The phrase "a specific type of action" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a particular category or kind of action in a discussion or analysis.
Example: "In this study, we will focus on a specific type of action that influences consumer behavior."
Alternatives: "a particular kind of action" or "a distinct form of action."
Each type of action has constitutive "rules," rules that make an action a specific type of action.
Each piece of feedback is tied to a specific type of action on the driver's part, covering general quality of service; conversation; navigation; entertainment; car quality; music choice; cleanliness; amenities or extras; and added services beyond standard expectations.
In this paper, our goal is to learn discriminative spatio-temporal trajectory clusters from a video that are most relevant to a specific type of action and to encode the trajectory as motion skeleton for each action class.
Under the current federal law, perpetrators can only be prosecuted on a terrorism-related charge when they've either taken a very specific type of action or if they have claimed allegiance to a foreign terrorist organization that's on a list made up of mostly radical Islamist groups.
What characteristics help or hinder each gender in a specific type of athletic activity?
As you'll recall, 1993's terrible LAH heralded not just the end of Arnold Schwarzenegger's box-office winning streak, but also the end of the specific type of action movie it parodied.
Should subgrouping become more costly, invasive or time consuming than the treatment itself, it will not be clinically applicable and may have only helped us to understand the mechanism of action of a specific type of treatment.
Now, in eLife, Jody Culham at the University of Western Ontario UWOO) and co-workers report a significant advance in our understanding of these 'big picture' issues by showing how a specific type of information about object-directed actions is coded across the brain (Gallivan et al., 2013b).
In this paper, we focus on a specific type of interaction, Haptic-Ostensive (H-O) actions, that are pervasive in collaborative dialogue.
If so, action may recruit a specific type of body representation, which is encoded in a sensorimotor format (Paillard, 1999; Djikerman and de Haan, 2007; Vignemont, 2010).
Whether there exists a derivative control action and whether it relates to a specific type of regulation in a metabolic pathway will not be investigated in this paper.
