This disorder is characterized by the progressive loss of photoreceptor cells and may eventually lead to blindness.

* Anton – Babinski syndrome: A condition characterized by denial of blindness in lesions of the occipital lobe.

This inherited disease is characterized by the accumulation of lipid-containing cells in the viscera and in the nervous system, mental retardation, and impaired vision or blindness.

LCA is typically characterized by nystagmus, sluggish or no pupillary responses, and severe vision loss or blindness.

In practical terms, however, since most of us are spontaneously self-centered, Buddhism encourages us to focus love and compassion on others, and thus can be characterized as " altruistic.

Many definitions of art have been proposed by philosophers and others who have characterized art in terms of mimesis, expression, communication of emotion, or other values.

He then characterized these programs in terms of various common constructs: procedure calls, pointer indirections, assignments, etc.

Dialectical materialism is essentially characterized by the thesis that history is the product of class struggles and follows the general Hegelian principle of philosophy of history, that is the development of the thesis into its antithesis which is sublated by the Aufhebung (" synthesis "), although this three-part process was not explicitly characterized in terms of a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in Hegel's writings.

The time scale represented by T < sub > eph </ sub > has been characterized as a relativistic coordinate time that differs from Terrestrial Time only by small periodic terms with an amplitude not exceeding 2 milliseconds of time: it is linearly related to, but distinct ( by an offset and constant rate which is of the order of 0. 5 sec / yr ) from the TCB time scale adopted in 1991 as a standard by the IAU.

However, the term " flagellate " is included in other terms ( such as " dinoflagellate " and " zooflagellate ") which often are more formally characterized.

Paul averred that they were being saved by the gospel, and he characterized it in the simplest terms, emphasizing Christ's appearances after the Resurrection ( 15. 3 – 8 ):

Gems are characterized in terms of refractive index, dispersion, specific gravity, hardness, cleavage, fracture, and luster.

Perhaps in more basic terms, the habitus could be understood as a structure of the mind characterized by a set of acquired schemata, sensibilities, dispositions and taste.

He is characterized as thoughtful and intelligent, a kind-hearted young man who is on good terms with feuding family members Noah and Lamech, with the seraphim, and with visiting time travelers Sandy and Dennys Murry.

It is also the case that, while often being characterized in purely negative terms, some mental traits or states labeled as disorders can also involve above-average creativity, non-conformity, goal-striving, meticulousness, or empathy.

The extrinsic performance of the system is then characterized in terms of its utility with respect to the overall task of the complex system or the human user.

For this closure is characterized in terms of limits of filter bases: if Y is a subset of X and z is a point of X, then z is in the closure of Y if and only if there exists a filter base B consisting of subsets of Y which converges to z.

Volta characterized the emf of a pair of metals in terms of the difference in their voltages, which he could measure.

The oneness of God is perceived in androgynous terms as the pairing of male and female, the former characterized as the capacity to overflow and the latter as the potential to receive.

In astronomy, the radiation from stars and planets is sometimes characterized in terms of an effective temperature, the temperature of a black body that would emit the same total flux of electromagnetic energy.

Coptic's most noticeable linguistic impact has been on the various dialects of Egyptian Arabic, which is characterized by a Coptic substratum in terms of lexical, morphological, syntactical, and phonological features.

# Their residents have a strong sense of shared values, often characterized in spiritual terms.

An optical illusion is always characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading.

The behavior of a trusted system is often characterized in terms of a mathematical model — which may be more or less rigorous, depending upon applicable operational and administrative constraints — that takes the form of a finite state machine ( FSM ) with state criteria ; state transition constraints ; a set of " operations " that correspond to state transitions ( usually, but not necessarily, one ); and a descriptive top-level specification, or DTLS, entailing a user-perceptible interface ( e. g., an API, a set of system calls UNIX parlance or system exits Mainframe computer | mainframe parlance ), each element of which engenders one or more model operations.

