According to Autodata, in 2006 Chrysler, Honda, and Toyota comprised 72 % of the United States minivan market.

According to Honda and Shimozu ( The Beauty of Fired Clay: Ceramics from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, 1997 ), the Lao kilns are similar to the Siamese types found at Suphanburi and Si Satchanalai.

According to Honda Australia's boss, Yasuhide Mizuno, the City will compete with other light sedans such as the Japanese built Toyota Yaris, the Korean-made Holden Barina and the Nissan Tiida ( also Thai ).

According to Honda, horsepower gains were achieved with extensive improvements to the airflow of the intake and exhaust system.

* According to Hasbro at BotCon 2006, along with Ravage, the Jaguar XK, and Rumble, the Honda Civic Si, there was a third rumored Alternator, first referenced in store listings as a Cadillac XLR.

According to Natsuki Takaya in interviews, Tohru Honda was the first character she created for the series, with Yuki and Kyo Sohma soon after.

According to Honda, he previously was the first retail customer of a hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle in the world.

According to our BiKol historian Jose Calleja Reyes, the galleon " Guadalupe " figured both in the galleon trade between Manila and Acapulco and in the defense of the Philippines against Dutch incursion in the naval battle of Playa Honda.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

According to its website, the US National Security Agency ( NSA ) is " a high technology organization ... on the frontiers of communications and data processing ".

According to science and technology historian Bert S. Hall: " It goes without saying, however, that historians bent on special pleading, or simply with axes of their own to grind, can find rich material in these terminological thickets.

According to Myricom, 141 ( 28. 2 %) of the June 2005 TOP500 supercomputers used Myrinet technology.

According to Kurzweil's argument, since growth in so many fields of science and technology depends upon computing power, these improvements translate into exponentially more frequent advances in non-computer sciences like nanotechnology, biotechnology, and materials science.

According to the CIA World Factbook, private telephone companies " offer service in most major cities " via wireless technology, charging " the lowest international rates on the continent ",

According to the BMDO, the research on neutral particle beam accelerators, which was originally funded by the SDIO, could eventually be used to reduce the half-life of nuclear waste products using accelerator-driven transmutation technology.

According to the official linguistic policy of Tanzania, as announced in 1984, Swahili is the language of the social and political sphere as well as primary and adult education, whereas English is the language of secondary education, universities, technology, and higher courts.

According to Technorati, NewScientist. com is the 14th in the list of most-linked-to news organisations and the only science and technology specialist in the top 100.

According to this book at the time of the outbreak of the Crimean War many English industrialists and inventors became interested in military technology and Bessemer himself developed a method for grooving artillery projectiles so that they could spin without the use of rifling in the bore of the gun.

According to the historian of technology Lynn White, these conical and pyramidal designs, much more elaborate than early artistic jumps with rigid parasols in Asia, mark the origin of " the parachute as we know it ".

According to the Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries ( EJISDC ), the information and communications technology ( ICT ) sector had a 1. 1-1. 3 % share of GDP in 2002.

According to the Prose Edda, these warriors settled in northern Europe, where they were accepted as divine kings because of their superior culture and technology.

According to a report from the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, " Israel ranks second only to Russia as a weapons system provider to China and as a conduit for sophisticated military technology, followed by France and Germany.

According to Charlie Wilson's reference, Israel proliferated the sensitive and advance weapon technology to Pakistan, while reverse engineered the Soviet weapons after Israel had confiscated from PLO during the Lebanon war, and channeled these weapons to Mujahedin.

According to this definition, " state of the art " is the process with which a new unique idea is incorporated in any field of technology, literature and architecture.

According to Richard Arnold, NCR Vice President, Retail Industry Marketing, " Experticity's innovative live video technology paired with flexible and robust self-service kiosks from NCR provides retailers with a way to redefine the in-store experience for their customers, while also improving business efficiencies by optimizing staffing resources.

According to its charter, the OIC aims to preserve Islamic social and economic values ; promote solidarity amongst member states ; increase cooperation in social, economic, cultural, scientific, and political areas ; uphold international peace and security ; and advance education, particularly in the fields of science and technology.

According to Richard Rhodes the plans for the atomic bomb, hundreds of tons of nuclear weapons materials, strategic intelligence reports, and the plans for much of the most advanced aviation, electronic, and heavy industrial technology was transferred through Gore Field and East Base in sealed diplomatic containers.

