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active adjective assiduous, at work, busily emmloyed, busily engaged, busy, effective, effectual, efficient, energetic, enterprising, functioning, impiger, in a state of action, in actual process, in operation, in practice, industrious, industrius, navus, operant, performing, sedulous, trenchant, vigorous, working Associated concepts: active concealment, active negligence, active participant, active tort feasor, active trust, active wrongdoing, passive negligence, passive tort feasor See also: alert, conscious, effective, expeditious, fervent, industrious, moving, operative, potent, rapid, responsive, sedulous, vigilant, volatile, zealous ACTIVE. The opposite, of passive. We say active debts, or debts due to us; passive debts are those we owe. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Oseltamivir
resistance caused by a single amino acid substitution from histidine (H)
to tyrosine (Y) at position 274 of the neuraminidase active site has
been reported in persons infected both experimentally and naturally with
influenza A virus subtype H5N1 (1,2). The glyphosate-based
herbicide disrupts aromatase activity and mRNA levels and interacts with
the active site of the purified enzyme, but the effects of glyphosate
are facilitated by the Roundup formulation in microsomes or in cell
culture. Long misperceived in the West as a Conceptualist, Ilya Kabakov is,
rather, an imagist and a fantasist who constructs situations in which
the work's most active site is the viewer's imagination. |
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