Modern advances in geochronology, in particular cosmogenic radionuclide dating, optically stimulated luminescence dating and low-temperature thermochronology have enabled us for the first time to measure the rates at which geomorphic processes occur on geological timescales.

Modern biogeographic research combines information and ideas from many fields, from the physiological and ecological constraints on organismal dispersal to geological and climatological phenomena operating at global spatial scales and evolutionary time frames.

Modern geological knowledge rules out " lost continents " of any significant size.

Modern geological techniques such as core drilling have identified the site of the vanished sacred Lake Lerna, which was a freshwater lagoon, separated by barrier dunes from the Aegean.

William Keegan states that the Bahama archipelago ( the Bahama Islands in a generic sense ) includes the territories of both the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, adding: " Modern political considerations aside, the islands form a single archipelago with common geological, ecological, and cultural roots .".

Modern analytical chemistry is dominated by instrumental analysis.

Modern historical analysis usually draws upon other social sciences, including economics, sociology, politics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy and linguistics.

Modern scholarship dating from the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement of 19th century Germany, as well as textual analysis influenced by the 20th Century discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggests that dating from this period there existed " liturgical formulations of a communal nature designated for particular occasions and conducted in a centre totally independent of Jerusalem and the Temple, making use of terminology and theological concepts that were later to become dominant in Jewish and, in some cases, Christian prayer.

Modern tools perform forms of analysis that many optimizing compilers typically don't do, such as cross-module consistency checking, checking that the code will be portable to other compilers, and supporting annotations that specify intended behavior or properties of code.

Modern DNA analysis ( see link ) has confirmed that various populations have contributed to the present-day gene pool of Morocco in addition to the main ethnic group which is the Amazighs / Berbers.

Modern mining processes involve prospecting for ore bodies, analysis of the profit potential of a proposed mine, extraction of the desired materials and finally reclamation of the land to prepare it for other uses once the mine is closed.

In his analysis of post-World War II horror fiction, The Modern Weird Tale ( 2001 ), critic S. T. Joshi devotes a chapter to King's work.

Modern academic sociology began with the analysis of religion in Émile Durkheim's 1897 study of suicide rates among Catholic and Protestant populations, a foundational work of social research which served to distinguish sociology from other disciplines, such as psychology.

Modern studies and the in-depth analysis of finds dating from the Stone Age indicate certain rituals and beliefs of the people in those prehistoric times.

Modern methods of textual and historical analysis were applied to the Talmud.

Modern re-classifications of the voice types for Mozartian roles have been based on analysis of contemporary descriptions of the singers who created those roles and their other repertoire, and on the role's tessitura in the score.

Modern law approaches the analysis somewhat differently.

Modern methods of decoherence are relevant to an analysis of this limit.

Not all mathematicians agree with this analysis, however, and the status of Hilbert's second problem is not yet decided ( see " Modern viewpoints on the status of the problem ").

A critical analysis of King's work can be found in S. T. Joshi's The Modern Weird Tale ( 2001 ).

There is an extensive critical analysis of Campbell's work in S. T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale ( 2001 ), and an essay on his later work in Classics and Contemporaries ( 2009 ).

Modern physical analysis methods include scanning-tunneling microscopy ( STM ) and a family of methods descended from it.

Modern research on attention began with the analysis of the " cocktail party problem " by

Modern geomorphology focuses on the quantitative analysis of interconnected processes.

* Schroeder, Paul W. The Transformation of European Politics 1763-1848 ( Oxford History of Modern Europe ) ( 1994 ) 920pp ; history and analysis of major diplomacy

The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848 – 1918 ( 1954 ) ( Oxford History of Modern Europe ) 638pp ; history and analysis of major diplomacy

Modern techniques of forensic analysis now suggest that some injuries, such as broken bones and crushed skulls, were not the result of torture, but rather due to the weight of the bog.

Modern analysis by Professor Fred E. C. Culick and Henry R. Rex ( 1985 ) has demonstrated that the 1903 Wright Flyer was so unstable as to be almost unmanageable by anyone but the Wrights, who had trained themselves in the 1902 glider.

Modern analysis has shown the virus to be particularly deadly because it triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults.

Modern cable systems are large, with a single network and headend often serving an entire metropolitan area or county.

: Modern styling: The Eurotram, used in Strasbourg has a modern design that makes it look almost as much like a train as a tram, and has large windows along its entire length.

Modern scholarship overwhelmingly views the entire passage, including its reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ ", as authentic and has rejected its being the result of later interpolation.

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

Modern editions have dropped these two titles and have reverted to calling the entire work the Anthology ().

Modern ASICs often include entire microprocessors, memory blocks including ROM, RAM, EEPROM, Flash and other large building blocks.

Modern almanacs include a comprehensive presentation of statistical and descriptive data covering the entire world.

Indeed, Edmar Mednis's remark was that the entire Pirc Variation had become unplayable at the highest level, while Modern Chess Openings ( MCO ) cites this variation as the main problem with 4 ... c5.

Modern maps show the elevation of the highest of the peaks in the Wudang Shan " proper " as 1612 meters ; however, the entire Wudangshan range has somewhat higher elevations elsewhere.

Modern video games have included cold opens, either beginning with a lengthy opening sequence or, like the Metal Gear Solid games, including an entire level before the titles.

While W. B. Yeats chose many poets of the Great War generation for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse ( 1936 ), Read arguably stood out among his peers by virtue of the 17-page excerpt ( nearly half of the entire work ) of his The End of a War ( Faber & Faber, 1933 ).

Modern systems contain a small number of crystals of known but differing properties, with automated changing of the crystal depending on the energy being analysed, enabling elements from the entire periodic table to be analyzed, with the exception of H. He and Li.

Modern computer CD-ROM drives allowed the redbook audio to be read in digital format ( versus earlier drives that merely output analog audio ), which allows entire volumes of music to be copied and encoded many times faster than normal playback speed.

Their distinct Arabic dialects in turn did not thrive in either country, and most of their descendants now speak French or Modern Hebrew almost exclusively ; thus resulting in the entire continuum of Judeo-Arabic dialects being considered endangered languages.

At her first class, Katherine discovers that the girls have already memorized the entire syllabus from the textbook so she instead uses the classes to introduce them to Modern Art and encourages spirited classroom discussions about topics such as what makes good art and what the Mona Lisa's smile means.

On August 1, 2005, Lions Gate Entertainment acquired the entire library of Modern Entertainment, the U. S. film division of the Swedish television company Modern Times Group.

Modern light aircraft, may have a parachute system that saves the entire aircraft, so there is no need to bail out, though baling out is no longer as common as it once was.

Modern battery cases do not facilitate such repairs ; an internal fault generally requires replacement of the entire unit.

The Dark • Matter campaign is an entire d20 Modern expansion and Star Drive is part of the d20 Future expansion.

Modern writers prefer to tell a character ’ s origin across an entire story arc or keep a newly introduced character mysterious until a " secret origin " issue.

Modern Wesleyan-Arminian theologians regard the Keswick theology as something different from their own dogma of entire sanctification.

Modern society, called the " modern world-system " is of the latter type, but unique in being the first and only fully capitalist world-economy to have emerged, around 1450-1550 and to have geographically expanded across the entire planet, by about 1900.

* In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a group of the warlord Al-Asad's forces in a fictional Middle Eastern country under occupation by the USMC detonate a Russian nuclear warhead, annihilating themselves, the capital city and nearly the entire invading US Marine force.