In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère ’ s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland.

By modern convention, enclosures are numbered from the centre outwards.

This convention is more relaxed in modern age and now it is acceptable among friends to use the given name, but use of the family name is still common.

Through centuries of international convention, this has become the dominant rule to identifying an emperor in the modern era.

( By modern convention, the sequence begins with F < sub > 0 </ sub > = 0.

True granite according to modern petrologic convention contains both plagioclase and alkali feldspars.

The two L's do not seem to have specifically represented either name, and the order Ludwik Lazar is a modern convention.

A modern longbow's draw is typically or less, and by modern convention measured at.

However, by the time Scotland and England joined under a single parliament, English had lost the sound, so the Scots convention of using CH remained, hence the modern Scottish English loch.

A convention of the constitution, the modern Cabinet is a group of ministers who formulate policies.

The Premier is appointed by the Governor of New South Wales, and by modern convention holds office by virtue of his or her ability to command the support of a majority of members of the lower house of Parliament, the Legislative Assembly.

Historians and archeologists dismiss this modern theory as Gods and goddesses with mythical allegories were usually portrayed, but could this remarkable vase have broken convention, and shown realism in portraiture, known solely on coins of the period, before it, in turn, was broken?

The transition of the office to its modern stature occurred primarily as a result of Franklin Roosevelt's 1940 nomination, when he captured the ability to nominate his running mate instead of leaving the nomination to the convention.

Bott states that the author of the poem was evidently unaware that this contraction of " and " is not an archaic, but a modern convention.

However, most modern algebraic geometry texts starting with Alexander Grothendieck's foundational EGA use the convention in this article .< ref > A notable exception to modern algebraic geometry texts following the conventions of this article is Commutative algebra with a view toward algebraic geometry / David Eisenbud ( 1995 ), which uses " h < sub > A </ sub >" to mean the covariant hom-functor.

This is a modern convention, however.

One advantage of this convention is in the use of modular arithmetic as implemented in modern computers.

Most classic translations, including both Douglas and Dryden, employed a rhyme scheme, a very non-Roman convention that is not usually followed in modern versions.

The sound, also not native to the language, often shifted to, as in serbisu " work " from Portuguese serviço ( also note that a modern INL convention promotes the use of serbisu for " work " and servisu for " service ").

This site is recognised by modern convention as the centre of London for the purpose of indicating distances by road in favour of other previous measurement points ( such as St Paul's Cathedral which remains as the root of the English and Welsh part of the Great Britain road numbering scheme ).

The modern convention of moving the Olympic flame via a relay system from Greece to the Olympic venue began in 1936.

The presence of the fourth wall is an established convention of modern realistic theatre, which has led some artists to draw direct attention to it for dramatic or comedic effect when this boundary is " broken ", for example by an actor onstage speaking to the audience directly.

The modern world has been marked by progressive disaffection with claims to divine sanction for the state, whatever its political form.

* Vasconic substratum hypothesis: This proposal, by the German linguist Theo Vennemann, claims that there is enough toponymical evidence to conclude that Basque is the only survivor of a larger family that once extended throughout most of Europe, and has also left its mark in modern Indo-European languages spoken in Europe.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that books on magic were invented by the Persians, with the 1st century CE writer Pliny the Elder stating that magic had been first discovered by the ancient philosopher Zoroaster around the year 6347 BC, but that it was only written down in the 5th century BC by the magician Osthanes — his claims are not however supported by modern historians.

The ascription of Indus Valley Civilization iconography and epigraphy to historically known cultures is extremely problematic, in part due to the rather tenuous archaeological evidence of such claims, as well as the projection of modern South Asian political concerns onto the archaeological record of the area.

Today, the Czechoslovak Hussite Church claims to be the modern successor of the Hussite tradition.

Clifton suggests that modern claims of revealing an Italian pagan witchcraft tradition, for example those of Leo Martello and Raven Grimassi, must be " match against ", and compared with the claims in Aradia.

Jeffrey D. Finch claims that " the future of East-West rapprochement appears to be overcoming the modern polemics of neo-scholasticism and neo-Palamism ".

Based on Haliburton's writings, there have been claims that modern hockey originated in Windsor, Nova Scotia, by King's College students and was named after an individual, as in “ Colonel Hockey's game .” Others claim that the origins of hockey come from games played in the area of Dartmouth and Halifax in Nova Scotia.

* 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion ( modern California ) for England.

Maroger has been criticized by some modern writers on painting because of his bold claims about having found the secret formulas of the Masters.

Ronnie Ellenblum claims this view was influenced by French imperialism and colonialism ; if medieval French crusaders could integrate themselves into local society, then certainly modern French colonies in the Levant could thrive.

The Kuomintang claims sovereignty over Mongolia and Tuva as well as the territories of the modern People's Republic and Republic of China.

KR is most commonly used to refer to representations intended for processing by modern computers, and in particular, for representations consisting of explicit objects ( the class of all elephants, or Clyde a certain individual ), and of assertions or claims about them (' Clyde is an elephant ', or'all elephants are grey ').

In the event this proved unachievable and instead Leicester employed William Spicer to rebuild and extend the castle so as to provide modern accommodation for the royal court and symbolically boost his own claims to noble heritage.

Aristotle's assertion that "... it will not be possible to be and not to be the same thing ", which would be written in propositional logic as ¬ ( P ∧ ¬ P ), is a statement modern logicians could call the law of excluded middle ( P ∨ ¬ P ), as distribution of the negation of Aristotle's assertion makes them equivalent, regardless that the former claims that no statement is both true and false, while the latter requires that any statement is either true or false.

According to the sceptics, Adomnán's story may be independent of the modern Loch Ness Monster legend entirely, only becoming attached to it in retrospect by believers seeking to bolster their claims.

One exception to this modern trend is Joseph Campbell's book The Hero With a Thousand Faces ( 1949 ), which claims that all hero myths follow the same underlying pattern.

James Gleick claims that the mondegreen is a distinctly modern phenomenon.

Seymour, Wisconsin, claims to be the birthplace of the modern hamburger, although several other locations make similar claims.

Kaplan's theology held that in light of the advances in philosophy, science, and history, it would be impossible for modern Jews to continue to adhere to many of Judaism's traditional theological claims.