Many microscopic aquatic animals, and some larger but inactive ones, can absorb adequate oxygen through the entire surface of their bodies, and so can respire adequately without a gill.

The active neurons are those that send an action potential down the axon in any given time window, and the inactive ones are those that do not.

There are two active mud volcanoes in South Taiwan, and several inactive ones.

Active members paid six shillings a month whilst inactive ones paid one shilling.

"They're taking inactive ones out and issuing more on-the-run," said William Quan, senior economist at Aubrey G. Lanston, a specialist in Government securities.

The New Haven Rowing Club, with 55 or so active members and 30 to 40 inactive ones, started competing internationally in 1981.

How about among inactive ones?

It is possible that bridge playing selects those with the right abilities, so we may hope for a follow-up study comparing active players with inactive ones.

When functioning properly, the virtual memory system keeps active pages in real memory, inactive ones on disk, and allows more efficient execution of the systems workload.

One can argue that the active genes have greater variability in gene expression than inactive ones have [ 20 ] .