According the International Water Management Institute and UNEP, well-managed agroecosystems not only provide food, fibre and animal products, they also provide services such as flood mitigation, groundwater recharge, erosion control and habitats for plants, birds fish and other animals.

According to the Government of Canada's Management Plan for gray whales, threats to the eastern North Pacific population of gray whales include:

* According to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ( CSCMP ), supply chain management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing, procurement, conversion, and logistics management.

According to Homeland security research, the U. S. federal Homeland Security and Homeland Defense includes 187 federal agencies and departments, including the United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the 14 agencies that constitute the U. S. intelligence community and Civil Air Patrol.

According to the U. S. Office of Management and Budget and Homeland Security Research Corporation, DHS Homeland security funding constitutes only 20-21 % of the consolidated U. S. Homeland Security-Homeland Defense funding, while approximately 40 % of the DHS budget funds civil, non-security activities, such as the U. S. coast guard search and rescue operations and customs functions.

According to the Department of Transportation's Freight Management and Operations section's studies, railroad industry costs and prices were halved over a ten year period, the railroads reversed their historic loss of traffic ( as measured by ton-miles ) to the trucking industry, and railroad industry profits began to recover after decades of low profits and widespread railroad insolvencies.

According to the Council of Logistics Management, logistics contains the integrated planning, control, realization and monitoring of all internal and network-wide material -, part-and product flow including the necessary information flow in industrial and trading companies along the complete value-added chain ( and product life cycle ) for the purpose of conforming to customer requirements.

According to the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute that undertake an annual quantitative survey about electronic monitoring and surveillance with approximately 300 U. S. companies, “ more than one fourth of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail and nearly one third have fired employees for misusing the Internet “.

According to the United States Department of the interior-Bureau of Land Management, in a letter from Mr William H. Richards, Director and Chief, Branch of Surveys, in his letter to Karl Starkweather dated April 29, 1954, he states that upon inspection of the tract books held by the Bureau: " Of interest to you personally are the notations of the CASH entries Nos.

According to the Washington State Office of Financial Management, Battle Ground ranked 4th of 279 eligible incorporated communities in population growth between 2000 and 2005.

According to the Washington State Office of Financial Management, Issaquah ranked 6th of 279 eligible incorporated communities in population growth between 2000 and 2005.

According to the Washington State Office of Financial Management, Moxee ranked 5th of 279 eligible incorporated communities in population growth between 2000 and 2005.

According to the city's Department of Natural Resources and Resource Use Management, as of 2007 the city has 125 fountain groups or isolated fountains.

According to the Committee, Ahtisaari and his group, Crisis Management Initiative ( CMI ), also contributed to resolving other conflicts in Northern Ireland, Central Asia, and the Horn of Africa.

According to another simple definition: Software Configuration Management is how you control the evolution of a software project.

According to and article published in Volume 21, Issue 5, of the European Management Journal titled Learning in Online Forums, they conducted a series of researches about online learning, and they found that while strong online learning is a bit more difficult to form, it is still quite conducive to educational learning.

According to the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, a major study led by the International Water Management Institute, managing rainwater and soil moisture more effectively, and using supplemental and small-scale irrigation, hold the key to helping the greatest number of poor people.

According to the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan, a cost audit is " an examination of cost accounting records and verification of facts to ascertain that the cost of the product has been arrived at, in accordance with principles of cost accounting.

According to the Temple Management Committee's website, the chief priest is Bhikkhu Chalinda.

According to Ode, " In the field of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability, David leads the movement towards a more sustainable future, as manifested in many international forums and gatherings, such as the Global Forum ' Business as an Agent of World Benefit: Management Knowledge Leading Positive Change '".

According to the Minnesota Management and Budget Department, general-fund expenditures from 2004 to 2011 increased an average of 3. 5 percent per two-year term, compared to an average of 21. 1 percent from 1960 to 2003 ( these numbers, however, are not inflation-adjusted ).

According to the Product Development and Management Association ( PDMA ), superior and differentiated new products — ones that deliver unique benefits and superior value to the customer — is the number one driver of success and product profitability.

According to The Economist, one of the best studies to understand TRIA has been the one undertaken in 2005 by the Center for Risk Management at the Wharton Business School (" TRIA and Beyond "; available on their website below ).

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research ( CEPR ), the period from 1980 – 2005 has seen diminished progress in terms of economic growth, life expectancy, infant and child mortality, and to a lesser extent education.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

According to the National Center for Victims of Crime a large proportion of rape committed in the United States is perpetrated by a family member:

According to the American Productivity & Quality Center (" APQC ") there are basic principles an organization can develop to encourage and reward innovation.

According to the U. S. National Center for Health Statistics, as well as a 2006 series in the Charleston ( West Virginia ) Gazette, medical examiners listed methadone as contributing to 3, 849 deaths in 2004.

According to the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing,

According to Mark Potok, director of Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, his organization tracked another 60 domestic smaller-scale terrorism plots from 1995 to 2005.

According to Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer, spiritual leader of Temple Israel Community Center in Cliffside Park and former executive editor of Jewish Week, this leaves “ Orthodox ” as “ an umbrella term that designates a very widely disparate group of people very loosely tied together by some core beliefs .”

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon changed the focus of the racial profiling debate from street crime and “ driving while Black ” to terrorism and “ flying while Arab .” According to a June 4 – 5, 2002 FOX News / Opinion Dynamics Poll, 54 % of Americans approved of using “ racial profiling to screen Arab male airline passengers .” A 2002 survey by Public Agenda tracked the attitudes toward the racial profiling of Blacks and people of Middle Eastern descent.

According to the National Whistleblower Center, Coburn's hold on S. 274 has been done to further President Bush's agenda.

" According to a survey done by The National Center for Health Statistics, " over half of marriages from 1990-1994 among women began as cohabitation.

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 Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Science in Prato, “ this single-horn deer is conscious to its uniqueness and does not come out a lot, always hiding .”

According to the Sloan Career Cornerstone Center, Computer engineers working in this area develop new methods for protecting various information, such as digital images and music, fragmentation, copyright infringement and other forms of tampering.

According to Sloan Career Cornerstone Center, individuals working in this area, " computational methods are applied to formulate and solve complex mathematical problems in engineering and the physical and the social sciences.

According to the Sloan Cornerstone Career Center, on going developments in embedded systems include " automated vehicles and equipment to conduct search and rescue, automated transportation systems, and human-robot coordination to repair equipment in space.

According to the Center for Public Integrity, Altria spent around $ 101 million on lobbying the United States government between 1998 and 2004, making it the second most active organization in the nation.

According to David Ownby, Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Université de Montréal, Li became an " instant star of the qigong movement ", and Falun Gong was embraced by the government as an effective means of lowering health care costs, promoting Chinese culture, and improving public morality.

According to the United States Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, a U. S. Federal Standard limits the amount of microwaves that can leak from an oven throughout its lifetime to 5 milliwatts of microwave radiation per square centimeter at approximately ( 2 in ) from the surface of the oven.

According to the Center for Measuring University Performance, it is considered to be one of the top 10 private research universities in the nation.

According to the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, in the United States, from September 1986 to September 1990:

According to the National School Safety Center, since the 1992-1993 U. S. school year there has been a significant decline in school-associated violent deaths ( deaths on private or public school property for kindergarten through grade 12 and resulting from schools functions or activities ):

According to the Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores County contains at least 816 recorded archaeological sites as of 1989, with many more inventoried since that time.

According to the newspaper's Web site, it has 440 full-time employees and another 31 who work part-time, not including an on-premises " McClatchy Customer Care Center for subscriber assistance ".