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  • Then the categories can be remembered, and be categorised knowledge of these categories prompts the memory of the items information and within that category. into hierarchies remembered For example, knowing that minerals can be either metals or stones, more easily and that stones can then be sub-classified into rare, common or alloys, and that platinum, silver and gold are all rare metals. (if you can visualise the diagram it helps too) Verbal These are word Acronyms - these are where you make a word or sentence formed mnemonics related memory from the first letters of other words.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2010

  • Acronyms like "NIMD: Novel Intelligence from Massive Data" win budget dollars by promising the impossible, all the while vacuuming up and storing non-relevant personal data into hundreds of burgeoning intelligence databanks -- electronic haystacks with few or no findable needles.

    Coleen Rowley: Could WikiLeaks Have Helped Thwart 9/11? Coleen Rowley 2010

  • Acronyms are nice, but clearly it causes some folks to think that CULV notebooks are a whole, new device class, which only serves to confuse consumers.

    Intel’s CULV: New Name for Old Chips 2009

  • He also blogsregularly at Beyond Blinking Lights and Acronyms andyou can follow him on Twitter at mikeschaffner.

    Solving National IT Issues Mike Schaffner 2010

  • Lifestyle Acronyms - September 13, 2009 added by tiki god | Affiliate Program mcs+ to rate

    Lifestyle Acronyms | My[confined]Space 2009

  • Acronyms are used for phrases and whole sentences such as “ADBB” for “all done, bye, bye”.

    Cell Phones: Text Messaging as a Second Language « Esl Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • Acronyms may be catchy, says Richard Bernstein , chief executive of Richard Bernstein Advisors, "but anytime you hear one, you have to wonder what part of the story hasn't been told."

    What's in a Name? Ben Levisohn 2011

  • Acronyms, they soon learned, were an integral part of the OSS mystique.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ...

    Augustine's Laws - and Ares 1 - NASA Watch 2009

  • Acronyms, they soon learned, were an integral part of the OSS mystique.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

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