Modern studies have shown the important role such concepts played in the world-view of Early Medieval scholars.

Modern historians have completed many studies of Bede's works.

Modern theoretical studies involve the use of numerical computation of electronic structure and mathematical tools to understand phenomena such as high-temperature superconductivity, topological phases and gauge symmetries.

Modern scientific investigations into consciousness are based on psychological experiments ( including, for example, the investigation of priming effects using subliminal stimuli ), and on case studies of alterations in consciousness produced by trauma, illness, or drugs.

Modern developmental biology studies the genetic control of cell growth, differentiation and " morphogenesis ", which is the process that gives rise to tissues, organs and anatomy.

Modern ecology is a young science that first attracted substantial scientific attention toward the end of the 19th century ( around the same time that evolutionary studies were gaining scientific interest ).

Modern studies of animal cognition have shown that these concepts are not unique to humans.

Modern group theory — a very active mathematical discipline — studies groups in their own right.

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.

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

Modern scientific studies have shown that walking, besides its physical benefits, is also beneficial for the mind — improving memory skills, learning ability, concentration and abstract reasoning, as well as reducing stress and uplifting one's spirits.

Modern studies have mainly focused on Gregory's eschatology rather than his more dogmatic writings, and he has gained a reputation as an unconventional thinker whose thought arguably prefigures postmodernism.

Modern studies aimed to manage birds in agriculture make use of a wide range of principles from ecology.

Modern studies have supported a number of these medical applications.

Modern studies show a high degree of genetic intermixing.

Modern studies suggest that, on purchasing power parity basis, one tael of silver was worth about 4130 modern Chinese yuan in the early Tang Dynasty, 2065 in the late Tang Dynasty, and 660. 8 in the mid Ming Dynasty.

* MLA style was developed by the Modern Language Association and is most often used in the arts and the humanities, particularly in English studies, other literary studies, including comparative literature and literary criticism in languages other than English (" foreign languages "), and some interdisciplinary studies, such as cultural studies, drama and theatre, film, and other media, including television.

The MCR hosts a large number of specialists in Law and Byzantine studies, and the JCR has a high concentration of students reading the popular Modern History and PPE ( Philosophy, Politics and Economics ) degrees.

Modern studies indicate that burdock root oil extract is rich in phytosterols and essential fatty acids ( including rare long-chain EFAs ).

Modern efforts such as future studies attempt to predict social trends, while more ancient practices, such as weather forecasting, have benefited from scientific and causal modelling.

Modern twin studies have shown that almost all traits are in part influenced by genetic differences, with some characteristics showing a strong influence ( e. g. height ), others an intermediate level ( e. g. intelligence quotient ) and some more complex heritabilities, with evidence for different genes affecting different aspects of the trait-as in the case of autism.

In Modern Greek, vowel length has been lost, and all instances of alpha represent the short.

Subsequent historians examining the Early Modern witch trials, particularly Carlo Ginzburg, Eva Pocs and Emma Wilby have also emphasised that the accounts in many of the witch trials represent visionary experiences, containing within them imaginary and surreal elements, which goes against Murray's rationalization of the trial accounts.

Modern techniques for timbering and bracing walls and ceilings within sub-surface mines have reduced the number of fatalities due to cave-ins, but ground falls continue to represent up to 50 % of mining fatalities.

* The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, known as the Orthodox Union, or " OU ", and the Rabbinical Council of America, " RCA " are organizations that represent Modern Orthodox Judaism, a large segment of Orthodoxy in the United States and Canada.

Modern tradition of using x to represent unknowns was started by Rene Descartes in his La geometrie ( 1637 ).

Proto-Celtic is reconstructed as having * werbā-' blister ' in its lexicon and the name may be a suffixed form of this lexeme meaning “ blistered one .” On the other hand, the root of the name may represent a Celtic reflex of the Proto-Indo-European root * wer-bhe-‘ bend, turn ,’ cognate with Modern English warp, followed by the durative suffix *- j-and the feminine suffix *- ā-and so might have meant “ she who is constantly bending and turning .” Another possibility is that the name is a compound of Romano-British reflexes of the Proto-Celtic elements ** Uφer-bej-ā-( upper-strike-F ) “ the upper striker .”

Modern Arab populations represent many nations rather than one nation as specified biblically.

Modern artists use the " scales of justice " to represent the Tribe of Dan due to referencing Dan judging his people.

Kappa ( uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or ; ) is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the sound in Ancient and Modern Greek.

In the novels it is always represented by Old English because Tolkien saw the relationship between Rohirric and the Common Speech to be the same as that of Old English and Modern English, which was used to represent Westron.

Thus ċ and ch represent the same phonetic element in Modern Irish.

Modern habitat exhibits attempt to display a diversity of species of different animal classes within one enclosure to represent ecosystem concepts.

Differences about minimum mechitza height represent a source of disagreement between more liberal or Modern and more Ḥaredi Orthodox Jews.

