There were many wonderful things about growing up there, but communication with the wider world, even in the passive sense, wasn't one of them.
Other fish such as sharks have electroreceptors but no electric organs, and they use electroreception in a passive sense to detect the electric fields that result from the neuromuscular activity of buried prey.
"Before I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer a year and a half ago, I rather jauntily told the readers of my memoirs that when faced with extinction I wanted to be fully conscious and awake, in order to 'do' death in the active and not the passive sense," Hitchens wrote in his final column for Vanity Fair.
Certainly we are misguided about death, Hitchens finds, on the most basic levels, recalling that before his cancer was diagnosed, "I rather jauntily told the readers of my memoirs that when faced with extinction I wanted to be fully conscious and awake, in order to 'do' death in the active and not the passive sense".
The appreciative mode (the mode with a passive sense of history) has always been allowed some importance at Atlantic, and it manifests itself today in a creditable roster of jazz artists, but it has not been given as much attention as another mode, which began to show itself during the early fifties at about the same time Ahmet was recording Mabel Mercer, Meade Lux Lewis, and Jimmy Yancey.
The appreciative mode (the mode with a passive sense of history) has always been allowed some importance at Atlantic, and it manifests itself today in a creditable roster of jazz artists, but it has not been given as much attention as another mode, which began to show itself during the early fifties — at about the same time Ahmet was recording Mabel Mercer, Meade Lux Lewis, and Jimmy Yancey.
It is difficult, at first, to grasp Penn's motive or criteria for selecting from such a vast and rich oeuvre, these particular images… Compares Penn to Walter Benjamin's notion of the flaneur, an idle stroller adrift in the city, his passive senses exquisitely attuned.
Memristive devices were fabricated and investigated for passive sensing of oxygen.
To review published empirical literature on the use of smartphone-based passive sensing for health and wellbeing.
Lively's passive sensing tracks just enough information to interpret meaningful activity that shows how you're doing without sharing too much.
Dense stereo vision is a passive sensing technology offering a 3D view of the current environment making it a very attractive sensing component of such systems.
