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The 1905 revolution showed that the village commune (mir) was not a guarantor of stability, as its protagonists had claimed, but rather an active promoter of unrest.

The citizen is not simply a the passive recipient of rights, but rather an active self-realising being.

The absorption of lipids through the intestine is no longer considered a passive process but rather an active regulation of highly polarized mechanisms [3].

Investigators have proposed that the large latent complex of TGF-β1 (TGF-β1+LAP+LTBP1) is not just a passive sink for active TGFβ1, but rather an active sensor of the matricellular environment.[10] While cellular recruitment regulated by LAP may not be a direct part of this regulatory paradigm, our data supports this view.

Thus, the quiescence of cultured metazoan cells in the absence of growth factors would not reflect a passive lack of growth stimulation but rather an active process of growth inhibition.

This study illustrates how women's choice to deliver in the village is not a result of passive inaction or lack of knowledge about the potential risks she may face, but rather an active choice to reduce risks that she perceives as being of more importance.

The human female reproductive tract (FRT) is not an immunologically sterile but rather an immunologically active site [ 7– 12].

This activation of JNK signalling does not appear to be due to an increase in JNK levels but rather an increase in active JNK, as there is no observable increase in JNK protein levels in the CLN3 overexpressing cells (data not shown).

Although self-emptying still plays a vital role, this is understood not as preparation for a passive intuition, but rather as an active process of "seeing a thing by becoming it".

Therefore, any such epithelial sensor array should not be considered as a passive and static sensor surface but rather as an active exploratory sensor device that actively interacts with its environment.

For this protein, confinement hence plays more than the role of a passive cage, but rather adopts an active role, accelerating folding rates by decreasing the roughness of the energy landscape of the protein.