Barcelona is the transport hub with one of Europe's principal ports, Barcelona international airport, which handles above 34 million passengers per year, extensive motorway network and also is a hub of high-speed rail, particularly that which is intended to link Spain with France and the rest of Europe as the second longest in the world.

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

This is particularly so in Sydney and Melbourne, where headways on many lines in the core of the network reach 3 – 5 minutes in peaks and 10 – 20 minutes off peak ( about 18 hours a day ) and enter an underground loop for passenger distribution in the city centre ; and where ridership per capita exceeds the sum of metro and commuter rail in comparable North American urban areas such as Toronto, Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area.

Road transport in Finland is the most popular method of transportation, particularly in rural areas where the railway network does not extend to.

In September 1979, the civilian government of Hilla Limann inherited declining per capita income ; stagnant industrial and agricultural production due to inadequate imported supplies ; shortages of imported and locally produced goods ; a sizable budget deficit ( almost 40 % of expenditures in 1979 ); high inflation, " moderating " to 54 % in 1979 ; an increasingly overvalued cedi ; flourishing smuggling and other black-market activities ; unemployment and underemployment, particularly among urban youth ; deterioration in the transport network ; and continued foreign exchange constraints.

This network would have enabled easy access by road to the neighbouring countries of Brazil, Venezuela and Surinam ; reduced the costs of utilising the country's timber and natural resources, thus making them more competitive in international markets ; diversified agricultural development by making more easily available suitable areas in the hinterland, particularly in the Intermediate and Rupununi savannahs ; relieved the over-crowded coastland of a significant proportion of its population, thus improving the quality of life of the inhabitants of both the coastal and interior areas ; and made more feasible the equitable distribution of economic activity, not only in the agricultural but also in the manufacturing and small-industries sector.

Throughout the Civil War, the Confederacy maintained a network of underground operators in southern Maryland, particularly Charles and St. Mary's counties, smuggling recruits across the Potomac River into Virginia and relaying messages for Confederate agents as far north as Canada.

Microsoft and 3Com worked together to create a simple network operating system which formed the base of 3Com's 3 + Share, Microsoft's LAN Manager and IBM's LAN Server-but none of these were particularly successful.

RCA cameras and studio gear, particularly of the TK-40 / 41 series, became standard equipment at many American television network affiliates, as RCA CT-100 (" RCA Merrill " to dealers ) television sets introduced color television to the public.

The property of not needing to access a reference count when a reference is copied is particularly helpful when the object's reference count is expensive to access, for example because it is in another process, on disk, or even across a network.

Second, technological changes, particularly the dramatic fall in information communication costs, which are a significant component of transaction costs, have led to changes in coordination among the members of the supply chain network ( Coase, 1998 ).

Petty crime, however, is more common, particularly in the form of pickpocketing, which occurs mainly on the city's public transport network.

The region has a good network of roads but the railway network is somewhat inadequate, particularly in the south.

A review of descriptions of the scope of various committees indicates that while facility planning and design continue to be the core of the transportation engineering field, such areas as operations planning, logistics, network analysis, financing, and policy analysis are also important to civil engineers, particularly to those working in highway and urban transportation.

In 2009, this theory received strong support, with research showing " conclusively that loss of newly formed blood vessels is the primary cause of thalidomide teratogenesis, and developing limbs are particularly susceptible because of their relatively immature, highly angiogenic vessel network ".

Reed's law is the assertion of David P. Reed that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network.

The network ’ s defenders note that the CBC ’ s mandate differs from private media ’ s, particularly in its focus on Canadian content ; that much of the public funding actually goes to the radio networks ; and that the CBC is responsible for the full cost of most of its prime-time programming, while private networks can fill up most of their prime-time schedules with American series acquired for a fraction of their production cost.

NAPLPS ' ability to draw complex graphics was particularly interesting to U. S. vendors, as it allowed them to draw network or advertiser logos.

However, the vast construction costs of the Shinkansen network, particularly the later, less profitable lines often driven more by political interference than actual demand, imposed vast debt servicing costs on JNR that, by 1971, made JNR unprofitable even before depreciation.

The biggest caveat of the syndicated / ABC coverage is that the network had wanted to reserve some of the biggest acts that had played earlier in the day for certain points in the entire broadcast, particularly in the final three hours in prime time ; thus, Orbis Communications had some sequences replaced by others, especially those portions of the concert that had acts from London and Philadelphia playing simultaneously.

His power was based around his household, particularly the network of lawyers and stewards who held his estates together.

For kinescopes, 16 mm film was the common choice by most studios because of the lower cost of stock and film processing, but in the larger network markets, it was not uncommon to see 35 mm kinescopes, particularly for national rebroadcast.

However, the plan was scaled back dramatically, particularly as only one night of primetime programming debuted as the network launched ; and by September 1995, The WB added only one additional night ( Sundays ), plus a three-hour Saturday morning and one-hour weekday morning children's block.

