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In marked contrast to earlier constructions and villages on top of the mesas, the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde reflected a region-wide trend towards the aggregation of growing regional populations into close, highly defensible quarters during the 13th century.

In Australia, there is a growing trend of people returning to singing due to the influence of TV shows such as Glee.

In recent years, a growing Tex-Mex polka band trend from Mexican immigrants ( i. e. Conjunto or Norteño ) has influenced much of new Chicano folk music, especially in large market Spanish language radio stations and on television music video programs in the U. S. The band Quetzal is known for its political songs.

In " The Human Zoo ", Morris postulates that human society has moved from small scattered tribes to highly compressed urban civilization and that this trend has placed growing psychological and sociological pressure on humans which leads to both a greater chance for mankind to understand himself but also leads to irrational and unnatural human behavior which can manifest itself into severe psychological problems.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the growing Islamist trend in Palestinian society during the 1990s sapped the party of much of its popularity and resources.

With increasing concern over both the methods and products of modern industrial agriculture, there has been a growing trend toward sustainable agricultural practices.

Although new trade theory can explain the growing trend of trade volumes of intermediate goods, Krugman's explanation depends too much on the strict assumption that all firms are symmetrical, meaning that they all have the same production coefficients.

Certainly, there is a growing trend toward judging a state's domestic actions in the light of international law and standards.

A growing trend in the late 20th century was for breweries to run their pubs directly, using managers rather than tenants.

Sociologists agree that there are signs that Pan-Slavism is experiencing a growing trend among younger people in some Slavic countries.

However, the growing trend ( or paradigm shift ) towards character-centered drama and naturalistic plots and settings has replaced the episodic action-adventure format that was once standard for television science fiction.

The growing trend towards commercializing marches into parades — with events receiving corporate sponsorship — has caused concern about taking away the autonomy of the original grassroots demonstrations that put inexpensive activism in the hands of individuals.

A new trend involves the addition of a DVD slideshow or photo montage video, featuring pictures of the new spouses growing up and meeting.

Another growing challenge is the recent trend of states and businesses in the United States purposely under-funding their pension schemes in order to push the costs onto the federal government.

This joint crowning was similar to Melisende's own crowning with her father in 1128, and may have reflected a growing trend to crown one's heir in the present monarch's lifetime, as demonstrated in other realms of this period.

These ideas also spilled over into domestic kitchen architecture because of a growing trend that called for a professionalization of household work, started in the mid-19th century by Catharine Beecher and amplified by Christine Frederick's publications in the 1910s.

A growing trend in the world of elemental analysis has revolved around the speciation of certain metals such as chromium and arsenic.

" In August 2004 Stephen King, in a column, criticized what he saw as a growing trend of leniency towards films from critics including Ebert.

With 15, 469 inhabitants as of 2010, Nuuk is the fastest growing town in Greenland, with migrants from the smaller towns and settlements reinforcing the trend.

Because cotton is the world's biggest nonfood crop, and water shortages are a growing global trend, some jean companies are looking into ways to reduce the amount of water needed in their production of jeans-from field to factory.

While in 1950 agriculture and farming shaped the landscape of the territory ( 42. 4 % of the working force vs 30. 5 % in industry and construction ), the trend shifted gradually during the 60s and 70s on the grounds of a growing industrial activity in the Alavese Plains ( Llanada Alavesa ), with the main focus lying on the industrial estates of Vitoria-Gasteiz ( Gamarra, Betoño and Ali Gobeo ) and, to a lesser extent, Salvatierra-Agurain and Araia.

Some companies offer unpaid sabbatical for people wanting to take career breaks ; this is a growing trend in the United Kingdom, with 20 % of companies having a career break policy, and a further 10 % considering introducing one.

Streaming media is vastly growing and the manipulation and reconstruction of this hot trend is more than needed and necessary to keep the diversity coming.

The later 19th-century European Philhellenism was largely to be found among the Classicists, a field undergoing a growing split between anthropological and Classicist approaches to ancient Greece.

