"Loyalty and trust, and courtesy, and kindness, and sensitivity," she insisted, are beautiful and require "alertness" and "patience".
All of Robinson's novels require alertness and patience: they demand that we attend, in both senses of the word, that we wait, and pay attention.
If we are extremely sleepy during the day then we should stop and take a nap – especially if our jobs require alertness (lorry drivers, for example).
After several more minutes circling around to find a parking spot, a kind of competitive endeavour requiring alertness, good eyesight, cunning and sometimes outright thuggery, one might as well spend several hours inside the air-conditioning, marching back and forth to sniff out a totally unnecessary bargain.
Seeing and attending to near misses requires organizational alertness, but no amount of attention will avert failure if people aren't motivated to expose near misses or, worse, are discouraged from doing so.
Hence, the findings of studies that investigated tonic alertness through behavioural measures complement neuroimaging studies, and together they demonstrate that certain Theravada and Mahayana types of meditation can increase the activity in neural areas related to tonic alertness, which in turn leads to improvements on tasks that require tonic alertness.
She writes in short strokes of overlapping observation — an impressionistic narrative style that relies on timing and intonation and requires a special alertness from the generally excellent ensemble.
Further, BT consumers were more accurate in performing trail making test A. Trial making is a complex task that requires sustained attention, alertness, speeded motor activity to be activated at the same time.
Therefore, phasic alertness requires the activation of the sympathetic system and cannot co-occur with a physiological state of parasympathetic dominance, which is the relaxation response.
