The system, adopted during the Communist administration of the 1980's, gives five of the 30 or so provincial governors responsibility for security in their surrounding regions.
Iñigo Meirás, the chief executive of Ferrovial, said: "As a longstanding investor in the UK, we are aware of the importance of these airports for the population in their surrounding areas.
Theroux delivers richer prose than Michener, subtler insights and slyer dilemmas, but he resembles the late mass-market master of narrative geography by treating societies as his true protagonists while giving his characters (in his novels, at least) the auxiliary role of inciting, observing or acting out the conflicts latent in their surrounding cultures.
Things/objects become communicant and can also store information on and in their surrounding environment.
Since plants are stationary having large size and high leaf area, they are prone to exposure to a wide range of nanoparticles available in their surrounding environment [39].
This sensor layer is usually defined by open-ended (unrestricted) collection of sensors embedded in urban systems and spread in their surrounding environment.
MRI contrast agents incorporate materials that influence local magnetic fields in their surrounding tissue, thus affecting the nuclear relaxation times used to generate MR images.
In cooperative communications when the transmitters send their messages to the destination, the free users present in their surrounding also receive that message.
Lungless salamanders, Lips explains, are highly sensitive to changes in their surrounding environment because of the way they breathe through their skin.
Rats code small changes in their surrounding environment by modifying neural activity in the dentate gyrus and code larger differences by activating neurons in an adjacent area.
Large areas of habitat are being fenced globally to restore and relocate species that can no longer survive in their surrounding landscapes, such as because of introduced predators.
