Recent studies suggest that deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon could increase sharply in the future as a result of over US $ 40 billion in planned investments in highway paving and major new infrastructure projects in the region.

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 large infrastructure projects were the construction of the Great Seto Bridge and the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line ( opened 1997 ).

Recent projects and notable inputs by the EU have included telecommunications ( improvement of telephone exchanges and provision of radio and navigation equipment ), the development of seaweed as an export crop, solar energy systems for the outer islands, the upgrading of the Control Tower and fire fighting services at Tarawa's Bonriki International Airport, outer island social development, health services and extensive support for the Kiribati Vocational Training Programme.

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 projects have included the £ 35 million renovation of the Lionel Robbins Building, which houses the British Library of Political and Economic Science, LSE's Library and a brand new Student Services Centre in the Old Building as well as LSE Garrick on the junction of Houghton Street and Aldwych.

Recent building projects have sought to reverse this trend, including work on the city's famous City Market, the Westport district, the 18th and Vine Historic District and most recently the Kansas City Power & Light District.

Recent projects include company named Daewon.

Recent construction projects include a new Building Construction Lab, a new Technology Lab, three new classrooms, two new girls ’ locker rooms and two renovated boys ’ locker rooms.

Recent beach renourishment projects in North Carolina, including Emerald Isle, have been both praised and questioned.

Recent projects have seen a major restoration of the canal.

Recent successful projects organised by FARA members include the creation of a community garden at the site of a dated pedestrian ramp.

Recent performances and projects include a two-year residency at Dia: Beacon, where MCDC performed Events, Cunningham ’ s site-specific choreographic collages, in the galleries of Richard Serra, Dan Flavin, and Sol LeWitt among others.

Recent projects include the restoration of mid-eighteenth century panelled rooms at Ledwithstown, County Longford ; the repair of the early nineteenth-century south tower roof at Barmeath Castle, Co. Louth ; the restoration of the pavilion cupolas of Kilshannig, Co. Cork, built in the 1760s to the designs of the Italian architect Davis Ducart ; and, in association with the Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government, the World Monuments Fund and the Headfort Trust, the restoration of the superb Robert Adam decorative schemes at Headfort, County Meath.

Recent development projects in the province have focused on expanding the agricultural potential of the province, in particular the re-forestation of areas of the province that were denuded in the recent past.

Recent years have seen Swinton move towards more mainstream projects, including the leading role in the American film The Deep End ( 2001 ), in which she plays the mother of a gay son she suspects of killing his boyfriend.

Recent large housing projects include as Atherstone ($ 1. 2 billion ) and the proposed Stonehill, Mirvac, Toolern and Eyensbury Estate's.

Recent projects also include The Image Mill, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Québec City.

Recent development projects and more development proposals by the government has led to tremendous demand for housing.

Recent digital technology made easy by using smartphones, videos of Flat Stanley projects are made for schoolchildren to share online.

Recent residential projects in Fitzroy have sought to express a sense of Fitzroy's urban character in various ways and have been hotly contested in some cases.

Recent projects include Alchemy ( 2003 to current ), a project initiating and facilitating artists ' access to the museum and the University of Manchester.

Recent supercomputer projects such as Blue Gene rely on air cooling, which reduces cost, complexity, and size of systems compared to liquid cooling.

Recent projects include MapCruncher and ASIRRA.

-- 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 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 philosophers who defended moral rationalism include R. M. Hare, Christine Korsgaard, Alan Gewirth, and Michael Smith ( 1994 ).

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 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 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 %.