Investors were paying active fees but getting passive performance.
Aware that he has a good job that provides for his family, Cecil is unwilling to rock the boat politically, which leads to clashes with his son but an otherwise passive performance for Whitaker.
Reacting to the passive performance of the South Vietnamese Army, he tells Johnson, "If they're going to try to fight that kind of war, I'm in favor of getting out of there".
This excruciating, passive performance piece was modeled on Chris Burden's endurance art of the 1970s but spoke directly to a history of violation by slavery, written in scars on black bodies.
And while Mr. Obama will try to avoid repeating his own passive performance in the first presidential debate, he may also want to steer clear of Mr. Biden's slashing style, which was widely criticized by Republicans as condescending and arrogant.
If there was any big conclusion to be drawn from tonight's impressive sparring by two understudies, it was that if Joe Biden and Paul Ryan can do it Barack Obama's dismal, passive performance last week in his first debate with Mitt Romney was all the more baffling and inexcusable.
Participation of resource users in RESEX meetings was low and a passive performance of council members was observed.
By using the Lyapunov method, a sufficient condition which guarantees that the filtering error system is stochastically stable and satisfies the passive performance is established.
The main objective is to synthesize a controller such that the resulting closed-loop system is stochastically stable and satisfies a mixed H∞ and passive performance γ simultaneously.
The objective of this research is to demonstrate the application of a novel Passive Performance Optimization Framework (PPOF) to improve the performance of daylighting, solar control, and natural ventilation strategies in the early design stages of architectural projects.
