Recent attempts to incorporate Western philosophy into Eastern thought include the Kyoto School of philosophers, who combined the phenomenology of Husserl with the insights of Zen Buddhism.

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 evidence suggests that Beria not only abducted and raped women but that he also murdered those who resisted.

Recent research has discussed the relation between the myths associated with norns and valkyries and the actual travelling Völvas ( seiðr-workers ), women who visited newborn children in the pre-Christian Norse societies.

Recent studies have shown that runners do not have more osteoarthritis than people who do not run.

Recent involvement of science fiction writers include Harlan Ellison who served as a creative consultant on Babylon 5 and John Scalzi who served as a creative consultant on Stargate Universe.

Recent studies have found that adults who stutter have elevated levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine, and have thus found dopamine antagonists that reduce stuttering ( see anti-stuttering medication below ).

* Recent celebrity deaths: Alexander Lebed – Russian General who ran for the presidency against Boris Yeltsin ; Ruth Handler – inventor of the Barbie Doll

Recent research suggests that the Scottish warrior Somerled, who drove the Vikings out of Scotland and was the progenitor of Clan Donald, may himself have been of Viking descent — a member of Haplogroup R1a1.

Recent events ( 2011 ) have indicated a threat from unknown actors in nation states who have forged certificates.

" Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family " < cite > The Journal of the American Medical Association </ cite > p. 640-641 </ ref > Recent DNA testing had also discovered that she was the daughter of Yuya and Thuya, who were the parents of Queen Tiye, thus ruling her out as Nefertiti .< ref > Hawass, Zahi et al.

Recent successful separations of conjoined twins include that of the separation of Ganga & Jamuna Shreshta in 2001, who were born in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2000.

Recent scandals include the convictions of the mayor, David Delle Donna, and his wife, a member of the town planning board, on federal extortion and mail fraud charges ; a former mayor, Peter LaVilla, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to misappropriating campaign funds and using the money for a private brokerage account ; a councilman who resigned after being accused of receiving illegal advances on his salary ; and a chief financial officer, who pleaded guilty in 2002 to misappropriation of funds.

Recent years have seen several National Merit Scholars and a graduate who was nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship.

Recent anatomical neuroimaging studies have shown that the pars opercularis of Broca's area is anatomically smaller in individuals who stutter whereas the pars triangularis appears to be normal.

" Recent studies bear this out, with cognitively normal patients who suffer an episode of delirium carrying an increased risk of dementia in the years that follow.

Recent scholarship indicates that in his work on perspective, Ghiberti was influenced by the Arab polymath Alhazen who had written about the optical basis of perspective in the early 11th century.

Recent winners include California astrophysicist George F. Smoot, who later won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics.

Recent discoveries of burbot in the Green River at Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah have concerned wildlife biologists who fear that the burbot could decimate the sport fish population in what is recognized as one of the world's top Brown Trout fisheries, because it often feeds on the eggs of other fish in the lake like Sockeye salmon.

Recent historical research has shown that the Mongols, who destroyed Nanzhao in 1253 and made the area a province of their empire — naming it Yunnan — exercised a decisive political influence in the middle Mekong Valley for the better part of a century.

Recent genetic research, however, has shown that many Latinos of the American Southwest may be descended from Anusim ( Sephardic Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism ).

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 attempts to develop an integrated model of moral motivation have identified at least six different levels of moral functioning, each of which has been shown to predict some type of moral or prosocial behavior: moral intuitions, moral emotions, moral virtues / vices ( behavioral capacities ), moral values, moral reasoning, and moral willpower.

Recent studies of Chinese " face " have principally accepted Hu Hsien-chin's original distinction between a person's mianzi " social status " and lian " moral character.

Recent Ofsted inspections conclude that the school is very successful not only in the academic development of children, but also in personal qualities, behaviour, and their " spiritual, moral, social and cultural development ".

-- 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 agrarian thinkers are sometimes referred to as neo-Agrarian and include the likes of Wendell Berry, Paul B. Thompson, and Gene Logsdon.

Recent additions include 1000 AD ( Cthulhu: Dark Ages ), 23rd Century ( Cthulhu Rising ) and Roman times ( Cthulhu Invictus ).

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

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 changes to Spanish civil procedure rules include the introduction of a quasi-class action right for certain consumer associations to claim damages on behalf of unidentified classes of consumers.

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 industries include food processing, beverages, clothing and textiles, salt, cement, and commercial ship repair.

Recent high-profile missions that were controlled from ESOC include ERS-2, SMART-1 and Huygens.

Recent examples of nations which have undergone democratic reforms but have not adopted the FPTP system include South Africa, almost all of the former Eastern bloc nations, Russia, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Recent books published on the topic include:

Recent historians in this tradition include Thomas Kuhn.

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 former sponsors include Miller Brewing and North Fork Bank.

Recent examples include Vice President Dick Cheney's whirlwind two-hour visit to collect $ 300, 000 in 2006 and Senator Barack Obama's somewhat longer three-hour trip in November, 2007 to collect $ 200, 000 Both refused to meet with the news media, press the flesh or meet with local politicians, inconceivable in Iowa or New Hampshire.

Recent portrayals of prefects in modern popular culture include Jet Li ’ s portrayal of the nameless prefect in the movie Hero.

Recent infrastructural developments include the opening of the fast tram route ( Poznański Szybki Tramwaj, popularly Pestka ) in 1997, and Poznań's first motorway connection ( part of the A2 autostrada ) in 2003.

Recent PLAN incidents include the 2001 Hainan Island incident, a major submarine accident in 2003, and naval incidents involving the U. S. MSC-operated ocean surveillance ships and during 2009.

Recent interfaith initiatives include " A Common Word ", launched in 2007 and focused on bringing Muslim and Christian leaders together, the " C1 World Dialogue ", the " Common Ground " initiative between Islam and Buddhism, and a United Nations sponsored " World Interfaith Harmony Week ".

Recent popular shows produced in Vancouver include The Dead Zone, Smallville, Andromeda, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe, The 4400, Sanctuary, and the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.

Recent English verse translations include those by British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis ( 1963 ) which strove to render Virgil's original hexameter line, Allen Mandelbaum ( honoured by a 1973 National Book Award ), Library of Congress Poet Laureate Robert Fitzgerald ( 1981 ), Stanley Lombardo ( 2005 ), Robert Fagles ( 2006 ), and Sarah Ruden ( 2008 ).

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Recent designs include anti-reflective coatings and tilted waveguide and window regions which can reduce endface reflection to less than 0. 001 %.