Modern Democratic theories and implementations, especially after Montesquieu's theories, rely on the separation of powers: Executive ( government and police ), legislative ( parliament ) and judicial ( court ) branches of power are separated.

Modern implementations of atomic spectroscopy for studying visible and ultraviolet transitions include flame emission spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy, glow discharge spectroscopy, microwave induced plasma spectroscopy, and spark or arc emission spectroscopy.

Modern X implementations use Unix domain sockets for efficient connections on the same host.

Modern graphics processing units ( GPUs ) are often wide SIMD implementations, capable of branches, loads, and stores on 128 or 256 bits at a time.

Modern implementations of real-time text also exist in instant messengers, such as AOL's Real-Time IM as an optional feature.

Modern implementations may include a digital loop carrier system segment or fiber optic transmission system known as fiber-in-the-loop.

Modern implementations also support binary files.

Modern implementations allow for new players to join after the game has started, the maximum number of players that can join is arbitrary for each game, map and rules and can be selected by the server.

Modern AQM implementations avoid this pitfall by dropping rather than marking packets at very high load.

Modern BSD implementations, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, have support for ECN marking in the ALTQ queueing implementation for a number of queuing disciplines, notably RED and Blue.

Modern DCE implementations such as IBM's are fully capable of interoperating with Kerberos as the security server, LDAP for the CDS and the Network Time Protocol implementations for the time server.

Modern implementations use rational tree unification to avoid looping.

Modern RTI implementations conform to the IEEE 1516 and / or HLA 1. 3 API specifications.

Modern OBD implementations use a standardized digital communications port to provide real-time data in addition to a standardized series of diagnostic trouble codes, or DTCs, which allow one to rapidly identify and remedy malfunctions within the vehicle.

Modern Pascal, like Object Pascal ( Delphi, FPC ), as well as modern C implementations allow C ++ style comments

Modern Unix implementations generally include a security protocol that requires a user be a member of the wheel user privileges group in order to gain superuser access to a machine by using the < tt > su </ tt > command.

Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century.

Modern use of similar terms includes genetic engineering as well as cell and tissue culture technologies.

* Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China ( 1999 ), 876pp ; well written survey from 1644 to 1990s excerpt and text search ; complete edition online at Questia

* Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China ( 1991 ), 876pp ; well written survey from 1644 to 1980s excerpt and text search ; complete edition online

Modern VLSI processors instead use matrices of field effect transistors to build the ROM and / or PLA structures used to control the processor as well as its internal sequencer in a microcoded implementation.

Modern equivalents also exist, such as the discontinued Ruger Police Carbine, which uses the same magazine as the Ruger pistols of the same caliber, as well as the ( also discontinued ) Marlin Camp Carbine ( which, in 1911, used. 45 ACP magazines ).

Modern American politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic parties have dominated and framed policy debate as well as the public discourse on matters of national concern for about a century and a half.

Norman F. Cantor's summary of the effects of late medieval deforestation applies equally well to Early Modern Europe:

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.

Among modern languages, cases still feature prominently in most of the Balto-Slavic languages, with most having six to eight cases, as well as Icelandic, German and Modern Greek, which have four.

While not recording, he frequently hung out and jammed with members of New Jersey – based country rockers Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends ( whose members included Tony Bennett's sons, Danny and Dae Bennett as well as future Dylan sideman and member of the Alpha Band, multi-instrumentalist David Mansfield ) and the proto-punk Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, who were being managed by Kaufman.

Modern handfastings are performed for same-sex or opposite-sex couples, as well as for multiple partners in the case of polyamorous relationships.

Modern hi-hat cymbals are much heavier than modern crash cymbals, reflecting the trend to lighter and thinner crash cymbals as well as to heavier hi-hats.

Modern hypnotherapy is widely accepted for the treatment of anxiety, subclinical depression, and certain habit disorders, as well as in the treatment of conditions such as insomnia and addiction.

Modern dosimeters are made of a range of materials, such as alanine pellets, perspex ( PMMA ) blocks, and radiochromic films, as well as special solutions and other materials.

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.

For instance, Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha struggle for Indian independence is called a " jihad " in Modern Standard Arabic ( as well as many other dialects of Arabic ); the terminology is also applied to the fight for women's liberation .< ref >

After the war ended Sartre established Les Temps Modernes ( Modern Times ), a quarterly literary and political review, and started writing full-time as well as continuing his political activism.

Modern facsimilies are reported to steer quite well but require a very large amount of physical effort compared to the modern fore and aft tiller.

Modern tests and contemporary accounts agree therefore that well-made plate armour could protect against longbows, however there are a number of caveats to this point ; not all plate armour was well-made or well looked after, and there were also weak points in the eye and air holes and joints where arrows could penetrate, meaning that even if the armour was proof against nearly all arrows, being shot at by thousands of longbowmen would have been an uncomfortable experience, physically and mentally.

Modern mild ales are mainly dark coloured with an abv of 3 % to 3. 6 %, though there are lighter hued examples, as well as stronger examples reaching 6 % abv and higher.

The success of original material like Urinetown, Avenue Q, Spelling Bee and In the Heights, as well as creative re-imaginings of film properties, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Billy Elliot and The Color Purple, and plays-turned-musicals, such as Spring Awakening, prompts theatre historian John Kenrick to write: " Is the Musical dead?

Modern tanks possess very thick composite armour consisting of layers of steel, ceramics, plastics and Kevlar, and these materials have melting points well above the burning temperature of gasoline, which makes the vehicles themselves invulnerable to Molotov cocktails.

Modern antivirus software detects macro viruses as well as other types.

Modern neuroscience education and research activities can be very roughly categorized into the following major branches, based on the subject and scale of the system in examination as well as distinct experimental or curricular approaches.