And gubernatorial aides hotly disputed the accusation of a slowdown in processing returns.
But it's unclear that equates to an actual six-month pause in visa processing, rather than a dramatic slowdown in approvals as new rules were put in place.
Gov. George E. Pataki's office yesterday released a letter from the Postal Service that took the blame for a slowdown in the processing of state tax returns, a day after legislators accused the administration of causing the delay intentionally.
The authors of that study suggested that there may be a slowdown in information processing within the posterior cortical areas responsible for detecting the visual stimulus, and within the premotor areas that program and implement the motor response.
When neurons are damaged or cannot function effectively, memory loss and a slowdown in information processing -- known collectively as cognitive decline -- can occur.
Taxpayers should not see a noticeable slowdown in refund processing or longer call waits than they are currently experiencing, other than the late season ramp up in a few weeks when the normal end-of-season crowds start to file.
Therefore, the delay observed in our older subjects most probably reflects an actual slowdown of enumeration processing, rather than simply age differences in voice reaction time.
In a study with patients who had suffered cerebral injuries of the central visual field with some perifoveal and peripheral vision left intact, a slowdown of temporal processing as measured by flicker fusion was observed for the perifoveal visual field, but not beyond (Pöppel, Cramon, & Backmund, 1975).
We observed between a 10% improvement to a 24% slowdown in serial processing time when comparing either version of ScalaBLAST 2.0 with serial NCBI BLAST, depending on the dataset and runtime options demonstrating that ScalaBLAST 2.0 scaling is based on the order of magnitude run time for serial execution.
Most age-related memory problems are not signs of dementia or Alzheimer's disease, but evidence of a slowdown in the brain's processing speed that increases the time it takes to retrieve information.
At run times under five seconds, the MPI overhead involved in synchronizing the nodes between each processing iteration becomes significant, resulting in a slight slowdown (6x speedup compared to the ideal 8x).
