conducting trials. Two leading forms of direct democracy are participatory democracy and deliberative democracy. Semi-direct democracies, in which representatives...

group theory, the concept of a semidirect product is a generalization of a direct product. There are two closely related concepts of semidirect product: an...

Mars Direct is a proposal for a human mission to Mars which purports to be both cost-effective and possible with current technology. It was originally...

hosted at the manufacturing facility in Nevada. PepsiCo received the first Semis of their large order for use with Pepsi beverage and Frito-Lay snack food...

human rights in addition to competitive elections. In a direct democracy, the people have the direct authority to deliberate and decide legislation. In a...

occurs through several distinct mechanisms which are split into direct, indirect and semi-direct aerosol effects. The aerosol climate effects are the biggest...

prime both direct and indirect T lymphocytes by expressing both self- MHC and allo- MHC peptides derived from donor passenger APCs. Semi-direct alloantigen...

Direct election is a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the persons or political party that they...

the state's policies, motives, and goals. The concept is also related to semi-democracy, also known as anocracy. In a guided democracy, the government...

Some such types, defined as direct democracy (or participatory democracy, or deliberative democracy), promote equal and direct participation in political...

A direct-shift gearbox (DSG, German: Direktschaltgetriebe) is an electronically controlled, dual-clutch, multiple-shaft, automatic gearbox, in either a...

envelope in the Six degrees of freedom. These types are Direct, Semi-direct (conditional) and Non-direct, all regardless of the time remaining for the execution...

M is semi-simple if and only if it is the direct sum of simple modules (the trivial module is the empty direct sum). Finally, R is called a semi-simple...

non-abelian groups. For p ≠ 2, one is a semi-direct product of Cp × Cp with Cp, and the other is a semi-direct product of Cp2 with Cp. The first one can...

heavy, Robert Zubrin proposed in 1993 a "semi-direct" scenario, in which the outbound trip is still direct to the surface but the return is split into...

stoves. Direct effect Black carbon particles directly absorb sunlight and reduce the planetary albedo when suspended in the atmosphere. Semi-direct effect...

together make the Lorentz group (see also Lorentz invariance); the semi-direct product of the translations group and the Lorentz group then produce...

non-stop/direct train between Paris and CDG2 Mission E, (EFLA, ERGE, etc.) for CDG2 Local train between St Remy and Massy, rapid/semi-direct train between...

trivial automorphism, so the only semi-direct product of N {\displaystyle N} and G / N {\displaystyle G\,/\,N} is the direct product. Since Z 4 {\displaystyle...

field artillery role to support manoeuvre forces with indirect, semi direct and direct fire. The D-30 entered Soviet service in 1963 and is sometimes referred...

In mathematics, specifically in group theory, the direct product is an operation that takes two groups G and H and constructs a new group, usually denoted...

The design is based on the AR-15, M16 and C7 rifles, but has a unique semi-direct gas impingement system and a folding stock option. The design was originally...

the turn utilize ramps that make a direct or semi-direct connection. The difference between direct and semi-direct connections is how much the motorist...

essence of politics is the distinction of 'friend' from foe'. This is in direct contrast to the more co-operative views of politics by Aristotle and Crick...

assets and foreign trade), political (direct intervention by the imperialist country in the political affairs of the semi-colony to secure client-regimes)...

roots and on the roots of unity, giving a non-abelian Galois group as semi-direct product. The Kummer theory gives a complete description of the abelian...

both (analogous to hemiballismus). Chorea is characterized by brief, semi-directed, irregular movements that are not repetitive or rhythmic, but appear...

affect their lives, rather than through elected representatives. Elements of direct and representative democracy are combined in this model. Participatory democracy...

practises direct democracy in parallel with representative democracy, which is why the Swiss system is known as a semi-direct democracy. Direct democracy...

up of a powered semi-tractor and one or more semitrailers are known as "semis", "semitrailers", "tractor-trailers", "big rigs", "semi-trucks", "eighteen-wheelers"...