The situation is complex, however, because the relatively free Russian media is allowed to transmit television programming, sell newspapers and conduct journalistic activities in Belarus ( though some Russian journalists have been expelled by the Belarusian government ) thus giving some members of the public, typically those in large cities with many Russian residents, access to an alternative point of view in the Russian language ( nearly all Belarusians understand and most of them speak Russian ).

* General assessment: an extensive but antiquated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era ; quality has improved ; the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 when alternative fixed-line operators were given access to its network ; a drop in fixed-line connections in recent years has been more than offset by a sharp increase in mobile-cellular telephone use fostered by multiple service providers ; the number of cellular telephone subscriptions now exceeds the population

* Rope access: Industrial climbing, usually abseiling, as an alternative to scaffolding for short works on exposed structures.

Bicycles provide numerous benefits compared to motor vehicles, including exercise, an alternative to the use of fossil fuels, no air or noise pollution, much reduced traffic congestion, easier parking, greater maneuverability, and access to both roads and paths.

The relative effectiveness of IRS ( with DDT or alternative insecticides ) versus other malaria control techniques ( e. g. bednets or prompt access to anti-malarial drugs ) varies greatly and is highly dependent on local conditions.

* SAX — serial access parser API for XML, an alternative to DOM.

In Japan, the number of ISDN subscribers dwindled as alternative technologies such as ADSL, cable Internet access, and fiber to the home gained greater popularity.

In North America, ISDN is now used mostly as an alternative to analog connections, most commonly for Internet access.

Key escrow is proactive, anticipating the need for access to keys ; a retroactive alternative is key disclosure law, where users are required to surrender keys upon demand by law enforcement, or else face legal penalties.

They point out that alternative access technologies, such as wireless local loop, have proven uncompetitive and / or impractical, and that under current pricing models, the incumbent is in many cases, depending on the regulatory model, guaranteed a fair price for the use of its facilities, including an appropriate return on investment.

The baggage train provided an alternative supply method that was not dependent on access to a water-way.

An alternative to elements for enhanced subject access within a website is the use of a back-of-book-style index for the website.

Michel Bauwens identifies the emergence of the open software movement and peer-to-peer production as a new, alternative mode of production to the capitalist economy and centrally planned economy that is based on collaborative self-management, common ownership of resources, and the production of use-values through the free cooperation of producers who have access to distributed capital.

Therefore, Federal agencies are required, upon request, to provide information and data to individuals with disabilities through an alternative means of access that can be used by the individuals.

UMTS and GSM / EDGE can share a Core Network ( CN ), making UTRAN an alternative radio access network to GERAN ( GSM / EDGE RAN ), and allowing ( mostly ) transparent switching between the RANs according to available coverage and service needs.

While some of these uses have faded with access to alternative technologies, walrus meat remains an important part of local diets, and tusk carving and engraving remain a vital art form.

HP-UX was the first Unix to offer access control lists for file access permissions as an alternative to the standard Unix permissions system.

The alternative trade movement blossomed, if not in sales, then at least in terms of dozens of ATOs being established on both sides of the Atlantic, of scores of worldshops being set up, and of well-organized actions and campaigns attacking exploitation and foreign domination, and promoting the ideals of Nelson Mandela, Julius Nyerere, and the Nicaraguan Sandinistas: the right to independence and self-determination, to equitable access to the world ’ s markets and consumers.

The NOR type, which allows true random access and therefore direct code execution, is used as a replacement for the older EPROM and as an alternative to certain kinds of ROM applications.

With today's relatively easy access to technology, an alternative to the record producer just mentioned, is the so-called ' bedroom producer '.

There is a recently proposed alternative scale published in 2010 by Solid Earth, a new open access journal.

Dial-up access may also be an alternative for users on limited budgets, as it is offered free by some ISPs, though broadband is increasingly available at lower prices in many countries due to market competition.

Distribution costs are almost bound to increase in the sixties -- and you will never know what you can do to control them unless you study each element and experiment with alternative ways of doing the job.

Arrays can be used to determine partial or complete control flow in programs, as a compact alternative to ( otherwise repetitive ), multiple statements.

In 1990, alternative health vendor Nature's Way signed an FTC consent agreement not to misrepresent in advertising any self-diagnostic test concerning yeast conditions or to make any unsubstantiated representation concerning any food or supplement's ability to control yeast conditions, with a fine of $ 30, 000 payable to the National Institutes of Health for research in genuine candidiasis.

There were several serious confrontations between the U. S. and Denmark on security policy in the so-called " footnote era " ( 1982 – 88 ), when an alternative parliamentary majority forced the government to adopt specific national positions on nuclear and arms control issues.

Vector control use has not been banned, but it has been largely replaced by less persistent alternative insecticides.

" The website further explains that in many cases alternative malaria control measures were judged to be more cost-effective that DDT spraying, and so were funded instead.

Creating and using alternative publishing systems and their accompanying file viewers still makes a lot of business sense, given the content and presentation control they provide.

This practice, due to its illegality, has generally become favored by groups excluded from the political mainstream ( e. g. far-left or far-right groups ) who justify their activity by pointing out that they do not have the money – or sometimes the desire – to buy advertising to get their message across, and that a " ruling class " or " establishment " control the mainstream press, systematically excluding the radical / alternative point of view.

In November 2010, the EU Parliament passed the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, which seeks to provide greater monitoring and control of alternative investment fund managers operating in the EU.

According to the EU, the aim of the directive is to provide greater monitoring and control of alternative investment funds.

The control of alternative RNA splicing is performed by complex network of signaling molecules that respond to a wide range of intracellular and extracellular signals.

In an alternative story he went directly to Tarquinii with two of his sons ; the third, Sextus, attempted to resume control of Gabii, but was assassinated.

Sanger, collaborating with anarchist friends, coined the term " birth control " as a more candid alternative to euphemisms such as " family limitation " and proclaimed that each woman should be " the absolute mistress of her own body.

An alternative to complex QoS control mechanisms is to provide high quality communication over a best-effort network by over-provisioning the capacity so that it is sufficient for the expected peak traffic load.

An alternative to complex QoS control mechanisms is to provide high quality communication by generously over-provisioning a network so that capacity is based on peak traffic load estimates.

The sixteen-year extension of the bipartisan power-sharing agreement permitted the Liberal and Conservative élites to consolidate their socioeconomic control of Colombian society, and to strengthen the military to suppress political reform and radical politics proposing alternative forms of government for Colombia.

To run clustered ( loosely-coupled ) zTPF requires either MPLF in all disk control units or an alternative locking device called a Coupling Facility.

Boehme presented his system as an alternative to the Aristotelian method which he believed could provide a more profound knowledge and more control of nature than the Aristotelian method did.

This was a significant issue in the attempt to create a. xxx top-level domain and sparked greater interest in alternative DNS roots that would be beyond the control of any single country.

For these reasons the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) and various state agencies recommend use of alternative sediment control practices where possible, such as silt fences, fiber rolls and geotextiles.

Epigenetic control is often associated with alternative covalent modifications of histones.

The financial incentive to discover an alternative to Venice's monopoly control of this lucrative business was perhaps the single most important factor precipitating Europe's Age of Exploration.