The advances have fallen into two camps - active and passive.
Better yet, a policy to retaliate combined with other actions--such as installing active defenses, increased passive defenses, and assuring military survivability--would decrease the likelihood of an EMP attack against the United States because such measures would make a strike less likely to succeed.
"There are two kinds of RFID chips - passive and active, " he says.
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No one would doubt anymore that some executives and audit firms had been self-serving and active, rather than passive, actors in this economic tragedy.
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On average, over a 5 year period, about two-thirds of active funds fail to beat a passive index.
This compact book is chock-full of academic research that tightly summarizes the active versus passive debate, and instructs you on how to seek out a successful portfolio.
There is always debate among investors as to whether style investing using index funds or a style-based asset class fund is an active management strategy or a passive one.
The notion that the supply of credit is passive, while demand is active and policy controlled, is self-contradictory.
Indexes used in passive portfolios and for active management benchmarking should be broadly diversified and free-float capitalization weighted.
So these managers eschew the passive approach to tracking an index in favor of a semi-active approach to portfolio management.
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This type of passive data collection that is followed by active intervention might be the one-two punch that many people need.
Self-respect arises only out of people who play an active role in solving their own crises and who are not helpless, passive, puppet-like recipients of private or public services.
Approximately 60 percent of the allocation is already managed in passive index-tracking portfolios and the remaining 40 percent is managed externally by active investment management firms.
More recently, preservation has gone from passive to active, with government planners and developers growing more interested in protecting and restoring once-neglected buildings as potential tourist draws.
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By reading through thousands of diaries and autobiographies, the kind of archival foot-slogging which some cultural theorists are apt to avoid, Mr Rose has found persuasive evidence that, far from being passive consumers of material handed down by their masters, working-class audiences were sharp and active critics.
Another unique aspect of the event was that ESPN had both active shutter and passive glasses 3DTVs showing the match, which is a unique opportunity to compare the two technologies -- not that it matters since all the consumer 3DTVs use active shutter glasses at the moment -- and while both were enjoyable, the active shutter TV was preferable.
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