Modern whaling for Bryde's whales is thought to have begun from coastal stations in Japan in 1906, where it continued uninterrupted until 1987 — they were also caught offshore in the western North Pacific by both Japanese ( 1971 – 79 ) and Soviet ( 1966 – 79 ) fleets, as well as from Taiwan ( 1976 – 80 ), the Bonin Islands ( 1946 – 52 and 1981 – 87 ) and the Philippines ( 1983 – 85 ).

Modern fleets are usually administrative units.

Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally.

Modern smog, as found for example in Los Angeles, is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine with the primary emissions to form photochemical smog.

Modern day sleighs combine light metals, steel runners, and an aerodynamic composite body.

Modern software design approaches usually combine both top-down and bottom-up approaches.

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 body armor may combine a ballistic vest with other items of protective clothing, such as a combat helmet.

Modern front wheel drive cars typically combine the transmission and front axle into a single unit called a transaxle.

Modern palmists often combine traditional predictive techniques with psychology, holistic healing, as well as alternative methods of divination.

Modern scanners combine PET with a CT, or even MRI, to optimize the image reconstruction involved with positron imaging.

" While third stream music would combine classical elements with jazz, the Modern Jazz Quartet used these forms " just to play good, swinging, subtle jazz " and in pursuit of " the joy of collective improvisation and counterpoint.

Modern demakes are typically whimsical in nature and often combine the gameplay of the original with nostalgic genres like platform games and beat ' em ups.

Modern organizations lack middle managers to combine, sort, and prioritize the data.

Modern aerovanes combine the directional vane with an anemometer ( a device for measuring wind speed ).

Modern detectors in particle physics combine several of the above elements in layers much like an onion.

Modern " all round " RIB hulls combine a deep v hull at the bow which flattens out to present a broad planing pad.

Modern social structural analysis takes this into account through multivariate analysis and other techniques, but the analytic problem of how to combine various aspects of social life into a whole remains.

Modern millwrights work with steel and other materials in addition to wood and must often combine the skills of several skilled trades in order to successfully fabricate industrial machinery or to assemble machines from pre-fabricated parts.

Modern stop-and-identify laws combine aspects of the old vagrancy laws with a guide for police officers conducting investigatory stops, such as those authorized under Terry v. Ohio,.

The Making of the Modern World is a cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary series in world civilizations, organized chronologically, that seeks to combine various disciplines including history, religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and visual arts into course that offers a survey of the sum total of world history, not just from a eurocentric perspective, but from a more international view, including developments in China, India, Africa, and the Americas.

Intaglio is rather an expensive process, more often used for the printing of currency notes. Modern printing techniques often combine two or more processes to produce better results.

Modern equivalent may combine a ballistic vest with other items of protective clothing, such as a combat helmet.

Concerning the questions of free musical speech and how to combine and balance improvisation and composition, Andreas Paolo Perger studied with Evan Parker, Frederic Rzewski and the late Wolfgang Stryi during a master class with the title " to compose-to improvise-to interpret " of the Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt.

Students in Blocks 4 and 5 ( Years 10 and 11 ) combine five or seven GCSEs-English Language, Mathematics and a Modern Language GCSE, as well as IGCSE Double Award Science, are compulsory for all students in these years-with two or three BACs.

Modern sailboats often combine reefing and furling of sails, as shown in fully furled Genoa headsail of the Bavaria 36 in the image at right.

Modern field hockey sticks are J-shaped and constructed of a composite of wood, glass fibre or carbon fibre ( sometimes both ) and have a curved hook at the playing end, a flat surface on the playing side and curved surface on the rear side.

Modern skyscrapers ' walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterized by large surface areas of windows made possible by the concept of steel frame and curtain walls.

Modern All-weather running tracks are covered by a synthetic weather-resistant running surface, which typically consists of rubber ( either black SBR or colored EPDM granules ), bound by polyurethane or latex resins.

Modern researchers aim to draw out quantitative " laws " that govern Earth surface processes, but equally, recognize the uniqueness of each landscape and environment in which these processes operate.

Modern surface-independent optical mice work by using an optoelectronic sensor ( essentially, a tiny low-resolution video camera ) to take successive images of the surface on which the mouse operates.

Modern teppanyaki grills are typically propane-heated flat surface grills, and are widely used to cook food in front of guests at restaurants.

Modern chemical processes to modify the ionic surface of bentonite greatly intensify this stickiness, resulting in remarkably dough-like yet strong casting sand mixes that stand up to molten metal temperatures.

Modern theories predict that a ( conjectural ) asteroid or comet impact on the Moon would cause a plume of molten matter rising up from the surface, which is consistent with the monks ' description.

His disillusionment with modern art, such as Robert Rauschenberg's Monogram a stuffed goat with a tire around its middle section standing on a flat, littered surface, that Nerdrum had encountered in the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, filled the young artist with disgust.

Modern mousepads are typically made of lesser density rubber composites ( open cell styrene, butadiene rubber or open cell SBR ) with fabric bonded to the upper surface.

Modern wingsuits, first developed in the late 1990s, create the surface area with fabric between the legs and under the arms.

Modern water puppetry is performed in a pool of water 4 meters square with the water surface being the stage.

Modern drip irrigation has arguably become the world's most valued innovation in agriculture since the invention of the impact sprinkler in the 1930s, which offered the first practical alternative to surface irrigation.

" Mark Holborn, in his introduction to Ancient and Modern writes about the dark undercurrent of these mundane scenes as viewed through Eggleston's lens: " subjects are, on the surface, the ordinary inhabitants and environs of suburban Memphis and Mississippi -- friends, family, barbecues, back yards, a tricycle and the clutter of the mundane.

Modern naval warfare is divided into three operational areas: surface warfare, air warfare and submarine warfare.

Modern surface warfare dates from the mid 20th century, when surface, air, and submarine warfare components were blended together as a tactical unit to achieve strategic objectives.

Modern low-floor pusher articulated buses also tend to suffer from suspension problems because their wheels lack the ampleness of travel that would enable them to absorb surface unevennesses.

Modern rinks have a specific procedure for preparing the surface.

Modern techniques now permit continuous information at the surface.

Modern operations in McMurdo Sound have sparked surface cleanup efforts, recycling, and exporting trash and other contaminates by ship.

Modern hard drives have mostly solved the stiction problem by using ramps to " unload " the heads from the disk surface on power-down.

Modern researchers document case studies and more in-depth feelings surface.