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chunk·ing

(chŭnk'ing),
The process within short-term memory of combining disparate items of information so that they take up as little as possible of the limited space in short-term memory; for example, combining into one percept the three individual letters making up the word "cat".
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Neurophysiology A process in short-term memory in which seemingly disparate elements are combined in 'chunks' or blocks, to minimise required storage ‘space’ and improve memory
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So a new algorithm is introduced, Two Dividors Alogrithm (TTTD) which performs much better than all the existing algorithms and puts an absolute size ion chunk sizes.
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2 illustrates the architectural design of our peer-to-peer cross-image chunk distribution approach.
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* Evoke or teach whatever can be chunked in most pieces, even if that means using "extra" time.
Fraction of redundant chunk. Baseline 0.0003 Orpah 0.0002 Proactive 0.0006 Frame 0.0018 Note: Table made from bar graph.
Parameters used in the simulation setup Name Parameter Description Simulation Length 3600s Length of the simulated scenario Number of Peers 100 Total number of peers Storage Peers 20 Number of storage users Streaming Peers 80 Number of streaming users Chunk size 256 Kb Size of each chunk Video Files 2.048 Mb Number of video files Topology level 3 Number of levels of overlay
where [P.sub.max,l] is the total maximum power available at cell l and [P.sub.TH,n,l] is the maximum power allowed in chunk n in order not to interfere.
(This works for an axe as well.) This does two things: first it lessens the chance of the blade sticking into the chunk; and secondly when the edge of the maul contacts the wood, the angled side of the blade forces the wood apart like a wedge, applying more force to one side of the chunk than the other.
The central aim of our work is to build a chunk tagger for Chinese sentences, assuming that there is an English chunk tagger and some parallel corpuses between these two languages.
For the sake of brevity, a chunk of fixations will be referred to as a chunk.
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