The current consensus, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around the 12th century BCE, during the archaeologically designated Early Basketmaker II Era.

However, there is no consensus, and according to Raymond E. Brown, the current opinion concerning Lukan authorship is " about evenly divided.

Despite the lack of consensus on underlying causation, advocates for specific psychopathological paradigms have nonetheless faulted the current diagnostic scheme for not incorporating evidence-based models or findings from other areas of science.

However, the current consensus among the scientific community is that the extinction was triggered by the Chicxulub impact event in Central America ( which would have produced a sunlight-blocking dust cloud that killed much of the plant life and reduced global temperature, called an impact winter ).

However, the current consensus in the Earth science community is that this feature is unlikely to be an actual impact crater.

In 1999, Paul Ehrlich and others advocated public policies to improve the dissemination of valid environmental scientific knowledge and discourage junk science: ' The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports offer an antidote to junk science by articulating the current consensus on the prospects for climate change, by outlining the extent of the uncertainties, and by describing the potential benefits and costs of policies to address climate change.

The term " dinosaur " is properly restricted to only those reptiles descended from the last common ancestor of the groups Saurischia and Ornithischia ( clade Dinosauria, which includes birds ), and current scientific consensus is that this group excludes the pterosaurs, as well as the various groups of extinct marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.

A consensus among scientists today would hold that a global increase in atmospheric aerosols would probably result in a cooling of the climate ; however, a smaller but growing fraction of the current evidence suggests that it may have a warming effect.

Among the current advocates of consensus theory as a useful accounting of the concept of " truth " is the philosopher Jürgen Habermas.

Among the current strong critics of consensus theory is the philosopher Nicholas Rescher.

The current consensus is that Earth's history is a slow, gradual process punctuated by occasional natural catastrophic events that have affected Earth and its inhabitants.

According to current geological consensus, during the middle of the Pleistocene era there was a succession of inland seas ( collectively referred to as Lake Manly ) located where Death Valley is today.

The current consensus, based on terminology defined by the Pecos Classification, suggests their emergence around 1200 BC, during the archaeologically designated Basketmaker II Era.

This is evidenced by the current lack of consensus on issues such as central banking and welfare.

The current consensus of the scientific community is that the aerosols and dust released into the upper atmosphere causes cooler temperatures by preventing the sun's energy from reaching the ground.

It is not a mandatory statement of principles, but rather a consensus of current beliefs.

" flower pepper ") in a strict sense refers to the Northern China peppercorn, Zanthoxylum bungeanum, or at least that appears to be the common consensus in current scholarly literature.

Subsequent research using wider sampling has restored consensus among mammalian biologists that the current classification of rodents as monophyletic is justified.

The current scientific consensus is that AIDS originated in Africa in the mid 1930s from the closely related Simian Immunodeficiency Virus.

The cultural policies of the ( current ) French Fifth Republic have been varied, but a consensus seems to exist around the need for preservation of French regionalisms ( such as food and language ) as long as these don't undermine national identity.

More recently, Patrick Sims-Williams argued for a plausible range of about 1060 to 1200, which seems to be the current scholarly consensus.

The actual location of the Catalaunian Fields is unclear: Historian Thomas Hodgkin located the site near Méry-sur-Seine, but current consensus places the battlefield at Châlons-en-Champagne.

The current consensus hinges upon the Boltzmann-Shannon identification of the logarithm of phase space volume with the negative of Shannon information, and hence to entropy.

Hall wrote, according to current scholarly consensus, the dystopian Mundus alter et idem sive Terra Australis antehac semper incognita ; Longis itineribus peregrini Academici nuperrime illustrata ( 1605?

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.

It follows that the solution to the current disunity of the free nations is only to a very limited extent a matter of devising new machinery of consultation and coordination.

With our current $3 per hundred tax rate, it is safe to assume that this will qualify when you suggest a community should `` try to develop a modest industrial plant '' as the best way to meet these problems.

In this hour of crisis, the wisdom, the dedication, the stabilizing force that he represents in current American government is an almost indispensable source of strength.

Borrowing in anticipation of current taxes and other revenues is a routine procedure of the majority of municipalities at all times.

This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.

Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.

However, its modern one-story layout is designed to increase our production capacity, permit more efficient manufacturing, and substantially reduce current repair and maintenance costs.

Of current interest is Abilene, Kansas, the birthplace of ex-President Eisenhower.

Considering that the current school-age potential is 23 million youths, the project and its message on hunting and shooting education have many more to reach.

There must be a restriction in the deed to provide that the customer may not be charged more than the current market price for the oil, an obvious precaution, since the account is permanently wedded, just like with gas or electricity.

The pressure gradient producing the jet is due to the nature of the magnetic field in the arc ( rapid decrease of current density from cathode to the anode ).

That we are experiencing an upsurge of interest in the many formulations and preventive adaptations of brief treatment in social casework is evident from even a small sampling of current literature.

It is still used in making current population estimates in post-census years, though the value of these estimates is open to question.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

Moreover, the current information on what types of training are needed and possible is too limited and fragmentary.

This is not extended to anticipated levels of GNP, however -- only the current level of GNP affects the public pressure against wage-price increases.

electricity plays such an important part in community life today that it is difficult to envision a time when current was not available for daily use.

It is to be hoped that some way will be found to keep this important work current.

In general, P is a function of V and the current density, but it shall here be assumed as a constant.

The operator must continually supply the correct amount of turning current to the gyro torquers so that the effect of gyro drift is canceled.

If the Z gyro is drifting, a current generated by the autocollimator is delivered to the gyro torquer to cancel the drift.