Another similar element of magazine work is balancing strong stories against more passive projects: in a magazine you always have a "hero" shoot compared to the others.
For some this proved a tremendous challenge, while others with more passive projects were able to get a little more playful in the weightless environment.
He has since designed some 80 passive-solar houses, ranging in size from 1,000 to 8,000 square feet, and 9 passive projects, including 2 town houses for Habitat for Humanity, a church and an office for a transformer recycling company.
The Artisans Group, in Olympia, Wash., which designed and built Mr. Freas's home, has decided to split its six new passive projects, collaborating with the Germans on some and the Americans on others, said Tessa Smith, a co-owner of the firm.
The greedy policy is optimal in the case of multi-armed bandits (MAB) problem that the passive projects do not change their states, with no switching cost and deteriorating rewards.
For a recent passive acoustic project focusing on fish and whale ecology on the Atlantic coast (funded through the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management), I received the Partners in Conservation Award from the U.S. Department of Interior (2014).
Passive cooling projects in China, India, Egypt, Iran, Namibia, and other countries combine traditional technologies — like wind towers and water evaporation — with newly designed, ventilation-friendly architectural features.
Mr. Wedlick, who has been protecting vernal pools in his latest passive-house project, and dreaming up a natural pool cleansed by plants, said, "Why don't we use plants to cleanse the water?" Mr. DeVito looked a little crushed.
Many passive monitoring projects involve smartphones.
There are a variety of passive monitoring projects for bipolar disorder, mostly in the pilot phase, with examples shown in Table 5.
