In December 2006, Zogby International released the results of a poll of military personnel conducted in October 2006 that found that 26 % favored allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, 37 % were opposed, while 37 % expressed no preference or were unsure.

The WHO estimated that an additional 10 – 20 babies die per 1, 000 deliveries as a result of FGM ; the estimate was based on a 2006 study conducted on 28, 393 women attending delivery wards at 28 obstetric centers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.

An opinion poll conducted by the Georgian weekly Kviris Palitra and published on April 10, 2006 suggested that Salome Zourabichvili would garner 23. 1 % of votes if a presidential election were held today.

In 2006, the value of initial public offerings conducted in Hong Kong was second highest in the world after London.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

Reported acts of violence conducted by an uneasy tapestry of independence activists and opponents of foreign domination steadily increased by the end of 2006.

Life of Brian has regularly been cited as a serious contender for the title " greatest comedy film of all time ", and has been named as such in polls conducted by Total Film magazine in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006 and The Guardian newspaper in 2007.

A partial replication of the Milgram experiment was conducted by British psychological illusionist Derren Brown and broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK in The Heist ( 2006 ).

Another partial replication of the Milgram experiment was conducted by Jerry M. Burger in 2006 and broadcast on the Primetime series Basic Instincts.

However, using data from an internet survey based experiment performed in 2006 on a random sample of 574 adult university students, a study was conducted that examined public approval for the use of racial profiling to prevent crime and terrorism.

As Bulatović was given central positions in Belgrade from that time ( as such national Prime Minister ), Đukanović continued to govern Montenegro and isolated his republic from Serbia so that from 1996 to 2006, Montenegro and Serbia were only nominally one country-governance at every feasible level was conducted locally ( Belgrade for Serbia and Podgorica for Montenegro ).

A survey conducted by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore indicated that 78 % of households own computers at home and 7 in 10 households have Internet access ( 2006 ).

A study was conducted where the subjects learned word pairs, and the results showed that sleep not only prevents the decay of memory, but also actively fixates declarative memories ( Ellenbogen et al., 2006, as cited in Walker, 2009 ).

* In November 2006, the entire SNO team was awarded the inaugural John C. Polanyi Award for " a recent outstanding advance in any field of the natural sciences or engineering " conducted in Canada.

In a 2006 breed specific survey conducted by The Kennel Club and the British Small Animal Veterinary Association Scientific Committee, responses highlighted several health issues.

In July 2006, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted an online poll ( publicised by Reporting Scotland ) in which voters could choose a national anthem from one of five candidates.

Figures released for the period 2005 – 2006 by UK Government ( Department of Health ) show that non-obstetric ultrasound examinations constituted more than 65 % of the total number of ultrasound scans conducted.

In late 2006, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology published the result of studies conducted at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine that showed the beneficial relationship of resveratrol, a compound found in all red wine, in reducing the risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease.

However, there are calls for this to be changed, and a 2006 survey conducted by the BBC suggested that 55 % of the English public would rather have " Land of Hope and Glory " than " God Save the Queen " as their national anthem.

On April 1, 2006, he conducted the orchestra for the Dream Theater 20th Anniversary World Tour performance at Radio City Music Hall in NYC.

'" In a 2006 study conducted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, it was determined that nine of the 679 lead and supporting characters on scripted broadcast television were gay or lesbian, but Smithers was not included.

In a survey conducted by The Guardian in 2006, Peterloo came second to the Putney Debates as the event from British history that most deserved a proper monument or a memorial.

Both fluoxetine and light therapy are 67 % effective in treating SAD according to direct head-to-head trials conducted during the 2006 Can-SAD study.

In April 2006 a team led by Joe Thornton, assistant professor of biology at the University of Oregon's Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, using techniques for resurrecting ancient genes, reconstructed the evolution of an apparently irreducibly complex molecular system.

In 2006, U. S. National Academy of Sciences released the report of a study of molecular manufacturing as part of a longer report, A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative The study committee reviewed the technical content of Nanosystems, and in its conclusion states that no current theoretical analysis can be considered definitive regarding several questions of potential system performance, and that optimal paths for implementing high-performance systems cannot be predicted with confidence.

