In electrical engineering, the passive sign convention (PSC) is a sign convention or arbitrary standard rule adopted universally by the electrical engineering...

power sources have negative power consumption. This is called the passive sign convention. In the case of resistive (Ohmic, or linear) loads, the power formula...

metric tensor. The active and passive sign convention of current, voltage and power in electrical engineering. A sign convention used for curved mirrors assigns...

current in a resistor, so from the passive sign convention i {\displaystyle i} and v {\displaystyle v} have opposite signs, representing points lying in the...

passive: Devices which have I–V curves which are limited to the first and third quadrants of the I–V plane, passing through the origin, are passive components...

is no reactive power and P = S {\displaystyle P=S} (using the passive sign convention). Therefore, for a perfect resistor P = S = V R M S I R M S = I...

Opium Convention refers either to the first International Opium Convention signed at The Hague in 1912, or to the second International Opium Convention signed...

Passive smoking is the inhalation of tobacco smoke, called passive smoke, secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), by individuals other...

Seventh-day Adventist Church Southern Baptist Convention United Methodist Church The Church of England accepts passive euthanasia under some circumstances, but...

adequately resourced and have properly trained staff. Countries that sign the convention must assure safeguards their public services are subject to safeguards...

The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, a multilateral treaty of the United Nations with the intention of standardizing traffic signs around the...

Deaf. Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf and Dumb. Vol. 53. Washington, DC. p. 148. Stokoe, William C. (1972). Semiotics and Human Sign Languages...

The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 (Single Convention, 1961 Convention, or C61) is an international treaty that controls activities (cultivation...

federal and cantonal level. It covers protection of the population against passive smoking, restrictions on tobacco advertising, warnings on packaging and...

as other vessels. "Sonar" can refer to one of two types of technology: passive sonar means listening for the sound made by vessels; active sonar means...

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or Hague Abduction Convention is a multilateral treaty that provides an expeditious...

24, 2022. Mauran, Cecily (April 7, 2022). "NYT's new 'WordleBot' will passive-aggressively insult your strategy". Mashable. Archived from the original...

service providers and operators. Qnbn focuses upon the deployment of a passive dark fiber network infrastructure, providing equal and open access to telecommunication...

barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and psychedelics signed in Vienna, Austria on 21 February 1971. The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 did not ban the...

column the last row constitutes the most commonly used convention. To change the formulas for passive rotations (or find reverse active rotation), transpose...

optical filtering such as circular polarisation is used in conjunction with passive glasses on polarized systems. Since the maximum bit rate is always 250 Mbit/s...

of resource exploitation were claimed by the marine nations that signed the Convention on the Continental Shelf drawn up by the UN's International Law...

committed by its nationals regardless of where they occur. The third is the passive personality principle, which gives a country jurisdiction over any actions...

country identified by the first part of the call sign. Many countries do not follow the ITU convention for the second-part digit. In the United Kingdom...

cannon on the Pont-Neuf as a sign of alarm. Around ten in the morning, 12,000 armed citizens appeared to protect the Convention against the arrest of Girondin...

The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is a treaty adopted by the 56th World Health Assembly held in Geneva,...

enforcing the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. The Convention entered into force on November...

crucifixes be displayed in classrooms of schools does not violate the European Convention on Human Rights. The case stemmed from a request of Soile Lautsi, a Finnish-born...

Italian Sign Language (Italian: Lingua dei segni italiana, LIS) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s...

are concerned, level crossings either have "passive" protection, in the form of various types of warning signs, or "active" protection, using automatic warning...