Due to the safety issues arising from the Fukushima accident, a novel completely passive spent fuel pool cooling system is proposed using the high-efficiency heat pipe cooling technology that is available in an emergency condition such as a station blackout.
Rolfes and his collaborator Lars Berg spent nine months creating Limp Body Beat, plus the passive time spent beforehand gathering the ideas that inspired it.
In other words, the world of constant connectivity and media, as embodied by Facebook, is the social network's worst enemy: in every study that distinguished the two types of Facebook experiences — active versus passive — people spent, on average, far more time passively scrolling through newsfeeds than they did actively engaging with content.
Dr Holm is vigorously targeting the passive time spent playing on computers or watching television.
In subsequent sessions, the time spent on passive exercises gradually decreased, while the time spent on exercises focusing on selective attention and working memory increased.
In subsequent sessions, the time spent on passive exercises gradually decreased, while the time spent on exercises requiring more complex cognitive effort (selective attention and working memory exercises) increased.
In America, the trend has been toward less spending on passive programmes at a given unemployment rate, without much change in active programme spending.
This represents a significant shift away from the perception of children as passive recipients of social spending towards viewing them as agents of future growth and development.
The researchers estimated the time spent in "passive viewing" — when the television was on, but the child was not actively paying attention — from the data they gathered.
The Federal Reserve, the Obama administration and Congress seemed to learn this lesson in 2009, when they aggressively responded to the crisis, only to turn more passive in 2010 and spend much of the year hoping for the best.
