In 2005, the Avion Group acquired Eimskip, a leading Icelandic sea transportation company, and Travel City Direct, a UK holiday company.

Direct loss of water conservancy facilities in which 582 million yuan, transportation and communications facilities direct loss power 1. 81 billion yuan, agricultural 1. 92 billion yuan in direct economic losses.

Direct reciprocity and cooperation in a group can be increased by changing the focus and incentives from intra-group competition to larger scale competitions such as between groups or against the general population.

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.

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( MB-OFDM ) and Direct Sequence UWB ( DS-UWB ), on the table backed by two different industry alliances and was withdrawn in January 2006.

Direct funding of the Contras insurgency had been made illegal through the Boland Amendment, the name given to three U. S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984 aimed at limiting US government assistance to the Contras militants.

Direct copying was supported between any two 8-bit registers and between any 8-bit register and an HL-addressed memory cell.

The problems associated with long-term weightlessness would be addressed in the same manner as the baseline Mars Direct plan, a tether between the Dragon habitat and the TMI ( Trans-Mars Injection ) stage acting to allow rotation of the craft.

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

Direct conflict between the East and West erupted in the Korean War, when the United Nations Security Council, with the absence of the Soviet Union at the time of the vote, voted for international intervention in Korea to stop the civil war.

Direct gap semiconductors are particularly important in optoelectronics because they are much more efficient as light emitters than indirect gap materials ; an electron movnig between two bands need not exchange momentum with phonons in the crystal lattice.

Direct maritime shipping commenced between the two countries in 2008 to supplement rail connections that remained uncertain.

Direct flights between Victoria and the San Francisco Bay Area ( San Francisco, Oakland, Silicon Valley ) began service on June 5, 2008 ( Victoria Times Colonist, February 6, 2008 ).

Direct copying is supported between any two 8-bit registers and between any 8-bit register and a HL-addressed memory cell.

In his 1920 book, Direct Action, William Mellor placed direct action firmly in the struggle between worker and employer for control " over the economic life of society.

NJ Transit currently operates weekday rail service between Netcong and Hoboken Terminal, with service to Penn Station in New York City via Midtown Direct.

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 to Physician-A engagement and transaction channel directly between health care companies and physicians

Direct travel between mainland China and Kinmen re-opened in 2001, and there has been extensive tourism development on the island in anticipation of mainland tourists.

Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.

Direct observation procedures are also used in research, for example to study the relationship between intrapsychic variables and specific target behaviors, or to explore sequences of behavioral interaction.

Then followed the rapid succession of the last Direct Capetian kings of France between 1314 and 1328, the three sons of Philip IV.

* Direct branches of the vertebral artery: The vertebral artery supplies an area between the other two main arteries, including the nucleus solitarius and other sensory nuclei and fibers.

Godalming railway station is on the Portsmouth Direct Line between London ( Waterloo ) and Portsmouth, and is served by South West Trains.

Direct comparison is, however, almost impossible due to the sheer size differences between the two media.

The evening before Al-Sistani arrived in the city, two F-16's, flying out of Balad, dropped four two-thousand pound JDAMs ( Joint Direct Attack Munitions ) on two hotels in close proximity to the Imam Ali Shrine.

Three APIs are available — a Direct Persistence Layer which is " Plain Old Java Objects " ( POJO ); one which is based on the Java Collections Framework ( an object persistence approach ); and one based on the traditional Berkeley DB API.

Direct current ( DC ) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.

Direct current is produced by sources such as batteries, thermocouples, solar cells, and commutator-type electric machines of the dynamo type.

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 contempt is an unacceptable act in the presence of the judge ( in facie curiae ), and generally begins with a warning, and may be accompanied by an immediate imposition of punishment.

Direct contempt is distinctly different from indirect contempt, wherein another individual may file papers alleging contempt against a person who has willfully violated a lawful court order.

# Direct contempt is that which occurs in the presence of the presiding judge ( in facie curiae ) and may be dealt with summarily: the judge notifies the offending party that he or she has acted in a manner which disrupts the tribunal and prejudices the administration of justice.

Direct microscopy of stool is not recommended, as it is unreliable.

The Direct Examination or Examination-in-Chief is one stage in the process of adducing evidence from witnesses in a court of law.

Direct examination is the questioning of a witness by the party who called him or her, in a trial.

Direct examination is usually performed to elicit evidence in support of facts which will satisfy a required element of a party's claim or defense.

Direct or substantive dyeing is normally carried out in a neutral or slightly alkaline dyebath, at or near boiling point, with the addition of either sodium chloride ( NaCl ) or sodium sulfate ( Na < sub > 2 </ sub > SO < sub > 4 </ sub >) or sodium carbonate ( Na < sub > 2 </ sub > CO < sub > 3 </ sub >).

Direct current, as produced by example from a battery and required by most electronic devices, is a unidirectional flow from the positive part of a circuit to the negative.

Fox News Channel is currently offered by Access Communications, Bell TV, Cogeco, Eastlink, Manitoba Telecom Services, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct and Telus TV.

Direct Democracy is pervasive in representative assemblies and small-government units.

Direct information about a consumer ’ s willingness to pay is rarely available.

Direct linkage is available with Mozambique, however, which has the same gauge track.

* Round-tripping: Money is deposited in a controlled foreign corporation offshore, preferably in a Tax haven where minimal records are kept, and then shipped back as a Foreign Direct Investment, exempt from taxation.

Mars Direct is a proposal for a manned mission to Mars that is designed to be both cost-effective and possible with current technology.

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.

* 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.

* In the West Wing episode " The Warfare of Genghis Khan ", a NASA staffer describes Mars Direct to the skeptical White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman and is able to convince him of its merit.