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semiconductor memory
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Recovered Memory
RECOVERED MEMORY The remembrance of traumatic childhood events, usually involving sexual abuse, many years after the events occurred. The heightened awareness of child sexual abuse that developed in the 1980s also brought with it the controversial topic of recovered memory. Some mental health... Read more |
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Virtual memory
Virtual Memory Virtual memory is a model—one of many possible models—for managing the resource of physical memory, or main memory. Such management is necessary because a microprocessor, the heart of a computer, has direct access only to main memory, while all programs... Read more |
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Semantic memory
Semantic Memory BIBLIOGRAPHY In 1972 the cognitive scientist Endel Tulving (b. 1927) argued that conscious recollection (i.e., declarative memory) is composed of two separate memory domains, each having distinct functionality, knowledge access, and neurological localization. Whereas episodic... Read more |
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Cache memory
Cache Memory Cache memory refers to a fast storage buffer in the central processing unit (CPU)of a computer, allowing the computer to store data temporarily, making information retrieval faster and more efficient. By storing often-used data in a special memory chip ... Read more |
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War Memorials
Memorials, War. Wars are commemorated by an immense variety of devices—obelisks, monoliths, marble temples, battlefields and battle markers, statues, cemeteries, tombs, memorial chapels and parks, plaques and walls bearing the names of the dead, place names, and “living... Read more |
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memory
memory in psychology, the storing of learned information, and the ability to recall that which has been stored. It has been hypothesized that three processes occur in remembering: perception and registering of a stimulus; temporary maintenance of the perception, or short-term memory; and lasting... Read more |
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Memorial Day
Memorial Day holiday in the United States observed in late May. Previously designated Decoration Day, it was inaugurated in 1868 by Gen. John A. Logan for the purpose of decorating the graves of Civil War veterans and has since become a day on which all war dead are commemorated.... Read more |
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Runnymede
Runnymede or Runnimede , meadow, in Egham, Surrey, S England, on the south bank of the Thames River, W of London. Either on this meadow or on nearby Charter Island, King John accepted the Magna Carta (1215), which is commemorated by a memorial. There is also a memorial to John F. Kennedy on... Read more |
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Gorky
Gorky or Gorky Leninskoye , suburb of Moscow, central European Russia. The country home of Lenin, who died there, is now a memorial museum.... Read more |
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