As such, in the Western world, since the late 18th century, the bourgeoisie describes a social class " characterized by their ownership of capital, and their related culture "; hence, the personal terms bourgeois ( masculine, pronounced bo ͝ orˈZHwä ) and bourgeoise ( feminine, pronounced bo ͝ orˈZHwäz ) culturally identify the man or woman who is a member of the wealthiest social class in capitalist societies.

In a similar vein, essayist David Quint contends that " with Cleopatra the opposition between East and West is characterized in terms of gender: the otherness of the Easterner becomes the otherness of the opposite sex ".

The performance of early core memories can be characterized in today's terms as being very roughly comparable to a clock rate of 1 MHz ( equivalent to early 1980s home computers, like the Apple II and Commodore 64 ).

Hofstadter's writing is characterized by an intense interaction between form and content, as is exemplified by the 20 dialogues in GEB, many of which simultaneously talk about and imitate strict musical forms used by Bach, such as canons and fugues.

Stage N3 ( deep or slow-wave sleep ) is characterized by the presence of a minimum of 20 % delta waves ranging from 0. 5 – 2 Hz and having a peak-to-peak amplitude > 75 μV.

Real mode is characterized by a 20 bit segmented memory address space ( giving exactly 1 MiB of addressable memory ) and unlimited direct software access to all memory, I / O addresses and peripheral hardware.

# Second phase ( 4 to 20 hours after exposure ), characterized by stupor with ataxia and hyperthermia.

The initial phase is characterized by Dst ( or its one-minute component SYM-H ) increasing by 20 to 50 nT in tens of minutes.

In 1998, Time magazine characterized Luciano as the " criminal mastermind " among the top 20 most influential builders and titans of the 20th century.

This host response has been termed systemic inflammatory response syndrome ( SIRS ) and is characterized by an elevated heart rate ( above 90 beats per minute ), high respiratory rate ( above 20 breaths per minute or a partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the blood of less than 32 ), abnormal white blood cell count ( above 12, 000, lower than 4, 000, or greater than 10 % band forms ) and elevated or lowered body temperature, i. e. under or over.

Forchheimer's sign occurs in 20 % of cases, and is characterized by small, red papules on the area of the soft palate.

The 20 million basepair genome assembly contains 8, 160 predicted genes ; known and novel transposable elements have been mapped and characterized, functional assignments have been revised and updated, and additional information has been incorporated, including metabolic pathways, Gene Ontology assignments, curation of transporters, and generation of gene families.

The Eephus pitch is thrown overhand like most pitches, but is characterized by an unusual, high arcing trajectory with a peak around 20 – 25 feet.

# If n is given a particular setting ( e. g. n = 20 ), but p is allowed to vary, a family of binomial distributions arises, characterized by the parameter p.

