Sentence examples for passively affected from inspiring English sources

If the intelligible world is independent of our understanding, then it seems that we could grasp it only if we are passively affected by it in some way.

Thus, Auriol is part of one pronounced strain of medieval thought (deriving from Augustine and ultimately from Plato) that rejects that the soul and its powers are passively affected by extra-mental objects.

Storage modulus, in turn, may be adjusted actively by the spider via its spinning behavior in response to abiotic and biotic conditions, or it may be passively affected by climatic factors, such as humidity.

Organisms that passively affect various electronic systems are large mammals, schools of fish, and plankton that either scatter sound and so appear as false targets or background reverberation, or that attenuate the acoustic signal.

Moreover, the deltoid muscle has been shown to passively affect the superior-inferior translation of the humeral head and limit anterior glenohumeral translation when the arm is abducted and externally rotated and thus is said to contribute to glenohumeral stability (Halder et al. [2001]; Kido et al. [2003]).

Although pseudogenization restores the proteome to its pre-duplication state, it may passively affect adaptive evolution.

Due to the flexibility of the finger bones (Swartz, 1997; Swartz et al., 2006) both the bend and sweep of the wingtip are affected by the aerodynamic forces on the wing and could passively affect the camber of the wing (Neuweiler, 2000).

These traits mediate germination speed either passively by affecting the speed of pollen hydration (e.g. aperture and pollen wall composition and sizes) or actively via the metabolic state of mature pollen at pollination.

While changes in local neuronal activity elicited by salient environmental stimuli could trigger rapid glucose entry to the brain tissue via an increase in local blood flow, glucose levels in the brain could be affected "passively" by changes in its concentration in peripheral blood ("gradient drive").

The results of Experiment 2 also demonstrated that the passively elicited MMN was not affected by large variations in visual task difficulty; this provides convincing evidence that the MMN is independent of visual task demands.

Alternatively HSC passively move to the blood.