A passive proximity card for door access.

The advantage with this design was that the ring worn by the owner and used to identify the owner has a passive tag ( meaning no batteries ) that relies on proximity to the gun for power.

PCI Express is used in consumer, server, and industrial applications, as a motherboard-level interconnect ( to link motherboard-mounted peripherals ), a passive backplane interconnect and as an expansion card interface for add-in boards.

Since all the energy to power the card comes from the reader unit, passive cards must be close to the reader to function, and so have only a limited range.

Dismantled microSD to SD adapter showing the passive connection from the microSD card slot on the bottom to the SD pins on the top

While Zire 31 has the ability to play video ( video player not included ), the experience is limited by the maximum SD / MMC card size limit ( 1GiB ), the poor screen resolution, color depth and passive matrix display technology.

SunPass Mini sticker RFID passive transponders, about the size of a credit card, operate on the energy emitted by toll barrier detectors, thus requiring no battery and providing no indicators.

The card game shares some similarities with Magic: The Gathering but has its own unique game mechanics and flavor, providing " passive " win conditions like the Enlightenment Victory, as well as a version of Magic's goal of destroying the opponent.

Electronic readers will scan the customer ’ s Presto card ( which contains a passive RFID chip within the card ) as they board their public transit vehicle or enter a station calculating the correct fare and deducting it from their card balance-all within one-third of a second.

Placing missiles in submarines, on barges, railroads, highways, surface vessels and in the air provides them with passive protection by taking advantage of the gravest weakness of long-range ballistic missiles today -- the extreme difficulty of destroying a mobile or moving target with such weapons.

* The case also shows the agent when used with the passive voice of the verb.

Jonah's passive character then is contrasted with the other main character: Yahweh ( sometimes explained as " I shall be what I shall be ", considered the Explicit Name and according to modern scholarly criticism a name of a local deity ).

The political leaders preferred a more passive approach for the time being, including more peaceful relations with Austria and concentrating on strengthening Serbia for future struggle, but some of the military officers grew impatient with the more moderate radical policies.

It seems therefore useful to distinguish between cultural imperialism as an ( active or passive ) attitude of superiority, and the position of a culture or group that seeks to complement its own cultural production, considered partly deficient, with imported products.

Justification ( sixth session ) was declared to be offered upon the basis of human cooperation with divine grace as opposed to the Protestant doctrine of passive reception of grace.

According to this viewpoint, citizens are sovereign, morally autonomous beings with duties to pay taxes, obey the law, engage in business transactions, and defend the nation if it comes under attack, but are essentially passive politically, and their primary focus is on economic betterment.

To deflect suspicion that he is Superman, Clark Kent adopted a largely passive and introverted personality with conservative mannerisms, a higher-pitched voice, and a slight slouch.

Commonly, the same laptop would be offered with an assortment of display options at increasing price points: ( active or passive ) monochrome, passive color, or active matrix color ( TFT ).

Some of the common associations with yang and yin, respectively, are: male and female, light and dark, active and passive, motion and stillness.

* electronics which deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies.

Electronics deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies.

Electronics is distinct from electrical and electro-mechanical science and technology, which deals with the generation, distribution, switching, storage and conversion of electrical energy to and from other energy forms using wires, motors, generators, batteries, switches, relays, transformers, resistors and other passive components.

In the first ' be ' is part of the progressive aspect, used with "- ing " on the verb, and in the second it is part of the passive, as indicated by the perfect participle of a transitive verb.

Certain civil servants were extremely passive in their dealings with China, he said.

" Laura Mulvey's germinal essay " Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema " ( written in 1973 and published in 1975 ) expands on this conception of the passive role of women in cinema to argue that film provides visual pleasure through scopophilia, and identification with the on-screen male actor.

Rather than being passive, faith leads to an active life aligned with the ideals and the example of the life of Jesus.

Facilitated diffusion ( also known as facilitated transport or passive-mediated transport ) is a process of passive transport ( as opposed to active transport ), with this passive transport aided by integral membrane proteins.

