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memory

the part of a COMPUTER that stores information. The two main types of computer memory are RAM (Random Access Memory) and ROM (Read Only Memory). HARD DISKS and FLOPPY DISKS provide additional memory capacity for storing computer programs and data.

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Human memory warns us of the "slippery slopes" euthanasia opens up: The "logical slippery slope," the situations where euthanasia is allowed constantly expands, and the "practical slippery slope," euthanasia is undertaken not in compliance with the law.

The euthanasia slippery slope: a failure of memory and imagination: when the splash of assisted-suicide and euthanasia blinds us to their far-reaching ripples

The genes identified as important for human memory are distinct from genes previously correlated with other types of cognitive processing and resting state MRI activity, Medical Xpress reported.

Over 100 genes linked to memory in humans identified: Study

Dr Liz Yardley, director Y of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University, said evidence coming forward following a replay of the disappearance of the London teenager last week, was likely to be incorrect because human memory is unreliable.

Missing Alice reconstruction 'could mislead'

Drawing in particular upon notions of human memory, they emerged at a time when a vision of the computer as a personal tool, and a potential new medium, was decades from popular acceptance.

Barnet, Belinda, Memory Machines: the Evolution of Hypertext

Appropriate for both novice and experienced lawyers, this handbook explains the nuances of human memory that affect witness testimony, reviews the federal rules of evidence, and describes methods of discovery for case preparation.

Excellence in Cross-Examination

The distinctive feature of the natural (that is organic) human memory is that its relationship to time is unitive rather than fractioning.

The persistence of memory: picturing Ong's oral hermeneutics

The goal is to identify the neurobiological and molecular mechanisms of human memory.

Motor excitability helps predict working memory

Within the second test, we selected a generic four-stage model of the human memory process (Gluck, Mercado, & Myers, 2014).

Concept mapping: a critical thinking technique

On this occasion, Ali bin Khalfan al-Jabri, Undersecretary of the Ministry delivered the Ministry's speech in which he said: "Between 1970, the year when the Renaissance era began under the leadership of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said and the 2013, the national memory stores a lot of scenes, but the human memory is incapable of tracing all minutes of the national movement, manifested in the building of a huge country, with hard terrains and varied conditions, but everyone remembers those beginnings and the thirsty soil which flourished with the water flow of the Renaissance and how it grew the seeds of national construction to form this green country which is promising of more good".

Information Ministry Honors its Staff

For a proper understanding of the functioning of the Organizational Memory, scholars of organizational theories "borrowed" basically the same concepts and meanings of human memory and applied them to their studies within organizations.

Understanding organizational memory from the integrated management systems (ERP)/Compreendendo a memoria organizacional a partir dos sistemas integrados de gestao (ERP)

Noreen Herzfeld warns that the expanding power of machine memory will never replace truly human memory, and Gareth Jones describes and tests proposals to use technology to shape our brains to higher moral achievement.

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Distortions and illusions within human memory are well documented in scientific and forensic work and appear to be a basic feature of memory functioning.