The purpose of the CIP system is to assign an R or S descriptor to each stereocenter and an E or Z descriptor to each double bond so that the configuration of the entire molecule can be specified uniquely by including the descriptors in its systematic name.

The registration descriptor of MPEG-2 transport is provided by ISO 13818-1 in order to enable users of the standard to unambiguously carry data when its format is not necessarily a recognized international standard.

A Type 1 call would have the F_NOWAIT bit OR-ed with its function value, and one of the additional parameters to dnix ( 2 ) was the trap queue file descriptor.

The Tech Coast is a moniker that has gained use as a descriptor for the region's diversified technology and industrial base as well as its multitude of prestigious and world-renowned research universities and other public and private institutions.

This leaves some controversy as to the precise meaning of the term and its usefulness as a descriptor in the social sciences, especially as the number of different kinds of market economies have proliferated in recent years.

When a request is made to access the block for reading or writing, the hardware checks its presence via the presence bit ( pbit ) in the descriptor.

Nordau also, at the 1898 Zionist Congress, coined the term " muscular Judaism " ( muskel-Judenthum ) as a descriptor of a Jewish culture and religion which directed its adherents to reach for certain moral and corporeal ideals which, through discipline, agility and strength, would result in a stronger, more physically assured Jew who would outshine the long-held stereotype of the weak, intellectually sustained Jew.

Each child process first s the appropriate pipe file descriptor to either its standard input or output.

The term is commonly used in historical studies as a neutral descriptor of Southern White Republicans, though some historians have discarded the term due to its history of pejorative connotations.

" Witty and irreverent " is possibly the most frequently used descriptor ; the company takes pride in its youthful, casual, sometimes zany tone and trains its writers to avoid " brochure-ese.

There was no ' Executable ' flag in the page table entry ( page descriptor ) in the 80386 and later x86 processors, until, to make this capability available to operating systems using the flat memory model, AMD added a " not executable " or NX bit to the page table entry in its AMD64 architecture, providing a mechanism that can control execution per page rather than per whole segment.

* Analogy occurs when a descriptor changes some but not all of its meaning.

It is a pejorative term meant to criticize and express disfavor about a government's drug policies ; no state calls itself a narco-state as a neutral descriptor — thus, who uses the term, and in what context, is significant to understanding its intended meaning.

Chevrolet used the notchback descriptor on the Chevrolet Vega two-door thin-pillar sedan, officially changing its name for the 1973 model year to-Vega Notchback.

The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor.

Critics are also concerned by what they see as the pharmaceutical industry's use of front organizations and the compromise of scientific integrity under color of authority, look askance at the irony of the commission's ' freedom ' descriptor, contending the commission is yet another example of the excesses of drug industry marketing, and that the effects of its recommendations will simply foster drug use rather than the prevention of mental illness and use of alternative treatment modalities.

For example, honey tastes sweet so its smell is associated with that descriptor, and sweet is also used to describe its flavor.

A khene player and Lao dancers at a morlam performance in France. Lam Lao ( ລຳລາວ ) or morlam ( ໝ ໍ ລຳ ) is the general descriptor for Lao folk music, which at its most basic level consists of the singer / story-teller and the khene ( ແຄນ ).

In a similar way to the concept of skewness, kurtosis is a descriptor of the shape of a probability distribution and, just as for skewness, there are different ways of quantifying it for a theoretical distribution and corresponding ways of estimating it from a sample from a population.

General array slicing can be implemented ( whether or not built into the language ) by referencing every array through a dope vector or descriptor — a record that contains the address of the first array element, and then the range of each index and the corresponding coefficient in the indexing formula.

For example, if the first master device file available is < tt >/ dev / ptypa </ tt >, most library functions will return a descriptor for the master (< tt >/ dev / ptypa </ tt >) along with a descriptor for the corresponding slave (< tt >/ dev / ttypa </ tt >), and establish the permissions of the slave device file in some predefined fashion.

Also, if an error were to render a descriptor unreadable, a subsequent redundant copy of a descriptor could then allow for fault recovery.

For example, the experiments at the PEAR laboratory were criticized in a paper published by the Journal of Parapsychology, in which parapsychologists independent from the PEAR laboratory concluded that these experiments " depart from criteria usually expected in formal scientific experimentation " due to " roblems with regard to randomization, statistical baselines, application of statistical models, agent coding of descriptor lists, feedback to percipients, sensory cues, and precautions against cheating.

