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unusual facts about passive-aggressive personality disorder



1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania

The German ultimatum triggered a political crisis: the passive cabinet of Vladas Mironas was replaced by a cabinet headed by General Jonas Černius.

Adaptive management

Two ecologists at The University of British Columbia, C.S. Holling (1978) and C.J Walters (1986) further developed the adaptive management approach as they distinguished between passive and active adaptive management practice.

Attic

Various types of turbine ventilators and exhaust fans can also be used to assist with attic ventilation and decrease the required area of passive ventilators.

Automated business process

Traditional systems (often found as Legacy systems) are 'passive', in that they provide excellent functionality when specifically asked to do something - they will answer enquiries, process updates and produce reports.

Battle of Aldie

On May 8, 2012, Gov. Bob McDonnell announced the preservation of a five-acre site to be purchased by the Civil War Trust and later to be operated as a passive historic interpretative site by the park authority.

Boccanegra

Francois Grimaldi who was set on the conquest of Monaco's Castle (Prince's Palace of Monaco) which was the stronghold of the Ghibellines, was advised by the Church to take a more passive approach, but had decided to go another route.

BzK galaxy

In astrophysics, a BzK galaxy is a galaxy that has been selected as star-forming or passive based on its photometry in the B, z, and K photometric bands.

C. Wright Mills

Wobblies are members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and the direct action they are favouring includes passive resistance, strikes, and boycotts.

Constant-voltage speaker system

The main disadvantage of powered loudspeakers is that they have the additional requirement of requiring AC power, whereas passive speakers have no such requirement.

Cubelets

Currently, there are 16 types of Cubelets available: Distance Sensor, Light Sensor, Potentiometer/Knob, Temperature Sensor, Drive Motor, Rotate Motor, Speaker, LED Flashlight, LED Bargraph, Passive, Blocker, Inverse, Maximum, Minimum, Battery and Bluetooth.

DNA demethylation

The passive process takes place in the absence of methylation of newly synthesised DNA strands by DNMT1 during several replication rounds (for example, upon 5-Azacytidine treatment).

Exoletus

Exoletus is a Latin term, the perfect passive participle of the verb exolescere, which means "to wear out with age."

Faubourg Saint-Germain

During the July Monarchy, from 1830 to 1848, when the junior Orleanist branch held the throne, the Faubourg was politically marginalized, many noble family withdrawing from active participation in political life to their castles, urban mansions in the Faubourg and passive but brilliant social life.

Geology of Australia

Cretaceous volcanism in the offshore of Queensland was related to a minor episode of arc formation, typified by the Whitsunday Islands, followed by development of offshore coral platforms, passive margin basins and far-field volcanism throughout the quiet Hunter-Bowen orogenic belt.

Gordon Kahl

Kahl hid in their earth-bermed passive solar home in Smithville, Arkansas.

Gottfried von Hohenlohe

Hohenlohe was regarded as passive concerning further involvement of the Teutonic Order in Prussia and Livonia, as well as not having listened to requests made by these provinces.

Henri, Duke of Rohan

He served in high command at the celebrated siege of Jülich in 1610, but soon afterwards he fell into active or passive opposition to the government over the religious disputes.

Knox-class frigate

The anti-submarine capability of the Chi Yang class FFG is provided by its SQS-26 bow-mounted sonar, SQS-35(v) VDS, SQR-18(v)1 passive TAS, MD500 ASW helicopter, Mk-16 8-cell Harpoon/ASROC box launcher, and 4 x Mk46 324 mm torpedoes.

LGBT rights in Cuba

According to Ian Lumsden, traditional Spanish machismo and the Catholic Church have disdained effeminate and sexually passive males for centuries.

Map of the Invisible World

The Daily Telegraph criticized the book, citing the suspense as "half-hearted" and the character of Adam as "so infuriatingly passive that he is neither credible nor particularly engaging".

Maquis du Limousin

But the Limousin was South to the line of demarcation and the resistance was mainly a passive one against Vichy France.

Marie Winn

Winn is the author of the influential The Plug-In Drug (1977), an often scathing critique of television's addictive influence on the young, Winn wrote, "The television experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state."

