According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

According to RFE / RL, comparable sums are believed to be transferred through non-bank systems, implying that cash remittances make up approximately 30 percent of Armenia's GDP in the first half of 2008.

According to the ROA National Statistical Service, the average monthly salary during January-June 2008 is 86, 850 drams ( about $ 287 at the time ).

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

According to Gislason and Craig ( 2005 ): " Most thermodynamic data come from calorimetry ..." According to Kondepudi ( 2008 ): " Calorimetry is widely used in present day laboratories.

According to Nielsen ( 2008 ) a dictionary may be regarded as a lexicographical product that is characterised by three significant features: ( 1 ) it has been prepared for one or more functions ; ( 2 ) it contains data that have been selected for the purpose of fulfilling those functions ; and ( 3 ) its lexicographic structures link and establish relationships between the data so that they can meet the needs of users and fulfill the functions of the dictionary.

According to a 2008 article in The Wall Street Journal, Dartmouth graduates also earn higher median salaries at least 10 years after graduation than alumni of any other American university surveyed.

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

According to the same index series, even " dedicated short bias " funds had a return of − 6. 08 % during September 2008.

According to Lipper, the average US domestic equity mutual fund decreased 37. 6 % in 2008.

According to a Cornell University press release from January 2009, the 2008 – 09 season will be the last Cornell-sponsored search, absent confirmation of the bird:

According to research, the vulture population has undergone a sharp decline on the Indian subcontinent, 95 % decline in 2004, 99. 9 % decline as of 2008 due to the use of diclofenac in animals.

According to the UNODC, by 2008, murder rates in Kosovo had dropped by 75 % in five years.

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Mexico had 16 companies in the list.

According to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund estimates, real GDP growth reduced from 8 % to 2. 7 % in 2009, and exports shrunk 26 % from $ 2. 5Bn to $ 1. 9Bn after a promisingly steady increase up until 2008.

According to Chékarou Bagoudou, Chief of the Division of Road Safety and Security of the Nigerien Ministry of Transport, there were 4338 officially reported road accidents in 2008, with 7443 victims, of which 616 were killed.

According to OHCHR, the Oromia Support Group ( OSG ) recorded 594 extra-judicial killings of Oromos by Ethiopian government security forces and 43 disappearances in custody between 2005 and August 2008.

According to an Environmental Working Group analysis of USDA and FDA pesticide residue tests performed from 2000 through 2008, 84 % of the 2, 216 tested potato samples contained detectable traces of at least one pesticide.

According to their initial announcement in 2008, PS 2. 0 is to exist in tandem with the printed version, while allowing more rapid updating of hosting information and networking features.

According to Beverage Digests 2008 report on carbonated soft drinks, PepsiCo's U. S. market share is 30. 8 percent, while The Coca-Cola Company's is 42. 7 percent.

According to the Colombian government, FARC-EP had an estimated 6, 000 – 8, 000 members in 2008, down from 16, 000 in 2001, having lost much of their fighting force since President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002.

According to Hume, the creative faculty makes use of ( at least ) four mental operations which produce imaginings out of sense-impressions.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

According to his memoir, the combined pressures of managing the production company as well as supervising its day-to-day operations had greatly worsened as it grew much larger, and he felt compelled to seek outlets to alleviate the stress.

According to Alex Dupuy, Chair of African American Studies and John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University the ability of Haiti to adequately manage the mining operations or to obtain and use funds obtained from the operations for the benefit of its people is untested and seriously questioned.

According to CIA officer Duane " Dewey " Claridge, chief of operations of the CIA Near East Division from 1975 to 1978, in mid-1976, Salameh offered Americans assistance and protection with Arafat's blessings during the American embassy pull-out from Beirut during the down-spiraling chaos of the Lebanese Civil War.

According to current Good Manufacturing Practice ( GMP ), medical device manufacturers have the responsibility to use good judgment when developing their quality system and apply those sections of the FDA Quality System ( QS ) Regulation that are applicable to their specific products and operations, in Part 820 of the QS regulation.

According to Andrew, Mitrokhin says during the following three years the KGB handpicked several dozen Sandinistas for intelligence and sabotage operations in the United States.

According to the U. S. Office of Management and Budget and Homeland Security Research Corporation, DHS Homeland security funding constitutes only 20-21 % of the consolidated U. S. Homeland Security-Homeland Defense funding, while approximately 40 % of the DHS budget funds civil, non-security activities, such as the U. S. coast guard search and rescue operations and customs functions.

According to the Estonian Security Police, Russian influence operations in Estonia form a complex system of financial, political, economic and espionage activities in Republic of Estonia for the purposes of influencing Estonia's political and economic decisions in ways considered favourable to Russian Federation and conducted under the doctrine of near abroad.

According to one report, no operations have been carried out since 2000, although the Victorian Psychosurgery Review Board dealt with 3 applications between 2006 and 2008.

According to former CIA Director Richard M. Helms: " The code names for most Agency operations are picked in sequence from a sterile list, with care taken not to use any word that might give a clue to the activity it covers.

According to its abstract, it specifies interindustry commands for integrated circuit cards ( either with contacts or without contacts ) that may be used for cryptographic operations.

According to the U. K. National Health Service, the use of osteopathy is not always based on science, and there is no good evidence that osteopathy is effective for any health condition other than back pain and helping recovery after hip or knee operations.

According to a news release on northamericanair. com, " What makes NAA's scheduled service operations untenable is the rising cost of fuel, with jet fuel costs increasing 60 percent since 2005.

According to authorities there are as many as eight of the clinics in Scioto County alone, the largest concentration of such operations per capita in any of Ohio's counties.

According to the City of Lakewood website, The Lakewood Police Department started independent police and patrol operations on November 1, 2004.

Some members of the DPS were present in covert operations in Zaire ( 1997 and 2001 ), Madagascar ( in 2002, Didier Ratsiraka called for some mercenaries to resolve the political crisis ), Côte d ' Ivoire ( 2001 – 2003 ) According to the Voltaire network, the DPS had been created with the help of Jacques Foccart and François de Grossouvre ( leader of the French branch of Gladio, NATO's secret armies ) after the dissolving of the Service d ' Action Civique ( SAC ) &.

According to the conventions of war at the time, the military operations should be halted during the winter until the return of the spring.

According to Günther Blumetritt, his former chief of operations, he opposed Hitler's plans.

According to David Graeber, this upswell in the use of humorous protest tactics can be traced in part to the Yippies of the 1960s and the Zapatista which began operations in the 1990s.

According to political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, who is credited with inventing the phrase " Davos Man ", they are people who " have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the élite's global operations ".

According to legend they were promised provisions and offered the island of Ruoihm ( as originally spelt by Nennius )-now known as the Isle of Thanet-in perpetuity to use as a base for their operations.

According to one report, the company had lost some on refining operations since 2009 ; an earlier report provided a figure of.