Their collective cultures are known as " Creole ", though many non-Louisianans do not distinguish between the two groups, or do not recognize the distinctions made in the New Orleans area between the original white colonists whose offspring were the original first born in Louisiana and Creoles that were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations ( or free men and women of color ) and whose skin was mulatto for lack of a better descriptor.

Even in cases where the DTDs were read, the drivers are / were still often limited by the standard timing descriptor limitation that the horizontal / vertical resolutions must be evenly divisible by 8.

Reviews of the film were mixed ; it received a 59 % rating at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and a " mixed or average reviews " descriptor at Metacritic.

Instructions existed to load and store bytes via this descriptor, and to increment the descriptor to point at the next byte ( bytes were not split across word boundaries ).

The strip names were made up of an additional descriptor, such as " Long ", " Top ", " Nether ", " Upper ", " Five Acre " and " Four Acre ".

The Lumière Brothers in France were the principal advocates for this genre and also coined the term -- " Actualités " -- and used it as a descriptor in the printed catalogues of their films.

Their style would frequently be linked to Led Zeppelin and Pearl Jam, even though critics admitted that " the trio wants, and inexplicably even manages it, to create their own musical identity ;" a style that would become known as power rock, which the band would later also use to describe themselves and were more comfortable with than the term grunge: " We are not so wild about the descriptor grunge, as it has become a predicate for a variety of dimensions.

For example, a CD-ROM may contain an alternative file system descriptor in this area, as it is often used by Hybrid CDs to offer Mac OS-specific content.

In addition, since ISO 9660 works by segmenting the CD-ROM into logical blocks, the size of these blocks is found in the primary volume descriptor as well.

However, by 1956 the term " lesbian " had such a negative meaning that the DOB refused to use it as a descriptor, choosing " variant " instead.

The term psychedelic was first coined in 1957 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as an alternative descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy.

The term was first coined as a noun in 1957 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as an alternative descriptor for hallucinogenic drugs in the context of psychedelic psychotherapy.

In a general sense, " oral tradition " refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal utterance, and was long held to be a key descriptor of folklore ( a criterion no longer rigidly held by all folklorists ).

The Bourne shell also was the first to feature the convention of using file descriptor for error messages, allowing much greater programmatic control during scripting by keeping error messages separate from data.

In protected mode the segment_part is replaced by a 16 bit selector, the 13 upper bits ( bit 3 to bit 15 ) of the selector contains the index of an entry inside a descriptor table.

Hagfish are considered members of the subphylum Vertebrata, because they secondarily lost vertebrae ; before this event was inferred from molecular and developmental data, the group Craniata was created by Linnaeus ( and is still sometimes used as a strictly morphological descriptor ) to reference hagfish plus vertebrates.

A user who wants to upload a file first creates a small torrent descriptor file that they distribute by conventional means ( web, email, etc .).

Those with the torrent descriptor file can give it to their own BitTorrent nodes which, acting as peers or leechers, download it by connecting to the seed and / or other peers.

Each piece is protected by a cryptographic hash contained in the torrent descriptor.

In a general sense, " oral tradition " refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal utterance, and was long held to be a key descriptor of folklore ( a criterion no longer rigidly held by all folklorists ).

Classic Rock soon became the widely used descriptor for the format, and became the commonly used term for early album rock music by the general public.

In English, as a descriptor of anti-intellectualism, philistine — a person deficient in the culture of the Liberal Arts — was common British usage by the decade of 1820, which described the bourgeois, merchant middle class of the Victorian Era ( 1837 – 1901 ), whose wealth rendered them indifferent to culture.

In modern operating systems, a triple fault is typically caused by a buffer overflow or underflow in a device driver which writes over the interrupt descriptor table.

* XL ( eXplicit Language ), a content descriptor used by XM Satellite Radio

The memory is " protected " in the sense that memory segments assigned a local descriptor cannot be accessed by another program because that program uses a different LDT, and memory segments assigned a global descriptor can have their access rights restricted, causing a processor exception ( e. g., a general protection fault or GPF ) on violation.