In the latest report A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative put out by the National Academies Press in December 2006 ( roughly twenty years after Engines of Creation was published ), no clear way forward toward molecular nanotechnology could yet be seen, as per the conclusion on page 108 of that report: " Although theoretical calculations can be made today, the eventually attainable

( 2008 ) citing Loureiro and Malfeito-Ferreira from 2006 when they affirmed that current molecular DNA detection techniques have uncovered no variance between the anamorph and teleomorph states.

Roger D. Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry " for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription ".

* Ericson, Per G. P .; Anderson, Cajsa L .; Britton, Tom ; Elżanowski, Andrzej ; Johansson, Ulf S .; Kallersjö, Mari ; Ohlson, Jan I .; Parsons, Thomas J .; Zuccon, Dario & Mayr, Gerald ( 2006 ): Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils.

* Miller, Hilary C. & Lambert, David M. ( 2006 ): A molecular phylogeny of New Zealand ’ s Petroica ( Aves: Petroicidae ) species based on mitochondrial DNA sequences.

In 2006, U. S. National Academy of Sciences released the report of a study of molecular manufacturing as part of a longer report, A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative The study committee reviewed the technical content of Nanosystems, and in its conclusion states that no current theoretical analysis can be considered definitive regarding several questions of potential system performance, and that optimal paths for implementing high-performance systems cannot be predicted with confidence.

In 2006, sub-cellular localization of all the proteins in S. pombe was published using green fluorescent protein as a molecular tag.

Subsequent molecular phylogenetic studies have shown the 2006 classification is a considerable improvement over previous classifications, but some of its subgenera and sections are probably not monophyletic.

A 2006 molecular phylogenetic study of the Agaricales by Matheny, et al., further demonstrates the separation of the bluing and non-bluing clades of Psilocybe in a larger, strongly supported phylogenetic tree of the Agaricales.

In 2006 a molecular study on Laevipilina antarctica suggested that Monoplacophora and Polyplacophora form a well-supported clade with the researched Neopilina closest to the chitons.

Siddique ( 2006, 2007 ) states that methanogenesis in the tailings pond live and reproduce by anaerobic degradation which will lower the molecular weight from naphtha to aliphatic, aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and methane.

Preliminary phylogenetic studies in 2006 using molecular and morphological evidence have suggested that the genus forms three natural species confined to the southeastern United States.

2006 was also important to BD growth as the company acquired GeneOhm Sciences — a leader in the development of molecular diagnostic testing for the rapid detection of bacterial organisms and TriPath Imaging — a cancer diagnostics company.

Three living subspecies are usually recognized ( McGowan 1994 ), which differ marginally in coloration and somewhat more according to molecular studies ( Randi 2006 ; see below for details ):

Nasturtium was previously synonymised with Rorippa, but molecular evidence supports its maintenance as a distinct genus more closely related to Cardamine than to Rorippa sensu stricto ( Al-Shehbaz & Price, 1998 ; Al-Shehbaz, Beilstein & Kellogg, 2006 ).

* ( 2006 ): A molecular phylogenetic perspective on the evolutionary history of Alosa spp.

In addition, it appears as if hybridization is a factor to be reckoned with when researching shad phylogeny .< ref name =" Faria "> Faria, R .; Weiss, S .; & Alexandrino, P. ( 2006 ): A molecular phylogenetic perspective on the evolutionary history of Alosa spp.

They treated the Otomyinae as a separate subfamily, but all molecular analyses conducted to date have supported their inclusion in the Murinae as relatives of African genera ( Michaux et al., 2001 ; Jansa and Weksler, 2004 ; Steppan et al., 2004 ; 2005 ; Jansa et al., 2006 ).

In January 2006, RIKEN set up the Next-Generation Supercomputer R & D Center, with the purpose of designing and building the fastest supercomputer in the world, and in June 2006, it announced the completion of a one-petaflops computer system designed specially for molecular dynamics simulation.

As a result, internal diabatic heating / cooling due to molecular diffusion explains why laboratory experiments show evidence of circulations developing as the result of surface heating / cooling ( Park and Whitehead, 2000 ) or even when the heating is above the cooling ( Coman et al., 2006 ).

In 2006, molecular biologist Gary J. Gorbsky, Ph. D., and his lab were the first to reverse the process of cell division, a discovery detailed in the journal NatureNature ( journal ) that may have implications for the prevention and treatment of cancer and birth defects.