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.

Our current rate of incoming orders has now contracted and unless this trend can be reversed, our production for 1961 will be lower than for 1960.

Whereas the current Finnish administration ( notably Jutta Urpilainen ) has been more hesitant towards the EU monetary policy than the previous ones, Eurobarometers and other polls have shown that among Finnish citizens, the opinion trend has been somewhat reversed during recent years.

Along with a current trend towards environmentalism, people in Western culture have had an increasing trend towards the use of herbal supplements, foods for a specific group of person ( such as dieters, women, or athletes ), functional foods ( fortified foods, such as omega-3 eggs ), and a more ethnically diverse diet.

The current trend for feature walls has increased commissions for muralists in the UK.

A trend toward minimalism and abstraction was noted among the entrants, finalists, and current World Trade Center Memorial.

This process is seen as a step towards the current trend whereby universities in Australia are reducing the amount of named degrees in order to simplify enrolment and to maintain the competitiveness of Australian degrees globally in accordance with the Bologna Accord.

Dugong's current number is dwindling and it is not clear as of now how many are currently alive or what their reproductive trend is.

The Chargers started the 2009 campaign slowly, with a 2 – 3 record, a trend under current coach Norv Turner ( 1 – 3 in 2007 & 2 – 3 in 2008 ).

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Suffolk at current basic prices published ( pp. 240 – 253 ) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

A current trend is phones that integrate all mobile communication and computing needs ; these are called smartphones.

Particularly in ice dancing judges traditionally gave extra leeway to the current champion regardless of recent mistakes, as well as a trend of setting an order after the first compulsory dance and sticking to it.

Most telephone companies now also function as internet service providers ( ISPs ), and the distinction between a telephone company and an ISP may disappear completely over time, as the current trend for supplier convergence in the industry continues.

Although decentralization is the current trend in Philippine local governance, the country remains a unitary state and the National Government continues to have strong influence over local government units.

Some authors have used the term additive category for preadditive categories, but Wikipedia follows the current trend of reserving this word for certain special preadditive categories ( see special cases below ).

One important current trend in critical assessments of the album is to draw parallels between the band's disintegrating ensemble and the chaotic events of the tumultuous year in which The Beatles was created, 1968.

This is the case where photographs are taken by private individuals and shown on private websites for no commercial purpose ( the current trend for photo albums ), as long as these pictures are displayed at a low resolution ( 600 pixels maximum, resolution of 72dpi ) to avoid abusive usage and downloads.

The current trend is toward fewer, more costly microprocessor modules with hardware memory management and Real-Time Operating Systems.

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Thurrock at current basic prices published ( pp. 240 – 253 ) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Such stories subsequently remained an oddity, with the current trend for historical whodunnits only really beginning in the late 1970s with the success of Ellis Peters and her Brother Cadfael novels, set in medieval Shrewsbury.

* % Cdenotes current market environment as range expansion or a range contraction, it also forecast when extremes in trend or choppiness are being reached, so the trader can expect change.

Summer tourism began in the early 19th century when Quaker Thomas Cook, Jr. opened his farmhouse on the site of the current Antrim Elementary School to boarders, which began the trend that transformed the area into an oceanfront haven for visitors, a trend further established in the 1870 by Captain John Arnold, who built a roadway to the ocean, now known as Arnold Avenue.

Though the current line-item veto proposal is much weaker than the 1996 version, it has nevertheless failed to find strong support in the Congress.

It doesn't involve any actual movement of charge, but it nevertheless has an associated magnetic field, as if it were an actual current.

The committee's work nevertheless led in 1906 to the first federal regulation of telephone and telegram service by the Board of Railway Commissioners, the ancestor of the current Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

The current political separation of North and South Korea has resulted in divergence in modern Korean cultures ; nevertheless, the traditional culture of Korea is historically shared by both states.

The word “ magnetism ” continued ( and continues ) nevertheless to be popularly used by the general public for some types of “ magnetic ” healings that later merged in current practice with analogous oriental healing practices.

