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passive adj. referring to being inactive. A "passive trustee" is one who has no responsibilities other than to hold title or wait for an event which would activate the trust. "Passive income" for tax purposes includes any income in which there is no effort or active management, and is treated differently for some purposes, such as social security income limitations. It may include stock dividends, trust profits, rents with no management involvement, and interest on bank accounts. PASSIVE, com. law. All the sums of which one is a debtor. It is used in contradistinction to active. (q.v.) By active debts are understood those which may be employed in furnishing assets to a merchant to pay those which he owes, which are called passive debts. |
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Section 1 reviews active and passive immunization and provides a practical discussion of numerous aspects of vaccine administration, including vaccine shortages, reporting of vaccine-preventable diseases, and parental misconceptions about vaccinations. Passive immunization does have its disadvantages, Santosham says. The in vivo tests on passive immunization with AVANIR human monoclonal antibodies are being conducted in small animal models established at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston under contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), a part of the National Institutes of Health. |
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