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If privacy concerns are indeed the leading driver for these deactivations , simply deactivating your account will do little to remove your data from Facebook's servers.
But in one respect, all three papers agree: paying high fees for poor performance is a bad bet.* "How active is your fund manager?", by Martijn Cremers and Antti Petajisto, 2009; and "Active share and mutual fund performance", by Antti Petajisto, Financial Analysts Journal, July/August 2013** "Deactivating active share", by Andrea Frazzini, Jacques Friedman and Lukasz Pomorski, 2015.
It governs the activity of CDK1 and its ilk by activating and deactivating the proteins that those genes generate.
Deactivating these genes during embryonic development does not kill the embryo (if it did, then that embryo would be stillborn).
This led to the creation of "knockout" mice, which are used to model human diseases by deactivating a specific gene.Technology Quarterly Fresher cookers Quiet, please A stitch whose time has come How green is your network?
Exposure to a different frequency of light causes the DNA to relax into its natural shape again, deactivating the thrombin.The technology is still in its early days, but the goal is to inject patients with the microscopic clasps and use different frequencies of infra-red light to activate and deactivate the clotting clasps in specific locations.
Nitro groups are strongly deactivating (i.e., make the aromatic ring less reactive), however, and it is often difficult to add a second or third nitro group to an aromatic compound.
It was assumed that these two areas share in the control of hunger motivation by activating and deactivating hunger as glucose levels within the blood change.
This initial success gave rise to "knockout mice," laboratory mice that had been altered by deactivating or "knocking out" a specific gene for the purpose of modeling a human disease.
Stephen Fry has denounced Twitter for becoming "a stalking ground for the sanctimoniously self-righteous" after deactivating his account amid controversy over his Bafta joke.
Trained at the elite West Point military academy, Roedy is a former airborne Ranger who later specialised in deactivating nuclear missile bases.
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The primary grammatical function of "deactivating" is as a present participle or gerund form of the verb deactivate . It's used to describe the action of making something inactive or non-functional. Examples from Ludwig showcase its usage across various contexts, reinforcing its role as a descriptive verb form.
Expression frequency: Very common
