Recent interpretations of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international trade law ( e. g., North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) Chapter 11 actions ) have been inclusive of corporations, and even of certain individuals.

Recent work in international relations suggests that punctuated equilibrium can also be used to describe the pattern of change and innovation in a cluster of international organizations known as a regime complex.

Recent political decisions have strongly emphasized the will to participate in international operations, to the point where this has become the main short-term goal of training and equipment acquisition.

Recent excavations and surveys in progress are conducted by American, Belgian, Danish, Dutch, French, German and Italian teams of archaeologists, with international participants, in cooperation with the Syrian Department of Antiquities.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Al Ayyam reports that international terrorist Abu Nidal was found dead of apparent suicide.

Recent Worcester Balls have made sizeable donations to local and international charities.

Recent developments related to BitTorrent and peer-to-peer file-sharing have been termed by media commentators as " copyright wars ", with The Pirate Bay being referred to as " the most visible member of a burgeoning international anti-copyright — or pro-piracy — movement ".

Recent international performers include Anika Moa and Di Bird.

Recent demands — unmet thus far — by such broadcasters include seeking authority to carry international news, to contract out television and radio programming to nongovernment organizations, and to explore possibilities for quasi-private media ownership.

Recent developments, including the abolition of presidential term limits before the 2006 elections and the harassment of democratic opposition, have attracted concern from domestic commentators and the international community.

Recent examples of such packages include Argentina's re-scheduling of its international obligations ( where central banks and leading international banks re-scheduled Argentina's debt so as to allow it to avoid total default ), and IMF interventions in South East Asia ( at the end of the 1990s ) when several Asian economies encountered financial turbulence.

They range from writing workshops, education events, panel discussions, to talks and performances by international writers, poets, musicians and thinkers. Recent festivals have featured the likes of:

Recent international students include pilots from the Air Forces of Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Recent success at international level and the establishment of four professional teams has increased interest in rugby union as a sport in Ireland.

Recent data collected by an international team of investigators through satellite-based radar measurements suggests that the overall ice-sheet mass balance in Antarctica is increasingly negative.

Recent partners in this international cooperative venture are:

Recent examples include the death of naturalist Steve Irwin, actor Heath Ledger and esteemed international opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland.

Recent international conventions have been held in Cincinnati, Ohio ( 2003 ), Daytona Beach, Florida ( 2004 ), Kansas City, Missouri ( 2005 ), Portland, Oregon ( 2006 ), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ( 2007 ), Louisville, Kentucky, ( 2008 ), Minneapolis, Minnesota ( 2009 ), and St. Louis, Missouri ( 2010 ).

Recent discussion in international relation theory withdraws the idea of explaining outbreak of World War I. with the offense-defense balance.

Recent research suggests that much of his prophetic work paraphrases collections of ancient end-of-the-world prophecies ( mainly Bible-based ), supplemented with references to historical events and anthologies of omen reports, and then projects those into the future in part with the aid of comparative horoscopy.

Recent evidence suggests that the Vikings also made use of an optical compass as a navigation aid, using the light-splitting and polarization-filtering properties of Iceland spar to find the location of the sun when it was not directly visible.

Recent bilateral activities between the United States and North Korea have included an April 2011 visit by former President Jimmy Carter, a July 2011 meeting between U. S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Stephen Bosworth and North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan, and a February 2012 bilateral meeting in Beijing that resulted in an agreement to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for U. S. food aid ( which has now been cancelled due to North Korea's April 2012 long-range missile test ).

Recent studies have suggested instead that it is a signal of vigilance that may aid to deter potential predators.

Recent efforts include aid to farmers.

' Recent research suggests that a million Poles were involved " in giving aid, " but some estimates go as high as three million " of those passively protective.

Recent authors have described the networked affiliations that produce collaborative projects such as Wikipedia as mutual aid societies.

Recent operations include support to National Guard units during the Gulf War, participation in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, emergency aid to agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) and Georgia Emergency Management Agency ( GEMA ), support to Georgia National Guard units and their families since 2001, and activation during the 2004 G-8 Summit at Sea Island and the 2005 Katrina and Rita hurricane evacuations.

Recent efforts have seen a push for the inclusion of more behavior modification programs in residential re-entry programs in the U. S. to aid prisoners in re-adjusting after release.

Recent criticism of Great Expectations has tended to emphasize its symbolic and mythic content, to show, as M. D. Zabel has said of Dickens generally, that much of the novel's impact resides in its `` allegoric insight and moral metaphor ''.

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 influence of the New Perspective on Paul movement has also reached Arminianism — primarily through a view of corporate election.

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 research has unlocked the discovery of artificial circular earthworks dating to Cambodia's Neolithic era. 1

Recent empirical research has lent support to the theory that psychological projection plays a role in conspiracy belief.

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

Recent research has also found that dendrites can support action potentials and release neurotransmitters, a property that was originally believed to be specific to axons.

Recent popularity has been increased with the Irish Wolfhound's success in the Rugby League World Cup which was held in Australia in 2008.

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 usage has distinguished human capital ( the stock of knowledge in the labor force ) from labor.

Recent genetic evidence, however, suggests Callorhinus is more closely related to some sea lion species, and the fur seal / sea lion subfamily distinction has been eliminated from many taxonomies.

Recent Christian Scripture scholarship more and more has placed John within a first-century Jewish context.

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 development has been focused on adapting to modern desktop support-library requirements.

Recent study confirm the fact that HDL has a buffering role in balancing the effects of hypercoagulable state in type 2 diabetics and decreases high risk of cardiovascular complications in these patients.

Recent research, based on archaeological and paleontological digs on 70 different islands, has shown that numerous species went extinct as people moved across the Pacific, starting 30, 000 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands ( Steadman & Martin 2003 ).

Recent decline in population size of the Ozark subspecies Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi has led to further research into populations of this subspecies, including genetic analysis to determine the best route for conservation status.

Recent archaeological work has modified not only the above chronology, but also the causes of the transition from bronze to iron.

Recent revelations by Wikileaks provide that " it is a badly kept secret " that there has been an ongoing process of armaments purchases on behalf of the Southern Sudanese government by the Kenyan government.

Recent phylogenetic work has shown that Lamiales is polyphyletic with respect to order Scrophulariales and the two groups are now usually combined in a single order that also includes the former orders Hippuridales and Plantaginales.