A recent systematic review suggested that physical therapy is effective, but there is only moderate evidence to support this conclusion.

Perhaps the most comprehensive review of agate chemistry is a recent text by Moxon cited below.

A few may be earlier, notably the one proposed for Old Scatness Broch in Shetland, where a sheep bone dating to 390 – 200 BC has been reported The other broch claimed to be substantially older than the 1st century BC is Crosskirk in Caithness, but a recent review of the evidence suggests that it cannot plausibly be assigned a date earlier than the 1st centuries BC / AD

For a recent review, see The authors admits that their model " does not solve the entropy and flatness problems of standard cosmology ..... and we can provide no explanation for why the current universe is so close to being spatially flat.

Currently, the Convention's priority activities include review and possible revision of its most recent protocols, implementation of the Convention and its protocols across the entire UNECE region ( with special focus on Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia and South-East Europe ) and sharing its knowledge and information with other regions of the world.

Chiropractic has developed a strong political base and sustained demand for services ; in recent decades, it has gained more legitimacy and greater acceptance among medical physicians and health plans in the U. S., and the principles of evidence-based medicine have been used to review research studies and generate practice guidelines.

In a review of the book, Time Magazine wrote, " General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line in recent years.

A more recent meta-analysis that included randomized controlled trials published after the Cochrane review < ref name =" pmid15632335 ">

A recent review concluded that the " biogenetic law is supported by several recent studies-if applied to single characters only ".

A recent review by Greenberg ( 2009 ) discusses the " limitations in the beta-amyloid-mediated theory of IBM myofiber injury ,"

Historians and theologians regularly review the changing relationship between some Christian groups and the Jewish people ; the article on Christian-Jewish reconciliation studies one recent issue.

In the May 27, 2010, issue of The New York Review of Books, Columbia professor Mark Lilla analyzed five recent books dealing with American political party discontent in a review titled, " The Tea Party Jacobins ".

Kevin N. Laforest of the Montreal Film Journal commented in his September 2002 review that Cruz " has been getting some really bad reviews for her recent American work, but I personally think that she's a more than decent actress, especially here, where she's charming, moving and always believable.

Other critiques of the current peer review process from concerned scholars has stemmed from recent controversial studies published by the Harvard – Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and NASA.

Members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science had been complaining about the lack of a good term at recent meetings, Whewell reported in his review ; alluding to himself, he noted that " some ingenious gentleman proposed that, by analogy with artist, they might form word scientist, and added that there could be no scruple in making free with this term since we already have such words as economist, and atheist — but this was not generally palatable ".

A recent independent review evaluated twelve common acoustic stethoscopes on the basis of loudness, clarity, and ergonomics.

A recent addition to professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology coupled with a point challenge system, which allows a player to challenge the line ( or chair ) umpire's call of a point.

On the other hand, Daniel Mendelsohn, in a review of a recent edition of Herodotus, suggests that, at least in his graduate school days during the Cold War, professing admiration of Thucydides served as a form of self-presentation:

However a recent review paper has called into question much of the " success " of working memory training studies.

However, a 2012 review article supports the hypothesis that current or recent trauma may affect an individual's assessment of the more distant past, changing the experience of the past and resulting in dissociative states.

A recent report by the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee called for a review of the phonics content in the National Curriculum.

In a recent systematic review of eight trials of day care for disadvantaged children under 5 years of age, long term follow up showed lower pregnancy rates among adolescents.

* More recent research by psychologist Joe Griffin, following a twelve-year review of data from all major sleep laboratories, led to the formulation of the expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming, which suggests that dreaming metaphorically completes patterns of emotional expectation in the autonomic nervous system and lowers stress levels in mammals.

A recent review finds the first use of the term in an 1845 report by the US Secretary of State to the Senate.

A gnome is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature.

In recent years, however, the term has been revived in an attempt to describe and categorize, in literary and philosophical terms, how it is that the work of an irrealist writer differs from the work of writers in other, non-realistic genres ( e. g., the fantasy of J. R. R.

Garner sent his debut novel to the publishing company Collins, where it was picked up by the company's head, Sir William Collins, who was on the look out for new fantasy novels following on from the recent commercial and critical success of J. R. R.

In more recent times, Terry Brooks Shannara series of epic fantasy features elves who train and ride rocs.

A more recent example of a fantasy land with definite connections to the actual world is Austin Tappan Wright's Islandia.

In recent years, Stamp has appeared in the films Ma femme est une actrice ( aka My Wife Is An Actress, 2001 ), My Boss's Daughter ( 2003 ), Disney's The Haunted Mansion ( 2004 ), and the superhero fantasy Elektra ( 2005 ).

He has learned much about fantasy role-playing and teamwork with fellow players in his time with the Perps, and in a recent Hackmaster Tournament / Grudge Match, Crutch was the only member of the group to advance to the finals.

In recent years Owen has reinvented himself as a novelist, with a fantasy trilogy titled Mythworld meeting with success in Germany.

Doran's more recent comics-art projects included The Book of Lost Souls, a modern fantasy written by J. Michael Straczynski and published by Marvel's Icon imprint in 2006.

* Christopher Tolkien's explanation of how he, with the collaboration of future fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay, constructed Chapter 22 of the Quenta Silmarillion, since none of his father's accounts of this episode were recent enough to fit the narrative in its final form.

Fantasy baseball has continued to grow on recent studies from the Fantasy Sports Trade Association ( FSTA. org ), but has been overtaken by fantasy football as the most popular form of fantasy sports.

Archbishop Ussher's chronology has in recent years been subject to artistic criticism, including in the play Inherit the Wind ( based on the Scopes Monkey Trial ) and the fantasy novel Good Omens which ironically alleges that " he is off by a quarter of an hour ".

In recent decades it had a re-revival in 1960s design, for example in the Biba logo, and has been used worldwide in tattoos, and in various contexts and media in fantasy works with a quasi-Dark Ages setting.

and the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibition, showing models, props and costumes from all six Star Wars films, together with recent advances in technology that are turning fantasy into reality.

In recent years, heroic fantasy has matured somewhat out of its staid image as sub-par ' fat fantasy ', becoming a genre of its own, the best examples of which have received much praise.

The 2002 release of Lil ' Beethoven, their " genre-defying opus ", as well as the more recent albums Hello Young Lovers ( 2006, their 20th studio album ), Exotic Creatures Of The Deep ( 2008 ), and their latest fantasy musical The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman ( 2009 – 2010 ) have brought Sparks renewed critical and commercial success, and seen them continue to " steer clear of pop conventions.

A large part of her output is children's fantasy, which has spanned her entire career from The Dragon Hoard in 1971 to the more recent The Claidi Journals containing Wolf Tower, Wolf Star, Wolf Queen and Wolf Wing in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

The film enjoys the dubious honour of being one of the most recent works to be featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the hosts and writers of which used the sloppy editing on the second subplot, the nigh-total disconnect between the two halves of the movie, and the wildly varying tone of the film ( which is presented as though it were a family-friendly fantasy, but frequently features horrific incidents, something made even more disturbing by the fact that the halves of the film are stories that a grandfather is telling a little boy ) as the basis for many of the jokes.

More recent works include the Caitlin series, a set of three trilogies which follows a teenage girl into adulthood, as well as a second mass-market project, the young adult fantasy spy series Fearless and its spin-off Fearless: FBI.

However, in recent years, the series has been retconned as being set in the fantasy kingdom of " Babylim ".

In recent decades it has been used worldwide in tattoos, and in various contexts and media in fantasy works with a quasi-Dark Ages setting.

Such films usually have a historical setting, although fantasy or science fiction settings have become common in recent decades.