With methodical marketing that has emphasised the film as not only the culmination of the trilogy, but of 17 years on Tolkien duty for director Peter Jackson, it would be quite a shock if the film didn't see a rally from Desolation of Smaug's $958.4m worldwide take (a predictable middle-instalment slip from the first's $1.01bn).
Our results are in line with other research that has emphasised the importance of graded call systems in communicating external events, such as chimpanzee pant hoots [ 14], several calls in the Barbary macaque repertoire [ 68] and chacma baboon grunts [ 57].
It is important to note that several studies that have emphasised the importance of timing of the last birth have been unable to fully account for other predictors of endometrial cancer (Kvale et al, 1988; Albrektsen et al, 1995; Lambe et al, 1999).
Since the 1980s the concept of the gender-less demographic actor has been challenged through studies that have emphasised the need to explore the different motivations of, and power relations between, men and women, which cannot be identified in quantitative data (Janssens, 2007b; Mackinnon, 1995; Watkins, 1993).
In addition to the time-limited programmes, in 1993 a permanent Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme was established following a report that had emphasised its importance to the NHS [ 67].
These resources offer an opportunity to perform a detailed comparative analysis of homopolymeric tract organisation within IGR distinct from previous comparative studies that have emphasised evolutionary diversity in the organisms investigated.
In many countries of the region, economic uncertainty has combined with weakening social capital, an embryonic and fragile civil society, a poorly resourced and overly vertically structured health system, and public policies tackling drug use that have emphasised law enforcement and security at the expense of public health.
The problem, as he and others have explained, is that Japan has emphasised the traditional Confucian virtues of unity and loyalty at the expense of creativity and imagination; the Japanese have been too closed, to the point of xenophobia, to the outside world.
But their concessions do not yet address the core issues Lib Dems care aboutare devoted to and debated at their spring conference last March – issues that Field has emphasised: the NHS as a public service rather than as a market in healthcare.
Michael Winter, professor of the rural economy at Cheltenham and Gloucester College, argues that the crisis has emphasised the "strong links" between agriculture and other sectors of the rural economy, such as tourism.
The UK House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee, tasked to analyse the evidence underpinning polices aimed at changing behaviour for example, noted that much research has emphasised the deliberative, rational actor approach at the expense of non-deliberative health actions [ 8].
