Since then, it has focused on improving relationships with Western countries, cultivating links with other Portuguese-speaking countries, and asserting its own national interests in Central Africa through military and diplomatic intervention.

Alberta has a small internal market and is relatively distant from major world markets, despite good transportation links to the rest of Canada and to the United States to the south.

Astrology has been criticized for failing to provide a physical mechanism that links the movements of celestial bodies to their purported effects on human behaviour.

The town has strong local travel links as Accrington railway station lies on the East Lancashire Line serving trains running locally and trains running from Blackpool to York.

Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.

China has had historical trading links with the inhabitants of the island.

Although the nation's rail network links seven of the country's 10 major cities, very little of it has been used regularly because of security concerns, lack of maintenance, and the power of the road transport union.

Since these stock additions retain the short pistol barrel ( as short as 100 mm ( 4 inches )) they are highly restricted under the NFA unless the shoulder stocks are of original manufacture for the gun and the gun has been " delisted " as outlined in links 1 & 2 in the paragraph above, as is the case with so-equipped " Broomhandle " Mausers and Lugers.

The requirement for the Sales data mart and the Production data mart to be integrable, is that they share the same " Bus ", that will be, that the data warehousing team has made the effort to identify and implement the conformed dimensions in the bus, and that the individual data marts links that information from the bus.

Arcadian cult to Demeter links her to a male deity ( Greek: Πάρεδρος, Paredros ), who accompanied the Great Goddess and has been interpreted as a possible substitution for Poseidon ; Demeter may therefore be related to a Minoan Great Goddess.

A kingdom of Domnonee ( and of Cornouaille alongside ) was established in the province of Armorica directly across the English Channel, and has apparent links with the British population, suggesting an ancient connection of peoples along the western Atlantic seaboard.

Figure ( b ) shows the same distributed system in more detail: each computer has its own local memory, and information can be exchanged only by passing messages from one node to another by using the available communication links.

Egypt also has multiple highway links with Asia through the Arab Mashreq International Road Network.

It has daily features, updates and links to news reports from The New York Times and the BBC.

The judiciary is strictly independent of the executive and legislature, although it has links with the other branches of the government through the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy.

The ongoing dispute has not prevented the two countries from enjoying close trade links and investment levels ( especially from Greece ), but it has generated a great deal of political and academic debate on both sides.

Greenpeace has accused several corporations, such as Unilever, Nike ,, KFC, KitKat and McDonald's of having links to the deforestation of the tropical rainforests, resulting in policy changes in several of the companies under criticism.

Algebraic graph theory has close links with group theory.

Reynolds was also responsible for The Mysteries of London which has been accorded an important place in the development of the urban as a particularly Victorian Gothic setting, an area within which interesting links can be made with established readings of the work of Dickens and others.

It is this ethos that has given rise to links with young people, such as the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and PGL, and large numbers of outdoor education centres being established, as the stress on the importance of a balanced and widespread education continues to grow.

American and Israeli counter-terrorism officials claim that Hezbollah has ( or had ) links to Al Qaeda, although Hezbollah's leaders deny these allegations.

The MediaWiki software has an additional feature which uses similar notation to create automatic interlanguage links — for instance, the link < code >< nowiki > de: InterWiki </ nowiki ></ code > ( with no leading colon ) automatically creates a reference labeled " Other languages: Deutsch | ..." at the top and bottom of, or in a sidebar next to, the article display.

Turkey has sought to capitalize on its cultural and ethnic links to the region and has found Kyrgyzstan receptive to cultivating bilateral relations.

The low cost and ease of fabrication of the dies for three-dimensional foam cutting plus the wide variety of shapes, dimensions, and contours that can be tailor-made to customer requirements has made the technique useful for producing case liners, materials handling containers, packaging and cushioning devices, and such novelties as soap dishes, toys, head rests, arch supports, and gas pedal covers.

It has been designed to provide a more aggressive, contemporary look to the logo while making it more three-dimensional for ever-increasing digital use.

However, because the SEM image relies on surface processes rather than transmission, it is able to image bulk samples up to many centimetres in size and ( depending on instrument design and settings ) has a great depth of field, and so can produce images that are good representations of the three-dimensional shape of the sample.

The modern crest has grown out of the three-dimensional figure placed on the top of the mounted knights ' helms as a further means of identification.

The Poincaré conjecture claims that if such a space has the additional property that each loop in the space can be continuously tightened to a point, then it is necessarily a three-dimensional sphere.

This effect has been likened to three-dimensional textured privacy glass — a smoke cloud does not obstruct an image, but thoroughly scrambles it.

In three-dimensional variants, the playing field is a cube ( containing smaller cubes ) instead of a rectangle, and the player has the ability to rotate the cube.

Games traditionally show fighters from a side-view, even as the genre has progressed from two-dimensional ( 2D ) to three-dimensional ( 3D ) graphics.

The Fabrica emphasized the priority of dissection and what has come to be called the " anatomical " view of the body, seeing human internal functioning as an essentially corporeal structure filled with organs arranged in three-dimensional space.

Although it used to be thought that the tubes had test-tube like bases, detailed three-dimensional reconstruction has shown that the tubes had an open base.

When passenger Eldreth " Ellie " Coburn visits her pet, an alien, semi-intelligent " spider puppy " that Max has befriended, she learns that he can play three-dimensional chess, and she challenges him to a game.

The crystal structure has a three-dimensional shape.

The Arche is in the approximate shape of a cube ( width: 108m, height: 110m, depth: 112m ); it has been suggested that the structure looks like a hypercube ( a tesseract ) projected onto the three-dimensional world.

Technically speaking, any surface in three-dimensional space has a topological dimension of 2, and therefore any fractal surface in three-dimensional space has a Hausdorff dimension between 2 and 3.

It may be defined as a flattened column which has lost its three-dimensional and tactile value.

There has been a gradual shift towards Nicktoon series using three-dimensional computer animation rather than traditional or digital two-dimensional ink and paint ; the introductions of The Penguins of Madagascar and Fanboy and Chum Chum to the channel's lineup reflect this.

The Protein Structure Initiative ( PSI ), funded by the U. S. National Institute of General Medical Sciences ( NIGMS ), has among its aim to determine three-dimensional protein structures and to develop techniques for use in structural biology, including for membrane proteins.

Traditionally, CAM has been considered as a numerical control ( NC ) programming tool, wherein two-dimensional ( 2-D ) or three-dimensional ( 3-D ) models of components generated in CAD software are used to generate G-code to drive computer numerically controlled ( CNC ) machine tools.

Let us now consider a three-dimensional cubical box that has a side length L ( see infinite square well ).

Still more recently, Frank Auerbach has used such heavy impasto that some of his paintings become almost three-dimensional.

It is natural to ask whether one can similarly define a multiplication on a three-dimensional real vector space such that every non-zero element has an inverse.