Article history: Received 15 September 2014 Received in revised form 8 January 2015 Accepted 12 January 2015 Available online 24 January 2015 The aim of the current study was to achieve a purified representation of the capacity for the temporary storage of information and to examine its relationshipwith fluid intelligence bymeans of a novel approach combining experimental manipulations and stat...

In 2009, the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, experienced a six-week labor disruption involving 24,000 city workers that included solid waste and public health employees. In an attempt to control illegal dumping and to manage garbage storage across the city during this period, 24 temporary garbage storage sites were established by the city (mostly in local parks) for residents to dispose of th...

The prevalence of low comprehension among deaf readers has been documented for decades, yet the problem persists. Progress has been hampered by uncertainty regarding which aspects of reading competence ought to be the primary focus of concerted instructional efforts. This article examines whether temporary storage capacity and/or processing automaticity may explain the difference in comprehensi...

Introduction Safe disposal of nuclear waste is a difficult problem. Long-term plans are to house nuclear waste permanently in underground facilities. In the near-term however, nuclear waste is stored in temporary storage facilities at various sites around the country. Federal and state regulations require periodic inspection of these storage facilities to insure storage vessel integrity and ver...

To provide keyword-based access to a large text file it is usually necessary to invert the file and create an inverted index that storeso for each word in the file, the paragraph or sentence numbers in which that word occurs. Inverting alarge file using traditional techniques may take as much temporary disk space as is occupied by the file itself, and consume a great deal of cpu time. Here we d...