* Mars Direct forms the basis for the 2000 film Mission to Mars.

Nonetheless, online file sharing persists in various forms such as Bit Torrent and Direct download link.

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 Marketing Associations are national trade organizations that seek to advance all forms of direct marketing.

Direct effect has subsequently been loosened in its application to treaty articles and the ECJ has expanded the principle, holding that it is capable of applying to virtually all of the possible forms of EU legislation, the most important of which are regulations and in certain circumstances to directives.

Direct marketing via television ( commonly referred to as DRTV ) has two basic forms: long form ( usually half-hour or hour-long segments that explain a product in detail and are commonly referred to as infomercials ) and short form, which refers to typical 30-second or 60-second commercials that ask viewers for an immediate response ( typically to call a phone number on screen or go to a website ).

An Aesthetics Development Programme ( ADP ) forms part of the niche development, which resulted the Direct School Admission ( DSA ) status.

Other forms of Direct Access Storage Device ( DASD ), such as drum memory devices or the IBM 2321 Data Cell, might give blocks addresses that include a cylinder address, although the cylinder address doesn't select a ( geometric ) cylindrical slice of the device.

Direct wage and working time regulation is a comparatively recent phenomenon, as it was traditionally left to collective bargaining to achieve " a fair day's wage for a fair day's work ".

Direct translations from the Sanskrit name Avalokitasvara include:

Direct translations from the Sanskrit name Avalokiteśvara include:

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 ).

Others include Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman, Arsenal and England footballer, Kenny Sansom, and founder of Direct Line, Peter Wood.

Some of the major programs managed by the center include the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile, High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile, HARM Targeting System, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, Joint Direct Attack Munition, Miniature Air Launched Decoy, Sensor Fuzed Weapon and the Small Diameter Bomb.

Examples include Thomas H. Bailey, founder and former chairman of Janus Capital Group, Geoff Beattie, president of The Woodbridge Company and chairman of CTVglobemedia, George Cope, president and CEO of Bell Canada Enterprise, Edward Rogers III, deputy chairman of Rogers Communications, and former president of Rogers Cable, Arkadi Kuhlmann, chairman of ING Direct, Rob McEwen, chairman and CEO of US Gold Corporation, Minera Andes and the founder, chairman and former CEO of Goldcorp Inc., John Thompson, former chairman of Toronto-Dominion Bank and chancellor of Western, Prem Watsa, chairman, CEO of Fairfax Financial, Lee Seng Wee, former chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Galen Weston, chairman and president of George Weston Limited.

Direct fire sights may include mechanisms to compensate for some of these.

Examples of companies that produce comic figures and merchandise almost exclusively include Toy Biz and DC Direct.

Facilities on campus include the " Union Pub and Bar ", a concert and disco venue called " The LCR ", a canteen called " Zest ", a cafe / coffee shop called " The Blend ", a bar / coffee shop called " The Hive ", a graduate bar called the " Graduate Students Club " and " The Street " with a 24-hour launderette, the Union Food Outlet, Union Paper Shop, Union Post Office, a coffee shop called " Cafe Direct ", branches of NatWest and Barclays, and a Waterstone's book shop.

Direct descendants of Ebenezer Howard include his cricket manager grandson Geoffrey Howard as well as his great granddaughter, the poet and publisher Joy Bernardine Howard.

Direct proof methods include proof by exhaustion and proof by induction.

Others include glow discharge, field desorption ( FD ), fast atom bombardment ( FAB ), thermospray, desorption / ionization on silicon ( DIOS ), Direct Analysis in Real Time ( DART ), atmospheric pressure chemical ionization ( APCI ), secondary ion mass spectrometry ( SIMS ), spark ionization and thermal ionization ( TIMS ).

Winners include Hyundai, First Direct, Bosch, Canon and Philips.

Direct examples of single-file virtual file systems include emulators, such as PCTask and WinUAE, which encapsulate not only the filesystem data but also emulated disk layout.

Direct emissions include all pollution from manufacturing, company owned vehicles and reimbursed travel, livestock and any other source that is directly controlled by the owner.

The books include Lawmaking by the People ( 1981 ), The People ’ s Mandate ( 1992 ), Direct Democracy In Canada ( 1993 ) and Boyer's Ontario Election Law ( 1996 ).

