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The presence or lack of access by road or trail has a direct and controlling influence on all phases of forest management and utilization such as: ( A )
Korzybski thought that people do not have access to direct knowledge of reality ; rather they have access to perceptions and to a set of beliefs which human society has confused with direct knowledge of reality.
At its core, the Amiga has a custom chipset consisting of several coprocessors, which handle audio, video and direct memory access independently of the Central Processing Unit ( CPU ).
Each chipset consists of several coprocessors which handle graphics acceleration, digital audio, direct memory access and communication between various peripherals ( e. g., CPU, memory and floppy disks ).
Paula can read directly from the system's RAM, using direct memory access ( DMA ), making sound playback without CPU intervention possible.
Routines that needed to be as fast or required direct access to arbitrary functions or data in memory could thus be called from a higher-level interpreted BASIC program.
Some of the earliest examples of this technology implemented input / output processing such as direct memory access as a separate thread from the computation thread.
Costa Rica major economic resources are its fertile land and frequent rainfall, its well-educated population, and its location in the Central American isthmus, which provides easy access to North and South American markets and direct ocean access to the European and Asian Continents.
Slovenia is disputing Croatia's claim to establish an economic section of the Adriatic, requiring direct access to the international waters.
Although Connecticut has a long maritime history, and a reputation based on that history, Connecticut has no direct access to the sea.
Although Connecticut has easy access to the Atlantic, between Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound, Connecticut has no direct ocean coast.
Others use smart controllers to place the data directly in memory, a concept known as direct memory access.
provides direct filesystem access to the registry.
They argued that the Old Covenant required a priest to mediate between God and humanity, but that New Covenant explicitly abolishes the need for priestly role by making every Christian a priest with direct access to God's grace.
Figure ( c ) shows a parallel system in which each processor has a direct access to a shared memory.
** allowing the operating system direct access to hardware resources
While Eiffel does not allow direct access to the features of a class by a client of the class, it does allow for the definition of an " assigner command ", such as:
While a slight bow to the overall developer community to allow something looking like direct access ( e. g. thereby breaking the Information Hiding Principle ), the practice is dangerous as it hides or obfuscates the reality of a " setter " being used.
In practice, it is better to read the direct call to a setter rather than implying a direct access to a feature like as in the example code above.
Pivoting refers to method used by penetration testers that uses compromised system to attack other systems on the same network to avoid restrictions such as firewall configurations, which may prohibit direct access to all machines.

direct and capability
A key marketing capability is tracking and measuring multichannel campaigns, including email, search, social media, telephone and direct mail.
The NATO definition extends to " all crew-portable direct fire weapons of a calibre less than 50 mm and will include a secondary capability to defeat light armour and helicopters.
The central agency would have the necessary statistics on the economy, as well as the capability of using statistics to direct production.
* Mobile logistics-ships that have the capability to provide direct material support to other deployed units operating far from home base.
Robotic missions do not require an abort capability or radiation minimization, and because modern launchers routinely meet " instantaneous " launch windows, space probes to the moon and other planets generally use direct injection to maximize performance.
Perhaps the most significant capability of GDI over more direct methods of accessing the hardware are its scaling capabilities, and its abstract representation of target devices.
Followup attacks on Nichols, Nielson, and Del Carmen fields followed in the next two days, destroying both the offensive and defensive operational capability of the FEAF, and a decision was made late on 10 December to save the surviving fighters for reconnaissance and avoid direct combat.
The Soyuz project was intended to rejuvenate the program with docking capability for spacecraft: forging a direct physical link between two independent craft would be the basis for the Soviet space station program.
* Sound: SN76489 variant, T6W28 ( 3 square wave tone generators with limited stereo capability + 1 monaural noise generator + direct access to the two 6 bits DAC ).
While the Eisenhower administration did not adopt the Army's position, by the time Wilson left office it did accept both the need to prepare for limited war and the idea that deterrence of a direct attack on U. S. interests required " sufficient " rather than " superior " retaliatory capability.
Any state able to direct its military forces outside the limited bounds of its territory might be said to have some level of power projection capability, but the term itself is used most frequently in reference to militaries with a worldwide reach ( or at least significantly broader than a state's immediate area ).
A Category A service is a Canadian specialty television channel which, as defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, must be carried by all digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers that have the capability to do so.
The path creates a virtual access capability that circumvents the normal inputs and outputs, providing direct control of the device and detailed visibility for signals.
Most assemblers provide some sort of macro capability: the advantage that HLA offers over other assemblers is that it is capable of processing macro arguments like " r: 10: 2 " using HLA's extensive compile-time string functions, and HLA's macro facilities can figure out the types of variables and use that information to direct macro expansion.
Although TTM can vary widely, all that matters is an organization's TTM capability relative to its direct competitors.
The Dual Mode P32AC-DM is unique not only because of its third-rail capability, but also because it is equipped with GE's GEB15 AC ( alternating current ) traction motors, rather than DC ( direct current ) motors as used in the other subtypes.
In the US, the capability to talk simplex on a duplex channel with a repeater is sometimes called talk-around, direct, or car-to-car.
Any state able to direct its military forces outside the limited bounds of its territory might be said to have some level of power projection capability, but the term itself is used most frequently in reference to militaries with a worldwide reach ( or at least significantly broader than a state's immediate area ).
The M-System II covers, known as the " throwing stars " did not have as much capability to direct air to the brake assemblies.
Recent archaeological research shows that Neanderthals had the capability and tools for face painting ; although they are no longer considered a direct ancestor of homo sapiens, they lived alongside them in some areas and it is a reasonable assumption that humanity has painted faces and bodies since the very beginning.
* Negative index metamaterials, metamaterials which have the capability to direct and regulate wave propagation due to their negative refractive index
The original 53C90 lacked direct memory access ( DMA ) capability, an omission that was addressed in the 53C90A and subsequent versions.
The path creates a virtual access capability that circumvents the normal inputs and provides direct control of the device and detailed visibility at its outputs.
The temperatures at which linear coal-fueled MHD generators can operate are limited by factors that include: ( a ) the combustion fuel, oxidizer, and oxidizer preheat temperature which limit the maximum temperature of the cycle ; ( b ) the ability to protect the sidewalls and electrodes from melting ; ( c ) the ability to protect the electrodes from electrochemical attack from the hot slag coating the walls combined with the high current or arcs that impinge on the electrodes as they carry off the direct current from the plasma ; and ( d ) by the capability of the electrical insulators between each electrode.

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