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These children are reactively aggressive, but not proactively aggressive.
Anticipating changes enables us to manage proactively rather than reactively.
It is not clear whether they were prepared at the outset or reactively during the process.
Where is the security in a regulatory system that has limited investigative powers and is forced to operate reactively and not proactively?
We should strike hard proactively rather than reactively to save a child.
I predict that one way or another mass testing will come about in this country, and we can approach it either reactively or pro-actively.
Although communities have typically had to work reactively in order to create policy change, alterations in the structure of the energy sector are potentially great proactive strides.
Behavior-based control2,5 is another approach for robot navigation in unstructured environments, where a specific behavior is reactively selected from a predefined set based on sensor information.
This feature is likely to be inherent to non-linear evolution of 'zero-energ y' or reactively unstable modes.
Language control in bilinguals and/or inhibiting their two language subsystems globally and/or locally, and they may do so proactively and/or reactively.