one of three dimensions of the supply chain network design; the number of tiers in the supply chain, representing the total number of levels through which goods and services must pass from the earliest to end stages of the chain
A passive activity loss for the tax year is the excess of your passive activity deductions over your passive activity gross income. What are the passive activity limitations? Your passive activity losses are limited to the amount of your passive activity income for the taxable year.
Passive, or PASV is the data transfer process (DTP) for FTP establishes and manages the data connection. The DTP can be passive or active. PASV, is a command that requests that the server listen on a data port (which is not its default data port) and to wait for a connection rather than initiate one upon receipt of a transfer command. Certain FTP servers support both active and passive transfers while other FTP servers only allow active transfers.