According to the ' Patterns 3 ' report by Universities UK, " The Russell Group and the 1994 Group share many features, but are distinguished chiefly by the fact that most members of the Russell Group have medical schools, and an emphasis on science and technology.

According to an Environmental Research Letters report published in September 2008, " Total power used by information technology equipment in data centers represented about 0. 5 % of world electricity consumption in 2005.

According to economic studies on swinging, the information and communications technology revolution, together with improvements in medicine, has been effective in reducing some of the costs of swinging and hence in increasing the number of swingers.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Bajorans are an ancient species who developed advanced technology prior to the evolution of humanity on Earth.

According to their applications and technology available, antennas generally fall in one of two categories:

According to Dr. Maurice Albertson and Audrey Faulkner, appropriate hard technology is “ engineering techniques, physical structures, and machinery that meet a need defined by a community, and utilize the material at hand or readily available.

According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

According to the principal editor of the journal, Leonard Lewisohn: " Although a number of major Islamic poets easily rival the likes of Dante, Shakespeare and Milton in importance and output, they still enjoy only a marginal literary fame in the West because the works of Arabic and Persian thinkers, writers and poets are considered as negligible, frivolous, tawdry sideshows beside the grand narrative of the Western Canon.

According to one tradition it was Mani himself who invented the unique version of the Syriac script called Manichaean script, which was used in all of the Manichaean works written within the Persian Empire, whether they were in Syriac or Middle Persian, and also for most of the works written within the Uyghur Empire.

According to Pamuk it was a defining character of cultural works from Istanbul after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

According to one view, that of Christian Lindtner, the works definitely written by Nagarjuna are:

According to one Rand biographer, most people first read Rand's works in their " formative years.

According to Sony Pictures, " The objective for our Anonymous program, as stated in the classroom literature, is ' to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to examine the theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works and to formulate their own opinions.

According to Wesleyan understanding, good works were the fruit of one's salvation, not the way in which that salvation was earned.

According to art critic Robert Hughes, van Gogh's late works show an artist at the height of his ability, completely in control and " longing for concision and grace ".

According to the canon of the Classical Greek Sculptor Polykleitos in the 4th century BC, it is one of the most important characteristics of his figurative works and those of his successors, Lysippos, Skopas, etc.

According to the law of most countries ( including all members of the World Trade Organization ), Ravel's works have been in the public domain since January 1, 2008.

According to Vacca and Statius, Lucan's works included:

According to the EIB, in these countries, the institution works to implement the financial pillar of the union's external cooperation and development policies: private sector development, infrastructure development, security of energy supply, environmental sustainability.

According to Professor Anne Beauchemin from McGill University, most Neoimpressionist painters probably did not read Chevreul's books, but instead they read Grammaire des arts du dessin, written in 1867 by Charles Blanc, who cited Chevreul's works.

According to recent research, La rhétorique des dieux may consist of works not composed by Denis Gaultier, or original works by him changed by unknown scribes.

Medieval alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan's Book of Stones According to the Opinion of Balīnās contains an exposition and analysis of views expressed in Arabic occult works attributed to Apollonius.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, " This mystery set in the most infamous Jewish ghetto of World War II deserves a place among the most important works of Holocaust literature.

According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a " Justice League of Victorian England " but quickly grew into an opportunity to merge several works of fiction into one world.

According to Dōgen scholar Steven Heine: " Dogen's poetic and philosophical works are characterized by a continual effort to express the inexpressible by perfecting imperfectable speech through the creative use of wordplay, neologism, and lyricism, as well as the recasting of traditional expressions ".

According to the punk aesthetic, one can express oneself and produce moving and serious works with limited means and technical ability.

According to the later idea of Medusa as a beautiful maiden, whose hair had been changed into snakes by Athena, the head was represented in works of art with a wonderfully handsome face, wrapped in the calm repose of death.

According to George Coedès, the weakening of Angkor's royal government by ongoing war and the erosion of the cult of the devaraja undermined the government's ability to engage in important public works, such as the construction and maintenance of the waterways essential for irrigation of the rice fields upon which Angkor's large population depended for its sustenance.

According to local historians and published works, the wife of a postmaster was a devoted fan of the works of the composer Richard Wagner, and she shared that composer's interest in Norse mythology.