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 surveys, some of the most common fears are of ghosts, the existence of evil powers, cockroaches, spiders, snakes, heights, water, enclosed spaces, tunnels, bridges, needles, social rejection, failure, examinations and public speaking.

According to ' The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora ' ( published in 2006 ), " independent surveys approximate the number of South Asians on work permits to be between 30-35 per cent of the total ' Indian ' population in Singapore, or approximately 90, 000-100, 000.

According to surveys, uranium is also found in large quantities in the Buurhakaba region.

According to several surveys from 2006 to 2008, Zurich was named the city with the best quality of life in the world as well as the wealthiest city in Europe.

According to the University of Pennsylvania rankings – a result of surveys from 1500 scholars and peer review evaluation – the Center for Economic and Social Development ( CESD ) is one of the top 25 think tanks in Central and Eastern Europe, including CIS.

According to surveys, it is common for people to feel their dreams are predicting subsequent life events.

According to surveys conducted internationally by the World Bank for their World Development Report 2011, by far the most common reason people suggest as a motive for joining gangs is unemployment.

According to the original surveys of Illinois, in the early 19th century, the Lusk's Ferry Road ran through the middle of what is now Royalton, heading on a diagonal line toward the southeast.

According to surveys conducted in 2006 by the Arts Council of Southern Oregon, the city sees a 30 – 50 % increase in sales and visitors during the event.

According to U. S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges index, " In guidebooks and surveys by U. S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and others, SU consistently ranks in the top 10 percent of public and private institutions nationwide.

According to population surveys conducted in British Mandate Palestine, Beisan consisted of 5, 080 Muslim Arabs out of a population of 5, 540 ( 92 % of the population ), with the remainder being listed as Christians.

According to polls / surveys conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( Canada's public broadcaster ), Tommy Douglas has been consistently voted as " The Most Important Canadian " for three years in a row.

According to the surveys of Phil Zuckerman on Adherents. com in 1993 ; there was 59 % ( over 700 million ) of the Chinese population was irreligious and 8 % – 14 % was atheist ( from over 100 to 180 million ) as of 2005.

According to several surveys, the augmentation of a prescribed SSRI with bupropion is the preferred strategy among clinicians when the patient does not respond to the SSRI.

According to surveys carried out by TNS Emor, the party has lost all its support ( 0 % in April and May 2012 ).

According to Ballard's underwater surveys in recent years the British guns achieved only four penetrations of Bismarcks armour, two through the upper armour belt on the starboard side from King George V and two on the port side from Rodney.

According to MDOT's surveys in 2009, the highest traffic counts were 12, 547 cars and 999 trucks along the freeway immediately south of I-94 near Jackson ; the lowest AADT was the 2601 cars and 384 trucks west of Union City.

According to surveys the most prominent television presenter in the country is former alpine skiier Armin Assinger who is the host of the " Millionen-Show ", Austria's version of Who wants to be a millionaire.

According to IDC surveys, employees " often feel that IM gives their workdays the kind of ' flow ' that they feel when sitting directly among their colleagues, being able to ask questions of them, and getting the kind of quick responses that allow them to drive on to the next task.

According to the District surveys the areas of the two Provinces are, in square miles: Agra, 83, 198 ; Oudh, 23, 966 ; total, 107, 164.

According to surveys done by sectools. org, Nessus is the world's most popular vulnerability scanner, taking first place in the 2000, 2003, and 2006 security tools survey.

According to the report, nationally representative surveys conducted by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in 2005 to 2007 found that 42 to 49 percent of HSA-eligible plan enrollees did not open HSAs in those years.

According to 1 Kings 12. c 26 – 30, Jeroboam surveys the pious rituals of the Israelites relative to sacrifices.

According to IANDS, surveys ( conducted in USA, Australia and Germany ) suggest that 4 to 15 % of the population have had NDEs.