* A 2006 study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development indicates 56. 5 % of Belarus ' population were internet-users.

At a meeting in August 2006 with members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, Wu Guanzheng, of the Communist Party of China, confirmed the intention of the People's Republic of China to fund a study into the feasibility of constructing a railway connecting at Isaka with the existing Tanzanian railway network, and running via Kigali in Rwanda through to Burundi.

A complete map was published in 2009 ( Flood, et al., 2009 ) using these previous results with high quality mapping obtained in 2006 ( by researchers at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada who are project partners in this study.

This reaction was first studied in 2006 at the LBNL as part of their systematic study of fusion reactions using < sup > 238 </ sup > U targets.

A longitudinal study published in February 2006 in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology showed a link between psychosocial stress and bacterial vaginosis independent of other risk factors.

A 2006 and 2007 study on superstition by the University of Iceland ’ s Faculty of Social Sciences supervised by Terry Gunnell ( associate folklore professor ), reveal that natives would not rule out the existence of elves and ghosts ( similar results of a 1974 survey by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports ).

A prior study by the FSTA showed 19. 4 million people age 12 and above in the U. S. and Canada played fantasy sports in 2006 and 34. 5 million people had ever played fantasy sports.

A 2006 study showed 22 percent of U. S. adult males 18 to 49 years old, with Internet access, play fantasy sports.

In 2006, a research study at Malmö University's Faculty of Odontology suggested that performing unprotected oral sex on a person infected with HPV might increase the risk of oral cancer.

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.

A 2006 study from Brazil examined data from testing children during 1930 and 2002 – 2004, the largest time gap ever considered.

Wild population estimates vary ; one estimate shows that there are about 1, 590 individuals living in the wild, while a 2006 study via DNA analysis estimated that this figure could be as high as 2, 000 to 3, 000.

In July 2006 an international consortium of universities and research institutions embarked on a study of potential scientific applications of the Galileo constellation.

In a December 2006 Newsweek International article, a study by Global Insight in London was reported to show " that Civil war or not, Iraq has an economy, and — mother of all surprises — it's doing remarkably well.

A 2006 study showed a large portion of adults who experienced sibling incest abuse have distorted or disturbed beliefs ( such as that the act was " normal ") both about their own experience and the subject of sexual abuse in general.

For instance, in 2006 a study showing that one of the malaria mosquitoes ( Anopheles gambiae ) is attracted equally to the smell of Limburger cheese and the smell of human feet earned the Ig Nobel Prize in the area of biology.

Three-dimensional reconstruction based on a comprehensive 2006 study.

A pilot study was performed in 2006 that showed that lucid dreaming therapy treatment was successful in reducing nightmare frequency.

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.

( 2006 ) ( in the continuing research effort by Freitas, Merkle and their collaborators ) reports that the most-studied mechanosynthesis tooltip motif ( DCB6Ge ) successfully places a C < sub > 2 </ sub > carbon dimer on a C ( 110 ) diamond surface at both 300 K ( room temperature ) and 80 K ( liquid nitrogen temperature ), and that the silicon variant ( DCB6Si ) also works at 80 K but not at 300 K. Over 100, 000 CPU hours were invested in this latest study.

A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2006 found that even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more.

Recent studies ( 2006 ) substantiate that smoke from urban firestorms in a local nuclear war would lead to long lasting global cooling but in a less dramatic manner than a global nuclear war, while a 2007 study of the effects of global nuclear war supported the conclusion that it would lead to full-scale nuclear winter.

" And in 2007 Schneider emphasized the danger of serious climate changes from a limited nuclear war of the kind analyzed in the 2006 study above, saying " The sun is much stronger in the tropics than it is in mid-latitudes.

The American City Business Journals, which conducts a regular study to determine the most loyal fans in the NFL, evaluates fans based primarily on attendance-related factors, and ranked Eagles fans third in both 1999 and 2006.

A 2006 Cochrane Collaboration review of controlled trials of antipsychotics in old age dementia reported that one or two of the drugs showed a modest benefit compared to placebo in managing aggression or psychosis, but that this was combined with a significant increase in serious adverse events.

The 2011 figures show an increase of some 64, 000 speakers compared to the 2006 figures to 714, 136, with significant increases in the Autonomous Community but a slight drop in the Northern Basque Country to 51, 100, overall amounting to an increase to 27 % of all inhabitants of Basque provinces ( 2, 648, 998 in total ).

The overall trade balance for August 2012 was a surplus of almost 390 million dollars for the first six months of 2012, a huge figure compared with that of 2007, which reached only $ 5. 7 million ; the surplus had risen by about 425 million compared to 2006.

A July 2006 USA Today / Gallup poll found that 83 % of the 1, 005 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 66 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

As of 2006, the observations suggest that, on distance scales much larger than galaxies, galaxy clusters are " Great " features, but small compared to so-called multi-verse scenarios.

During 2007, new research from the 2006 New Zealand census showed that women without a tertiary ( college ) education had produced 2. 57 babies each, compared to 1. 85 babies for those women with a higher education.

Bilateral trade reached $ 15. 7 million in 2006, compared with $ 8. 9 million in 2003.

Foreign direct investment ( FDI ) has picked up and is estimated to have reached 12 percent of GDP in 2007, compared with 7 percent in 2006.

Today, the New Zealand vehicle fleet ( as of June 2006 ) counts 3, 226, 614 vehicles, an increase of 2. 42 % compared to the previous year.

In 2006, 123, 390 such vehicles were registered, compared to 76, 804 brand new vehicles first registered in New Zealand.

The parameters that improved compared to the 2006 survey were: interconnection, tariff regulation, regulation of anti-competitive practices, and universal service obligation in the mobile sector ; and market entry, interconnection, regulation of anti-competitive practices and universal service obligation in the fixed sector.

Unemployment stood at 7. 6 % in October 2006, a rate that compared favorably to many other European countries, and especially with the early 1990s when it stood at over 20 %.

New archaeological discoveries by a team of international scientists, in 2006, have revealed that the Santorini event was much more massive than previously thought ; it expelled of magma and rock into the Earth's atmosphere, compared to previous estimates of only in 1991 ,< ref >

In the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, former FSLN President Daniel Ortega was re-elected President of Nicaragua with 38. 7 % of the vote compared to 29 % for his leading rival, bringing in the country's second Sandinista government after 16 years of the opposition winning elections.

As of 2006, the genre is far less dominant, representing a 2 % market share ( compared to 15 % in 1998 ), but still commercially viable, with a number of games selling in the millions of units.

Despite this, Britain has contributed the greatest number of migrants to this day, and Western Australia — particularly Perth — has the highest proportion of British-born of any state: 10. 6 % in 2006, compared to a national average of 5. 3 %.

In addition, a retrospective case-control study published by researchers from the Mayo Clinic in 2006 has found an increased risk of developing diabetes mellitus and hypertension in people who had undergone ESWL, compared with age and gender-matched people who had undergone nonsurgical treatment.

Illinois adopted a policy of “ mandated choice ” in 2006, which requires driver's license registrants to answer the question “ Do you want to be an organ donor ?” Illinois has a registration rate of 60 percent compared to 38 percent nationally.

A 2006 study by UCLA estimates that approximately 7. 6 % of the city's population, or almost 14, 000 people, are openly homosexual or bisexual, compared to just 3. 7 %, or just over 60, 000 people, for the metropolitan area as a whole.

A 15-year study of elderly men published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2006 found a 50 percent reduction in cardiovascular mortality and a 47 percent reduction in all-cause mortality for the men regularly consuming the most cocoa, compared to those consuming the least cocoa from all sources.