"beneficial act" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or deed that is beneficial or helpful to someone or something. Example: The teacher's extra tutoring sessions were a beneficial act for her struggling students.
So it seems insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn't be a homosexual character in that world" – and suggests that as the franchise has made efforts to include female and African American characters, the introduction of an LGBT character would be a beneficial act.
Humans cooperate in a variety of contexts (e.g., [1]), although cooperators risk exploitation by cheaters' accepting but not repaying the beneficial act.
Helping the world is a very beneficial act that all students need to learn.
Alternately voracious and manageable, it can inspire socially beneficial acts of retaliation and punishment as well as damaging ones.
With a determined effort by the Bush administration, and mutually beneficial acts by Israelis and Palestinians, it may be possible to rekindle the peace process.
A mature sufi act in the interest of others without denying the spiritual or material self-satisfaction in those beneficial acts.
Apparently, not only are contributions to public goods largely determined by what one expects others to contribute (Klandermans 1984, 1997; Koopmans and Rebers 2009; Yamagishi and Kiyonari 2000), but the group-beneficial act of punishing defectors is also largely determined by how much one expects others to punish.
"We think the beneficial effects act through other pathways, beyond the effects on blood pressure," says study author Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at Albert Einstein and a principal investigator with the Women's Health Initiative.
Therefore, normally beneficial responses act to the patient's detriment in the artificial ICU environment and it is necessary to block them as selectively as possible.
Thus, it is not clear at this point whether inflammation is a causative agent in the process of neurodegeneration, is an essentially benign response to AD, or is actually beneficial and acts to retard the progression of the disease [52].
Some European studies have found a beneficial effect for ACT in length and number of hospitalizations [ 10- 14], continuity of care [ 11, 15- 17], psychopathology [ 18- 21], social functioning [ 19] or housing stability ([ 14].
