* In 2004, Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle published the first comprehensive review of the field of self-replication, in their book Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, which includes 3000 + literature references.

A review of 145 alternative medicine Cochrane reviews using the 2004 database revealed that 38. 4 % concluded positive effect or possibly positive ( 12. 4 %) effect, 4. 8 % concluded no effect, 0. 69 % concluded harmful effect, and 56. 6 % concluded insufficient evidence.

In a review of it, John Clute wrote: “ I ’ m not about to suggest that if Heinlein had been able to publish works openly in the pages of Astounding in 1939, SF would have gotten the future right ; I would suggest, however, that if Heinlein, and his colleagues, had been able to publish adult SF in Astounding and its fellow journals, then SF might not have done such a grotesquely poor job of prefiguring something of the flavor of actually living here at the onset of 2004 .”

On 21 July 2004, in the Delivering Security in a Changing World review of defence spending, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon announced that three frigates of the fleet of sixteen would be paid off as part of a continuous cost-cutting strategy, and these were subsequently sold to Chile.

In Roger Ebert's review of the 2004 movie Secret Window, he stated, " A lot of people were outraged that was honored at the National Book Awards, as if a popular writer could not be taken seriously.

In 2004, the AASM commissioned the AASM Visual Scoring Task Force to review the R & K scoring system.

In February 2004, the FBI announced it would review its investigation after learning that agents in the investigation of the Midwest Bank Robbers ( an alleged Aryan-oriented gang ) had turned up explosive caps of the same type that were used to trigger the Oklahoma City bomb.

While the debate remains hotly disputed, it is therefore not surprising that a comprehensive review of published studies of gun control, released in November 2004 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was unable to determine any reliable statistically significant effect resulting from such laws, although the authors suggest that further study may provide more conclusive information.

In 2004, a review article by Simpson and Roger noted that the Protista were " a grab-bag for all eukaryotes that are not animals, plants or fungi ".

* 2004 review

Construction began near the US-89 / I-15 interchange in Farmington in 2004, but was soon halted due to a lawsuit filed by environmentalists, who were concerned that the road would harm marshlands along the eastern edge of the Great Salt Lake and asked for a review of the completeness of the environmental impact statement.

A 2004 Rolling Stone magazine review begins with the words: " This is music of such enigmatic beauty that thirty-five years after its release, Astral Weeks still defies easy, admiring description.

In his review of Sir Graham Bower's account, Alan Cousins ( 2004 ) notes that, " A number of major themes and concerns emerge " from Bower's history, "... perhaps the most poignant being Bower ’ s accounts of his being made a scapegoat in the aftermath of the raid: ' since a scapegoat was wanted I was willing to serve my country in that capacity '.

This review assists the organisation in establishing their environmental objectives, goals and targets, which should ideally be measurable ; helps with the development of control and management procedures and processes and serves to highlight any relevant legal requirements, which can then be built into the policy ( Standards Australia / Standards New Zealand 2004 ).

After the checking stage, a regular planned management review is conducted to ensure that the objectives of the EMS are being met, the extent to which they are being met, that communications are being appropriately managed and to evaluate changing circumstances, such as legal requirements, in order to make recommendations for further improvement of the system ( Standards Australia / Standards New Zealand 2004 ).

The southern part of Long Readings Lane and the south side of Cowper Road became part of the Britwell ward for the first time in 2004 following a Boundary Commission review.

* Punknews. org review of the 2004 Winter Nationals show at The Metro

Insight into Ritzer ’ s distinctive approach to globalization is available via a special review symposium in the Sage journal Thesis Eleven ( Number 76, February 2004 ).

* Barbara O ' Brien in a 2004 review of the exhibition " Diane Arbus: Family Albums " found her and August Sander's work " filled with life and energy.

" A 2004 critical review of research on firearms by a National Research Council panel also noted that academic studies of the assault weapon ban " did not reveal any clear impacts on gun violence " and noted " due to the fact that the relative rarity with which the banned guns were used in crime before the ban ... the maximum potential effect of the ban on gun violence outcomes would be very small ...."

A review of the Ward boundaries on 10 June 2004 resulted in an increase from 39 Wards to 40 Wards.

* Doug Ward, The Golden Hour review, New York Times, August 8, 2004

A review commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in 2004 suggested that " S4C should operate a single core service after digital switchover ".

