* Direct sales, involving person to person contact

# Direct contact membrane distillation ( DCMD ).

Direct physical contact between players is not permitted.

Direct selling is the sale of products by face-to-face contact with the customer, either by having salespeople approach potential customers in person, or through indirect means such as Tupperware parties.

Direct contact is rare in this route, for humans at least.

Direct skin contact results in a severe acne-like condition called chloracne.

The Group's contact centre company, formerly known as Optimum Contact Solutions, is now known as Shop Direct Contact Solutions.

In 2012 Shop Direct transferred its contact centres to Serco Listening in a 10 year deal, With the loss of the Preston and Worcester contact centres gained from Shop Direct and the closure of the Manchester contact centre for Serco Listening.

NHS Direct is the health advice and information service provided by the National Health Service ( NHS ) for residents and visitors in England, with advice offered 24 hours a day, every day of the year through telephone contact on the national 0845 46 47 number, web based symptom checkers at www. nhsdirect. nhs. uk and via mobile, both as apps for iPhone and Android smart phones and a mobile website.

The NHS Direct telephone service began taking calls in three contact centres in Lancashire, Northumbria and Milton Keynes in March 1998.

Additional waves of pilots were established in contact centres around England until the whole country was covered by the NHS Direct telephone service in 2000.

Direct contact with victims should be chosen last, after having attempted or ruled out all other " rungs " of the Ladder Approach.

Direct customer contact information is rarely required.

Direct contact and plastic deformation generates another type of attraction through the constitution of a plastic zone with flowing material where induced energy, pressure and temperature allow bonding between the surfaces on a much larger scale than cohesive surface energy.

Direct contact can be made with the kōban and assistance will be dispatched.

Direct contact with home is a reassurance of the security of the home.

3. Direct Marketing: Use of mail, telephone and other non personal contact tools to communicate with or solicit a response from specific customers.

* Direct contact with water necessitates careful waterproofing design around the joints

After receiving spam from Mansfield and discovering that the unsubscribe option did not work, and that contact details in the messages were fake, McNicol had set up a website publishing the details of T3 Direct and other Mansfield companies, as well as publishing these details in newsgroups.

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

** Direct reading tools such as rules, scales, and vernier calipers,

* Direct numerical control or distributed numerical control, in manufacturing, a common term for networking CNC machine tools

In the past decade Direct Instruction curricula, especially Language for Learning, have become popular tools for teaching language arts skills to children with developmental disabilities such as autism and other Pervasive Developmental Disorders.

* DNC, Direct numerical control machine tools

* Direct Stream Transfer, used in Super Audio CD

Although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably, there are important differences between cinéma vérité ( Jean Rouch ) and the North American " Direct Cinema " ( or more accurately " Cinéma direct "), pioneered by, among others, Canadians Allan King, Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, and Americans Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Frederick Wiseman and Albert and David Maysles.

Direct dyes are used on cotton, paper, leather, wool, silk and nylon.

* Direct market access, used in financial markets

This study uses horizontally landing, bent biconic shaped modules, and relies on solar power and chemical propulsion throughout, where Mars Direct and the DRMs used nuclear reactors for surface power and, in the case of the DRMs for propulsion as well.

* Mars Direct is the mission mode used in Gregory Benford's novel, The Martian Race, and in Geoffrey A. Landis's novel Mars Crossing, as well as Zubrin's own novel, First Landing.

* A Mars Direct scheme is used in Larry Niven's novel Rainbow Mars.

* A Mars Direct scheme is used in Robert M. Blevins ' 2005 novel The 13th Day of Christmas.

In the currently most popular variant for cellular mobile telephones, W-CDMA ( IMT Direct Spread ) is used.

Studies show that under ideal propagation conditions ( simulations ), Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum ( DSSS ) provides the highest throughput for all nodes on a network when used in conjunction with CSMA / CA and the IEEE 802. 11 RTS / CTS exchange under light network load conditions.

* Direct Access Test Unit, special numbers used to test telephone exchanges

Direct access can be more efficient but is less portable as it depends on the mailbox format ; it is used by some email clients, including some webmail applications.

Two satellite types are used for North American television and radio: Direct broadcast satellite ( DBS ), and Fixed Service Satellite ( FSS )

DBS technology is used for DTH-oriented ( Direct-To-Home ) satellite TV services, such as DirecTV and DISH Network in the United States, Bell TV and Shaw Direct in Canada, Freesat and Sky Digital in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, and New Zealand and DSTV in South Africa.

Direct current is used to charge batteries, and in nearly all electronic systems, as the power supply.

Direct current is used for some railway propulsion, especially in urban areas.

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.

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.

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

* Direct Coombs test, used to test for autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

Direct broadcast satellite ( DBS ) is a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception.

For Ku satellites in DBS ( Direct Broadcast Satellite ) service ( 12. 2-12. 7GHz in the U. S .) dishes much smaller than 1-meter can be used because those satellites are spaced 9 degrees apart.

Direct compression is the term used to define the process where powder blends of the drug substance and excipients are compressed on a tablet machine.

* Direct broadcast satellite, a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception