The primary benefit of running a driver in user mode is improved stability, since a poorly written user mode device driver cannot crash the system by overwriting kernel memory.

In fact, waiting to update EV only once per month ( simply because that is when cost data are available ) only detracts from a primary benefit of using EVM, which is to create a technical performance scoreboard for the project team.

After the Astrodome was renovated for the primary benefit of the Houston Oilers, the Astros began to grow increasingly disenchanted with the facility.

During these 40 years, the primary aim of the labour unions was not to benefit the workers, but to carry out the state's economic policy under their cosy relationship with the ruling party.

The primary function of these " medicine elders " is to secure the help of the spirit world, including the Great Spirit ( Wakan Tanka in the language of the Lakota Sioux ), for the benefit of the entire community.

The primary benefit is to eliminate dependence on a particular OSI model data link layer technology, such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode ( ATM ), Frame Relay, Synchronous Optical Networking ( SONET ) or Ethernet, and eliminate the need for multiple layer-2 networks to satisfy different types of traffic.

The primary advantage held by a player in late position is that he will have more information with which to make better decisions than players in early position, who will have to act first, without the benefit of this extra information.

Patriarchal theory maintains that the primary element of patriarchy is a relationship of dominance, where one party is dominant and exploits the other party for the benefit of the former.

Additionally while greater graphics card performance was a primary goal of VLB, other devices could also benefit from the VLB standard ; notably many mass storage controllers were offered for VLB with increased hard disk performance.

Sowell writes that affirmative action policies encourage non-preferred groups to designate themselves as members of preferred groups ( i. e., primary beneficiaries of affirmative action ) to take advantage of group preference policies ; that they tend to benefit primarily the most fortunate among the preferred group ( e. g., upper and middle class blacks ), often to the detriment of the least fortunate among the non-preferred groups ( e. g., poor whites or Asians ); that they reduce the incentives of both the preferred and non-preferred to perform at their best – the former because doing so is unnecessary and the latter because it can prove futile – thereby resulting in net losses for society as a whole ; and that they increase animosity toward preferred groups.

The primary benefit of ABS on such surfaces is to increase the ability of the driver to maintain control of the car rather than go into a skid, though loss of control remains more likely on soft surfaces like gravel or slippery surfaces like snow or ice.

The California Missions comprise a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Dominicans, Jesuits, and Franciscans, to spread the Christian doctrine among the local Native Americans, but with the primary benefit to Spain of confirming historic claims to the territory.

The primary administrative benefit of this was the inheritance of Joan in Champagne and Brie, which were adjacent to the royal demesne in Ile-de-France and became thus effectively united to the king's own lands, forming an expansive area.

Previous experiences had demonstrated that till ( boulder clay ), rather than just sand or clay, was the best primary material for a structure like the Afsluitdijk, with the added benefit that till was in plentiful supply in the area ; it could be retrieved in large quantities by simply dredging it from the bottom of the Zuiderzee.

This differs from conventional price discrimination in that the primary motive is not, usually, to increase revenue at the expense of consumer surplus, but to increase the club's attractiveness to the market side more willing to pay ( men ), for the benefit of the other ( women ).

Prevention by vaccination is of primary importance because treatment is of little benefit to the person infected.

Generally, accounts written after the fact with the benefit of hindsight primary are secondary.

The primary benefit provided by the Hybrid III is improved neck response in forward flexion and head rotation that better simulates the human.

* If the bailment is to the primary benefit of the bailor, such as finding a lost wallet, the bailee must be found grossly negligent to be liable for damage done to the bailment.

Aside from Section 1519 ’ s 20-year maximum prison sentence ( no small benefit to the government in big-dollar fraud loss cases such as Wolff ), its primary appeal is that it uniquely removes certain key proof burdens from prosecutors ’ collective shoulders.

OCSP has the primary benefit of requiring less network bandwidth, enabling real-time and near real-time status checks for high volume or high value operations.

Some cite this running time shortcut as the primary benefit.

AMORC is a worldwide organization, established in the United States of America as a nonprofit 501 ( c )( 3 ) public benefit corporation, with the specific and primary purpose of advancing the knowledge of its history, principles, and teachings for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

The primary benefit of embedding one approach to measurement of these deficits would be first to direct monetary policy to reduce them, and eventually achieve a global monetary reform by which they could be systematically and globally reduced in some uniform way.