Michał Zalewski

In 2005, Zalewski authored Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks, a computer security book published by No Starch Press and subsequently translated to a number of languages.

Misagh-1

It was developed by the Shahid Kazemi Industrial Complex in Tehran and is an all-aspect passive infrared homing system.

Needy

Codependency, a tendency to behave in overly passive or excessively caretaking ways that adversely affect one's relationships and quality of life

Non-volatile memory

In Thinfilm's organic memory the ferroelectric polymer is sandwiched between two sets of electrodes in a passive matrix.

P-70 radar

The P-70 also used a fully coherent transmitter and an MTI system capable of compensating for wind and other forms of passive interference such as chaff, overall the P-70 managed to achieve a low false alarm rate.

PANDAS

To establish that a disorder is an autoimmune disorder, Witebsky criteria requires that there be (1) a self-reactive antibody, (2) that a particular target for the antibody is identified (autoantigen) (3) that the disorder can be caused in animals and (4) that transferring antibodies from one animal to another triggers the disorder (passive transfer).

Parchim-class corvette

The electronic defense suite was very basic, and consisted of an IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) receiver and transmitter, and an 'ELOKA' multiband passive RWR antenna slaved to a double 16-cell chaff dispenser.

PasComSat

Passive Communications Satellite or PasComSat, also known as OV1-8 was a communications satellite launched by USAF as part of the Orbiting Vehicle program.

Passive dynamics

Passive dynamics refers to the dynamical behavior of actuators, robots, or organisms when not drawing energy from a supply (e.g., batteries, fuel, ATP).

Passive voice

Many commentators, notably George Orwell in his essay "Politics and the English Language" and Strunk & White in The Elements of Style, have urged minimizing use of the passive voice.

Jan Freeman of The Boston Globe states "all good writers use the passive voice" – including Orwell and Strunk & White themselves, in the sections of their essays criticizing the passive voice.

Passive-aggressive behavior

Murphy and Oberlin also see passive aggression as part of a larger umbrella of hidden anger stemming from ten traits of the angry child or adult.

They can become adults who, beneath a "seductive veneer," harbor "vindictive intent," in the words of US congressman/psychologist Timothy F. Murphy, and writer/practicing therapist Loriann Oberlin.

Pavel Milyukov

When the First Russian Revolution started three years later, he founded the Constitutional Democratic party, represented it in the State Duma, and drafted the Vyborg Manifesto, calling for political freedom, reforms and passive resistance to the governmental policy.

Security Properties

When the Tax Reform Act of 1986 limited passive activity losses and credits, the firm converted its organization from private capital syndicator and real estate manager to full time real estate manager and operator.

Silence on the Wire

Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks is a book by Michał Zalewski on some network-silent methods of information gathering as they relate to computer security.

Social media

From Nicholas Carr, "As media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation."

Sony Ericsson T68i

Launched in time for the 2001 Christmas season, the T68 was the first Ericsson mobile phone to have a colour screen, a passive LCD-STN with a resolution of 101×80 and 256 colours.

Thales Optronics

PIRATE (Passive Infra Red Airborne Tracking Equipment) for Eurofighter Typhoon

The Stingray Shuffle

Thrown into the mix are Johnny Vegas the accidental virgin, Paul the passive-aggressive private eye, Ernest Hemingway lookalike Jethro Maddox, and the world's least competent drug cartel.

Thermally Advantaged Chassis

The chassis air guide is a passive cooling system, and relies completely on internal system fans to guide the air.

Tonus

Muscle tone, the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles

Torbreck home units

These principles, coupled with the trend towards passive climatic design that was popularised in Queensland by Karl Langer, resulted in a design that strongly incorporated passive design principles.

Walking with a Ghost

Tracks two and five recorded live on June 1, 2005 in Manaus, Brazil; the latter includes a performance of "Passive Manipulation"

William Jane

He shortly changed his opinion about passive obedience, and when James II's cause was hopeless, Jane sought William of Orange at Hungerford, and assured him of the support of the university of Oxford, hinting at his willingness to accept the vacant bishopric of Oxford.

Wind on Fire

In Slaves of the Mastery the people of Aramanth have become pleasant and passive, no longer in the grip of the Morah.


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