My grandmother always kept with her a slim leather-bound notebook, in which, every day, she recorded bills, memories, meals, expenses, schedules, and meteorological developments.
The prospect of a pay hike comes with memories of expenses abuses still fresh, and at a time when the rest of the country is suffering austerity measures.
He didn't appear to crave validation or to be exorcizing some childhood memory at our expense.
The technique, he writes, "invariably meant inserting family members into scenes so raunchy I feared I was upgrading my memory at the expense of tormenting my subconscious.
However, studies have shown that respondents have a tendency to backfill entries [ 1], and thus diary measurements rely heavily on memory at the expense of data validity.
Indeed there is evidence that usage of these substances by patients without an attention deficit disorder may result in a cognitive trade off [ 7] by increasing their short term memory at the expense of their long term memory.
This in itself could have distracted learners from the main learning task, that is, it may have put a significant extraneous (i.e., ineffective) load on working memory, at the expense of learning.
But in a world where the collective memory of the expenses scandal is still painfully fresh, we would quite like to see some token gestures.
Dr. Aboujaoude also asks whether the vast storage available in e-mail and on the Internet is preventing many of us from letting go, causing us to retain many old and unnecessary memories at the expense of making new ones.
These integral equations are expensive both in evaluation time and in memory requirements; however, the expense can be mitigated by intelligent algorithms and the use of parallel computers.