A 2004 review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience observed that " because it is easier to manipulate hormone levels than the expression of sex chromosome genes, the effects of hormones have been studied much more extensively, and are much better understood, than the direct actions in the brain of sex chromosome genes.

In Managua, Nicaragua, the Albertus Magnus International Institute, a business and economic development research center, was founded in 2004.

A 2004 case study concluded that the proper use of screenshots can significantly support a user ’ s “ developing a mental model of the program ” and help in “ identifying and locating window elements and objects .” This research concluded that screen shots allowed users to “ learn more, make fewer mistakes, and learn in a shorter time frame ,” which can certainly assist in increasing the time frame for full implementation of a CRM system with limited technical or human support.

In 2004, Botanical Society of America's Plant Science Bulletin disputed Dr. Temple's research as flawed which published evidence as to why the dodo's extinction did not directly cause the increasing disappearance of young trees including suggestion that tortoises would have been more likely to disperse the seeds than dodo hence discrediting Temple's view as to the dodo and the tree's sole survival relationship.

In 2003 and 2004, The Scientist magazine placed Dalhousie among the top five places in the world, outside the United States, for postdoctoral work and conducting scientific research.

The second generation of the network, named GÉANT2, began in September 2004 and continued until 2009, focusing on the construction of an advanced, hybrid research network infrastructure.

* 2004 American research study on interstitial cystitis history — earliest known descriptions of bladder inflammation and interstitial cystitis

According to research, the vulture population has undergone a sharp decline on the Indian subcontinent, 95 % decline in 2004, 99. 9 % decline as of 2008 due to the use of diclofenac in animals.

* organized a second multi-national research expedition ( known as Expedition Two ) in the Australian outback in 2004

In a November 2004 cover article, Fortune magazine called him " The Man Who Changed Medicine " for his positive influence on medical research.

Beginning in 2004, she favored what many consider to be the Democratic Party's position, and urged President George W. Bush to support federally funded embryonic stem cell research in the hope that this science could lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease.

Dalbar Inc., a market research company, found that during the 20 years from 1984 to 2004, the average stock fund investor earned returns of only 3. 7 % per year, while the S & P 500 returned 13. 2 %.

* Semiconductor material ( date first used ): the metalloids germanium ( 1947 ) and silicon ( 1954 )— in amorphous, polycrystalline and monocrystalline form ; the compounds gallium arsenide ( 1966 ) and silicon carbide ( 1997 ), the alloy silicon-germanium ( 1989 ), the allotrope of carbon graphene ( research ongoing since 2004 ), etc .— see Semiconductor material

In 2004 marine archaeologists rediscovered a wreck, called the " Black Rock Ship ", that subsequent research has suggested may be that of the Trouvadore.

He returned to Darwin in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009 and 2011 to continue his nurseryfish research.

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, for 2004 The University of Tulsa's freshman class ranked 9th nationally among research universities in the number of National Merit Scholars per capita .< ref >

Between 2004 and 2009, the university's research revenue increased by 77 per cent: the highest increase among Canadian comprehensive universities.

Murphy Student Centre ( 2002 ), MacLauchlan Arena ( 2004 ), Bill and Denise Andrew Hall residence facility ( 2006 ), expansions to the Atlantic Veterinary College ( 2007 and 2009 ), Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre ( 2007 ), a research and development laboratory which is home to the National Research Council of Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and other partners, and Don and Marion McDougall Hall ( 2008 ).

His research in cognitive psychology has won the Early Career Award ( 1984 ) and Boyd McCandless Award ( 1986 ) from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award ( 1993 ) from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize ( 2004 ) from the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the George Miller Prize ( 2010 ) from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

By the late 1990s new research building on Mack's insights was beginning to mature, and after 2004, the U. S. military began once again to seriously consider the problems associated with asymmetric warfare.

for NASA overall, the substantial realignment in research priorities that followed the announcement of the Vision for Space Exploration in 2004 has led to a significant number of layoffs at Ames.

He was one of the recipients of the 2004 National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, presented by President George W. Bush for his contributions to research on the problem of making decisions using imperfect information and his research on bearing risk.

* " Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre ," college research paper by Joseph Chapel, 2004

* Association Takh-Przewalski horse conservation organization, reintroduced the species to Mongolia in 2004 and 2005 and continues research and conservation on the Mongolian steppe.