Sentence examples for passive receptor from inspiring English sources
Merchant explains that the conception of the Earth as "a passive receptor" came to imply an approval of its exploitation, especially under the influence of Francis Bacon (1561 1626).
By polluting "the 'purest streams' of the earth's womb", mining operations "have altered the earth from a bountiful mother to a passive receptor of human rape" (Merchant [1989], 38 39).
Further, experience is fuller and more textured than the mere sense data that comes across our skin; the body is not a passive receptor but intentional, engaged, and interpretive of any given situation, including the subtle body language of others.
Piaget (2000) concurred that children are not passive receptors of the world, and emphasized that they learn only through participation in meaningful activities.
Active learning refers to the direct involvement of students in the learning process rather than being passive receptors of materials.
Explained Miku's co-creator, and Crypton CEO Hiroyuki Itoh, in an interview with The Creators Project, "I think [Hatsune Miku] is an ambassador between the 'read-only' world of the 20th century, in which people were only passive receptors of culture, and a new 'read-and-write' world, in which people can become cultural emitters as well".
The project teams we studied were not passive receptors of knowledge and information but were actively engaged in seeking out, creating, synthesizing and deploying multiple forms of knowledge and information from a variety of sources.
But in these cases, gangliosides are considered to be just passive binding receptors that do not transduce signal inside the cell.
Despite recent indications that chemical modulation of the BBB may be feasible (Carman et al. 2011), under physiological conditions, drugs and other substances can enter the brain only by passive transcellular diffusion, receptor-mediated transcytosis, or through the action of specific carrier systems.
In the passive zipper, ligand-receptor bonds are as strong as for the active zipper (based on experimental observation [ 39]) but are reversible, i.e. are not supported by actin polymerization.
In addition, folate-PEGylation was applied to modify the surface of PMA-PAMAM nanoparticles in order to enhance tumor selectivity via both active and passive targeting mechanisms: folate receptor targeting, long circulation and EPR effect.