Apollo's networking was particularly elegant, among the first to allow demand paging over the network, and allowing a degree of network transparency and low sysadmin-to-machine ratio.

Much of the press objected strongly to the setting up of a public airline network, seeing it as a form of socialisation by stealth.

According to television historians Castleman and Podrazik ( 1982 ), critics objected to CBS's rural sitcom-heavy schedule, particularly the Gomer Pyle character, but the " high ratings earned by the silly gimmicks and simpleton heroes would assure rural sitcoms spots in the network schedules for years.

Fox network executives objected, and asked that Mal be " lightened up ".

The network initially objected to offensive remarks made by sports commentators in the episode, but the comments were kept in at the insistence of Parker and Stone.

In Boston at the show's beginning, the program was only carried with its audio on a low-rated AM radio station, as the network had not yet purchased their station in the market, which remained under Christian Broadcasting Network ownership that objected to the show's content.

When network censors cut a joke about a " water closet " ( the British term for a toilet ), on February 11, 1960, he received national attention by leaving the show and did not return until three weeks later.

Official Fox News spokesman Paul Schur later said it was intended to be an internal joke not for publication, and the network apologized for the piece, but only on its website, and only through a tag on the article in which these quotes appeared.

The jingle was widely circulated to network staff and even sent out to local affiliates on cassettes as a joke at Christmas-time.

This led one fan to joke about the A's radio network stretching all the way to Hawaii by asking, " Honolulu?

As an inside joke to the fact that an ABC television show was being recorded at a rival network, each show's opening announcement stated, " from the ABC Broadcast Center in New York, it's The ________ Dana Carvey Show!

The NBC network, for which Brinkley worked, had some " Brinkley for Vice President " buttons made, which the news team wore as a joke.

Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.

Sipping their coffee, discussing the weather, the day's shopping, Fritzie's commitments at the network ( all of which he would cancel ), they avoided the radio, the morning TV news show, even the front page of the Santa Luisa Register, resting on the kitchen bar.

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

I hope it can be said without boasting that no other nation offers its vacationing motorists such variety and beauty of scene, such an excellent network of roads on which to enjoy it and such decent, far-flung over-night accommodations.

From 2004 to 2005, Japanese TV network NHK produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which features both Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

From Cluny the custom spread to the other houses of the Cluniac order, which became the largest and most extensive network of monasteries in Europe.

Due to the low level of investment in cross-border railway projects, the city has preserved a slot within the Thalys high-speed train network which uses existing tracks on its last 70 km from Belgium to Cologne.

The King ran an office for captives from the Royal Palace, which leveraged the Spanish diplomatic and military network abroad to intercede for thousands of prisoners-of-war, receiving and answering letters from Europe.

The considerable distance between the Descartes site and previous Apollo landing sites would be beneficial for the network of geophysical instruments, portions of which were deployed on each Apollo expedition beginning with Apollo 12.

Atomic Semantics is a term which describes the guarantees provided by a data register shared by several processors in a parallel machine or in a network of computers working together.

The thickness of the aorta encourages an extensive network of tiny blood vessels called vasa vasorum, which feed the outer layers of the aorta.

JBK has pushed the concept of " regional " heathenry as opposed to national " internet heathenry ", and has formed an active network of " Midwest Tribes " which if organized would be one of the largest organizations in America, regularly drawing attendance of over 200 to their yearly event ( Lighting Across the Plains ).

The NBP lists were examined and displayed by a program known as the Chooser which would display a list of machines on the local network, divided into classes such as file-servers and printers.

RTMP was the protocol by which routers kept each other informed about the topology of the network.

ZIP was the protocol by which AppleTalk network numbers were associated with zone names.

The term suggests that its followers support protectionism and / or nationalism, which is not always the case-in fact, some supporters of anti-globalization are strong opponents of both nationalism and protectionism: for example, the No Border network argues for unrestricted migration and the abolition of all national border controls.

PNNI also includes a very powerful summarization mechanism to allow construction of very large networks, as well as a call admission control ( CAC ) algorithm which determines the availability of sufficient bandwidth on a proposed route through a network in order to satisfy the service requirements of a VC or VP.

An Electronic Serial Number is a packet of data which is sent by the handset to the cellular system for billing purposes, effectively identifying that phone on the network.

The person could then input that data into the Oki 900 phone and reboot it, after which the phone network could not distinguish the Oki from the original phone whose signal had been received.

Telstra deployed a CDMA network, which did not suffer this limitation, and while the AMPS network was closed down at the end of 1999 in the major cities, the closure deadline was extended until the end of 2000 in rural areas to ease the transition to CDMA.

Many file archivers employ archive formats that provide lossless data compression to reduce the size of the archive which is often useful for transferring a large number of individual files over a high latency network like the Internet.

His early work in scrutinizing the use of local, exchange and trunk telephone line usage in a small community, to understand the theoretical requirements of an efficient network led to the creation of the Erlang formula, which became a foundational element of present day telecommunication network studies.