According to the modern theory of plate tectonics, their formation is a result of a continental collision or orogeny along the convergent boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.

According to Record and Hess, all of the mahogany of continental North and South America can be considered as one botanical species, Swietenia macrophylla King.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Hakodate's climate is a humid subtropical climate, but is close to both an oceanic climate and a humid continental climate.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Asahikawa features a humid continental climate ( Dfb ) with warm summers and very cold and snowy winters.

According to Wilhelm Lauer & Peter Frankenberg climate classification subtropical zone divided into three parts: hoch-continental ( high-continental ), kontinental ( continental ) and maritim ( maritime ).

According to the theory of plate tectonics, which has been extensively confirmed over the past 40 years, the Earth's crust consists of lighter " sial " rocks ( continental crust rich in aluminium silicates ) that float on heavier " sima " rocks ( oceanic crust richer in magnesium silicates ).

According to historian Oliver M. Dickerson, " The actual separation of the continental colonies from the rest of the Empire dates from the creation of this independent administrative board.

According to the Old English poem Widsith Offa ruled over the continental Angels.

According to the best estimates of the time, continental Spain had an estimated population of between 10 and 11 million, while the overseas provinces had a combined population of around 15 to 16 million.

According to one reference, continental European pets get the implant in the left side of the neck.

According to the proponents of this concept, the role of money and economic values, political opinions, and moralistic control mechanisms would be eliminated altogether if and when this form of social control should ever be implemented in a continental area endowed with enough natural resources, technically trained personnel, and installed industrial equipment.

According to his friend William Powell Frith he was member of the group, but since it was most active while he was in continental Europe, his involvement was probably short-lived.

According to NASA, the Japanese island Kitaio Jima was predicted to have the best viewing conditions featuring both longer viewing time ( being the closest point of land to the point of greatest eclipse ) and lower cloud cover statistics than all of continental Asia.

According to James McClain, " On each of those two occasions the Mongols gained a toehold on Japanese soil, but then kamikaze, a " divine wind ", supposedly stirred up by Japan's protective deities, ravaged the invasion fleets and forced the Mongols back to their continental bases.

According to some authors, the Caledonian continental collisions involved another microcontinent, Armorica ( southern Portugal, most of the north of France and parts of southern Germany and the Czech Republic ), even smaller than Avalonia.

According to a 2007 assessment, Afghanistan has significant amounts of undiscovered non-fuel mineral resources.

According to ISO / IEC 27001, the stage immediately after completion of the risk assessment phase consists of preparing a Risk Treatment Plan, which should document the decisions about how each of the identified risks should be handled.

According to Cochrane Review, routine ultrasound in early pregnancy ( less than 24 weeks ) appears to enable better gestational age assessment, earlier detection of multiple pregnancies and earlier detection of clinically unsuspected fetal malformation at a time when termination of pregnancy is possible.

According to psychologist Terence Hines, the scientific community dismisses tetrodotoxin as the cause of this state, and Davis ' assessment of the nature of the reports of Haitian zombies is viewed as overly credulous.

" According to the CBD, Kempthorne's regulations violated the Endagered Species Act, " did not go through the required public review process " and " were rushed by the Bush administration through an abbreviated process " with " environmental impacts were analyzed in a short and cursory environmental assessment, rather than a fuller environmental impact statement.

According to the council's comparative assessment of wards made in 2004, the most deprived wards within the borough were in the south and east where unemployment rates, educational attainment and the quality of health were worst.

According to the United States Federal Maritime Commission, in an assessment in 2001, this appears to have opened up substantial competitive activity in ocean shipping, with beneficial economic results.

According to the American Music Therapy Association Standards of Clinical Practice assessments should include the “ general categories of psychological, cognitive, communicative, social, and physiological functioning focusing on the client ’ s needs and strengths … and will also determine the client ’ s response to music, music skills, and musical preferences ” The result of the assessment is used to create an individualized music therapy intervention plan.

According to ISA315 Understanding the Entity and its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement, " the auditor should perform risk assessment procedures to obtain an understanding of the entity and its environment, including its internal control.

According to HK Inland Revenue Ordinance IRO s5B, all property owners shall not be subject to this tax ; unless the HK property owner has received a consideration, the example is rental income for the year of assessment.

According to Launay ( 1999 ), " he validity of the technique for research and clinical assessment is now established ;" it is only the use in guilt-determination proceedings that is inappropriate.

According to the UNESCO website, this is their " action to provide people with the skills and abilities for critical reception, assessment and use of information and media in their professional and personal lives.

According to a 2006 provincial assessment provided by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan ( UNAMA ).

According to the Academic Exchange Quarterly: " Studies of a theoretical or empirical nature ( including case studies, portfolio studies, exploratory, or experimental work ) addressing the assessment of learner aptitude and preparation, motivation and learning styles, learning outcomes in achievement and satisfaction in different educational contexts are all welcome, as are studies addressing issues of measurable standards and benchmarks ".

According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary the word assessment comes from the root word assess which is defined as:

According to Zenkovsky ’ s assessment of Kirill ’ s heritage: “ Cyril, Bishop of Turov, was probably the most accomplished master of Orthodox theology and the Byzantine style of writing.

According to David Schimmelpenninck Van Der Oye's assessment, Przhevalsky's books on Central Asia feature his disdain for the Oriental — particularly the Chinese — civilization.

According to the assessment of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Brusilov was one of the seven outstanding fighting commanders of World War I, the others being Falkenhayn, Ludendorff, Mustapha Kemal, Plumer, Monash and Allenby.

According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ( AACAP ), children who exhibit signs of reactive attachment disorder need a comprehensive psychiatric assessment and individualized treatment plan.

According to Dr Ruickbie, Valiente was the ' Mother of Modern Witchcraft ', playing a crucial role in re-writing much of Gardner's original ritual material, an assessment supported by Ronald Hutton.

According to the assessment of the « RaitOR » independent rating agency in 2006, The Peoples ’ Friendship University of Russia was one of the three best universities in the specialties « Management » and « Economics ».

According to Mapes, Hodges agreed with CBS's assessment that the documents were real, and CBS reported that Hodges stated that these were " the things that Killian had expressed to me at the time.

According to regulations, any teachers teaching English language or Putonghua ( a. k. a. Mandarin Chinese ) in Hong Kong, where Cantonese Chinese is mostly spoken, must have passed the LPAT, i. e. achieved a grade of not lower than Level 3 in each part of the assessment.

According to this viewpoint instructors should see assessment as a continuous and interactive process that measures the achievement of the learner, the quality of the learning experience and courseware.

According to WHO, " Pharmacovigilance activities are done to monitor detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of any obnoxious adverse reactions to drugs at therapeutic concentration that is used or is intended to be used to modify or explore physiological system or pathological states for the benefit of recipient.

According to William Ringler's study, Stephen Gosson, the theater business in London had become a thriving enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a thoroughly bad business.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage.

According to Philippoff, the recoverable shear S is given by Af where **yc is the angle of extinction.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to the definition by IUPAC, the former two are alkanes, whereas the third group is called cycloalkanes.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

According to the estimate of a former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, 55 percent of Armenia's GDP is controlled by 44 families.

According to official figures, Armenia ’ s economy grew by 13. 8 percent in 2007.

According to research funded by the USAID CAPS project, Armenia's exceptionally high rate of economic growth during the last decade has been largely dependent on external factors ( e. g., remittances, assistance from international financial and donor organization ).

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 the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

According to official Armenian statistics, it rose by 11 percent to $ 91. 6 million in January – November 2010.

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

According to Arminius, " God regards no one in Christ unless they are engrafted in him by faith.