information processing


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Synonyms for information processing

the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information

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(1990) Assessing Rational and Intuitive styles: A human information processing metaphor.
These findings provide evidence that maladaptive social information processing may have its roots in the negative experiences within the family setting.
Recent studies have revealed the importance of specific emotions in decision making, showing that information processing can differ substantially between emotions that share negative valence like sadness and anger (see Bodenhausen, Sheppard, & Kramer, 1994; Lerner & Tiedens, 2006).
Over the past eight years, business investment in information processing equipment and software rose 45 percent, topping out at $595.5 billion (nominal) in the third quarter of 2010.
"Interestingly, the association between increased vitamin D and faster information processing was more significant in men aged over 60 years, although the biological reasons for this remain unclear.
Information processing model that is meaningful according to an individual, in this context, looks for answers the following four questions.
Among women who were older than 65 years, 50 tamoxifen users performed worse on verbal memory and information processing than did than 60 healthy controls.
Memory, information processing speed, and sensori-motor speed were also significantly improved in the supplemented group.
The Self-Directed Search: Career Explorer was used with 98 (95% African American) high-risk middle school students as part of 14 structured career groups based on Cognitive Information Processing theory.
Low-achieving African American students who perceive the school environment as dominated by a mainstream culture that is restrictive and foreboding may not be likely to ask questions and search the environment as an information processing strategy (Parham, White & Ajamu, 1999).
This isn't a light undertaking, nor a quick fix, but a necessary strategic realignment of information processing to prepare for the next generation of regulation and reporting.
CPAs must understand the extent of human intervention in the data access, validation and analysis aspects of their clients' and companies' reporting processes so they can make informed recommendations on deploying XBRL in accounting software and information processing systems.
The arrangement of sensors and the locomotion apparatus are intended to physically support the devices' programmed strategies, just as the animal's body and sensory organs are inherently interfaced with its neurological information processing and decision making.
"Several sectors of our economy are growing, including hotels, restaurants, financial services and information technology--particularly in the areas of information processing and call centers," said Dr.
Following a comprehensive evaluation of the leading outsourcing providers, Peoples Community Bank, which has assets of approximately $738 million as of September 30, 2003, selected BISYS to provide enterprise-wide information processing services and technology.
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