Direct nightmare interventions that combine compatible techniques from one or more of these classes may enhance overall treatment effectiveness:

Direct astrophotography had an early role in sky surveys and star classification but over time it has given way to more sophisticated equipment and techniques designed for specific fields of scientific research, with film ( and later astronomical CCD cameras ) becoming just one of many forms of sensor.

Direct measurements involve examinations of brains from corpses, or more recently, imaging techniques such as MRI, which can be used on living persons.

Direct contact of the tools used is usually visible in the result, a condition not always apparent in other techniques, where all evidence of the working method is eliminated.

Direct reference to Daoist concepts can be found in such styles as the " Eight Immortals " which uses fighting techniques that are attributed to the characteristics of each immortal.

Direct action techniques first employed or refined at the protest have been transferred to numerous other protests around the world.

Direct feedback from a user, usually in the form of a like or dislike button, can be used to assign higher or lower weights on the importance of certain attributes ( using Rocchio Classification or other similar techniques ).

Direct marketing is a channel-agnostic form of advertising that allows businesses and nonprofits to communicate straight to the customer, with advertising techniques such as mobile messaging, email, interactive consumer websites, online display ads, fliers, catalog distribution, promotional letters, and outdoor advertising.

Direct push techniques are generally limited to shallow soil sample recovery in unconsolidated soil materials.

* Interview with an Adware Author-a former Direct Revenue programmer describes in detail the stealth and other ingenious techniques used by the company's software to disguise itself, remove competitor software and protect itself from being removed.

RDMA ( Remote Direct Memory Access ) protocols deeply rely on zero-copy techniques.

Direct descendants of Antoninus and Faustina were confirmed to exist at least into the fifth century AD.

The members of the task group were not able to come to an agreement choosing between two technology proposals, Multi-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ( MB-OFDM ) and Direct Sequence UWB ( DS-UWB ), on the table backed by two different industry alliances and was withdrawn in January 2006.

Mars Direct was featured on a Discovery Channel programs Mars: The Next Frontier in which issues were discussed surrounding NASA funding of the project, and on Mars Underground, where the plan is discussed more in-depth.

These were followed by Gregory Benford's The Martian Race ( 1999 ), Geoffrey A. Landis's Mars Crossing ( 2000 ), and Robert Zubrin's First Landing ( 2002 ), which took as their starting points the smaller and more focussed expedition strategies evolved in the late 1990s, mostly building on the concepts of Mars Direct.

Direct links between electrotonic coupling and wakefulness were provided by Beck et al.

One of the leading VSAT service providers is Syscomptech, they were voted the best Direct VSAT Marketers in 2008 and maintains satellites with direct footprints over Nigeria.

Speech recognition applications include voice user interfaces such as voice dialing ( e. g., " Call home "), call routing ( e. g., " I would like to make a collect call "), domotic appliance control, search ( e. g., find a podcast where particular words were spoken ), simple data entry ( e. g., entering a credit card number ), preparation of structured documents ( e. g., a radiology report ), speech-to-text processing ( e. g., word processors or emails ), and aircraft ( usually termed Direct Voice Input ).

Direct electrical connections to telephone networks, once they were made legal, rapidly became the preferred method of attaching modems, and the use of acoustic couplers dwindled.

In the 1960s, with the domestic conversion still underway, plans were laid to extend Direct Dialing beyond North America and its nearby islands.

In Canada, the term " death stars " was used to describe U. S. Direct Broadcast Satellites capable of broadcasting signals into Canada that were not regulated by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

AAUI connectors were also present on some Processor Direct Slot Ethernet adapter cards used in Macintosh LC and Performa machines.

Only two prototypes were ever built, and one was publicly displayed for historical interest at the RISC OS 2001 show in Berkshire, England ; the remaining cases were bought by CTA Direct who sold them off to the public.

Direct charter flights were therefore established.

Direct entry aviation cadets were also trained at Scheyville, in the same 6 month courses as the National Servicemen.

Direct literary models were available from a number of sources, including F. V. Dickins ’ s 1866 Hyak nin is ’ shiu, or, Stanzas by a Century of Poets, Being Japanese Lyrical Odes, the first English-language version of the Hyakunin isshu, a 13th-century anthology of 100 tanka, the early 20th-century critical writings and poems of Sadakichi Hartmann, and contemporary French-language translations.

After work by Johns Hopkins University in the 1950s there was a concept for Direct Injection Antipersonnel Chemical Biological Agent ( DIACBA ) where flechettes were grooved, hollow pointed, or otherwise milled to retain a quantity of chemical biological warfare agent to deliver through a ballistic wound.

