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

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. NET development efforts at ETHZ have been focused on a new language called Zonnon.

Recent efforts to break with traditional structure and characterization have met with a measure of success as contemporary playwrights seek new forms and modes of expression.

Recent examinations of primary documents have determined that the citizen diplomacy at work in the Portsmouth peace process — as the people of Portsmouth encouraged the delegates ' efforts for peace at numerous social events, especially during the times when formal negotiations were breaking down — provides an important example for diplomacy today.

Recent efforts have focused on the direct seeding method where seed of native species is ploughed into a scraped trench.

Recent efforts have been made by the 25045-A New Clendenin group ( a non-profit corporation based in Clendenin ) and the Business and Industrial Development Corporation ( headquartered in Charleston ) to enhance economic and cultural development in the town.

Recent efforts to reduce broad spectrum toxins added to the environment have brought biological insecticides back into vogue.

Recent arrivals in the pageant include China ( 2002 ), Albania ( 2002 ), Vietnam ( 2004 ), Georgia ( 2004 ), Ethiopia ( 2004 ), Latvia ( 2005 ), Kazakhstan ( 2006 ), Tanzania ( 2007 ), and Kosovo ( 2008 ); there have also been efforts to revive strong national pageants in South Africa, Canada, Spain, Japan ; Latin America ( especially Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil ) among other regions.

Recent efforts to devise more generic definitions of infrastructure have typically referred to the network aspects of most of the structures, and to the accumulated value of investments in the networks as assets.

Recent efforts at publicity include the world's largest food and wine fair, the Salone del Gusto in Turin, a biennial cheese fair in Bra called Cheese, the Genoan fish festival called SlowFish, and Turin's Terra Madre (" Mother Earth ") world meeting of food communities.

Recent efforts include aid to farmers.

Recent robust decision efforts have formally integrated uncertainty into the decision making process.

Recent efforts have included those that have met with controversy, including an effort in East Africa aimed at spreading human rights awareness among prostitutes in Uganda and other East African nations, which was not received well by the Ugandan authorities, who considered it an effort to legalize and legitimize prostitution.

Recent Archeological efforts have unearthed the foundations of several buildings at ' The Oaks ' plantation.

Recent efforts to republish his most significant works with Germany ’ s leading publisher of Judaica, Mohr Siebeck in Tübingen, failed in 2005, after agreement with the press had already been reached, due to unknown reasons on the publishers ' side.

Recent efforts have restored its light tower to operational status for the summer months.

Recent consulting efforts have included general manager evaluation assistance, business plan development, and expansion assistance.

Recent efforts to utilize NMR for metabolomics have been largely driven by the laboratory of Dr. Jeremy Nicholson at Birkbeck College, University of London and later at Imperial College London.

* ( 2003 ): Recent conservation efforts and current status of the flora of Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico.

Recent efforts that have received such recognition include a series of stories that resulted in the resignation and criminal conviction of the state House of Delegates education chairman, a series on the environmental effects of mountaintop removal coal mining, a series on the state's " failed " attempts to deal with its residents suffering from mental illness, and a series on the deaths nationwide from the widespread use of methadone.

Recent successful expansion efforts include the University of Wisconsin ( 2011 ), Georgia College & State University ( 2011 ), the University of Rhode Island ( 2011 ), the University of Arizona ( 2011 ), the University of Kentucky ( 2011 ), the University of Nebraska ( 2012 ), Florida International University ( 2012 ), Louisiana State University ( 2012 ), and Oklahoma State University ( 2012 ).

Recent efforts to increase habitat protection met with strong official opposition, and violence against the proponents.

Recent research efforts have focused on how the built environment and socio-economic status affect health.

Recent efforts to bring business media to these countries have proven to be worthwhile.

Recent statements by well-known scientists regarding the destructive power of the newest nuclear bombs and the deadly fall-outs should be sufficient to still the voices of those who advocate nuclear warfare instead of negotiations.

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

Recent studies by Weston and Stack had indicated that a turbine aerator could be added to an oxidation pond to increase the rate of oxygen transfer.

Recent work with radiocarbon and deuterated alcohols as solvents, however, has given evidence that metal-hydrido and carbonyl complexes may be readily formed by reaction with alcohol in some of these systems.

-- Recent theoretical work to calculate the dimensions of polymeric chains by Volkenstein and Lifson has been extended to include more general types of chains.

Recent studies by the Commission on Race and Housing and others, however, point to a vast complex of factors that often do not warrant this conclusion.

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

Recent observations by the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL satellite may explain the origin of a giant cloud of antimatter surrounding the galactic center.

Recent research has suggested that certain growth factors may work to locally alter bone formation by increasing osteoblast activity.

Recent research by the Imperial College London has focused on finding new cell wall proteins which trigger an immune response and are suitable for use in a vaccine to provide long-term protection against M. tuberculosis.

* Recent ( 2011 ) research by Santer on separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes

Recent papers by Guerreshi, G., Cia, J., Popescu, S. and Briegel, H. could falsify proposals such those of Hameroff which rely on quantum entanglement in protein.

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

Recent Western scholarship of China has been heavily influenced by postmodernism.

Recent examples of this trend include the conversion of all public transport in the city of Delhi from Diesel engines to CNG engines on the basis of the orders of the Delhi High Court ; the monitoring of forest use by the High Courts and the Supreme Court to ensure that there is no unjustified loss of forest cover ; and the directions mandating the disclosure of assets of electoral candidates for the Houses of Parliament and State Assembly.

Recent artistic projects concentrating on the Cathar element in Provençal and troubador art include commercial recording projects by Thomas Binkley, electric hurdy-gurdy artist Valentin Clastrier and his CD Heresie dedicated to the church at Cathars, La Nef, and Jordi Savall.

Recent discoveries by the American University in Cairo of mummified dachshund-like dogs from ancient Egyptian burial urns may lend credibility to this theory.

Recent advances in manufacturing efficiency and photovoltaic technology, combined with subsidies driven by environmental concerns, have dramatically accelerated the deployment of solar panels.

Recent film releases such as Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer, Good Bye Lenin!

Recent technology has changed the speed of communication between fans and the technology available, but the basic concepts developed by science fiction fanzines in the 1930s can be seen online today.

Recent evidences such as the pool and a turn away from the vestiges of positivism as evidenced by the growing number of books addressing the historicity of John reveal that the final word has not been said on how much of the historical Jesus inhabits John's gospel.

Recent findings have confirmed important examples of heritable changes that cannot be explained by direct agency of the DNA molecule.

Recent wars, such as support of the American Revolutionary War, compounded by the loss of the North American colonies, had effectively bankrupted the state.

Recent historical interpretations, especially those influenced by Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( 1962 ), portray the history of science in terms of competing paradigms or conceptual systems battling for intellectual supremacy in a wider matrix that includes intellectual, cultural, economic and political themes outside pure science.

Recent archaeological research in the Ganges Valley, India showed early iron working by 1800 BC.