According to many Marxists influenced by Soviet Marxism, historical materialism is a specifically sociological method, while dialectical materialism refers to a more general, abstract, philosophy.

According to Weber's theses, social research cannot be fully inductive or descriptive, because understanding some phenomenon implies that the researcher must go beyond mere description and interpret it ; interpretation requires classification according to abstract " ideal ( pure ) types ".

According to Steven Pinker, the Kivunjo language has 16 noun classes including classes for precise locations and for general locales, classes for clusters or pairs of objects and classes for the objects that come in pairs or clusters, and classes for abstract qualities.

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According to one text book: " On one plane the field is abstract, a set of analytical concepts about competition and monopoly.

According to this theory, fairies are personified aspects of nature and deified abstract concepts such as ‘ love ’ and ‘ victory ’ in the pantheon of the particular form of animistic nature worship reconstructed as the religion of Ancient Western Europe .< ref >

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According to its abstract, ISO / IEC 7816-5 defines how to use an application identifier to ascertain the presence of and / or perform the retrieval of an application in a card.

According to its abstract, it specifies the Data Elements ( DEs ) used for interindustry interchange based on integrated circuit cards ( ICCs ) both with contacts and without contacts.

According to its abstract, it specifies interindustry commands for integrated circuit cards ( either with contacts or without contacts ) that may be used for cryptographic operations.

According to its abstract, it specifies interindustry commands for integrated circuit cards ( both with contacts and without contacts ) for card and file management, e. g. file creation and deletion.

According to its abstract, it specifies the usage of interindustry commands and data objects related to personal verification through biometric methods in integrated circuit cards.

According to its abstract, it specifies the operating conditions of an integrated circuit card that provides a USB interface.

According to its abstract, it specifies a card application.

According to Dr. John Lane, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in 1997, although Van Vliet's work has associations with mainstream abstract expressionist painting, more importantly he was a self-taught artist and his painting " has that same kind of edge the music has.

According to Ryn, the propagation of a purely abstract idea of universality has contributed to the neoconservative advocacy of allegedly universal American principles, which neconservatives see as justification for American intervention around the world — bringing the blessings of the " West " to the benighted " rest ".

According to Merton, middle-range theory starts its theorizing with clearly defined aspects of social phenomena, rather than with broad, abstract entities such as society as a whole.

According to historian Walter LaFeber, Truman was known to approach defense budgetary requests in the abstract, without regard to defense response requirements in the event of conflicts with potential enemies.

According to MVAH researcher Hari Sharma, MVAH views the body as an abstract pattern of intelligence where as he feels modern medicine views the body as a machine.

According to Mitchell Whitelaw in his Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life, " On the screen they are luminous, twisting, elastic shapes, abstract tangles and loops of glowing filaments.

According to architecture historians Mihaela Criticos and Ana Maria Zahariade, Janco's creed was not in fact radically different from mainstream Romanian opinions: " although declaring themselves committed to the modernist agenda, and others nuance it with their own formulas, away from the abstract utopias of the International Style.

According to the Bruce and Young model of face recognition, these are precursors of the more abstract expression-independent descriptions.

According to Realism, and in contrast to Nominalism, things such as " green " and " big " were known as universals, which had a real existence in an abstract realm, as described by Plato.

According to some exegetes this latter conception is not a wholly abstract one, but in fact corresponds to a heavenly reality, with the Qur ' ān existing as a celestial archetype within the Mother of the Book ( umm al-kitāb ) ( Q. 43: 4 ) or upon the Preserved Tablet ( Q. 85: 21 ).

According to the CIA World factbook, in 2004 the Territory had the 12th highest GDP per capita in the world.

According to the International Telecommunication Union, in 2004 there were only 479, 000 telephone subscribers in the country of nearly 11 million people, with. 061 main lines per 1000 inhabitants.

According to a 2004 French study conducted by INSERM, cognitive behavioral therapy was the most effective therapy when compared with psychoanalysis and family or couples therapy.

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA report, " All sheep and lamb inventory in the United States on July 1, 2005, totaled 7. 80 million head, 2 % above July 1, 2004.

According to GameSpy, Doom was voted by industry insiders to be the greatest game of all time in 2004.

According to a 2004 study, 150, 000 jobs and $ 13 billion in annual production depend on the river crossings connecting Detroit to Windsor.

According to a March 2004 BBC profile, politics within the country are dominated by tensions between Obiang's son, Teodorin, and other close relatives with powerful positions in the security forces.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the Afghan economy grew 20 % in the fiscal year ending in March 2004, after expanding 30 % in the previous 12 months.

According to a controversial essay titled " The Death of Environmentalism " ( Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, 2004 ) American environmentalism has been remarkably successful in protecting the air, water, and large stretches of wilderness in North America and Europe, but these environmentalists have stagnated as a vital force for cultural and political change.

According to Ruickbie ( 2004, p. 19 ) the Greeks observed two days sacred to Hecate, one on the 13th of August and one on the 30th of November, whilst the Romans observed the 29th of every month as her sacred day.

According to census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2004, Irish Australians are, by religion, 46. 2 % Roman Catholic, 15. 3 % Anglican, 13. 5 % other Christian denomination, 3. 6 % other religions, and 21. 5 % as " No Religion ".

" According to Dennis Dewsnap's memoir, What's Sex Got To Do With It ( The Syden Press, 2004 ), Orton and Halliwell had their ashes mixed and were buried together.

According to the industry group Craft Yarn Council of America, the number of women knitters in the United States age 25 – 35 increased 150 % in the two years between 2002 and 2004.

According to research, the vulture population has undergone a sharp decline on the Indian subcontinent, 95 % decline in 2004, 99. 9 % decline as of 2008 due to the use of diclofenac in animals.

According to the IOM data, in 2000 – 2004, Kosovo was consistently ranked fourth or fifth among the countries of Southeastern Europe by number of human trafficking victims, after Albania, Moldova, Romania and sometimes Bulgaria.

According to the 2004 Moldovan Census, 3, 383, 332 people lived in the areas controlled by the central government of Moldova.

According to the 2004 Census in Transnistria, 555, 347 people lived in the breakaway Transnistria, including the city of Bender, and the other localities de facto controlled by Transnistrian authorities.

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 U. S. State Department, Nauru ’ s GDP volume was US $ 1 million in 2004.

According to the OECD ( www. oecd. org ) report, in 2004 Poles were one of the hardest working nations in Europe.

According to the data of the China Bicycle Association, a government-chartered industry group, in 2004 China's manufacturers sold 7. 5 million electric bicycles nationwide, which was almost twice 2003 sales ; domestic sales reached 10 million in 2005, and 16 to 18 million in 2006.

According to an international commission report released by the Romanian government in 2004, Antonescu's dictatorial government of Romania is responsible for the murder in various forms ( including deportations to concentration camps and executions by the Romanian Army and Gendarmerie and the German Einsatzgruppen ), between 280, 000 to 380, 000 Jews in Romania and in the war zone of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria.

According to europaworld. com, in 2004 there were:

According to CIA Factbook, Romania total road network is estimated to be 198, 817 km long, out of which 60, 043 km are paved and 138, 774 km ( 2004 ) are unpaved.

According to europaworld. com, in 2004 in Romania there were: