"Advances in medicine are being made every day in different areas, whether it's tissue transplantation or tissue regeneration, " he said.

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But in such matters as education, cultural identity or economic regeneration it is Europe's regions that are coming to the fore.

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Even if the Treasury wanted to hand over spending power, it's doubtful that the private sector-led replacements for RDAs are up to the job of handling all that cash, or of strategic regeneration decisions.

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The amendment from Scottish Labour's culture spokesperson Patricia Ferguson stated that local communities should be an integral part of any regeneration of their local environment or facilities.

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Norman Dingemans, Arun District Council's Cabinet Member for Economic Regeneration, said a bowling alley or a skating rink would not attract as many people as a cinema.

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This configuration gives it all wheel drive and also allows the ECU to either send power to or retrieve power from (in the form of regeneration) either motor to recharge the on-board battery pack -- which can also be juiced up by plugging into the wall.

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Battery regeneration: Whenever the driver releases the accelerator pedal or applies the brakes, and the battery is insufficiently charged, the two electric motors act as generators and feed energy recovered from the brakes into the lithium-ion battery.

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Where regeneration is taking place it is usually in the form or hotels and housing rather than pioneering new technologies or wealth-creating manufacturing businesses.

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One of the prime criteria the government uses to judge the success, or failure, of a lottery project is by its contribution to local regeneration.

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Rather, it is necessary to promote a spiritual regeneration within Islam itself, as alien as this may sound to those with Western or secular sensibilities.

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