Modern Ossetic survives as a continuation of the language family possibly represented by Scytho-Sarmatian inscriptions, although the Scytho-Sarmatian language family " does not simply represent the same language " at an earlier date.

20th century heirs of the 19th-century view of an unchanging, immortal quality of " Greekness " are typified in J. C. Lawson's Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion ( 1910 ) or R. and E. Blum's The Dangerous Hour: The lore of crisis and mystery in rural Greece ( 1970 ); according to the Classicist Paul Cartledge, they " represent this ideological construction of Greekness as an essence, a Classicizing essence to be sure, impervious to such historic changes as that from paganism to Orthodox Christianity, or from subsistence peasant agriculture to more or less internationally market-driven capitalist farming.

Alexander I ( c. 1078 – 23 April 1124 ), also called Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim ) and nicknamed " The Fierce ", was King of the Scots from 1107 to his death.

Alexander III ( Medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair ) ( 4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286 ) was King of Scots from 1249 to his death.

Modern Christian churches tend to be much more concerned with how humanity can be saved from a universal condition of sin and death than the question of how both Jews and Gentiles can be in God's family.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Modern customs and institutions offer few useful parallels to the legal and social context which defined the gladiatoria munera Under law, anyone condemned to the arena or the gladiator schools ( ad ludum ) was a servus poenae under sentence of death unless manumitted.

In December 1956, the year of his death, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967.

Mac Bethad mac Findlaích ( Modern Gaelic: MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh, anglicised as Macbeth, and nicknamed Rí Deircc, " the Red King "; died 15 August 1057 ) was King of the Scots ( also known as the King of Alba, and earlier as King of Moray and King of Fortriu ) from 1040 until his death.

Suleiman I (;, Sultān Suleimān-i evvel or, Kānūnī Sultān Suleimān, Modern Turkish: I. Süleyman () or Kanuni Sultan Süleyman ; 6 November 1494 – 5 / 6 / 7 September 1566 ) was the tenth and longest-reigning Emperor, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566.

( Modern sources give the death toll as 75.

The Austrian post office used more Hundertwasser motives for the European edition 1987 ( Modern architecture, Hundertwasser House ), on the occasion of his death in 2000 ( painting Blue Blues, under the WIPA 2000 ) and 2004 National Donauauen ( poster: The outdoors is our freedom at civil protests in Hainburg ).

The Pierre Matisse Gallery ( which existed until Matisse's death in 1989 ) became an influential part of the Modern art movement in America.

He was born at Kürnach im Allgäu in Bavaria, and was educated at the Universities of Munich and Leipzig, and held the professorship of Medieval and Modern Greek Language and Literature in the former from 1897 to his death.

David II ( Medieval Gaelic: Daibhidh a Briuis, Modern Gaelic: Dàibhidh Bruis ; Norman French: Dauid de Brus ; 5 March 1324 – 22 February 1371 ) was King of Scots from 7 June 1329 until his death.

Máel Coluim mac Cináeda ( Modern Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Choinnich, known in modern anglicized regnal lists as Malcolm II ; died 25 November 1034 ), was King of the Scots from 1005 until his death.

Remembered in the century after his death as " Anselmus " or " Anselm ", his name was more properly " Ansellus " or, in Modern French, " Anseau.

Finally, in 1895, on the death of Sir John Seeley, Lord Rosebery appointed him to the Regius Professorship of Modern History at Cambridge.

After his brother's death, Henry Fowler and his wife moved to Hinton St. George in Somerset, where he worked on the Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Modern English Usage, which he dedicated to his brother.

Modern historians have split opinions on the issue, but largely believe that the boys were actually Emperor Hui's sons by concubines and that Empress Zhang did indeed put their mothers to death and make them her own children.

Modern historians consider this highly implausible however, noting that many of these stories were propagated by hostile senatorial authors, who condemned Domitian as a tyrant after his death.

He wrote the short novel Modernaj Robinzonoj ( Modern Robinsons ) ( 1923 ), and Maskerado ĉirkaŭ la morto ( Masquerade ( dance ) around death ), published 1965, an autobiographical novel about his experience during the Nazi occupation of Budapest, Hungary.

Jalāl al-Dawlah Malik-shāh ( Persian:, Modern Turkish: Melikşah, or simply Malik Shāh ) was born in 1055 and succeeded his father, Alp Arslan, as the Seljuq Sultan in 1072, and reigned until his death in 1092.

Among other accomplishments, Steichen is appreciated for creating The Family of Man in 1955, a vast exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art consisting of over 500 photos that depicted life, love and death in 68 countries.

It was written by the Fowler brothers, Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler, and published in 1906, and thus pre-dates by 20 years Modern English Usage, which was written by Henry alone after Francis's death in 1918.

Modern historians have called William Montague Edward's " most intimate personal friend " and " the chief influence behind the throne from Mortimer's downfall in 1330 until his own death in 1344.