According to a 2004 study of NPD sales data, the Sega Genesis was able to maintain its lead over the Super NES in the American 16-bit console market.

According to NPD Group, Network Transmission sold 30, 224 copies in North America, making it the eighth best-selling GameCube game in the region for the month of June 2003.

According to the NPD Group, up to end of November 2011 Point-and-shoot cameras took 44 percent of photos, down from 52 percent in 2010, while camera-equipped smartphones took 27 percent of photos in 2011, up from 17 percent.

According to NPD Group, the game sold just under 80, 000 copies in North America during the month of June 2005.

According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, preparations that include more than five percent of crude coal tar are Group 1 carcinogen.

According to a report by the Hennessee Group, hedge funds were approximately one-third less volatile than the S & P 500 between 1993 and 2010.

According to government filings, Oracle is one of the Ashcroft Group ’ s five clients that seek his help in selling data or software with security applications.

Latvia is ranked the 21st in the world by the Ease of Doing Business Index prepared by the World Bank Group, According to the Human Development Report 2011, Latvia belongs to the group of very high human development countries.

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 the 2009 Syria Report of the Oxford Business Group, the oil sector accounted for 23 % of government revenues, 20 % of exports, and 22 % of GDP in 2008.

According to the Intranet design annual 2007 from Nielsen Norman Group, the number of pages on participants ' intranets averaged 200, 000 over the years 2001 to 2003 and has grown to an average of 6 million pages over 2005 – 2007.

According to Gerry / Gerald Butters, the former head of Lucent's Optical Networking Group at Bell Labs, there is another version, called Butter's Law of Photonics, a formulation which deliberately parallels Moore's law.

According to The Vanguard Group, " While there ’ s no agreed-upon definition of a bear market, one generally accepted measure is a price decline of 20 % or more over at least a two-month period.

According to cooperative economist Charles Gide, the aim of a cooperative wholesale society is to arrange “ bulk purchases, and, if possible, organise production .” The best historical example of this were the English CWS and the Scottish CWS, which were the forerunners to the modern Co-operative Group.

According to The Vanguard Group, a well run S & P 500 index fund should have a tracking error of 5 basis points or less, but a Morningstar survey found an average of 38 basis points across all index funds.

According to the New Jersey Department of Education, Ridgewood is a socioeconomic District Factor Group of J, the highest of eight categories.

According to the ' Patterns 3 ' report by Universities UK, " The Russell Group and the 1994 Group share many features, but are distinguished chiefly by the fact that most members of the Russell Group have medical schools, and an emphasis on science and technology.

According to CIMB Group Holdings, Islamic finance is the fastest-growing segment of the global financial system and sales of Islamic bonds may rise by 24 percent to $ 25 billion in 2010.

According to a study by the Aberdeen Group, there has been increasing interest in Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) business intelligence over the past years, with twice as many organizations using this deployment approach as one year ago – 15 % in 2009 compared to 7 % in 2008.

According to the white paper by the Business Rules Group, a statement of a business rule falls into one of four categories:

According to orders dated September 17, 1943, October found Butch O ' Hare as Commander Air Group ( CAG ) commanding Air Group Six, embarked on.

According to the report, a 15-member panel, called the Special Study Group, was set up in 1963 to examine what problems would occur if the United States entered a state of lasting peace.

According to the Maritime VSAT report issued by the Comsys Group their research shows that stabilised maritime VSAT services ( not including oil & gas rigs ) reached more than $ 400 million in 2007.

According to the World Wide Web Consortium Technical Architecture Group, " any attempt to forbid the practice of deep linking is based on a misunderstanding of the technology, and threatens to undermine the functioning of the Web as a whole ".

According to the one of Iran analyst's of International Crisis Group ( a NGO founded in 1995 by World Bank Vice-President and former US diplomats ), " Kurds, who live in the some of the least developed parts of Iran, pose the most serious internal problem for Iran to resolve, and given what they see next door — the newfound confidence of Iraqi Kurds — there's concern Iranian Kurds will agitate for greater autonomy.

According to biographies preserved by Ibn al-Nadim and the Persian polymath al-Biruni, he allegedly received a revelation as a youth from a spirit, whom he would later call his Twin ( Aramaic Tauma ( תאומא ), from which is also derived the name of the apostle Thomas, the " twin "), his Syzygos ( Greek for " partner ", in the Cologne Mani-Codex ), his Double, his Protective Angel or ' Divine Self '.

