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.
National Defense Strategy (NDS) - The Secretary of Defense uses the NDS to address how the Armed Forces of the United States will fight and win America's wars and describes how DOD will support the objectives outlined in the NSS.