Titanium has excellent corrosion-resistance in many environments because of the formation of a passive oxide surface film.
Although the plasma extraction device exhibited limited throughput because of the use of a passive flow handling method, modifying the design and integrating sensors would make our device suitable for use in simple hematological tests of plasma.
However, within a population, risk factors for infection do not influence the sensitivity of a passive SSC because the whole population is passively surveyed through animal caretakers [ 4].
But spending more is the one thing Obama cannot do, because of the deals House and Senate Republicans have forced on him, and because of a typically passive, somnolent media that does not have nerve enough to come out and call it like it is.
(Perhaps the transgender Bangladeshi was able to act as a human being, rather than as a member of a passive crowd, because she belongs to another ostracized minority).
Sort of a passive aggressive thing, right?
The transfer of high forces can be generated by bruxers, through non-occlusal loading or because of a non-passive fit of suprastructures [8,12-15].
"We express no confidence in the Central Election Commission because of its being a passive, or maybe a too active, participant in falsifications," he said.
Barbara Crossette (NYT) GREECE: U.S. REPORT CONDEMNED -- The government dismissed as an "anti-Hellenic concoction" a United States Congressional report suggesting sanctions against Greece because of its "passive response" to terrorism.
Because of their passive role in the financings, these banks have little to gain in ancillary business -- like underwriting or merger advisory work.
