The term "passive function" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a role or behavior that relies on the power or authority of another. For example, "The president's subordinate had a passive function in the decision-making process."
To inform development of a new patient reported outcome measure (PROM) of active and passive function in the hemiparetic upper limb, the Arm Activity measure, we examined functional goals for the upper limb, identified during goal setting for spasticity intervention (physical therapy and concomitant botulinum toxin A interventions).
The ultimate focus of treatment for spasticity should be towards functional improvement, even though this may be at the level of passive function (ie, ease of caring for the affected limb), as opposed to active function (ie, active use of the limb in functional tasks).
This hysteretic model is based on a modification of the Bouc Wen model, where a nonlinear term is replaced by a passive function.
Following stroke or brain injury, goals for rehabilitation of the hemiparetic upper limb include restoring active function if there is return of motor control or, if none is possible, improving passive function, and facilitating care for the limb.
Furthermore, the transmitter is only charged with the operation of emitting a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) signal and an appropriate synchronization beacon, while the receiver performs a totally passive function.
The sling would prevent the dislocation of the humeral head through the active and passive function of the subscapularis tendon in the sling.
Each image in some way deals with bodies being controlled, assigned passive functions and roles, as anatomical specimens, models, native types, sex objects, and so on.
For those presidents and boards of directors who do want boards to perform more than the relatively passive functions and to give meaning in practice to the legal language "the board shall manage," I propose a five-point program.
A velocity based active vibration control, along with a special class of hysteretic models using passive functions are presented in this paper.
An integrated passive safety system (IPSS), to be achieved by the use of a large water tank placed at high elevation outside the containment, was proposed to achieve various passive functions.
On the other hand, concerns arise due to the not fully understood physical phenomena underlying their (passive) functioning and the scarce operating experience to characterize them, which can give rise to functional failures due to deviations from their modeled, expected behavior.