Focused attention on cavity causing bacteria such as Streptococcus mutans has lead research into new mouthwash treatments that prevent these bacteria from initially growing.

Their inherent focus on practical implementation of technology has tended to keep them oriented more towards incremental-level redesigns and reconfigurations, as opposed to revolutionary research & development or ideas that would be many years from clinical adoption ; however, there is a growing effort to expand this time-horizon over which clinical engineers can influence the trajectory of biomedical innovation.

This research was coupled with the growing development of mechanized mnemometers, or devices that aided in the recording and study of memory.

Hence, research and clinical practice inspired by their interpretation has led to growing interest in the relationship between hypnotherapy and CBT.

In the 1990s, a growing body of empirical research in I – O psychology was influential in the application of meta-analysis, particularly in the area of the stability of research findings across contexts.

Miracles From Agriculture ( 1960 ) from the USDA presents then supermarkets as the showplaces of agriculture, discussing methods of improvement in the growing, handling, processing, and shipping of food products and the cooperative assistance offered by agricultural and food-processing research centers ; the film also hypothesizes that a nation grows according to the productivity of its agriculture.

The causes of paraphilic sexual preferences in men are unclear, although a growing body of research points to a possible prenatal neurodevelopmental correlation.

The only reason given for the centuries old tradition that he was a vintner, being not true is that the soil in all of Troyes, is not optimal for wine growing grapes, claimed by the research of Rabbi Haym Solevetchik.

There is, however, a growing body of research that has examined environmentally persistent E. coli which can survive for extended periods of time outside of the host.

Shortages of crystals during World War 2 caused by the demand for accurate frequency control of military and naval radios and radars spurred postwar research into culturing synthetic quartz, and by 1950 a hydrothermal process for growing quartz crystals on a commercial scale was developed at Bell Laboratories.

A growing body of research has found that the presence of social capital through social networks and communities has a protective quality on health.

Anatomical research in the past hundred years has taken advantage of technological developments and growing understanding of sciences such as evolutionary and molecular biology to create a thorough understanding of the body's organs and structures.

Although the vast majority of health websites provide general information, there is growing research literature on the development and evaluation of Internet interventions.

After most specialised research institutes in the Czech Republic were privatised in 1993, RICP is the only state-independent institution pursuing both research and consulting activities focussed on problems associated with growing crop plants.

In consequence, a large service sector was established to serve the growing population, and in the first decades of the 20th century, Campinas could already boast of an opera house, theaters, banks, movie theaters, radio stations, a philharmonic orchestra, two newspapers ( Correio Popular and Diário do Povo ), a good public education system ( with the Escola Normal de Campinas and the Colégio Culto à Ciência ), and hospitals, such as the Santa Casa de Misericórdia ( a charity for poor people ) and the Casa de Saúde de Campinas ( for the Italian community, formely known as Circolo Italiani Uniti ), and the most important Brazilian research center in agricultural sciences, the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, which was founded by Emperor Pedro II.

The growing importance of knowledge in the development of nations has led UDP to implement a programme of research and knowledge production oriented towards the search for solutions to national problems of high public impact.

Externally funded research at the Air Force Academy has been a large and growing part of the technical majors.

" Nettl believes that there are limits to the extraction of meaning from a culture's music because of a Western observer's perceptual distance from the culture ; however, the growing prevalence of scholars who study their own musical traditions, and an increasing range of different theoretical frameworks and research methodologies has done much to address criticisms such as Nettl's.

Further research on this subject, showing other deviations from conventionally-defined economic rationality, is being done in the growing field of experimental or behavioral economics.

A growing body of scientific research testifies to the efficacy of specialized treatment programs of physical therapy, which may include bracing.

Although a tough period, Spokane's economy had begun to benefit from economic diversification, being the home to growing companies such as Key Tronic and having research, marketing, and assembly plants for other technology companies helped lessen Spokane's dependency on natural resources.

There is a history of industrial usage of VDM and its tools and a growing body of research in the formalism has led to notable contributions to the engineering of critical systems, compilers, concurrent systems and in logic for computer science.