According to the Double the Fist website, he is on the run from multiple taxation agencies.

According to Goldman, on the day Lennon was murdered he was scheduled to undergo plastic surgery several days later to repair his nasal septum ( due to snorting cocaine, which he supposedly did at the Hit Factory recording studio where he recorded his album Double Fantasy ).

According to Kalodner's web site, the phrase " John Kalodner: John Kalodner " originated with Foreigner's 1978 Double Vision album, when the album's producer, Keith Olsen, was wondering just how to credit Kalodner's involvement with the band and the album.

According to Vicky Ward, in " Double Exposure ", " In fact, in the spring 2003, Plame was in the process of moving from NOC status to State Department cover.

According to Mike Dash, a Welsh historian, few scientists doubt there are thousands of unknown animals, particularly invertebrates, awaiting discovery ; however, cryptozoologists are largely uninterested in researching and cataloging newly-discovered species of ants or beetles, instead focusing their efforts towards " more elusive " creatures that have often defied decades of work aimed at confirming their existence.

According to the February 15, 1985 edition of the Official Airline Guide ( OAG ), Eastern Airlines was flying Boeing 727-100 and Douglas DC-9-50 jet service, Republic Airlines was operating Douglas DC-9-10, DC-9-30 and DC-9-50 jets, United Airlines was flying Boeing 727-100 jetliners and Delta Connection, operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines ( ASA ), was flying deHavilland Canada DHC-7 " Dash 7 " and Shorts 360 turboprops on the route.

" By the mid 2000s, bikinis had become a $ 811 million business annually, according to the NPD Group, a consumer and retail information company.

Systemax, Publishers Clearing House and NPD Group are among the companies based in Port Washington.

In 2002, Super Mario Sunshine was the tenth best-selling game in the United States according to the NPD Group.

The Personality and Personality Disorders Work Group originally proposed the elimination of NPD as a distinct disorder in DSM-5 as part of a major revamping of the diagnostic criteria for personality disorders, replacing a categorical with a dimensional approach based on the severity of dysfunctional personality trait domains.

The U. S. sales of milkshakes, malts and floats rose 11 % in 2006, according to the industry research firm NPD Group.

About 90, 000 copies of Pilotwings 64 were sold in its first few days on sale in the country, putting the game at number four on the NPD Group sales charts for that September.

* NPD Group, a sales and market research company ( formerly National Purchase Diary )

Despite its critical reception, NPD Group data shows that Superman was a top seller in North America during the month of June 1999.

Despite its critical reception, NPD Group data shows that Superman was a top seller in North America during the month of June 1999.

A subsidiary of Coinstar Inc., Redbox had 34. 5 % market share of discs rented, as of Q2 2011, as stated by the NPD Group.

As of Q2 2011, kiosks currently have 36 percent of the disc rental market, with 38 percent to rent-by-mail services and 25 percent to traditional stores, according to the NPD Group.

* NPD Group, Inc. reports that Electronic Arts ranks 1st in third-party video game publishing in the USA, ahead of Infogrames Entertainment SA.

Citing a NPD Group study finding that 39 percent of consumers switching antiviruses blamed performance, a CPU usage meter will be available within the final product to allow users to find the cause of high CPU usage, whether it be Norton or another program.

The NPD Group reported that the game was " the third most played massively multiplayer role-playing game 2010 " with Turbine citing their free to play model as the reason for the growing subscriber base.

In February 2002, the NPD Group listed it as the third top-selling PC game of 2001 after being available for only two months in North America.

Figures released by The NPD Group show the PlayStation 2 version as the tenth best-selling single-platform title of 2005.

It placed sixth in overall sales for, according to the NPD Group.

It ranked tenth in the top ten racing titles for June 2000 according to the NPD Group, however sales did not continue to hold strong.

By the end of 2006 the game had sold approximately 1. 1 million units in the US according to NPD Group.

) Steve Baker, vice president of industry analysis for NPD Group, comments that " It's a case of be careful of what you ask for.

* NPD Group, a marketing firm, estimates 50 % to 70 %