Modern tests show that opus caementicium had as much compressive strength as modern Portland-cement concrete ( ca.

Modern Disciples reject the use of creeds as " tests of faith ," that is, as required beliefs, necessary to be accepted as a follower of Jesus.

Modern comprehensive IQ tests no longer give a single score.

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 IQ tests are greatly influenced by the Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory which incorporates a general intelligence but also many more narrow abilities.

It developed as a compendium ( with multiple authorship ) from Philosophical Considerations Touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft ( 1666 ), addressed to Robert Hunt, a Justice of the Peace active from the 1650s against witches in Somerset ( where Glanvill had his living at Frome ); the 1668 version A Blow at Modern Sadducism promoted the view that the judicial procedures such as Hunt's court offered should be taken as adequate tests of evidence, because to argue otherwise was to undermine society at its legal roots.

Modern pregnancy tests do not use the pregnancy itself to determine pregnancy status ; rather, human chorionic gonadotropin is used, or hCG, present in the urine of gravid females, as a surrogate marker to indicate that a woman is pregnant.

Modern vehicles using what are commonly termed ' crumple zones ' provide far superior protection for their occupants in severe tests against other vehicles with crumple zones and solid static objects than older models or SUVs that use a separate chassis frame and have no crumple zones.

Modern science has since confirmed that there is a correlation between cranium size ( measured in various ways ) and intelligence as measured by IQ tests, although it is a weak correlation at about 0. 2.

In the ninth edition of Modern Chess Openings, Walter Korn noted that the Sicilian " received three of its earliest practical tests, and a big boost in popularity, in the 1834 MacDonnell – La Bourdonnais match, 1843 Staunton – St.

These tests may be taken in Modern Ballroom, Latin American, Sequence, Disco Freestyle, Rock ‘ n ’ Roll, Country & Western, Classical Greek, Tap and National.

Modern pregnancy tests still operate on the basis of testing for the presence of the hormone hCG.

Modern tests of the quality of the concrete show that it would pass current standards.

Modern shugenja in Japan and throughout the world are known to self-actualize their spiritual power in experiential form through challenging and rigorous ritualistic tests of courage and devotion known as shugyō.

Modern cognitive tests originated through the work of Sir Francis Galton who coined the term " mental tests ".

Modern tests, however, have shown the car to be quite tractable at speed.

Modern textbooks that do not use the language of schemes:

Modern opponents of instruments do not make the same assessment of instruments as these writers, who argued that God had allowed David the “ evil ” of using musical instruments in praise.

However they do teach a subject called " Modern Studies " which covers the social, political and economic study of local, national and international issues.

Modern Judaism generally rejects this form of motivation, instead teaching to do the right thing because it's the right thing to do.

Modern Hebrew Bibles call the two books Ezra and Nehemiah, as do other modern Bible translations.

Modern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties ; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition.

Modern gas masks are quite safe and do not use asbestos, but it is still important to be careful when using a modern gas mask.

All varieties, from Biblical to Modern, use a typically Semitic templatic morphology with triconsonantal stems, though Mishnaic and Modern Hebrew have significant borrowed components of the lexicon that do not fit into this pattern.

Modern processors can even do some of the steps out of order as decoding on several instructions is done in parallel.

Modern Islamic libraries for the most part do not hold these antique books ; many were lost, destroyed by Mongols, or removed to European libraries and museums during the colonial period.

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.

At the same time, many self-proclaimed Modern Orthodox Jews do not have a problem with historical scholarship in this area.

That June, Green Day's " Longview " reached number one on Billboards Modern Rock Tracks chart and became a top forty airplay hit, arguably the first ever American punk song to do so ; just one month later, The Offspring's " Come Out and Play " followed suit.

Modern pencils do not contain lead as the " lead " of the pencil is actually a mix of finely ground graphite and clay powders.

Modern touchscreens could be used in conjunction with stylus pointing devices, while those powered by infrared do not require physical touch, but just recognize the movement of hand and fingers in some minimum range distance from the real screen.

Modern editions such as those of the Oz ve-Hadar Institute correct misprints and restore passages that in earlier editions were modified or excised by censorship but do not attempt a comprehensive account of textual variants.

Modern egg-laying breeds rarely go broody, and those that do often stop part-way through the incubation.

Nouns do not have gender in Modern English, although many of them denote people or animals of a specific sex.

In Modern Hebrew, a Semitic language, most nouns have only singular and plural forms, such as ספר " book " and ספרים " books ", but some have distinct dual forms using a distinct dual suffix ( largely nouns pertaining to numbers or time, such as אלפיים " two thousand " and שבועיים " two weeks "), some use this dual suffix for their regular plurals ( largely body parts that tend to come in pairs, such as עיניים " eyes ", as well as some that do not, such as שיניים " teeth "), and some are inherently dual ( such as מכנסיים " pants " and אופניים " bicycle ").

Modern routers, however, do not require these technologies to be able to forward variable-length packets at multigigabit speeds across the network.

Modern Petri dishes often have rings on the lids and bases, which allow them to be stacked so that they do not slide off one another.

Modern Madeiras which do not carry a varietal label are generally made from Tinta Negra Mole.

Modern cozy mysteries are frequently, though not necessarily in either case, humorous and thematic ( culinary mystery, animal mystery, quilting mystery, etc.

Modern scholars such as Lee Hollander explain that Lokasenna was intended to be humorous and that the accusations thrown by Loki in the poem are not necessarily to be taken as " generally accepted lore " at the time it was composed.

Modern knighthoods are typically awarded in recognition for services rendered to society: services which are not necessarily martial in nature.

Modern military doctrine, organization, and norms are all based on Napoleonic premises, even to this day — though whether these premises are necessarily also " Clausewitzian " is debatable.

This categorization of Satanism ( which could be categorized in other ways, for example " Traditional " versus " Modern "), is not necessarily adopted by Satanists themselves, who usually would not specify which type of Satanism they adhere to.

Modern historians have felt it more likely that Edward, at Robert's urging, wished to divorce Edith and remarry in order to have children to succeed him on the English throne, although it is possible that he merely wished to be rid of her, without necessarily wanting a divorce.

Modern faro beer is still characterized by the use of brown sugar and lambic, but is not necessarily a light beer.

Modern community radio stations serve their listeners by offering a variety of content that is not necessarily provided by the larger commercial radio stations.

Other segments of Orthodox Judaism which share this perspective of the Dor Daim, while not necessarily rejecting the Zohar itself, include most talmide ha-Rambam ( disciples of Maimonides ), as well as portions of the Modern Orthodox community and others.

Modern circuit assembly techniques that use reflow soldering do not necessarily allow the solder to flow more than once.

In Introduction to Mathematical Thinking: The Formation of Concepts in Modern Mathematics ( 1936 ), Waismann argued that mathematical truths are true by convention rather than being necessarily ( or verifiably ) true.

Modern historians point out that this negative reputation is not necessarily true, and at the very least, a very simplistic generalization.