However, there is debate ongoing between groups that believe the evidence indicates substantial extinction of these species at the K – T boundary, and those who believe the evidence supports multiple extinctions and expansions through the boundary.

Others state that tropical rainforest deforestation is contributing to the ongoing Holocene mass extinction.

However, a study of uranium / lead ratios of zircons from rock sequences in multiple locations in southern China date the extinction to 252. 28 ± 0. 08 Ma ; an earlier study of rock sequences near Meishan in Changxing County of Zhejiang Province, China date the extinction to 251. 4 ± 0. 3 Ma, with an ongoing elevated extinction rate occurring for some time thereafter.

This is the result of an ongoing recovery program designed to prevent extinction and restore self-sustaining wild populations of this uniquely Canadian species.

Technogaians believe humanity has currently reached just such a threshold, and that the only way for human civilization to continue advancing is to accept the tenets of technogaianism and limit future exploitive exhaustion of natural resources and minimize further unsustainable development or face the widespread, ongoing mass extinction of species.

To the Athenians it seems what had to be guarded against was not incompetence but any tendency to use office as a way of accumulating ongoing power.

Today, this seems of minor importance but at the time few people comprehended the potentially limitless destruction nuclear weapons possess and the ongoing dangers posed by the fallout.

* Success seems to be going the Samnites ' way in their ongoing battles against the Romans.

It also describes a situation of ongoing tension that seems likely to escalate at any moment, similar to the Cold War.

As cultural scientist Roland Benedikter poses in his book on Sustainable Democratization of Iraq and in a series of essays, one main cause of the ongoing problems of pacification seems to consist in the fact that the socio-cultural dimensions of sustainability, including questions of ethnicity, religion and minority issues, have not been included appropriately in the overall democratization strategies so far.

According to our ongoing survey of GameRankings. com aggregated review data, Electronic Arts ' overall game quality continues to fall ... Although market share has not declined dramatically to date, in years such as 2007, which promises to have tremendous competition, it seems likely if quality does not improve.

While it often seems the infrastructure that once complemented the river ’ s function now serves to bypass it, these ongoing alterations to the resource reflect the history of the object, the people who exploited its assets, and the manner in which it shaped its bordering communities as well as New York City.

John the Cappadocian's downfall seems to have been the result of an ongoing rivalry with Empress Theodora and general Belisarius.

He was more successful with bills aimed at prosecuting the ongoing campaign against the Seminole Indians, although the problem seems to have been overstated.

Muirchertach had controlled Dublin since 1093, and at this stage in his career seems to have regarded Magnus as an ally with the necessary seapower in his ongoing war with the Mac Lochlainn dynasty of the north-west.

decides he wants to move back in with his mother, and during the subsequent " family meeting " he seems to have completely rewritten history, claiming he never said he moved out because of his mother and snidely threatening to call social services due to the ongoing " violence against children " present in his father's home.

And as far as the ongoing conflict between the Arab population and the Jewish population, hip hop music seems to document this more accurately from various viewpoints than any other popular music or news medium in Israel.

Speculatively, it seems that the main differences between the Chicano accent and the local Anglo accent are first, that the Chicanos are not participating in the ongoing phonetic changes in the Anglo communities ( the raising of ).

This seems deeply unlikely, however, as sales figures reveal Loners as selling 5000 copies less than Marvel's break-even point for ongoing titles towards the end of its run, despite initially good sales for early issues.

Many comets have been observed to fragment far from perihelion, and it seems that in the case of the Kreutz Sungrazers, an initial fragmentation near perihelion can be followed by an ongoing ' cascade ' of break-ups throughout the rest of the orbit.

The number of joint operating agreements, as well as the number of evening-published daily newspapers, has declined considerably in recent years, due to the ongoing consolidation of the newspaper industry as a whole, and the decline in readership and interest in evening newspapers in particular, which many observers have attributed to television and the internet, of which the former seems to be magnified by the presence of several 24-hour-a-day news operations on cable television.

While the city seems to be weathering the unprecedented recession, a slow recovery is predicted, and future concerns such as the water supply in the ongoing drought, diversification of the area economy from tourism and competition from other gaming hot spots continue to be major issues.

Even when a message seems abstract, i. e. the language is literal and not figurative, it is narration because it is embedded in the speaker's ongoing story that has a beginning, middle, and end, and it invites listeners to interpret its meaning and assess its value for their own lives.

The Journal of Clinical Oncology reported in 2004 that " cutaneous rash seems to be a surrogate marker of clinical benefit, but this finding should be confirmed in ongoing and future studies.

