Recent breakthroughs in research of the disease have pointed to a raised level of the biochemical adenosine being the cause of the condition.

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Recent breakthroughs using noninvasive functional transcranial Doppler spectroscopy as demonstrated by Njemanze, 2007, to locate specific responses to facial stimuli have led to improved systems for facial recognition.

Recent breakthroughs in non-invasive brain imaging have been somewhat limited because most of them have not been completely novel ; rather, they are simply refining existing brain imaging techniques.

A 2012 article by Carolyn Abraham in The Globe and Mail stated that " Recent breakthroughs have made it possible to scan every chromosome in a single embryonic cell, to test for genes involved in hundreds of ' conditions ,' some of which are clearly life-threatening while others are less dramatic and less certain ".

Recent statements by the President and Defense Department spokesmen have, to the contrary, assured us that our lead is very great.

Recent events -- particularly the necessity of providing planning information for the statewide origin/destination study of the Department of Public Works -- indicate that this schedule will have to be accelerated.

Recent interferometer measurements ( Radhakrishnan and Roberts, 1960 ) have shown the 960-mc emission of Jupiter to be partially polarized and to originate in a region of larger diameter than the visible disk.

Recent surveys have found that as many as 18 % of Americans may be affected by one or more of them.

Recent decades have seen the rise of specializations within the profession.

Recent developments in the coding of applications including mobile and embedded systems have led to the awareness of the security of applets.

Recent clinical studies have verified that red alder contains betulin and lupeol, compounds shown to be effective against a variety of tumors.

Recent research suggests that the historical Ainu culture originated in a merger of the Okhotsk culture with the Satsumon, one of the ancient archaeological cultures that are considered to have derived from the Jōmon period cultures of the Japanese Archipelago.

Recent studies have indicated that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current varies with time.

Recent studies on macaque monkeys have found that administration of haloperidol or olanzapine for about two years led to a significant overall shrinkage in brain tissue, in both gray and white matter across several brain areas, with lower glial cell counts, due to a decrease in astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, and increased neuronal density.

Recent efforts to overturn the laws restricting automobile dealerships from opening on Sunday have died in committee in the Maine legislature.

Recent excavations at the Viking harbor town of Fröjel, Gotland in Sweden have revealed a small number of rock crystal lenses known as the Visby lenses.

Recent popes have appointed a few priests, most of them influential theologians, to the College of Cardinals without requiring them to be ordained as bishops ; invariably, these men are over the age of 80, which means they are not permitted to take part in a conclave.

Recent improvements in fluorescence microscopy techniques have provided novel and amazing insight into the dynamic structure of a single cell organism.

Recent difficulties have included repeated trade disputes, environmental concerns, Canadian concern for the future of oil exports, and issues of illegal immigration and the threat of terrorism.

Recent studies have shown that chloroplasts can be interconnected by tubular bridges called stromules, formed as extensions of their outer membranes.

* Recent advances have been made in ceramics which include bioceramics, such as dental implants and synthetic bones.

Recent analyses have concluded that cnidarians, although considered more " primitive " than bilaterians, have a wider range of genes.

Recent judicial opinions have indicated that provincial legislative national opt-out powers should not be exercised to interfere with the ability of another province to certify a parallel class action for residents of other provinces.

Recent historians using census data have shown that is a fallacy.

Recent historic ecumenical efforts on the part of the Catholic Church have focused on healing the rupture between the Western (" Catholic ") and the Eastern (" Orthodox ") churches.

Recent studies in the processes of negotiation have indicated the effectiveness of a technique that deserves mention here.

Recent writers have included Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque, Vincent Ostria, Charles Tesson and Franck Nouchi, André Téchiné, Léos Carax, Olivier Assayas, Danièle Dubroux, and Serge Le Péron.

Recent study of the determinants of aggregate economic growth have stressed the importance of fundamental economic institutions and the role of cognitive skills.

Recent international aid has allowed the asphalting of a few roads, such as part of the highway between Tarrafal and Praia on Santiago and the dual carriageway between Santa Maria and Espargos on Sal.

Recent advances in functional neuroimaging technology have allowed for a better understanding of how language acquisition is manifested physically in the brain.

Recent innovations in Bluetooth antennas have allowed these devices to greatly exceed the range for which they were originally designed.

Recent technological developments, including the printing press, the telephone, and the Internet, have lessened physical barriers to communication and allowed humans to interact freely on a global scale.

Recent works have allowed floodwaters from Shanghe to be diverted safely out to sea.

Recent higher education reforms by the Howard government have allowed Australian universities to increase fees and take in a greater number of full-fee paying students, and despite a large student backlash, La Trobe has taken advantage of the reforms, increasing fees by 25 % in 2005.

Recent developments have allowed the manufacture of endoscopes cheap enough to be used on a single patient only.

Recent years have seen a rise in the number of terroir driven estate-bottled wines made from single vineyards or in one of the Cru Beaujolais communes, where the name of the commune is allowed to be displayed on the label.

Recent advances in the field of signal processing have also allowed to define representations or transforms that result in a joint time-frequency domain, with the instantaneous frequency being a key link between the time domain and the frequency domain.

Recent advances have allowed games and game demos to be downloaded directly to the console via the Internet.

Recent advances in biotechnology have allowed for the harvesting of adult stem cells from adipose tissue, allowing stimulation of tissue regrowth using a patient's own cells.

Recent advances in dyeing technologies have allowed the substitution of toxic sulfide reducing agents.

Recent procedural animation technologies, such as those found in NaturalMotion's Euphoria software, have allowed the development of games that rely heavily on the suspension of disbelief facilitated by realistic whole-body muscle / nervous ragdoll physics as an integral part of the immersive gaming experience, as opposed to the antiquated use of canned-animation techniques.

Recent advances in large-format presses have allowed for oversized lenses to be used in lithographic lenticular printing.

Recent studies conducted have theorised that humans may have an innate reaction to snakes, which was vital for the survival of humankind as it allowed such dangerous threats to be identified immediately.

Recent advances in stem cell research have allowed researchers to ethically pursue studies in nearly every facet of the body, which includes the brain.

Recent advances in technology have allowed for the use of argon gas to drive ice formation using a principle known as the Joule-Thomson effect.

Recent advances in digital signal processing have allowed EME contacts, admittedly with low data rate, to take place with powers in the order of 100 Watts and a single Yagi antenna.

Recent legislation had allowed nudity to be seen in film if it was in the context of documentary footage.

Recent prospections in walnut populations of the Mediterrean Basin allowed to select interesting trees of this type.

Recent advances in terminal guidance systems for small munitions has allowed large calibre shells to be fitted with precision guidance fuses, blurring this distinction.

Recent advances in technology have allowed scientists to view substructures of cells at levels of unprecedented detail.

Recent US Navy policy allowed three exceptions for women being on board military submarines: ( 1 ) Female civilian technicians for a few days at most ; ( 2 ) Women midshipmen on an overnight during summer training for both Navy ROTC and Naval Academy ; ( 3 ) Family members for one-day dependent cruises.

Recent developments are based on aft-launched ramps where the lifeboat is allowed to free fall, as opposed to being lowered by a winch, into the ocean.