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

Recent laws governing the employment of laborers from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines has led to an increased atmosphere among urban aborigines of xenophobia and encouraged the formulation of a pan-indigenous consciousness in the pursuit of political representation and protection.

Recent jurisprudence at the Supreme Court of Canada has tended to expand the maritime law power, thus overriding prior provincial laws based on the provinces ' power over property and civil rights.

Recent changes in annexation laws in the State of California that streamlined the process of cities acquiring neighborhoods did not affect this unincorporated area because its population was too large.

Recent research has included studies of the processes leading to the emergence of early life, evolutionary computation, metabolic and ecological scaling laws, the fundamental properties of cities, the evolutionary diversification of viral strains, the interactions and conflicts of primate social groups, the history of languages, the structure and dynamics of species interactions including food webs, the dynamics of financial markets, and the emergence of hierarchy and cooperation in the human species, and biological and technological innovation.

Recent reform has affected custody and guardianship laws, adoption laws, succession law, and laws concerning domestic violence and child marriage.

Recent events have established that the president, should he or she deem it necessary, has the power to suspend the laws.

Recent European Union regulation aimed at standardizing wine labelling laws has encouraged wineries to move away from these synonyms but their use still persists.

Recent years have seen a steady flow of foreign workers into the textile industry ( primarily Chinese women ), the construction industry ( primarily Indian workers ), and harbour-related activities ( primarily Taiwanese men ).

Recent research on 8 Brettanomyces strains available in the brewing industry focused on strain specific fermentations and identified the major compounds produced during pure culture anaerobic fermentation in wort.

Recent advents in digital technology have fundamentally altered industry and marketing practices as well as players in unusual rapidity.

: Child Abuse: Recent charges and past history point to a pedophilia problem in the film industry, yet we rarely hear about it.

Recent research indicates that the maquiladora industry has an impact on U. S. border city employment in service sectors.

Recent developments in the local service industry include the retailers Argos, Wilkinsons and B & M which have all brought new employment to the town.

Recent examples include criticism of the World Health Organization, rejecting WHO's claims of the efficacy of homoeopathy as a therapeutic option, disapproval during the time Reed Exhibitions ( a division of Reed Elsevier ) hosted arms industry fairs, and a call in 2003 for tobacco to be made illegal.

Recent growth in the city has been fueled by the casino industry, and Atlantic City is the second-largest casino gaming market in the United States behind Las Vegas.

Recent legal cases and US congressional hearings have provided access to pharmaceutical industry documents revealing new marketing strategies for drugs.

Recent media reports indicate increasing concern among stakeholders, as mass flamingo migrations and deaths could spell doom to the tourism industry.

Recent Institute initiatives have included ( 1 ) Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, a project tracking the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ; ( 2 ) the Peace and Security Program, which has examined the South's disproportionate ties to the military and the Iraq war ; and, ( 3 ) the Environment and Energy Reporting Project, launched in 2008, which examines the political and economic influence of the energy industry in the South.

Recent inventions have allowed for the egg cracking industry to separate the eggshell from the eggshell membrane.

Recent developments in KR include the concept of the Semantic Web, and development of XML-based knowledge representation languages and standards, including Resource Description Framework ( RDF ), RDF Schema, Topic Maps, DARPA Agent Markup Language ( DAML ), Ontology Inference Layer ( OIL ), and Web Ontology Language ( OWL ).

Recent results have benefited from tougher underwriting standards imposed by the Franchise Board and improved terms and conditions following widespread underwriting losses during the period 1998 to 2001, the September 11 attacks, and large hurricane-related property and energy claims in both 2004 and 2005.

* Recent undercover TV programmes BBC's The Secret Policeman and the Channel 4 Dispatches programme Undercover Copper raised questions of standards within UK police forces.

Recent experiments have been done with digital modes following widely-adopted DVB-S and DVB-T standards.

Recent editions of the handbook contain chapters on mathematics, mechanics, materials, measuring, toolmaking, manufacturing, threading, gears, and machine elements, combined with excerpts from ANSI standards.

Recent changes in service learning, a focus on literacies and skills, standards that support interdisciplinary thinking, and the role of systems thinking have all increased the visibility of the movement.

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 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.