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memory and renowned
In 1917, the Free Society for the Psychological Study of the Child, to whom Binet became a member in 1899 and which prompted his development of the intelligence tests, changed their name to La Societe Alfred Binet, in memory of the renowned psychologist.
The county has many traditional music festivals and one of the most well known is the Willie Clancy Summer School, which is held every July in the town of Milltown Malbay in memory of the renowned uilleann piper, Willie Clancy.
Old Mill Road also has an honorific extra naming, " Waxman Way ," in memory of Temple Israel's renowned rabbi, Mordechai Waxman, who led the congregation for 50 years.
He was one of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory.
He was renowned for a remarkable memory and for fluency of speech, as well as for the purity of his language.
Elara, despite being an invading Tamil from the Chola empire of south India, was renowned as having been a just and righteous leader, and Dutugemunu went out of his way to ensure the memory of the old king was revered as he cremated Elara and built a tomb for his ashes and made rules for travelers to get off and pay their respects to his tomb.
A proper library with an office and a reading room was established in 1937 in memory of Mian Fazl-i-Hussain, a renowned educationist.
In later life, McLaren contracted Alzheimer's ; he had been renowned for his excellent memory .< ref >
In 1924, Mrs. Ray Tompkins donated to Yale of swamp and woodland in memory of her husband, which were made into a world-class 18 hole golf course by Charles Blair Macdonald, the renowned golf course architect, champion golfer, and co-founder of the USGA, in collaboration with Seth Raynor and Charles Banks, for a budget of $ 400, 000.
This educational society is formed in memory of renowned academician Late M. SITA RAM ( Ex.
Wang Can was also renowned for his eidetic memory.
On the occasion of " Urs " held in memory of the renowned saint and mystic poet Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai ( 1689-1752 ) at Bhitshah, near Hyderabad in Sindh, held every year between 13th and 15th of Safar, devotees sing with fervor and frenzy his love-intoxicated Kafis to the strains of ektara which appears to be a very ancient musical instrument.

memory and contribution
While some of his findings have endured and remain relevant to this day ( Learning Curve ), his greatest contribution to the field of memory research was demonstrating that memory can be studied scientifically.
Byrd's contribution includes the famous Earl of Salisbury Pavan, composed in memory of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, who had died on 24 May 1612, and its two accompanying galliards.
A lesser-known contribution however one of the first of its kind was Hooke's scientific model of human memory.
The perirhinal cortex plays an important role in visual recognition of complex objects, but there is also substantial evidence that it makes a contribution to memory which can be distinguished from the contribution of the hippocampus, and that complete amnesia occurs only when both the hippocampus and the parahippocampus are damaged.
Many other schools that he helped to found or were founded in memory of him have commemorative statues in honor of his contribution to Buddhist education.
To the general public, Pribram is best known for his development of the holonomic brain model of cognitive function and his contribution to ongoing neurological research into memory, emotion, motivation and consciousness.
In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society to acknowledge its contribution to education and in memory of his father, who had been a statistician.
As stated in one such study, “ Working memory capacity made a statistically significant contribution as well ( about 7 percent, a medium-size effect ).
Studies that have contributed to this discussion have examined the contribution of memory limitations, difficulty with spatial localisation, and difficulty in inhibiting the motor act of reaching to location A on the A-not-B error.
Although LTD is now well characterized, these hypotheses about its contribution to motor learning and memory remain controversial.
It is not a serious contribution to analysis in the interest of ' truthful historical memory '".
In memory of her contribution to the country, the Malaysian government decided to change the name of Maktab Perempuan Melayu – a prominent boarding school – to Tunku Kurshiah College.
In his memory, the Douglas Bradshaw Athletic Achievement Award is presented to a graduating student, having the most improvement in and contribution to athletics and whose quality of spirit and competitive drive contributed to the overall success of the Confederation College Athletic program.
According to the New York Times, April 20, 1981, ' The $ 15, 000 award, endowed in memory of the late Harold Guinzberg, founder of the Viking Press, honors a living American writer for a distinguished and continuing contribution to American letters.
Lady Barber decided to make a permanent contribution to the city in his memory.
His theories of selective attention and short-term memory were developed as digital computers were beginning to become available to the academic community, and were among the first to use computer analogies to make a serious contribution to the analysis of human cognition.
* Jimmy Ernst Award – Established by Dallas Ernst in memory of her husband, the Jimmy Ernst Award of $ 5, 000 is given to a painter or sculptor " whose lifetime contribution to his or her vision has been both consistent and dedicated ".
Michael Fink uses a wider lens to suggest that Anaya's seminal novel is a contribution to identity and memory politics that provides us with " a set of strategies of transcultural survival.
In this process, localised mutation of the immunoglobulin genes allows the production of improved antibodies which make a major contribution to protective immunity and immunological memory.
While both Dr. and Mrs. Todd had died in the 1990s, their memory and innumerable contribution to both Phi Sigma Pi and education will not be forgotten.
When he died in 1881, a stone pyramid was erected on its summit to his memory and to honour his contribution to the development of the town.
* Today, the Giant Sequoia that would have been the first of its kind to be seen by Clark at the Mariposa Grove is named and marked " Galen Clark Tree " ( 240 feet ; diameter 15. 3 at 10 feet above mean base ) in memory of his contribution to the preservation of the Giant Sequoia ecosystem and the idea of the national park.

memory and discipline
His old friend and commander the Duke of York paid a tribute to the soldier's memory in general orders: " His steady observance of discipline, his ever-watchful attention to the health and wants of his troops, the persevering and unconquerable spirit which marked his military career, the splendour of his actions in the field and the heroism of his death, are worthy the imitation of all who desire, like him, a life of heroism and a death of glory.
Awareness and discipline are also necessary to avoid memory " leaks " ( failure to deallocate within the scope of the allocation ) and to avoid references to stale handles after release.
folklore study as a strong discipline in representing the people's memory and people's voice.
Eventuality is a faculty from the discipline of phrenology, which rules the factual memory: the memory for facts and events.
His cool and dispassionate temper reflects more honor on his memory inasmuch as it was less the effect of a peculiarly happy constitutional temperament than of moral discipline and culture and the benign influence of a religious principle.
But his memory lives as that of the reformer of discipline and the originator of a comprehensive system of steam manoeuvres.

memory and mechanical
A benign sessile race, using wheeled mechanical constructs to move and as short-term memory.
Better yet, bubble memory devices needed no moving parts: the field that pushed the bubbles along the surface was generated electrically, whereas media like tape and disk drives required mechanical movement.
Bubble memory found uses in niche markets through the 1980s in systems needing to avoid the higher rates of mechanical failures of disk drives, and in systems operating in high vibration or harsh environments.
The successor to direct recording voting machines, a direct-recording electronic ( DRE ) voting system records votes by means of an electronic display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be activated by the voter ; that processes voter selections by means of a computer program ; and that records that processed voting data in memory components.
Arthur, Oriana, Bix, and Lee continue to explore the caverns underneath Dinotopia where they come across instantly germinating fern spores, uncut sunstones that appear to store ancestral memory, and mechanical limbs that twitch when the sunstone is brought near.
A direct-recording electronic ( DRE ) voting machine records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be activated by the voter ( typically buttons or a touchscreen ); that processes data with computer software ; and that records voting data and ballot images in memory components.
Pippin's work shows a strong interest in the mechanical, which he has said stems from an early childhood memory of seeing his father surrounded by the wires and tubes of a television set he was repairing.
Brainiac has a " 12th-level intellect ", allowing calculation abilities, enhanced memory and advanced understanding of mechanical engineering, bio-engineering, physics, and other theoretical and applied sciences, as well as extensive knowledge of various alien technologies.
Component coverage areas include CPUs, motherboards, core-logic chipsets, memory, videocards, mechanical hard drives, solid-state drives, optical drives, cases, component cooling, and other hardware intrinsic to PC building projects.
" building shall be employed for the accommodation of the Edinburgh School of Arts ; whereby the memory of Watt may forever be connected with the promotion, among a class of men to which he himself originally belonged, of those mechanical arts from which his own usefulness and glory arose.
One of the key ideas was that the computer would store a program in its electronic memory rather than programming the computer using mechanical switches and patch cables.
It is a type of nonvolatile random access memory based on the mechanical position of carbon nanotubes deposited on a chip-like substrate.
The Adamists are ' classic ' humans who employ mechanical and cybernetic technology and use implants ( including ' neural nanonics ', essentially computer systems built into the brain which allow anything from enhanced memory and entertainment access to controlling starships ) to achieve their ends.
Latency inherent from mechanical drive performance can also be eliminated by using Live USB or Live SD flash memory to load systems at electronic speeds which are orders of magnitude faster.
A direct-recording electronic ( DRE ) voting machine records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be activated by the voter ( typically buttons or a touchscreen ); that processes data by means of a computer program ; and that records voting data and ballot images in memory components.
The mechanical memory units were unique in their design and were patented by Konrad Zuse in 1936.
* Being mechanical devices they are more sensitive to physical shock and temperature changes than flash memory, though in practice they are very robust and manufacturers have added several features to the more recent models to improve reliability.
In each case, the unit loads the media into a digital memory chip to prevent premature wearing of the mechanical parts.
It was an improvement on the Z1, using the same mechanical memory but replacing the arithmetic and control logic with electrical relay circuits.

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