`` After the primary '', he promised, `` I'll be explicit on where I stand to bring you a strong, dynamic administration.

" Their primary concern is that although rooms with a view of the River Arno have been promised for each of them, their rooms instead look over a courtyard.

The failed predictions that have been promised by AI researchers and the lack of a complete understanding of human behaviors have helped diminish the primary idea of human-level AI.

However, Dr. Charles Conley cut heavily into the Ritchie vote in the Democratic primary, and Republican opponent Harry W. Nice attacked the governor's relief efforts and promised to be " more new Dealish " than the conservative Ritchie.

He chastised Iran as the " primary state sponsor of terror " and promised Iranian reformists the backing of the U. S., and warned Syria to stop supporting terrorists as well.

In 2005, Johnson was challenged in the Democratic primary by Frank Melton, a controversial TV station manager who promised to solve the city's crime problem in 90 days while giving few specific crime plans, making crime the central focus of the election.

The school promised from early on in the development of Oakwood is a primary school ( ages 3-11 ) that caters for some of the children living within the local community ( although it is far too small to cater for all of them ).

NBC also reportedly promised to disaffiliate from Boston's WBZ-TV, and to withhold a primary affiliation from newly-acquired KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh ( that station would sign with CBS as a primary affiliate ) and any other major-market network affiliated station Westinghouse would purchase in the future.

In the Democratic primary, Wulsin campaigned to reform health care to provide every citizen with coverage, promised to protect Social Security and the environment, said the Iraq War " has not been worth the cost of American service personnel or the dollars we have spent ", and said America needed " fair trade " in the proposed CAFTA agreement.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

The primary reason for the abandonment of the `` shore occupied by '' thesis has been the assimilation and accumulation of archaeological evidence, the most striking feature of early English studies in this century.

New machinery of coordination should not be our primary objective in the foreseeable future -- though perhaps the `` political general staff '' of Western leaders proposed by Sir Anthony Eden would serve a useful purpose.

This reduction has been accomplished by the general methods of linear algebra, i.e., by the primary decomposition theorem.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

The coordination complexes formed by transition metals with primary and secondary phosphines and arsines are being investigated ( R. G. Hayter ).

In any case, anyone who fails to make significant distinction between primary and secondary applications of economic pressure would in principle already have justified that use of economic boycott as a means which broke out a few years ago or was skillfully organized by White Citizens' Councils in the entire state of Mississippi against every local Philco dealer in that state, in protest against a Philco-sponsored program over a national TV network on which was presented a drama showing, it seemed, a `` high yellow gal '' smooching with a white man.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

He will be succeeded by Ivan Allen Jr., who became a candidate in the Sept. 13 primary after Mayor Hartsfield announced that he would not run for reelection.

The outgoing members, whose four-year terms will expire a week after the April 18 primary election, received carved wooden elephants, complete with ivory tusks, to remember the state committee by.

In an apparent effort to head off such a rival primary slate, Mr. Wagner talked by telephone yesterday with Representative Charles A. Buckley, the Bronx Democratic leader, and with Joseph T. Sharkey, the Brooklyn Democratic leader.

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

Argon constitutes 0. 934 % by volume and 1. 28 % by mass of the Earth's atmosphere, and air is the primary raw material used by industry to produce purified argon products.

* World production of primary aluminium, by country

In anorectal abscesses, primary closure healed faster, but 25 % of abscesses healed by secondary intention and recurrence was higher.

A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.

It may or may not be followed by repair or removal of the primary problem.

Also, Arminianism is often altered by a few of its critics including Semipelagianism or even Pelagianism, though advocates of both primary views fervently refute these claims.

( c. 4 ), who likewise follows Hippolytus's Compendium, adds some further particulars ; that ' Abraxas ' gave birth to Mind ( nous ), the first in the series of primary powers enumerated likewise by Irenaeus and Epiphanius ; that the world, as well as the 365 heavens, was created in honour of ' Abraxas ;' and that Christ was sent not by the Maker of the world but by ' Abraxas.