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 work tries to take into account the roles of differences in parent bodies and the specifics of their orbits, ejection velocities off the solid mass of the core of a comet, radiation pressure from the sun, the Poynting – Robertson effect, and the Yarkovsky effect on the particles of different sizes and rates of rotation to explain differences between meteor showers in terms of being predominantly fireballs or small meteors.

Recent economic growth has been fueled by macroeconomic stability, improved terms of trade, and rising investment and consumption.

Recent analysis of crater density and distribution has suggested that in geological terms, Triton's surface is extremely young, with regions varying from 50 million years old to just 6 million years old.

Recent terms have been adopted by both fans and DC Comics when referring to anything after Infinite Crisis, such as " post-Infinite Crisis ", " One Year Later ", or simply " New Earth ".

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 developments in art have been characterised by a significant expansion of what can now deemed to be art, in terms of materials, media, activity and concept.

Recent discoveries of ' cold season ' and ' warm season ' populations, which use the same nest sites at different times of year, and also differ in terms of vocalisations and moult, may hint at the existence of two ' cryptic species ' within the currently understood limits of the species.

Recent authors consider their work to be scientific and dispute use of the term " racism "; they may prefer terms such as " race realism " or " racialism ".

Recent maps use the terms " bedrock " and " superficial " in place of " solid " and " drift ".

Recent legislation increased the limit to three terms.

Other initiatives of the Latinitas Foundation include the publication ( in Italian ) of the 15, 000-word Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis ( Dictionary of Recent Latin ), which indicates Latin terms to use in referring to modern ideas, such as a bicycle ( birota ), a cigarette ( fistula nicotiana ), a computer ( instrumentum computatorium ), a cowboy ( armentarius ), a motel ( deversorium autocineticum ), shampoo ( capitilavium ), a strike ( operistitium ), a terrorist ( tromocrates ), a trademark ( ergasterii nota ), an unemployed person ( invite otiosus ), a waltz ( chorea Vindobonensis ), and even a miniskirt ( tunicula minima ) and hot pants ( brevissimae bracae femineae ).

Recent research shows that an extended Kaluza – Klein theory is in general not equivalent to Yang-Mills theory, as the former contains additional terms.

Recent scholarship has interpreted the book as involving all these groups, and a broad consensus has emerged that describes the origin and growth of Deuteronomism in the following terms:

This is much simpler than the original, however ; according to Stibbons, Hex is technically a Very Big Thing, while the Braseneck device is barely a Quite Big Thing ( the next step up would be a Great Big Thing, every particle of the universe being modelled within it ; apparently these terms are quite exact, as when the Lecturer in Recent Runes postulated that the Braseneck wizards would try and build an Even Bigger Thing, Ponder Stibbons corrected him.

Recent surveys of the history of Daoism in Chinese have also emphasized Ge ’ s importance in the history of science, based on his detailed descriptions of alchemical processes, which are frequently studied in terms of modern chemistry.

Recent advancements in battery technology are making electric flying more feasible in terms of flying time.

Recent work in the Staddon laboratory has focused on explaining interval timing in terms of memory, and explaining choice in terms of interval timing ; work with past students and postdocs has included work on feeding regulation as well as spatial navigation, concurrent choice, and habituation.

Recent work with bilingual speakers attempts to tease apart the effects of language from the effects of culture on various aspects of bilingual cognition including perceptions of time, space, motion, colors, and emotion.

Recent alumni speakers include Joe Zucker, Sanford Biggers, Suzie Silver, and Joshua Mosley, to name a few.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

Recent lectures have focused on environmental challenges with speakers including Lester R. Brown, Paul Ekins, Carl Folke, and Robert Costanza.

Recent festivals have featured speakers such as Tony Benn and musicians such as Billy Bragg and local folk singers including Graham Moore, as well as others from all around the world.

Recent guest speakers to the Denton campus have included Gloria Steinem, Frances " Sissy " Farenthold, and Oprah Winfrey who visited the campus in 1998 and 2005, and Khloé Kardashian spoke on the campus in 2012, amid controversy.

Recent estimates place the number of fluent speakers of Western Armenian at less than one million.

Recent speakers include academic Richard Dawkins, former British Prime Minister John Major, former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, comedian Dara Ó Briain, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Olympic legend Lord Coe, violinist and songwriter Diana Yukawa, actor Sir Ian McKellen and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Recent speakers include the Chief Executive Sir Donald Tsang, former Chief Secretary Mrs Anson Chan and last Governor of Hong Kong, Lord Christopher Patten.

Recent commencement speakers have included Al Franken, Coretta Scott King, and Garrison Keillor.

Recent research ( Diriye Abdullahi, 2000 ) has shown that, although previously classified with Somali, their languages and dialects are incomprehensible to many Somali speakers.

Recent speakers have included Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Robert McNamara, Hans Blix, George Soros, Cokie Roberts, Paul Krugman, Dan Rather, Bob Woodruff and Robert Krulwich.

Recent estimates place the total number of Nogai speakers at about 80, 000.

Recent speakers include David Cameron, Aung San Suu Kyi, Christine Lagarde, Madeleine Albright, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Abdullah Gül, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Herman Van Rompuy, Muhammad Yunus, and Ban Ki-moon.

Recent guest speakers have included Loyd Grossman, Karan Bilimoria and Edward Wray

Recent Chafee Leadership Forum speakers have included U. S. Senator Jack Reed and former U. S. Senator Lincoln Chafee.

Recent speakers have included Dr. Don Berwick, James Capretta, Jon Gruber, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin.

Recent awards ceremony keynote speakers have included Texas Governor Rick Perry, Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, former DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, and Massachusetts Governor Patrick.

Recent speakers at Pioneer's major events have included: former Washington, D. C. Mayor Anthony Williams, national school choice advocate Kevin Chavous, Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance Director Paul Peterson, education policy expert Jay Greene, presidential historian and Clinton speechwriter Jeff Shesol, former Massachusetts Education Commissioner David Driscoll, Rhode Island Education Commissioner Deborah Gist, former Louisiana Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek, Hoover Institution Fellow Bill Evers, former US Education Dept.

Recent speakers have included national pollster David Paleologos, AEI Scholar Michael Greve, political consultants Steve Grand and Linda Moore Forbes, and many more.

Recent instrumental acoustic work ( 2007 ) shows that DAR speakers use very subtle differences in the quality and timing of glottalisation to differentiate between a glottal stop occurring as an allophone of final / t / in a word like " seat " and a glottal stop occurring as the form of the definite article in otherwise identical sentences ( compare " seat sacks " and " see t ' sacks ").

" Recent speakers have included William A. Dembski, Marvin Olasky and Alvin Plantinga.

Recent past speakers have included former Presidents of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, George H. W.

Recent speakers include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and Turkish President Abdullah Gul.

Recent speakers have included Gloria Steinem ( activist and founder Ms. magazine ), Jill Bolte Taylor ( neuroanatomist and author My Stroke of Insight ), Kip Fulbeck ( artist, poet, filmmaker ), Penny Pritzker ' 77 ( Founder, Classic Residence by Hyatt ; National Finance Chair for the Obama presidential campaign ), Al Gore ( Nobel Laureate and former Vice President ), Marissa Mayer ( Vice President, Google ), Thomas L. Friedman ( author, The World is Flat, and Greg Mortensen ( author, Three Cups of Tea ).