In the following game, using the " hedgehog " formation he in part originated ( characterized by a half-open c-file and pawns on a6, b6, d6, and e6, knights on d7 and f6, bishops on b7 and e7, a rook on c8, and kingside castling ), Andersson inflicts upon Anatoly Karpov the latter's first loss as world champion: Karpov – Andersson, Milan 1975 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5 d6 6. c4 Nf6 7. N1c3 a6 8. Na3 Be7 9. Be2 0-0 10. 0-0 b6 11. Be3 Bb7 12. Rc1 Re8 13. Qb3 Nd7 14. Rfd1 Rc8 15. Rd2 Qc7 16. Qd1 Qb8 17. f3 Ba8 18. Qf1 Nce5 19. Nab1 Nf6 20. Kh1 h6 21. Rdd1 Bf8 22. Nd2 Rcd8 23. Qf2 Ned7 24. a3 d5 25. cxd5 exd5 26. exd5 Bd6 27. Nf1 Rxe3 ( an exchange sacrifice ) 28. Nxe3 Bxh2 29. Nf1 Bf4 30. Rc2 b5 31. Bd3 Nb6 32. Be4 Nc4 33. a4 Re8 34. axb5 axb5 35. Re2 Be5 36. Qc5 Nd6 37. Na2 Ndxe4 38. fxe4 Bd6 39. Qc2 Re5 40. g3 Qe8 41. Rde1 Bb7 42. Kg1 Nh7 43. Nc1 Ng5 44. Nd2 Bb4 45. Kf2 Bxd2 46. Rxd2 Nxe4 + 47. Rxe4 Rxe4 48. Ne2 Bc8 49. Nc3 Re1 50. Ne2 Ra1 51. Rd4 Qd8 52. Qc6 Bd7 53. Qd6 Qe8 54. Qf4 Qc8 55. b4 Bh3 56. Qe4 Bf5 57. Qe3 Qc2 58. g4 Bd7 59. Qe4 Qb3 60. Qd3 Qb2 61. Qe4 Ra8 62. Qe3 Ra2 63. d6 Ra8 64. Re4 Bc6 65. Qd4 Qb1 66. Re7 Qh1 67. Qf4 Qg2 + 68. Ke1 Ra1 + 69. Kd2 Qd5 + 70. Qd4 Ra2 + 71. Kc3 Qf3 + 72. Re3 Ra3 + 73. Kd2 Ra2 + 74. Ke1 Qh1 + 75. Kf2 Qg2 + 76. Ke1 Qh1 + 77. Kf2 Ra1 78. Rc3 Qg2 + 79. Ke3 Qf3 + 0 – 1

The Miami Metropolis listed 20 blacks and four whites dead and characterized the event as a " race war ".

India Square in Jersey City, New Jersey | Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, is one of at least 20 Asian Indian enclaves characterized as a Little India ( location ) | Little India which have emerged within the New York City Metropolitan Area.

* Arctic oscillation ( AO )-the dominant pattern of non-seasonal sea-level pressure ( SLP ) variations north of 20 degrees N, and it is characterized by SLP anomalies of one sign in the Arctic and anomalies of opposite sign centered about 37-45 degrees N. See also NAO.

The male customers are often characterized as urban and modern, and range between the ages of 20 and 40 years old.

Together with his students and collaborators, over the next 20 years, McCarty's work changed the understanding of the organism from a gram-positive streptococcus with a particular serological characteristic to one of the best characterized bacterial species.

At this dosage its duration was very short and it produced few effects, however based on the research into the better characterized compound Ψ-DOM, the potency of Ψ-2C-T-4 is likely to be around 1 / 3 that of 2C-T-4 itself, so a more effective dosage of Ψ-2C-T-4 might be in the region of 20 – 60 mg ; however high doses such as this might well be associated with toxic side effects, and so extreme caution would be advised.

" An article in the Herald Sun placed " Krusty Gets Kancelled " among the top 20 episodes of The Simpsons, and characterized " The sight of Krusty's feeble attempt to fight back with his own gruesome ventriloquist doll, which falls apart on his lap on air " as the highlight of the episode.

The over 20, 000-square-meter monastery was built predominantly in the Mudéjar style, and is characterized by its vividly painted walls.

" James Walton of The Daily Telegraph characterized the episode as one of " The 10 Best Simpsons TV Episodes ", while The Herald Sun placed it in their " The Simpsons Top 20 ".

India Square in Jersey City, New Jersey | Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, is one of at least 20 Indian American enclaves characterized as a Little India which have emerged within the New York City Metropolitan Area.

These wars of extermination have been characterized as " genocide " by several authorities, because the Torah states that the Israelites annihilated entire ethnic groups or tribes: the Israelites killed all Amalekites, including men, women, and children ( 1 Samuel 15: 1 – 20 ); the Israelites killed all men, women, and children in the battle of Jericho ( Joshua 6: 15 – 21 ), and the Israelites killed all men, women and children of several Canaanite tribes ( Joshua 10: 28 – 42 ).

Type 1 HRS is characterized by rapidly progressive renal failure, with a doubling of serum creatinine to a level greater than 221 μmol / L ( 2. 5 mg / dL ) or a halving of the creatinine clearance to less than 20 mL / min over a period of less than two weeks.