Sentence examples for degree of passivity from inspiring English sources

"It's unclear to me how a higher degree of passivity would advance our mission," he said at the time in response to criticism.

There also were differences in interpreting the exact nature of self-surrender to God and the degree of passivity or activity required of the worshipper.

Americans have tended to watch with a remarkable (I think frightening) degree of passivity as crises of all sorts have gripped the country and sent millions of lives into tailspins.

Tungsten carbide on its own shows a high degree of passivity in sulphuric acid, but no electrocatalytic activity for methanol oxidation.

The public agrees, though their certainty has less to do with economics than misanthropy: the British do not like southern Europeans enough to offer them a subsidy union, and have never believed that other rich northerners, deep down, felt differently.British politicians can be forgiven a degree of passivity, then.

Good women in my community retained the qualities of little girls -- sweetness, purity, receptivity and a certain degree of passivity.

The basic idea was to test for correlates of passivity symptoms in both fMRI and behavioural data acquired during action monitoring in a group of schizophrenic patients where some of the patients experience different individual degrees of passivity while other patients are completely free of passivity experiences.

This paper provides insight into the energy or passivity based control to underactuated multi-degree-of-freedom systems.

This study not only unifies some previous results for acrobots and three-link robots with a passive first joint, but also provides insight into the energy- and passivity-based control of underactuated multiple-degree-of-freedom systems.

Moreover, the general degree of psychotic symptoms and the extent of passivity experiences were assessed with the SAPS and the SANS, levels 0 (none) to 5 (severe).

In this paper, the new concept of generalized passivity is introduced to extend the concept of passivity to a dynamical system of any relative degrees and to quantify by a penalty coefficient the impact of its dynamics on the performance of its networked operation.