Although they may only have a short cinema life, cult films often enjoy ongoing popularity through long runs on video, thus being issued in video " runs " with more copies than other movies.

In the southeast, in eastern South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique, they were adopted from a Tuu language or languages by the languages of the Nguni cluster ( especially Zulu, Xhosa, and Phuthi, but also to a lesser extent Swazi and Ndebele ), and spread from them in a reduced fashion to the Zulu-based pidgin Fanagalo, Sesotho, Tsonga, Ronga, the Mzimba dialect of Tumbuka, and more recently to Ndau and urban varieties of Pedi, where the spread of clicks is an ongoing process.

There is an ongoing effort to make computer hardware faster, cheaper, and capable of storing more data.

The classical Fourier transform on R < sup > n </ sup > is still an area of ongoing research, particularly concerning Fourier transformation on more general objects such as tempered distributions.

As a result of ongoing improvements in the road system during the early 1990s, however, it is expected that in the future villagers will more easily be able to seek medical care, send children to schools at district centers, and work outside the village.

The Nanofactory Collaboration is a more focused ongoing effort involving 23 researchers from 10 organizations and 4 countries that is developing a practical research agenda specifically aimed at positionally-controlled diamond mechanosynthesis and diamondoid nanofactory development.

According to the IPS, the Clinton administration de-classified more than 16, 000 documents related to Chile, but withheld documents related to the Letelier-Moffitt assassination in Washington on the grounds that they were associated with an ongoing investigation.

This revolution was in response to a preference by composers and pianists for a more powerful, sustained piano sound, and made possible by the ongoing Industrial Revolution with resources such as high-quality piano wire for strings, and precision casting for the production of iron frames.

Retconning is also generally distinct from replacing the actor who plays a part in an ongoing series, which is more commonly an example of loose continuity rather than retroactively changing past continuity.

Seven begins to regain her humanity as the series progresses, thanks to ongoing efforts by Captain Janeway to show her that the perfection the Borg seek is not compatible with the imperfection of humanity ; however emotions such as love and care are more important to happiness.

The Iraq Inquiry ( still ongoing ) may explain more on this situation, but in the meantime, the U. S. ended the regime of Saddam Hussein.

:* imperfective aspect, in which the action is viewed as ongoing ; in some languages a verb could express imperfective aspect more narrowly as:

While she is best known for an ongoing acting career spanning more than two decades, she has increasingly become involved in global humanitarian efforts and political activism.

Despite these acute challenges, Li shifted his focus away from the day-to-day concerns of energy, communications, and raw materials allocation, and took a more active role in the ongoing inter-party debate on the pace of market reforms.

For example, starting in 2002, its format became more narrative and included ongoing storylines.

In the US, there are many brands available and many places to obtain training and few distributors and trainers in other countries where business quilters are more likely to travel to the States for ongoing longarm training.

Since ractors are more expensive than AI, the only reason to use them would be that the customers could tell the difference, implying that in the world of the novel, the marketplace of virtual reality entertainment has become one ongoing Turing Test, and software is continuously failing it.

Economic conditions during the 1970s were becoming more difficult for the UK and many other western economies as a result of the ending of the Bretton Woods Agreement and the 1973 oil shock, and the Heath government in its turn was buffeted by economic adversity and industrial unrest ( notably including confrontation with the coalminers which led to the Three-day week ) towards the end of 1973, and on 7 February 1974 ( with the crisis still ongoing ) Heath called a snap election for 28 February.

Though progress is ongoing, there remains a number of still unrealized goals within the framework of the ROC: " although certainly more ‘ equal ' than they were 20, or even 10, years ago, the indigenous inhabitants in Taiwan still remain on the lowest rungs of the legal and socioeconomic ladders ".

The border results in a number of ongoing Illegal Immigration cases, though these crimes are more common to the east where the border is across land rather than a surface water body.

Work is now ongoing to determine the genome sequences of more nematodes from the same genus, such as C. remanei, and C. brenneri.

Though the reality was that the Stonewall riots themselves, as well as the immediate and the ongoing political organizing that occurred following them, were events fully participated in by lesbian women, bisexual people and transgender people as well as by gay men of all races and backgrounds, historically these events were first named Gay, the word at that time being used in a more generic sense to cover the entire spectrum of what is now variously called the ' queer ' or LGBT community.

The Fund is fully committed to a more effective, coherent and better coordinated United Nations system that ‘ delivers as one ’, which is the essence of the ongoing United Nations reform process.

After the success of the short story in the House of Secrets comic, the original creators were asked to write an ongoing series, depicting a more heroic, more contemporary creature.