More advanced neural engineering technologies include the experimental Direct Neural Interface ( DNI ), a system that provides a MechWarrior fuller mental control over a ' Mech than offered by a standard neurohelmet.

The bank is currently ( December 2003 ) in the process of reorganizing as Grupul Financiar BT (" The BT Financial Group ") which will also include companies in which the bank has invested: insurance and re-insurance company BT Asigurări ( formerly SAR Transilvania ), BT Leasing ( formerly Leasing Transilvania ), BT Securities, BT Asset Management, Compania de Factoring and BT Direct ( that will round out the offering in the consumer finance sector ).

Commercial implementations of LCoS technology include: Sony's SXRD ( Silicon X-tal Reflective Display ) and JVC's D-ILA ( Digital Direct Drive Image Light Amplifier ), and Epson's " reflective 3LCD ".

Firms that currently use Portland House for office space include American Express, Crossrail, Caxton FX, HomeAway UK / Owners Direct, NetBooster, TradeDoubler, uSwitch, Upmystreet. com, Rentokil Initial, AkzoNobel and Regus.

Current freight train operators other than EWS include Freightliner ( UK ) ( purchased by a management buyout ) and two open access freight operators: Direct Rail Services and FirstGBRf.

In 2008, the Kingdom secured sophisticated weapon systems, which include the Joint Direct Attack Munitions.

Its major competitors include satellite service Shaw Direct, as well as various cable and communications companies across Canada, such as Rogers Communications, Eastlink, Shaw Communications, Telus and Vidéotron.

Direct descendants of the Curonians include the Kuršininkai of the Curonian Spit and the so-called Curonian Kings of Courland.

Other businesses from this time now part of Shop Direct include Kays Catalogues.

* Direct Marketing Association, a trade organization

When logrolling occurs within a Direct Democracy, a few individuals vote openly, and votes are easy to trade, rearrange, and observe.

Direct Sino-Portuguese trade had existed since 1513, but this is the first official legal treaty port on traditional Chinese soil that will form a long-term Western settlement.

Direct maritime trade between Europe and China started in the 16th century, after the Portuguese established the settlement of Goa, India in December 1510, and thereafter that of Macau in southern China in 1557.

Direct access trading offers substantial improvements in transaction speed and will usually result in better trade execution prices ( reducing the costs of trading ).

23 direct marketing trade associations from five continents established an International Federation of Direct Marketing Associations.

Direct action activities such as this, which usually ended in violence, became the stock in trade of the BM during its early days.

The site is home to Direct Energy Centre ( formerly the National Trade Centre ), Canada's largest trade centre, and Ricoh Coliseum, home to the American Hockey League's Toronto Marlies.

While the Tasmanian Government has thrown its support into the project and believes the Direct Factory Outlet will drive retail trade growth, the Hobart City Council and a large amount of retail shop owners in the Hobart Central Business District have expressed fear of losing business.

Direct trading between two players is also possible, and in the trade chat channel users can auction items and advertise shops.

* Direct diffusion is when two cultures are very close to each other, resulting in intermarriage, trade, and even warfare.

With the demise of the Woolworths Group in January 2009, Shop Direct purchased rights to children's clothing brand Ladybird along with the Woolworths trade name from the administrators. The takeover of the Woolworths brand by Shop Direct was announced on 2 February 2009, and the new online retailer began trading on 25 June that year.

" The Batman Beyond cameo was enough to garner a DC Direct action figure, the character's first in years, listed as " Tim Drake "; However, the writers admitted to the mistake of misnaming the character, and although the name was rumored to be changed to " Terry " in the trade paperback, it still reads " Tim " ( see first page of " Smoke and Mirrors " chapter in the trade paperback ).

Direct trade links between the Mediterranean lands and India had been established in the 1st century BC, after Greek navigators learned to use the regular pattern of the monsoon winds for their trade voyages in the Indian Ocean.

In 2004 Zarin Patel was declared " Client Marketer of the Year " by Precision Marketing, a London based Direct Marketing trade magazine.

At the beginning of the American Civil War he helped organize the Board of Direct Trade to ensure Confederate trade to Europe was not disrupted.

In 1985 he was appointed to head Direct Service Industries, a trade association of aluminum companies in the Northwest that received power directly from the Bonneville Power Administration.