'passive contact' is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe an indirect or minimal relationship between two people, ideas, or things. For example: The two countries had only maintained passive contact for many years.
It employs Anna Brożek's methodology to identify philosophers' influence on one another (distinctions between direct and indirect influence, active and passive contact, etc).; concepts of institutional and ideological conditions of this influence are also considered.
This suggests that 5-month old babies, like adults, attribute goal-directedness (again: 'in some sense') to human arms and hands that reach and grasp, but not to arms that only drop and make passive contact with the object.
Their activities in the box were recorded using an overhead CCD camera for 30 min. Frequencies and durations of social activities (e.g., proximity behavior, approaching and leaving, following, social sniffing, active and passive contact, and mounting) were automatically analyzed using the SocialScan program (CleverSys Inc., Reston, VA, USA).
This study addressed each of these characteristics and did not find strong confirming evidence that biting water bugs were any more important in the transmission of M. ulcerans than passive contact exposure to the environment.
at 270 (emphasizing that "interactive" contacts are more significant for jurisdictional purposes than "passive" contacts).
While spheroids can be assembled using passive contacts for the fusion of complex tissues, physical forces can be used to promote active contacts to improve tissue homogeneity and accelerate tissue fusion.
Passive body contact indicates that both animals rested in contact with each other.
There were no differences in the other behaviors (locomotion, passive body contact, allo-grooming, mounting, sniffing and isolation).
Moreover, rSey2/+ rats exhibited significantly less following (t-test; P<0.05; Fig. 3B) and passive body contact behaviors (t-test; P<0.01; Fig. 3B).
To address this issue, we examined social interactions of WT and rSey2/+ rats by measuring time spent in locomotion, aggression, following, passive body contact, allo-grooming, mounting, sniffing, and isolation (WT, 14 pairs; rSey2/+ rats, 16 pairs).
Questionnaire studies showed that infants and preschool children have passive water contact mainly when they accompany older siblings/parents/guardians to the water e.g. being washed in infested water collected from rivers.
