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  2. Passive review - Wikipedia

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    Passive review is the opposite of active recall, in which the learning material is processed passively (e.g., by reading, watching, etc.). For example, to improve memory through passive review, an individual may read a text today; to not forget it, it is repeated tomorrow and then 4 days later and then 8, 16, 32, 64, etc., days later.

  3. Passive management - Wikipedia

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    Passive management (also called passive investing) is an investing strategy that tracks a market-weighted index or portfolio. [1] [2] Passive management is most common on the equity market, where index funds track a stock market index, but it is becoming more common in other investment types, including bonds, commodities and hedge funds. [3]

  4. Passive dynamics - Wikipedia

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    Passive dynamics is a valuable addition to the field of controls because it approaches the control of a system as a combination of mechanical and electrical elements. While control methods have always been based on the mechanical actions (physics) of a system, passive dynamics utilizes the discovery of morphological computation. [2]

  5. Passive smoking - Wikipedia

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    Passive smoking is the inhalation of tobacco smoke, called passive smoke, secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), by individuals other than the active smoker. It occurs when tobacco smoke diffuses into the surrounding atmosphere as an aerosol pollutant , which leads to its inhalation by nearby bystanders within the same ...

  6. Passive learning - Wikipedia

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    Passive learning is a teaching method where students receive information from the instructor and internalize it. It is a method "where the learner receives no feedback from the instructor". [1] [2] The term is often used together with direct instruction and lecturing, with passive learning being the result or intended outcome of the instruction.

  7. Thorsten O. Zander - Wikipedia

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    Website. zanderlabs .com neuroadaptive .org. Thorsten O. Zander (born 1975 in Lüdenscheid, Germany) is a German scientist who introduced the concept of passive brain-computer interface. [1] [2] He co-founded Zander Labs, [3] a German-Dutch company in the field of passive brain computer interface (pBCI) and neuro-adaptive technology (NAT).

  8. Passive ventilation - Wikipedia

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    Passive ventilation is the process of supplying air to and removing air from an indoor space without using mechanical systems. It refers to the flow of external air ...

  9. Passive margin - Wikipedia

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    A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin. A passive margin forms by sedimentation above an ancient rift, now marked by transitional lithosphere. Continental rifting forms new ocean basins. Eventually the continental rift forms a mid-ocean ridge and the locus of extension ...