BBC Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.

Stability of the weaponized agent ( ability of the agent to retain its infectivity and virulence after a prolonged period of storage ) may also be desirable, particularly for military applications.

Regarding breast-feeding capability after breast reduction surgery, studies reported that women who underwent breast reduction can retain the ability to nurse an infant child, when compared to women in a control group who underwent breast surgery using a modern pedicle surgical technique.

Experimental equipment will measure the ability of the subsurface to accept and retain CO < sub > 2 </ sub >.

However, they displayed a remarkable ability to retain important positions without falling victim to the various prosecutions of Wycliffe's followers occurring during their lifetimes.

This Act was created to promote employment of older persons based on their ability rather than age ; to prohibit arbitrary age discrimination in employment ; to help employers and workers find ways of meeting problems arising from the impact of age on employment because in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs ; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons ; the incidence of unemployment, especially long-term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers ; their numbers are great and growing ; and their employment problems grave ; and the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

Memory is the ability to preserve, retain, and subsequently recall, knowledge, information or experience.

They will generally have the ability to retain functionality while waiting for an event such as a button press or other interrupt ; power consumption while sleeping ( CPU clock and most peripherals off ) may be just nanowatts, making many of them well suited for long lasting battery applications.

The area is generally flat and the soils sandy, limiting their ability to retain water.

* Retention ( memory ), in learning, the ability to retain facts and figures in memory

Patients with this form of amnesia, have intact ability to retain small amounts of information over short time scales ( up to 30 seconds ) but are dramatically impaired in their ability to form longer-term memories ( a famous example is patient HM ).

Better seed storage and germination ability ( and hence a smaller requirement to retain harvested crop for next year's seed ) is another 20th century technological innovation.

Rice varieties that can be widely grown for many years in the presence of pests and retain their ability to withstand the pests are said to have durable resistance.

It reduces the ability to learn, reason, retain or recall past experience and there is also loss of patterns of thoughts, feelings and activities ( Gelder et al.

The loss of the ability to retain and learn new material is not only humiliating and depressing but also disabling.

As a result of their independence from their surroundings, they lost their ability to survive desiccation – a costly trait to retain.

The two did not agree on a common date, but Anicetus conceded to St Polycarp and the Church of Smyrna the ability to retain the date to which they were accustomed.

Under the terms of Article V of the U. S. Constitution, state lawmakers retain the power to ratify Constitutional amendments which have been proposed by the Congress and they also retain the ability to apply to the Congress for a national convention to directly propose Constitutional amendments to the states for ratification.

Rally cars are thus unlike virtually any other top-line racing cars in that they retain the ability to run at normal driving speeds, and indeed are registered for street travel.

Further, all modern horse populations retain the ability to revert to a feral state, and all feral horses are of domestic types ; that is, they descend from ancestors that escaped from captivity.

A month-on-month decreasing trend suggests consumers have a negative outlook on their ability to secure and retain good jobs.

Have high capacity ( defined as the ability to retain their compaction properties when mixed with drugs substances )

Harvey Jay Fischer tested Dianetics therapy against three claims made by proponents and found it does not effect any significant changes in intellectual functioning, mathematical ability, or the degree of personality conflicts ; Jack Fox tested Hubbard's thesis regarding recall of engrams, with the assistance of the Dianetic Research Foundation, and could not substantiate it.

Results from an experiment by Davachi, Mitchell, and Wagner ( 2003 ) and numerous subsequent studies ( Davachi, 2006 ) show that activation in the hippocampus during encoding is related to a subject's ability to recall prior events or later relational memories.

For example, it explains experts ' ability to recall large amounts of material displayed for only brief study intervals, provided that the material comes from their domain of expertise.

* Visual processing ( Gv ) is the ability to perceive, analyze, synthesize, and think with visual patterns, including the ability to store and recall visual representations.

One system requires users to select a series of faces as a password, utilizing the human brain's ability to recall faces easily.

For example, the ability to recall words in order depends on a number of characteristics of these words: fewer words can be recalled when the words have longer spoken duration ; this is known as the word-length effect, or when their speech sounds are similar to each other ; this is called the phonological similarity effect.

The Time Lords are able to divert the TARDIS's flight path (" The Ribos Operation " ( 1978 )), or have the ability to totally override and recall any TARDIS by the order of the Council (" Arc of Infinity " ( 1983 )).

Errors in serial recall tasks are often confusions of neighboring items on a memory list ( so-called transpositions ), showing that retrieval competition plays a role in limiting our ability to recall lists in order, and probably also in other working memory tasks.

What's most impressive about that gift -- focused as it may be by the intensified concentration that his dyslexia demands -- is Boies ' uncanny ability to recall a key fact, legal citation or piece of contradictory testimony at moments of the most intense pressure.

Experimental goals included: the creation of " hypnotically induced anxieties ," " hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall complex written matter ," studying hypnosis and polygraph examinations, " hypnotically increasing ability to observe and recall complex arrangements of physical objects ," and studying " relationship of personality to susceptibility to hypnosis.

This increase in the ability to recall appears related to intensification across the night in the vividness of dream imagery, colors, and emotions.

:" The ability to perceive, desire, recall, plan and carry out roles, routines, tasks and sub-tasks for the purpose of self-maintenance, productivity, leisure and rest in response to demands of the internal and / or external environment.

Those with verbal-linguistic intelligence learn foreign languages very easily as they have high verbal memory and recall, and an ability to understand and manipulate syntax and structure.

* An e-mail system ($ MESSAGE ) that supports local and network mail with the ability to send to groups, to recall messages that haven't already been read, to add recipients to messages after they have been sent, and to display a history of messages in an e-mail chain without the need to include the text from older messages in each new message.

Therefore, people do have the ability and competence to recall and estimate the importance of needs retrospectively.

Temple attributes her success as a humane livestock facility designer to her ability to recall detail, which is a characteristic of her visual memory.

He thus immersed himself in Greek and Latin literature, acquired the ability to recall entire pages verbatim weeks after reading them, became fluent in Italian, English and German and even published Règles et méthodes faciles pour apprendre la langue anglaise ( Easy rules and methods for learning English ).

The ability to recall episodic information concerning a memory has been termed source monitoring, and is subject to distortion that may lead to source amnesia.

" Analyzing its episodic nature, Beveridge enjoyed the format, and praised the series ' ability to strike a balance between light and dark parts of its stories.

For example, herpes simplex virus type I, when left untreated for over 96 hours, may lead to permanent damage in hippocampal regions and a permanently reduced or eliminated ability to encode new explicit memory ( also known as declarative memory ), which consists of two main subdivisions: episodic memory and semantic memory.

Despite this, current knowledge on human memory is still decades away from the ability to “ map out ” the wiring of a human brain to discover which parts of which lobe are responsible for the various episodic and semantic knowledge within a person ’ s memory.

In general, however, A. D. had severely impaired episodic memory, but had some ability to learn semantic knowledge.

The authors argued that such performance meets the behavioral criteria for episodic memory, but referred to the ability as " episodic-like " memory because the study did not address the phenomenological aspects of episodic memory.

After a study done by the University of Edinburgh ( 2006 ), hummingbirds were the first animal to demonstrate two of the aspects of episodic memory — the ability to recall where certain flowers were located and how recently they were visited.

Tulving's work with KC highlighted the central importance of episodic memory for the subjective experience of one's self in time, an ability he dubbed " autonoetic consciousness.

Eat-Man is a series of short, episodic stories about an " explorer " ( a type of mercenary job ) named Bolt Crank, who has the ability to eat virtually anything, and can then produce from his body at will any object he has consumed.

Many critics feel that Telltale is the only company to have done episodic gaming right, usually citing its ability to consistently deliver on a monthly schedule.