* Selective Line Print – The standard 557 could only print on the top 2 horizontal lines ( between the 12 and 11 rows and between the 11 and 0 rows ).

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.

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.

This enhanced data allowed for considerably enhanced system accuracy ( not unlike Selective Availability < SA > under GPS ).

Those who were required to register, but failed to do so before they turn 26, are no longer allowed to register, and thus may be permanently barred from federal jobs and other benefits, unless they can show to the Selective Service that their failure was not knowing and willful.

When the Selective Service Act of 1917 was passed two months later, it allowed conscription to be extended to the island.

Clark refused, however, to define the boundaries of that power ; in his view the fact that Congress had provided in the Taft-Hartley Act, the Selective Service Act or the Defense Production Act for procedures that the executive could have used, ended the discussion by barring the President from relying on any inherent powers he might otherwise have to choose a solution other than the ones that Congress had allowed.

" Selective Bookings " in which exhibitors were allowed to purchase a single film, made up only a small percentage of the Corporation's offerings.

The message included the words " Selective Service System " and read " You are hereby ordered for induction into the Armed Forces of the United States, and to report to a polling place near you " on November 2 ( Election Day ).

`` 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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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!

* Selective Visibility: The simple ability to see what is occurring on stage.

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.

Selective Percutaneous Myofascial Lengthening ( SPML ) is one example.

Selective breeding in aquaculture provide remarkable economic benefits to the industry, the primary one being that it reduces production costs due to faster turnover rates.

CAD systems may be interconnected with automatic vehicle location systems, mobile data terminal s, office telephones, and Selective calling | selective calling and push-to-talk ID. Computer-assisted dispatch systems use one or more servers located in a central dispatch office, which communicate with computer terminals in a Communications Center or with mobile data terminals installed police vehicles.

As one of the elements of the offense, the government must prove that a violation of the Military Selective Service Act was knowing and willful.

** A registrant who registered at a time required by Selective Service law and thereafter acquired status within one of its groups of persons exempt from registration.

Selective calling options such as CTCSS are optional. Professional base station radios are often one channel.

* Selective reporting: Over time, the news presented through a media organization may emphasize one side of the story at the expense of the other.

Selective reporting involves devoting more resources, such as news articles or air time, to the coverage of one side of the story over another.

Selective reduction ( or multifetal pregnancy reduction or MFPR ) is the practice of aborting one or more fetuses in a multifetal pregnancy, say quadruplets, to a twin or singleton pregnancy.

Selective reduction can also be used to reduce a twin pregnancy to a singleton one.

In 1918, the Selective Draft Law Cases upheld the Selective Service Act of 1917, and more generally, upheld conscription in the United States, which Supreme Court Justice ( and later President ) William Howard Taft said was " one of his great opinions.

Selective fading or frequency selective fading is a radio propagation anomaly caused by partial cancellation of a radio signal by itself — the signal arrives at the receiver by two different paths, and at least one of the paths is changing ( lengthening or shortening ).

Selective fading manifests as a slow, cyclic disturbance ; the cancellation effect, or " null ", is deepest at one particular frequency, which changes constantly, sweeping through the received audio.

# Selective Neck Dissection ( SND ) ( together with the use of parentheses to denote the levels or sublevels removed )-cervical lymphadenectomy with preservation of one or more lymph node groups that are routinely removed in a RND.

Selective neck dissection is defined as any type of cervical lymphadenectomy where there is preservation of one or more lymph node groups removed by the radical neck dissection.

* In Selective Canfield, one can deal five cards right after the reserve is dealt.

Selective cyclotrimerization of one of a pair of enantiotopic alkynes has also been facilitated by a chiral catalyst.

It is one of numerous military-school or patriotic-adventure-themed, quickly-produced second features for a primarily juvenile audience, which every studio rushed before the cameras following the September 1939 outbreak of war in Europe and, subsequently, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, passed by Congress on September 14 and signed by President Franklin Roosevelt on September 16.

Selective calling can eliminate users having to listen to the audio of distant signals even though the distant signals are within receive range of one or more receivers.

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