Many parents in this demographic can attest to how hard it is to get such a child off the couch, or to initiate an activity that is not presented to him or her intact.
Scientists have shown that our hands start assuming the necessary configuration as soon as the brain initiates an activity — if not a micromoment earlier.
It's a basic assumption of natural selection: to perpetuate itself, a species must reproduce, and to reproduce it must engage in sex, and the only way individual animals would consistently initiate an activity as selfless, forward-oriented, and (admit it) physically weird as sex is if there were something instantly rewarding about it.
The action in column S is a dummy text used only to initiate an activity in the Java program, in this case the calculation and storage of a cost item using the data returned by the preceding cells.
In our concluding section, we have discussed how this evaluative framework can be strengthened to initiate an activity that will allow the long-term, and possibly the only meaningful, evaluation framework for such a system.
Therefore, if you initiate an activity at this time, you find that all the energy and momentum that began with your actions seem to stop or even reverse.
As a follow-up activity, the NTP is initiating a targeted testing activity for a set of predicted "positives" and "negatives" using more physiologically based in vitro model systems.
Wives' verbal encouragement seemed to be most successful in initiating an increase in physical activity in their husbands after the transition to retirement, whereas spousal support in the form of understanding and practical help facilitated the maintenance of physical activity behaviour in retirement and throughout married life.
On Monday, the umbrella entity for the group said it was initiating an inquiry into the activities of the Italian unit within the limitations imposed by the partnership.
