Problems receiving increased attention included poor housing, alcoholism, drug abuse, pollution, outdated Stalin-era factories, and petty to large − scale corruption, all of which the official media had ignored.

Health and environmental concerns associated with electronics assembly have gained increased attention in recent years, especially for products destined to the European Union, with its Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive ( RoHS ) and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive ( WEEE ), which went into force in July 2006.

Long-denied problems such as poor housing, food shortages, alcoholism, widespread pollution, creeping mortality rates and the second-rate position of women were now receiving increased attention, as well as the history of Soviet state crimes against the population.

Education received increased attention and began to receive a larger share of the national budget.

As infectious diseases have become less lethal, and the most common causes of death in developed countries are now tumors and cardiovascular diseases, these conditions have received increased attention in medical research.

Political and social attention increased, and debate started about the effectiveness of the TBS-system and if convicts should be granted leave from TBS-clinics.

In more recent research, subcortical regions ( those lying below the cerebral cortex such as the putamen and the caudate nucleus ) as well as the pre-motor areas ( BA 6 ) have received increased attention.

The World Health Organization's classification system defines a manic episode as one where mood is higher than the person's situation warrants and may vary from relaxed high spirits to barely controllable exuberance, accompanied by hyperactivity, a compulsion to speak, a reduced sleep requirement, difficulty sustaining attention and, often, increased distractability.

The rivalry began to escalate and receive increased media attention in 1997 when a disgruntled Bill Parcells vacated his head coaching position with New England to accept the same position with New York.

Increased press attention also brought with it increased scientific attention, and as early as 1970 doubts about its authenticity were being circulated.

Since the theoretical development has been slow, the phenomenology of quantum gravity which studies the possibility of experimental tests, has obtained increased attention.

The rise in the popularity of urban exploration can be attributed to its increased media attention.

With the rise in the relative popularity of the hobby due to this increased focus, there has been increasing discussion on whether the extra attention has been beneficial to urban exploration as a whole.

The growing popularity of the activity has resulted not just in increased attention from explorers, but also from vandals and Law Enforcement.

As access to electronic information resources increased at the beginning of the 21st century, special attention was extended from the information society to the knowledge society.

DID patients also appear to show deficiencies in tests of conscious control of attention and memorization ( which also showed signs of compartmentalization for implicit memory between alters but no such compartmentalization for verbal memory ) and increased and persistent vigilance and startle responses to sound.

As media attention on DID increased, so too did the controversy surrounding the diagnosis.

With increased media attention on beauty and perfection, celebrities and others alike are turning to plastic surgery more and more.

To this end, the social status enjoyed by the Miniver family in the print version was downgraded and increased attention was given to the erosion of class barriers under the pressures of wartime.

The destruction of the World Trade Center in Manhattan on September 11, 2001 by terrorists, and subsequent wave of anthrax attacks on U. S. media and government outlets ( both real and hoax ), led to increased attention on the risk of bioterror attacks in the United States.

Sarah W. Whedon suggests in an 2009 article in Nova Religio that the social construction of indigo children is a response to an " apparent crisis of American childhood " in the form of increased youth violence and diagnoses of attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Some cognitive biases belong to the subgroup of attentional biases which refer to the paying of increased attention to certain stimuli.

David Rollason has drawn attention to the increased importance of the cults of other murdered royal saints in this period.

Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.

`` My doctors assure me that this increased percentage of risk is not great ''.

Also under consideration is an increased investment in Cunard Eagle Airways which has applied to serve New York.

It is not in business for the purpose of absorbing increased municipal costs no matter how high a purpose that may be ''.

What we need to realize is that the increasingly great contamination of the atmosphere by the Soviet tests had radically increased our own moral obligations.

One indication of the merits of the new management is found in the fact that during the period 1951-1956, while total annual mileage put on the vehicles increased 35%, the total maintenance cost increased only 11%.

Regardless of its unadjusted allotment, each State is guaranteed by law a minimum allotment each year equal to the allotment which it received in fiscal year 1954 -- increased by a uniform percentage of 5.4865771 which brings total 1954 allotments to all States up to $23,000,000.

The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.

Another growth factor is increased consumer demand for better quality and larger quantities of fabrics that go with a rising standard of living.

Fortunately, although only a few years ago they held the student at arms length, today the business houses welcome the opportunity to aid the student, not only from an increased sense of community responsibility but also from the realization that the student of today is the interior designer of tomorrow -- that the student already is `` in the trade ''.

Mason and Taylor both show that the major axis of the ellipsoids is at 45-degrees at low rates of shear and that it approaches the direction of shear with increased rates of shear.

The finding that the concentration of one of these proteases is increased in thyroid glands from TSH-treated animals suggests that this protease may be active in vivo.

Moreover, the responsiveness of the hypothalamus to nociceptive stimulation is greatly increased under these conditions.

On the economic front, the first priority of these countries is to mobilize a vastly increased volume of resources.

A more tenable explanation for the change in reactions is that the added knowledge and increased familiarity with the total situation made it possible for these subjects to be less guarded and to relax, since any reaction seemed acceptable to the examiner as `` normal ''.

Failure confirms the threat, and the intensity of anxiety is increased as the required learning becomes more difficult, so that by the time the child reaches the third grade the decrement in performance is pronounced.

Its speed has increased, it operates at increasingly greater depths, its submerged endurance is becoming unlimited, and it will become even more silent.

Graph in Fig. 1, p. 392, indicates how the ratio of compressive strength to density varies as the latter is increased or decreased.

He becomes more callous, the population becomes more hostile, the situation grows more tense, and the police force is increased.

In the meantime, generations keep being born, bitterness is increased by incompetence, pride, and folly, and the world shrinks around us.

Rep. Mac Barber of Commerce is asking the House in a privilege resolution to `` endorse increased federal support for public education, provided that such funds be received and expended '' as state funds.

Hughes said, `` This is not a plan to conquer space -- but to conserve it '', pointing out the state population has increased 125,000 each year since 1950.