In bifacial technology (Mode 2), a mass of stone is shaped through the serial removal of interrelated flakes (façonnage) until the remaining volume takes on a desired form, such as a handaxe.
In contrast, Levallois technology (Mode 3), a specific hierarchical core reduction strategy, entails the multistage shaping (façonnage) of a mass of stone (core) in preparation to detach a flake of predetermined size and shape from a single preferred surface (débitage) (14, 15).
As a result, over the years, practitioners have subsumed under this category an extremely varied range of microliths with very little in common in terms of blank technology, mode of retouch, and overall shape.
Novel agents differ from each other in their manufacturing technology, mode of action, and dosage – this affords to find the best treatment modality for every patient.
High-technology firms are, for example, the most likely of all firms to engage in the product-research mode, whilst low-technology manufacturers are the most likely to engage in the process-technologies mode.
Analysing survey data concerning the innovation orientations of 2500 European firms, this paper uses the exploratory statistical technique of multiple correspondence analysis to identify three distinct modes of innovation: a product-research mode; a process-technologies mode; and an organisational-cooperation mode.
We find different technology acquisition modes determined by latecomers' focus of knowledge-base: technological for "make" and production for "buy".
Lifestyles, he said, are always evolving — gradually — with changes in technology, new modes of communication and so forth.
New sensing technology and modes of perception are developing: GPS, laser scanners, high-resolution digital video cameras, and lightweight, flexible touch sensors.
But unlike previous generations, millennials "grew up with technology and modes of communication like tweeting, social media and texting," which encouraged what he called "a complete disregard of the English language".