Guitar circuits are either active, needing a battery to power their circuit, or, as in most cases, equipped with a passive circuit.

The amendment defines a new PHY and such changes to the MAC as are necessary to support a new frequency allocation ( 950 MHz-956 MHz ) in Japan while coexisting with passive tag systems in the band.

In the West it was known as the feast of the Conception ( passive ) of Mary, and was associated particularly with the Normans, whether these introduced it directly from the East or took it from English usage.

The horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, was constructed in 1959 to support Project Echo — the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's passive communications satellite project, which used orbiting aluminized plastic balloons as reflectors to bounce radio signals from one point on Earth to another.

A second connection, called the data connection, can either be opened by the server from its port 20 to a negotiated client port ( active mode ), or by the client from an arbitrary port to a negotiated server port ( passive mode ) as required to transfer file data.

The building opened in August 2012, and also has a combination of active and passive energy strategies includes an array of 1365 distributed solar panels, which is now the third largest in the state of Illinois.

In 2000 the Trust opened a similar kiosk and passive vehicle security at the famous Huka Falls.

The audience may have a passive role, as in the case of persons watching a play or opera, a television show or a movie, or active, as in the case of a video game.

Whereas a viewer of a television show is a passive observer, a player in a role-playing game makes choices that affect the story.

Grammatically, the word is the feminine present perfect passive voice participle of the verb, charitóō, which means " to show, or bestow with, grace " and, in the passive voice, " to have grace shown, or bestowed upon, one.

Class War explained that their intent here was to show that people could " fight back " against the state rather than be " passive victims ".

Dennis ’ forensic skills as a critic enabled him to critique the flaws in the far younger poet ’ s observations, intended to show " that as there is a great deal of venom in this little gentleman ’ s temper, nature has very wisely corrected it with a great deal of dullness … as there is no creature in nature so venomous, there is nothing so stupid and so impotent as a hunch-back ’ d toad ; and a man must be very quiet and very passive, and stand still to let him fasten his teeth and his claws, or to be supriz ’ d sleeping by him, before that animal can have any power to hurt him.

In his Jovian ( an answer to Samuel Johnson's Julian the Apostate, 1682 ), he endeavoured to show that the Roman empire was not hereditary, and that the Christians under Julian had recognized the duty of passive obedience.

Staged in the former Varieté theatre Ronacher in Vienna, F @ LCO offered the audience a choice between a more expensive, passive ticket for the boxes or the balconies, from which spectators could only watch the show from distance, or a cheap, active ticket on the floor, close to the rostrum ( in the shape of @, the Internet at symbol ) on which the show was performed.

The show was designed to be a " different sort " of girl's cartoon, and features many strong-willed female characters who aggressively reject the idea of passive femininity.

He did not show typical serial killer behaviour, remaining rather passive and demure during the criminal trials.

Mark Sturgis, the Dublin Castle official whose diaries give a vivid picture of the last years of British rule, condemned Campbell bitterly as a coward who " does nothing and apparently thinks of nothing but the best way to show Sinn Fein that he is neutral and passive.

Ancient sources are most concerned with the effects of sexual harassment by officers, but the young soldier who brought an accusation against his superior needed to show that he had not willingly taken the passive role or prostituted himself.

Despite the many organizations to which Frassati belonged, he was not a passive " joiner "; records show that he was active and involved in each, fulfilling all the duties of membership.

One such scholar is Bruce Thornton, who argues that insults directed at passive homosexuals in the comedies of Aristophanes show the common people's dislike for male homosexuality.

" Instead of " the months as passive personifications bearing symbols of attributes ," " the new Carolingian calendars ... show a coercive attitude towards natural resources " with " scenes of ploughing, harvesting, wood-chopping ," etc.

During some studies the presence of a passive audience facilitated the better performance of a simple task ; while other studies show the presence of a passive audience inhibited the performance of a more difficult task or one that wasn't well practiced, possibly due to psychological pressure or stress.

The Opie and Anthony Army ( also known as " The Pests ") are a collection of Opie & Anthony listeners who take a proactive approach to the show, as opposed to mere passive listening.