S Your new gas furnace may have been installed in one of two. ways, as a direct-vent (2-pipe-Fig. 2) application or as a. non-direct vent (1-pipe-Fig. 3) application. S In a direct-vent (2-pipe) application,your furnace uses air. from outside the home for combustion and ventsflue gas to the. outdoors.
For the biological concept, see Anti-predator adaptation. A defence mechanism is an unconscious psychological mechanism that reduces anxiety arising from unacceptable or potentially harmful stimuli. Sigmund Freud was one of the first proponents of this construct.
The idea behind the defense in depth approach is to defend a system against any particular attack using several independent methods. It is a layering tactic, conceived by the National Security Agency (NSA) as a comprehensive approach to information and electronic security.