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 Cavalli-Sforza, Ainu are in the same genetic cluster as the " Northeast and East Asian ".

According to this research, genetic markers commonly found in modern humans worldwide suggest that today many people carry a gene that evolved as protection against the brain diseases that can be spread by consuming human brain tissue.

According to genetic studies, divergence of primates from other mammals began and the earliest fossils appear in the Paleocene, around.

According to the Toba catastrophe theory to which some anthropologists and archeologists subscribe, the supereruption of Lake Toba on Sumatra island in Indonesia roughly 70, 000 years ago had global consequences, killing most humans then alive and creating a population bottleneck that affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today.

According to the American Psychological Association ( APA ), there are numerous theories about the origins of a person's sexual orientation, but some believe that " sexual orientation is most likely the result of a complex interaction of environmental, cognitive and biological factors ," and that genetic factors play a " significant role " in determining a person's sexuality.

According to the theory of evolution, genetic variations occur without specific design or intent.

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences, killing most humans then alive and creating a population bottleneck in Central Eastern Africa and India that affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today.

According to these new rules, " mineral species can be grouped in a number of different ways, on the basis of chemistry, crystal structure, occurrence, association, genetic history, or resource, for example, depending on the purpose to be served by the classification.

According to Greenberg, Eurasiatic and Amerind form a genetic node, being more closely related to each other than either is to " the other families of the Old World ".

According to the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine, Tutankhamun was the result of an incestuous relationship and, because of that, may have suffered from several genetic defects that contributed to his early death.

According to Simpson ( 1944 ) quantum evolution relied heavily upon Sewall Wright's theory of random genetic drift.

According to genetic analysis of current species, the divergence of coelacanths, lungfish, and tetrapods is thought to have occurred 390 million years ago.

According to the North American archeological and Aboriginal genetic evidence, North and South America were the last continents in the world with human habitation.

According to the researchers, Nilotes generally form their own Sub-Saharan genetic cluster.

According to a 2008 study by Dutch geneticist Manfred Kayser, French people based on a sample from Lyon, showed genetic similarities to all Europeans especially the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, Italians, and Spaniards.

According to National Organization for Rare Disorders ( NORD ): when phocomelia is transmitted its familial genetic form it is seen as an autosomal recessive trait and the mutation is linked to chromosome 8

According to the most widely-held evolutionary model, the crop was derived directly from Z. m. parviglumis by selection of key mutations ; up to 12 % of its genetic material came from Z. m. mexicana through introgression.

According to the authors, the substantial Northwest African ancestry found for Canary Islanders supports that, despite the aggressive conquest by the Spanish in the 15th century and the subsequent immigration, genetic footprints of the first settlers of the Canary Islands persist in the current inhabitants.

According to the scientists who analysed its genetic code, the western honey bee originated in Africa and spread to Eurasia in two ancient migrations.

According to an article published in The Economist, the work of Cavalli-Sforza " challenges the assumption that there are significant genetic differences between human races, and indeed, the idea that ' race ' has any useful biological meaning at all ".

According to an autosomal DNA genetic study from 2011, the ancestral composition of the population of Porto Alegre is: 77, 70 % European, 12, 70 % African and 9, 60 % Native American.

According to the research, these patrilines have undergone extensive genetic admixture with the Jōmon period populations previously established in Japan.

According to DRB1, DQA1 and DQB1 allele frequencies showed a strong genetic tie between Kurds and Azeris of Iran.

According to the current results, present-day Kurds and Azeris of Iran seem to belong to a common genetic pool.