Selective breeding for traits including an ability to form a cooperative relationship with humans created a horse breed that is good-natured, quick to learn, and willing to please.

Selective growth media are also used in cell culture to ensure the survival or proliferation of cells with certain properties, such as antibiotic resistance or the ability to synthesize a certain metabolite.

Selective enforcement is the ability that executors of the law ( such as police officers or administrative agencies, in some cases ) have to select those against whom they want to enforce the law.

The Human Rights Party ’ s platform included calls for the immediate withdrawal of all U. S. military forces from foreign soil, the end of the ROTC and Selective Service, repeal of laws against homosexuality and prostitution, the closure of all state prisons, and provision of day care and health care based on ability to pay.

* Selective Door Operation, the ability to electronically disable one or more set of doors on public transportation or office buildings

Selective fire rifles firing a full-power rifle cartridge from a closed bolt are called automatic rifles or battle rifles, while rifles that fire an intermediate cartridge ( see below ) are called assault rifles.

A friend of Williams suggested that Williams see the advisor of the Governor's Selective Service Appeal Agent, since Williams was the sole support of his mother, arguing that Williams should not have been placed in Class 1-A, and said Williams should be reclassified to Class 3-A.

The DVI specification ( see below for link ) does, however, include a paragraph on " Conversion to Selective Refresh " ( under 1. 2. 2 ), suggesting this feature for future devices.

Truman began preparations to draft the steelworkers into the military under the provisions of Section 18 of the Selective Service Act of 1948, furthering weakening Murray's resolve to see the strike through.

Selective Perception is the process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages and disregard the rest.

This is what is done in Go-Back-N ARQ and the Selective Repeat ARQ.

Selective distortion is a term that refers to the tendency of people to interpret information in a way that will support what they already believe.

Selective permeability is essential for effective separation of a cell or organelle from its surroundings.

The etiology of the fugue state is related to dissociative amnesia, ( DSM-IV Codes 300. 12 ) which has several other subtypes: Selective Amnesia, Generalised Amnesia, Continuous Amnesia, Systematised Amnesia, in addition to the subtype Dissociative Fugue.

* 1917 – World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.

Selective reporting is sometimes referred to as a " file drawer " problem, which arises when only positive study results are made public, while studies with negative or null results are not made public.

Selective reporting has a compounded effect on meta-analysis, which is a statistical technique that aggregates the results of many studies in order to generate sufficient statistical power to demonstrate a result that the individual studies themselves could not demonstrate at a statistically significant level.

* March 21 – Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey, then head of the U. S. Selective Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout him down with cries of " America is the Black man's battleground!

* September 16 – WWII: The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U. S. history.

* October 29 – The Selective Service System lottery is held in Washington, D. C ..

Selective Percutaneous Myofascial Lengthening ( SPML ) is one example.

The Alexandria area is additionally served by Selective TV, Inc., a non-profit, viewer-supported organization which transmits several cable channels free-to-air over standard UHF television frequencies, viewable in any area home without subscription.

Selective Insurance is based in Branchville.

It is considered " Most Selective " by the U. S. News & World Report Rankings.

Selective breeding is the process of breeding plants and animals for particular traits.

Selective plant breeding is also used in research to produce transgenic animals that breed " true " ( i. e., are homozygous ) for artificially inserted or deleted genes.

Selective bronchial intubation can be used to collapse lung in which the hemorrhage is occurring, also endobronchial tamponade can be used.

A more commonly used system is called Selective Calling or Selcall.

The most well known is Sozialistisches PatientenKollektiv, but there are also others, such as Surgical Penis Klinik, System Planning Korporation, SePuKku, Selective Pornography Kontrol, Special Programming Korps and SoliPsiK

Selective breeding is developing plants that produce more beans with higher wax content, as well as other characteristics that will facilitate harvesting.

* Selective perception – We actively screen-out information that we do not think is important.

* Defocus blur – Selective image blurring is very commonly used in photographic and video for establishing the impression of depth.

The AUF's vision for spearfishing is " Safe, Sustainable, Selective, Spearfishing ".

* Selective Mutism, an anxiety disorder in which someone is unable to speak in given situations, or to specific people

* if no IFF response is generated, a civil ( Selective Identification Feature, SIF ) interrogation may then be generated and the aircraft, by returning various mode replies, can then be identified or sorted.

`` Selective selling '' -- concentrating sales on the larger accounts -- has been used effectively by some manufacturers.

Selective investment theory proposes that close social bonds, and associated emotional, cognitive, and neurohormonal mechanisms, evolved in order to facilitate long-term, high-cost altruism between those closely depending on one another for survival and reproductive success.

Geocaching was conceived shortly after the removal of Selective Availability from GPS on May 2, 2000, because the improved accuracy of the system allowed for a small container to be specifically placed and located.

Though Selective Availability capability still exists, on 19 September 2007 the US Department of Defense announced that newer GPS satellites would not be capable of implementing Selective Availability ;

* 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.

The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was passed by the United States Congress on September 16, 1940, becoming the first peacetime conscription in United States history.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs ) selectively block the reuptake of serotonin ( 5-HT ) through their inhibiting effects on the sodium / potassium ATP-dependent serotonin transporter in presynaptic neurons.

Selective pressures imposed on one another often leads to an evolutionary arms race between prey and predator, resulting in various antipredator adaptations.

Selective logging effects on abundance, diversity, and composition of tropical understory herbs.

Residents still need a converter box to view KCCO and KSAX on the digital band, though KSAX ia still rebroadcast via Selective TV.

The Selective Service Act of 1917 was passed on May 18, 1917, and by July a lottery was scheduled so that local districts could meet their assigned quotas of men.

On October 27, 1967, the " Baltimore Four " ( Berrigan, artist Tom Lewis ; and poet, teacher and writer David Eberhardt and United Church of Christ missionary and pastor, the Reverend James L. Mengel ) poured blood ( blood from several of the four, but additionally blood purchased from the Gay St. Market-according to the FBI-poultry blood-perhaps chicken or duck used by the Polish for soup ) on Selective Service records in the Baltimore Customs House.

IBM went on to build the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator ( SSEC ) to both test new technology and provide more publicity for the company.

# Selective distribution means that the producer relies on a few intermediaries to carry their product.

At any given point on the tape, any of the tracks on the recording device can be recording or playing back using sel-sync or Selective Synchronous recording.

* Transmitting a digital distress signal by activating ( or pressing ) the distress button ( or key ) on a marine radio equipped with Digital Selective Calling ( DSC ) over the VHF ( channel 70 ) and / or HF frequency bands.

Conversely, the United States, which did not enter the war until December 7, 1941, following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, instituted the Selective Service Act on September 14, 1940 and extended it by a single vote the following year.

However, the Supreme Court upheld the Military Selective Service Act, stating that " the argument for registering women was based on considerations of equity, but Congress was entitled, in the exercise of its constitutional powers, to focus on the question of military need, rather than equity.