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 the publishers, it would take a single person 120 years to " key in " text to convert it to machine readable form which consists a total of 59 million words of the OED second edition, 60 years to proofread it, and 540 megabytes to store it electronically.

According to columnist and biographer Mike Royko, Daley got along better with editors and publishers than with reporters.

According to the publishers, one of the main reasons for producing a new translation was that most Bible versions in common use, including the Authorized Version ( King James ), employed archaic language.

According to their view, a difference of interpretation left publishers unsure of whether this was permitted or forbidden.

According to his biographer Richard S. Lambert, the first volume of Barrington's memoirs about Australia, " A Voyage to Botany Bay ," is the work of Barrington's that is least changed, or wholly invented, by editors and publishers.

According to some sources, with these releases Eldritch allegedly won, over Hussey and Adams, a race for a £ 25, 000 advance ( a sum opening the song Jihad on the Gift album ) offered by the publishers to the first member of The Sisters of Mercy to release any output.

According to a 2009 study conducted by Lee Hye-Kyung of the University of London, Japanese publishers felt that scanlation was " an overseas phenomenon ", and no " coordinated action " had taken place against scanlation.

According to the Swedish Legal Deposit Act publishers of printed material must send one copy of every object to the National Library and six other research libraries.

According to Ruffin, Carleton's book " went over like a lead balloon with Fanny's publishers ", although there was nothing negative written explicitly about Biglow and Main, but also little praise for the firm and its members.

According to collaborator Earl Shuman, one day while collaborating with Edwards in the Brill building, where publishers provided music rooms for the songwriters, Edwards left mid-song saying something to the effect that he " wasn't into the rock songs any more " and that he had an idea for a show and was going home to write it.

According to calculations made by its publishers, the encyclopaedia has more than 165, 000 pages and 200 million words.

According to The New York Times, Macmillan and other major publishers " fear that massive discounting e-books by retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony could ultimately devalue what consumers are willing to pay for books.

According to CBR's Steven Grant, this status is derived not so much from the comics ' content, but for triggering both the 1990s speculator boom and crash that followed, and the trend towards the creation of superhero universes among various publishers.

According to Maynard Solomon, she " had developed an interest in exaggerating Mozart's generosity, poverty, and lack of recognition, and so, in Nissen's biography, she validated many false reports -- primarily those originating with Friedrich Rochlitz -- bearing on such matters, including those alleging that he was taken advantage of by impresarios, publishers, and fellow musicians.

According to a report on Human Rights Practices, by the U. S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, released March 31, 2003, In May 2002, Toledo's government authorities placed the Wolfenson brothers, publishers of pro-Fujimori tabloid El Chino and of opposition daily La Razón, under house arrest on corruption charges.

According to the beginning of his statement, he decided to do it because he doesn't want publishers and their editors to look down on manga artists.

According to the publishers, over 1. 6 million copies have been printed.

According to Seuss, the publishers at Random House, including the president, had to meet to decide whether or not they could use " burp " because " nobody had ever burped before on the pages of a children's book ".

According to the game's publishers, some players have reported immersion in the game to produce a dream-like experience during and after play.

According to Charles S. Prebish, Dharma Communications is " one of the most efficient and successful publishers of Buddhist materials on the continent, and a place where practitioners can learn how to cultivate both mindfulness and compassion in front of a computer.

According to the publishers more than 50 printers refused to handle the January 1971 special issue " Guerilla War in the USA " because it appeared to be promoting domestic terrorism.