According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, plastics units now account for more than 50% of all sign sales.

According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

According to recent academics, Athanasius, growing impatient, took a small number of bishops who supported his claim, and held a private consecration making him bishop.

According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13. 75 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the Universe.

According to a recent opinion poll, 39 % of Americans believe the US has a crony capitalist system.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

According to a recent United Nations report, more than 84 percent of Eritreans who have sought asylum around the world have been recognized as refugees deserving asylum status.

According to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, " China has been working with great determination in recent years to develop, implement, and enforce a solid environmental law framework.

According to Rossy, this is proof of the more recent creation of this type of songs, influenced by Castilian jota.

According to the recent single origin hypothesis, anatomically modern humans arose in East Africa approximately 200, 000 years ago.

According to Technorati, the number of blogs doubles about every 6 months with a total of 35. 3 million blogs. This is an example of the early stages of logistic growth, where growth is approximately exponential, since blogs are a recent innovation.

According to recent figures, of an estimated four million POWs taken by the Soviets, including Germans, Japanese, Hungarians, Romanians and others, some 580, 000 never returned, presumably victims of privation or the Gulags.

According to recent historical findings, Kyrgyz history dates back to 201 BC.

According to the official Bulgarian sources, in the period between 2000 to 2006 some 30 000 Macedonian citizens applied for Bulgarian citizenship, attracted by the Bulgaria's recent positive development and the opportunity to get European Union passports after Bulgaria joined EU on the beginning of 2007.

According to the World Bank, Moldova's weighted average tariff rate in 2001 ( the most recent year for which World Bank data are available ) was 2. 8 percent.

According to a recent hypothesis, the Archimedes screw may have been used by Sennacherib, King of Assyria, for the water systems at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and Nineveh in the 7th century BC, although mainstream scholarship holds it to be a Greek invention of later times.

According to recent research, adult Manduca sexta is able to retain the behaviour learned as a caterpillar.

According to this interpretation, Aquinas's influence was such as to affect a number of early translations of these passages in an unfortunate manner, though more recent translations render them more literally.

According to a recent scientific survey, there are dozens of ancient olive trees throughout Israel and Palestine, 1, 600 – 2, 000 years old.

According to recent data, 841 different languages are listed for the country, although 11 of these have no known living speakers.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

According to recent European research, rosemary interferes with the absorption of iron and should not be consumed by those with iron deficiency anemia.

According to History Professor John Boles ' recent book University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute, the first president's original vision for the university included hopes for future medical and law schools.

According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.

According to the article cited, the still classified NSA report is incorrect based on the CIA documents that were declassified which show that Powers ' account of being shot down at altitude was accurate.

According to files declassified by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mrs. Simpson was believed to be a regular guest at Ribbentrop's social gatherings at the German Embassy in London where it was thought the two struck up a romantic relationship.

According to his analysis of thousands of captured Iraqi secret police documents and declassified U. S. government documents, as well as interviews with scores of Kurdish survivors, senior Iraqi defectors and retired U. S. intelligence officers, it is clear that Iraq carried out the attack on Halabja, and that the United States, fully aware of this, accused Iran, Iraq's enemy in a fierce war, of being partly responsible for the attack.

According to a CIA document declassified in 2000 and publicised by the National Security Archive, Michael Townley, the DINA international agent responsible for the murder of Orlando Letelier, a member of Salvador Allende's government, in Washington DC, 1976, was in contact with Spaggiari.

According to a heavily redacted declassified version of the summary, it was apparently judged by lab weapons experts that the team had come up with a credible design for the technically more challenging implosion style nuclear weapon.

According to secret information declassified in 2010, Ruth Fischer was a key agent of the American intelligence service known as " The Pond ".

According to the National Security Archive: " Among the documents found in the training files of Operation PBSUCCESS and declassified by the Agency is a CIA document titled ' A Study of Assassination.

According to a declassified cable, an estimate by the Argentine 601st Intelligence Battalion in mid-July 1978 ( which started counting victims in 1975 ) produced a figure of 22, 000 persons killed or " disappeared "– this document was first published by John Dinges in 2004.

According to declassified transcripts of a United States National Security Council meeting on 2 June 1967, Secretary of State Dean Rusk was interrupted by CIA Director Richard Helms that he had reliable information – contrary to Rusk ’ s presentation – that the Israelis would attack on a certain day and time.

According to the declassified April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate, " United States-led counterterrorism efforts have seriously damaged the leadership of Al-Qaeda and disrupted its operations ; however, we judge that al-Qa ’ ida will continue to pose the greatest threat to the Homeland and US interests abroad by a single terrorist organization.

According to partially declassified MI5 documents released 2004 in the British National Archives, MI6 hid Kopkow in order to utilize his knowledge further.

According to human rights organizations, his sentence was unjustified, because Danilov provided documents to the court showing that all the " secret information " has been in fact declassified.

According to the government, the reports had been inadvertently declassified.

According to declassified US intelligence reports, Hudal was not the only priest helping Nazi escapees at this time.

According to MI5, the German weapons were similarly ingenious as those invented by Britain's Special Operations Executive, detailed in a series of files which had already been declassified in 1999.

According to sociologist Marcelo Ridenti, Brazilian politics is divided between internationalistic liberals and statist nationalistics.

According to an estimate by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), 40 % of all Brazilian arms transfers from 1985 to 1989 went to Iraq.

According to the Constitution, the President has ultimate authority over foreign policy, while Congress is tasked with reviewing and considering all diplomatic nominations and international treaties, as well as legislation relating to Brazilian foreign policy.

According to Brazilian law, BCG is given again to professionals of the health sector and to people close to patients with tuberculosis or leprosy.

According to South American mythology the belief of the Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the earth.

According to Forbes and the Guinness Book, the richest model in the world is Brazilian Gisele Bündchen

According to the Brazilian Civil Code and public registry act, the name given at birth is definitive and immutable.

According to the 2010 Census, the city population is 1, 080, 999, making it the fourteenth most populous Brazilian city and the third in the São Paulo state.

According to the results, Corinthians was preferred by 13. 2 % to 14 % of the Brazilian population, which represents approximately 24 to 26 millions fans in Brazil.

According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics census 2006, some 42. 6 % of the Brazilians have identified themselves as pardo.

According to Francoeur, the Brazilian Bororo Indians eschew missionary, finding it insulting for either partner to be above the other during sex.

According the 2010 Brazilian Census, the city has a population of 487, 320 people, making it the sixth most populous city in the state of Rio de Janeiro and the 39th most populous in the country.

According to transcripts published in the Brazilian national weekly Isto É, when Assumpcão told Gomes dos Santos that Brazilian Senator Gilberto Miranda might block the Raytheon contract, Gomes dos Santos responded, " Damn, did you already pay this guy ?".

According Mexican Energy Minister Georgina Kessel, Mexico may seek to emulate Brazilian Oil rules that strengthened Petroleo Brasileiro SA as it considers regulation changes to revive the oil industry.

According to the 5th Article, section XXXVI of Brazilian Constitution, laws cannot have " ex post facto " effects that affect acquired rights, accomplished juridical acts and res judicata.

According to an article in the New York Sun, Chavezism was rejected in recent elections in Peru, Colombia and Mexico, and El Universal reports that former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva distanced himself from Chavezism, saying that Brazil is not Venezuela, and has traditional institutions.

According to the latest data from the IBGE survey of the city of St. Louis has a GDP of R $ 9, 340, 944, 000. 00 to 29 and thus the national economy from over 5, 560 Brazilian municipalities, and occupying the 14th position among the capitals.

According to the proposed deal, RBS would take over ABN's Chicago operations, LaSalle, and ABN's wholesale operations ; while Banco Santander would take the Brazilian operations and Fortis, the Dutch operations.

According to the Brazilian Association of Convention and Fair Centers ( ABRACCEF ), on average, there are 17, 500 events happening in the 53 main convention and exhibition centres of Brazil.

According to IBGE ( Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ), Limeira has a GDP of R $ 5. 6 billion ( 2010 ), around U $ 3. 6 billion.

According to IBGE ( Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ), pardo is a broad classification that encompasses Multiracial Brazilians such as mulatos, caboclos and cafuzos, and assimilated Amerindians, also called caboclos.

According to German documents, the Brazilian Navy attacked German submarines U-boats a total of 66 times.

According to the Brazilian Law, the Barrister can also be called as Doutor ( Doctor ).

According to the descriptions of Yoshiaki Omura, Brazilian psychic surgery appears to be different from that practiced in the Philippines.