-roofed designs were built in 1934 / 35 for a " Modern Homes " Exhibition in Heath Drive, Brook Road, Eastern Avenue, one by Lubetkin is now Grade II listed.

Modern hoses are also lighter weight than older designs, and this has helped reduce the physical strain on firefighters.

Modern moorings may be anchored by sand screws which look and act very much like oversized screws drilled into the seabed, or by barbed metal beams pounded in ( or even driven in with explosives ) like pilings, or a variety of other non-mass means of getting a grip on the bottom.

Modern self-propelled artillery vehicles may superficially resemble tanks, but they are generally lightly armoured, too lightly to survive in direct-fire combat.

Modern bicycle brakes may be: rim brakes, in which friction pads are compressed against the wheel rims ; internal hub brakes, in which the friction pads are contained within the wheel hubs ; or disc brakes, with a separate rotor for braking.

Modern music may also be termed " Celtic " because it is written and recorded in a Celtic language, regardless of musical style.

Modern European conservatives such as Edmund Burke have found the extreme idealism of either democracy may endanger broader liberties, and similarly reject " abstract reason " as a guide for political theory.

Modern calculators are more portable than most computers, though most PDAs or mobile phones are comparable in size to handheld calculators and may soon replace them.

Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction's life-cycle, although it may encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices and telephones as well.

Modern scholars question the existence of at least the first nine emperors ; and Jimmu's descendant, Emperor Sujin, is the first that, many agree, may have existed, in third or fourth century.

Modern humans are known to have overlapped with Neanderthals in Europe for more than 10, 000 years, and the discovery raises the possibility that Neanderthals, modern humans and the Denisova hominin may have co-existed.

Modern Esperanto usage may in fact depart from that originally described in the Fundamento, though the differences are largely semantic ( involving changed meaning of words ) rather than grammatical or phonological.

Thomas Cannon wrote what may be the earliest published defence of homosexuality in English, Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd ( 1749 ).

Modern reloading dies are generally standardized with 7 / 8-14 ( or, for the case of 50 BMG dies, with 1-1 / 4x12 ) threads and are interchangeable with all common brands of presses, although older dies may use other threads and be press-specific.

Haredi Judaism is less accommodating to modernity and has less interest in non-Jewish disciplines, and it may be distinguished from Modern Orthodox Judaism in practice by its styles of dress and more stringent practices.

Modern excavations have discovered portions tapering column drums that may belonged to the turning posts at either end of the race-course, from whose location it appears that the hippodrome could have had a length of 320 meters and a width of 140.

Modern Orthodox authorities are more willing to assume that under scrupulous examination, identical principles may lead to different applications in the context of modern life.

Modern observance may also include sealing cabinets and drawers which contain " Chametz " shut by using adhesive tape, which serves a similar purpose to a lock but also shows evidence of tampering.

Modern religious groups tend to avoid such symbolism and some may be quite uncomfortable with the concept.

Modern mole ploughs may also bury a flexible perforated plastic drain pipe as they go, making a more permanent drain – or they may be used to lay pipes for water supply or other purposes.

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 fanzines are printed on computer printers or at local copy shops, or they may only be sent as email.

Various historians have argued that shamanism also played a role in many of the pre-Christian religions of Europe, and that shamanic elements may have survived in popular culture right through to the Early Modern period.

Modern updates on screwball comedy may also sometimes be categorized as black comedy ( Intolerable Cruelty, which also features a twist on the classic screwball element of divorce and re-marriage ).

Modern dog boots may also be used for other outdoor activities, such as hunting and hiking, to prevent slippage in wet or snowy weather as well as to keep snow from accumulating between the dog's toes.

Modern self-propelled artillery vehicles may superficially resemble tanks, but they are generally lightly armoured, too lightly to survive in direct-fire combat.