The long haul services were sold only by internal companies such as First Choice Holidays, Eclipse Direct, Sunsail, Sovereign, Hayes and Jarvis and Unijet.

Direct services were operated from London, Manchester, Leicester, Birmingham, Leeds, Peterborough and Sheffield, but today a service to Norwich is all that remains.

Direct elections were mostly held only for the U. S. House of Representatives and state legislatures, although what specific bodies were elected by the electorate varied from state to state.

Executive Direct Compensation was $ 129, 923 million and personal benefits were $ 47, 596 million.

In 2006, the divisions Securitas Systems ( alarm, monitoring, and access control systems ), and Securitas Direct ( solutions for homes and small businesses ) were distributed to the group's shareholders and listed at the Stockholm Stock Exchange.

Later, the data channels were used to connect an 7094 and a 7044 to form the IBM 7094 / 7044 Direct Coupled System ( DCS ).

In addition, after the cancellation, excess numbers of the Phoebe 2100 yellow NLX case were sold by CTA Direct, sometimes including an NLX compatible PC.

Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.

He also developed, during the Great Depression, the populist economic theory of " Direct Credits ", according to which banks are the cause of all economic woe, the oppressors of both capital and labour.

Direct current may flow in a conductor such as a wire, but can also flow through semiconductors, insulators, or even through a vacuum as in electron or ion beams.

Direct fuel injection which can inject fuel only at the time of fuel ignition ( similar to a diesel engine ) is another recent development which also allows for higher compression ratios on gasoline engines.

Direct descendants may also kowtow at the funeral of an ancestor, while others would simply bow.

Direct axonal damage may also play a role in nerve destruction in many cases.

Direct geothermal for heating is also growing rapidly.

This means, as the U. S. Dollar accounted for 80 percent in the Thai basket of currencies, the Thai Baht was also depreciated further-making Thailand's export even more competitive and making the country more attractive to Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ), especially from Japan whose national currency appreciated considerably since 1985.

The wire frame format is also well suited and widely used in programming tool paths for DNC ( Direct Numerical Control ) machine tools.

National Semiconductor also produced related support chips like Floating Point Units ( FPUs ), Memory Management Units ( MMUs ), and Direct Memory Access ( DMA ) controllers.

The IWW founded the Anti-Conscription League ( ACL ) in which IWW members worked with the broader labour and peace movement, and also carried on an aggressive propaganda campaign in its own name ; leading to the imprisonment of Tom Barker ( 1887 – 1970 ) the editor of the IWW paper Direct Action, sentenced to twelve months in March 1916.

Direct transdifferentiation of one type of tissue to another during tissue replacement is also observed.

Direct current may flow in a conductor such as a wire, but can also flow through semiconductors, insulators, or even through a vacuum as in electron or ion beams.

Direct LDL measurements are also available and better reveal individual issues but are less often promoted or done due to slightly higher costs and being available from only a couple of laboratories in the United States.

Direct manipulation of molecules using optical tweezers or AFM can also be used to monitor biological events where forces and distances are at the nanoscale.

Through owner Mike Ashley, the club also has a relationship with the Sports Direct retail chain which he founded.

* Pre-Authorized Payment, also called Direct Debit or Pre-Authorized Debit ( PAD )

It can also be generated digitally by a DSP and DAC, using a Direct digital synthesizer ( DDS ) and by varying the step in the numerically controlled oscillator.

Open Direct Connect also did not have complete support for the full file sharing aspects of the protocol, but a port to Java did.

Although SACD audio streams are encoded in a pulse-density modulation ( PDM ) scheme called Direct Stream Digital ( DSD ), a manufacturer may also write a Pulse-code modulation ( PCM ) " layer " compatible with conventional Compact Disc players.

In 2000 Aprilia launched the 50 cc DiTech ( Direct Injection Technology ) two stroke engine for scooters which provides high mileage and low emissions, and also the RST Futura, a sport tourer, and the ETV 1000 Caponord ; an adventure touring motorcycle.

The church was erected because of the generosity of Captain David King of the shipbuilding firm of Bullard King & Co which also ran the Natal Direct Shipping Line, which ran ships direct from London to Durban without stopping at the Cape.

Electronic direct democracy ( EDD ), also known as Direct Digital Democracy ( DDD ) or E-democracy, is a form of direct democracy which utilizes telecommunications to facilitate public participation.