By the time the conquerors established the first political organization of the Colony, almost the whole extension of the current region was under the jurisdiction of the authorities of Huamanga ; nevertheless, there is no recollection on the foundation of cities and towns.

Although the level of malicious damage is kept low by the conspicuous presence of staff and volunteers of the Abney Park Trust when maintaining the park ; by frequent arts and environmental events promoted by the Trust ; and by community safety initiatives involving the police and their community support officers ; nevertheless over time it has taken its toll, leading to the current ' at risk ' designation.

In that paper Faraday explained that when an electrolytic cell is oriented so that electric current traverses the " decomposing body " ( electrolyte ) in a direction " from East to West, or, which will strengthen this help to the memory, that in which the sun appears to move ", the anode is where the current enters the electrolyte, on the East side: " ano upwards, odos a way ; the way which the sun rises " (, reprinted in ).

In that paper Faraday explained that when an electrolytic cell is oriented so that electric current traverses the " decomposing body " ( electrolyte ) in a direction " from East to West, or, which will strengthen this help to the memory, that in which the sun appears to move ", the cathode is where the current leaves the electrolyte, on the West side: " kata downwards, ` odos a way ; the way which the sun sets ".

It appears that the edict was made in an attempt to preserve the current price of gold and to keep the Empire's coinage on silver, Rome's traditional metal currency.

In current pop music, the harp appears relatively rarely.

With the neoplatonist Plotinus, wrote Nathaniel Alfred Boll ; " there even appears, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, idealism that had long been current in the East even at that time, for it taught … that the soul has made the world by stepping from eternity into time …".

Luthor's current origin appears to be a synthesis of aspects from the Silver Age continuity and the The Man of Steel mini-series.

Although this appears a challenging problem given current resources, many tools will be available to help future researchers: Moore's Law predicts further increases in computer power, semiconductor fabrication techniques continue to approach the nanoscale, and researchers grow ever more skilled at using proteins, ribosomes and DNA to perform novel chemistry.

The current word plough comes from Old Norse plógr, and therefore Germanic, but it appears relatively late ( it is absent from Gothic ), and is thought to be a loanword from one of the north Italic languages.

In a class of superconductors known as type II superconductors, including all known high-temperature superconductors, an extremely small amount of resistivity appears at temperatures not too far below the nominal superconducting transition when an electric current is applied in conjunction with a strong magnetic field, which may be caused by the electric current.

The current tendency appears to be to lionise him ; popular film and other media have certainly contributed to his appeal.

The following ( and current ) Moroccan dynasty, the Alaouite Dynasty which came to power in 1659, appears to have continued to exercise some degree of sovereignty over the modern Western Sahara, although the slow collapse of central authority through the 19th century, which ended in European colonial rule, no doubt attenuated that.

The current LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and appears on the sides of trains.

Hermione Granger uses the time-turner to go back in time and do a different lesson than the current Hermione is doing and thus appears to be in multiple places at once.

Unfortunately, the current calculation appears to be that shifting pension liabilities onto other premium payers or potentially taxpayers is the path of least resistance rather than a last resort .”

In fact, current evidence suggests the opposite: the early Universe appears to be dominated by spiral and irregular galaxies.

As soon as the current in either branch exceeds the critical current,, of the Josephson junction, a voltage appears across the junction.

In non-random inactivation this choice appears to be fixed and current evidence suggests that the maternally inherited gene may be imprinted.

* Pop-up menus can usually be opened faster than pull-down menus, since the user avoids travel: the pop-up appears at the current cursor position.

Mick Worthington, formerly nicknamed " Mick the Dig " ( to separate him from Mick Aston ) as he worked largely on site excavation in the early years, occasionally still appears in his current occupation of dendrochronologist but with his nickname changed to " Mick the Twig ".

Jackson usually appears in uniform at the Yankees ' current spring training complex in Tampa, Florida, and has been sought out for advice by current stars such as Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez.