Babies of women exposed to the chemicals may suffer impaired memory and learning ability.
The mice were then put through tests that measured their memory and cognitive ability.
In addition, as useful amounts of flash memory storage are now affordable, the ruggedness of flash memory and the ability to stack chips to provide slim package designs have made NAND flash the choice non-volatile storage technology for mobile devices.
Those included stored memory (the ability to hold both a stored program and data), conditional control transfer, which allowed the computer to stop and be resumed, and the central processing unit, which allowed all computer functions to be coordinated through one source.
People with autism, a condition characterized in part by poor social skills, tend to have poor episodic memory and also poor ability to anticipate others' reactions or emotions.
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It's the most common form of dementia and affects somewhere between 60 to 80 percent of patients with memory loss and other mental ability problems.
They're also hammering out details with a book partner, hoping to give end users the ability to customize memory albums and buy all manners of unique covers.
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That extra memory would give the phone the ability to handle fatter video downloads.
The stress hormone cortisol shrinks the brain's memory centers and can hamper one's ability to learn and recall.
The iPod nano got an overhaul that saw it assume a squarer shape, the ability to handle video and bigger memory.
However, in the context of capturing work-related communication to facilitate collaboration or create an audit trail, face-to-face communication has a few weaknesses (my ability to accurately capture notes and my memory of the myriad conversations I have about work every day being just two of them).
In this context, he attaches particular importance to Senator Pinochet's memory deficit for recent events, which would affect his ability to relate and understand items of information given to him at a trial, and to his limited ability to comprehend complex sentences and questions and to process verbal information.
"We put a lot of hooks into it, the ability to run multiple processes and have enough storage and memory, " said Jayshree Ullal , senior vice president of Cisco's security and technology group.
Sega's machine will also ship with a 33.6 kps modem, 16 MB of memory and a host of technical tricks that will make its graphics ability comparable (or even better) than a-top-of-the-line desktop PC, even one decked out with special 3D graphics hardware.
It starts with the idea that the real genius at Apple has been its ability to generate huge profits from selling products based on flash memory chips.
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Inexpensive USB memory sticks and hard drives full of data on our laptops give people the ability to remove data from our companies very easily.
Families may be in denial or assume that memory problems are just a normal part of aging, while patients may be terrified of losing their ability to live independently.
Now he can only hope the public shares that ability to separate the man from the art--or, even better, a short memory.
Photographers will appreciate the ability to easily capture sequential shots that were once a challenge due to the speed limitations of memory.
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In a study published last year in the journal Cortex, Dr. Rankin and her colleagues studied the ability to detect sarcasm in 102 patients who had been diagnosed with four progressive diseases that lead to memory loss: frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy and vascular-cognitive impairment.
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