Environment-current issues: government water control projects have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers ; a once sizable population of Shi ' a Muslims, who have inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been displaced ; furthermore, the destruction of the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations ; inadequate supplies of potable water ; development of Tigris-Euphrates Rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey ; air and water pollution ; soil degradation ( salination ) and erosion ; and desertification.

In yeast, the most important are: UAF ( upstream activating factor ), TBP ( tata-box binding protein ), and CF ( core factor ), which bind promoter elements and form the preinitiation complex ( PIC ), which is in turn recognized by RNA pol.

Just upstream from the Kalambo Falls, which is in Zambia, there is one of the most important archaeological sites in Africa.

The most important upslope factor in determining flood magnitude is the land area of the watershed upstream of the area of interest.

Time of Concentration is the time required for runoff from the most distant point of the upstream drainage area to reach the point of the drainage channel controlling flooding of the area of interest.

( The most extreme case of tracking was in the Three Gorges in China where all boats had to be pulled upstream against the current of the Yangtze River.

The river is navigable for most of its length, and dredging enables ocean ships to go as far as Ciudad Bolívar, at the confluence of the Caroní River, upstream.

Colorado's Front Range cities and agriculture interests upstream have acquired most of the water rights, and the groundwater aquifers are drying up ; Kiowa County faces ever-decreasing water supplies and further economic decline.

Network hardware, software and specifications, as well as the expertise of network management personnel are important in ensuring that data follows the most efficient route, and upstream connections work reliably.

In the absence of a ferry or a bridge, most of these followed the Loup for a considerable distance upstream before attempting a crossing: the first major wave of Mormon emigrants, for instance, continued up that river to a point about three miles downstream from present-day Fullerton.

The area's most famous sections of the Colorado are West Water Canyon which is upstream from Moab and Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park which is downstream.

His 180-pound frame stretched 6 ' 3 ″ in height, and the muscles required to force a keelboat upstream would have made him a formidable opponent to most.

Trout tend to face upstream and most of their food is carried to them on the current.

With T-Mobile USA acquiring the 2. 1 GHz AWS band ( old MDS band ) in most areas of the country, which is used for the modem upstream in MMDS DOCSIS, the future of this kind of service in the USA is in doubt.

The most common upstream links in these DSLAMs use Gigabit Ethernet or multi-gigabit fiber optic links.

The national park itself contains the deepest and most dramatic section of the canyon, but the canyon continues upstream into the Curecanti National Recreation Area and downstream into the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area.

: Bounded easterly by the Gulf of St. Lawrence and northerly, westerly and southerly by the following described bounds: Beginning at a point in the most western extremity of a twenty acre lot granted to F. Vienneau, situated at the easterly entrance of the Tracadie Lagoon ; thence northwesterly in a direct line across said Lagoon to the mouth of LeBouthillier Brook ; thence in a northwesterly direction following the various courses of said brook upstream to Highway 11 leading from Tracadie to Pokemouche ; thence in a direct line to the northeast angle of lot number one hundred and forty-five, granted to Dosite Landry, situated on the north side of the Saint-Isidore Road ; thence in a westerly direction along the north limit of said lot to a point where the same is intersected by a direct line extending from the southeast angle of lot number one hundred and forty-four, granted to Dos.

Activating mutations of the Ras protein and upstream elements of the Ras protein may play a role in more than two thirds of all human cancers, including most metastatic disease.

The Mormons also made many attempts to construct dams on the river to provide irrigation water — as far upstream as the confluence of the river's forks and as far downstream as below Grand Falls — but most of them failed because of the Little Colorado's fickle variations in discharge.

The most difficult rapids in this segment rate Class III and Class IV, mostly upstream of El Portal.

This short canal allowed ships to turn upstream into the Niagara River directly and avoid the most severe currents.

The Eagle is navigable by typical small river craft upstream to Vail in most years.

* Real-time river flow at the upstream most gage, Dickey, Maine, or St. Clair, New Brunswick.

The most notable parks on the Sandy River ( going upstream ) are Glenn Otto Park, Lewis and Clark State Recreation Site ( boat ramp ), Dabney State Recreation Area ( boat ramp + parking fees ), Oxbow Regional Park ( boat ramp + parking fees ) and Dodge Park.

The anchor needs to hold the vessel in all weathers, including the most severe storm, but only occasionally, or never, needs to be lifted, only, for example, if the vessel is to be towed into port for maintenance.

The port of Alicante has been reinventing itself since the industrial decline the city suffered in the 1980s ( with most mercantile traffic lost to Valencia's harbour ).

In recent years, the Port Authority has established it as one of the most important ports in Spain for cruises, with 72 calls to port made by cruise ships in 2007 bringing some 80, 000 passengers and 30, 000 crew to the city each year.

The 17th-century rise of Britain's American colonies and the rapid 18th-century expansion of the Atlantic slave trade had made Bristol an important international sea port, and Teach was most likely raised in what was the second-largest city in England.

Ten minutes after the French opened fire Goliath, ignoring fire from the fort to starboard and from Guerrier to port, most of which was too high to trouble the ship, crossed the head of the French line.

Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.

; most of the country's imports pass through the port of Douala, before being transported by truck to C. A. R ..

The JSAN is a near-direct port of the CPAN infrastructure for use with the JavaScript language, which for most of its lifespan did not have a cohesive " community ".

Because this internal 1571 does not have an unused 8-bit input / output port on any chip, unlike most other Commodore drives, it is not possible to install a parallel cable in this drive, such as that used by SpeedDOS, Dolphin DOS and some other fast third-party Commodore DOS replacements.

For example Bukavu itself and Goma and other north-eastern towns are linked by paved road from the DRC border to the Kenyan port of Mombasa, and most goods for these cities have been brought via this route in recent years.

* Haina Occidental Port, located just 20 km west of Santo Domingo, is one of the most important port in the Dominican Republic.

Darwin has grown from a pioneer outpost and small port into one of Australia's most modern and multicultural cities.

The port is actually a Composite Video port and can be used to connect the Dragon 32 to most modern TVs to deliver a much better picture.

The city also functions as the main port of entry into the country, with international airport, La Aurora International Airport and most major highways in the country originating or leading to the city.

The main port of Georgetown, located at the mouth of the Demerara River, comprises several wharves, most of which are privately owned.

The most important port is Budapest, the capital.

Hamburg was the departure port for most Germans and Eastern Europeans to emigrate to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

While this port shares the FMV scenes and most of the Redbook audio music from the other CD-ROM versions, it has some new music tracks.

Shipping goods ahead, Audubon and Rozier started a general store in Louisville, Kentucky ; on the Ohio River, it was the most important port between Pittsburgh and New Orleans.

Kuwait's most prominent geographic feature is Kuwait Bay, which indents the shoreline for about forty kilometers, providing natural protection for the port of Kuwait and accounting for nearly onehalf the state's shoreline.

A major port, through which pass most of Taiwan's marine imports and exports, is located at the city but is not managed by the city government.

During the nineteenth century the town of Beirut became the most important port of the region, supplanting Acre further to the south.

The need for impersonal terms is most clearly seen in a rowing shell where the majority of the crew face aft (" backwards ") and the oars to their right are actually on the port side.