The phrase "ad hoc activity" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a task or action that is created or done for a specific purpose or situation, often on a temporary basis.
Example: "The committee organized an ad hoc activity to address the immediate concerns of the community."
Alternatives: "temporary task" or "specific purpose activity".
Decisions are sometimes viewed as an ad hoc activity with no need for process, but if they're serious work, they need a process to guide them.
Though open innovation practices have always existed, they were until recently more an ad hoc activity than a systematic one (Tschirky et al. 2000).
Zero (0) is scored when the desired quality improvement activity in a clinic is absent, or there is mostly ad hoc activity related to risk reduction.
Zero is scored when the desired quality improvement activity in a clinic is absent or there is mostly ad hoc activity related to risk reduction.
They are not stand-alone, ad hoc activities coordinated by the human resources department; their development initiatives are embedded in the very fabric of the business.
More broadly, while this ARCore-China move may not seem huge, it's a significant step which shows that Google finally appears to have an actual strategy for China beyond ad hoc activities as it was in the past.
These findings suggest that, in absence of ad hoc activity-related constraints on neuronal and astrocytic metabolism, the glutamate-glutamine cycle does not control the relative energy demand of neurons and astrocytes, and hence their glucose uptake and lactate exchange.
Therefore, information management is an area where informal and ad hoc activities should be replaced with formalized, organizationally sanctioned routines.
Adopting a bottom-up approach requires that informal and ad hoc activities in information management be replaced by formalized, organizationally sanctioned routines.
But just as supply systems need to evolve from ad hoc activities to more organized approaches and finally to well-integrated systems —stewards of the health sector must also evolve with them.
Indeed, while novel programmes like the MMP can be valued by hospital administration for their contribution to supportive care, patient satisfaction with services and even for generating positive publicity, without appropriate funding they run the risk of becoming ad hoc activities, or, to end abruptly when key staff move on.
