That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

To the members of our Advisory Board, and most specially to its members who constitute our committees of selection, the Foundation is indebted for its successes of choice of Fellows.

A back-yard picnic with grilled frankfurters and a selection of frankfurter trimmings is a fine way to entertain guests this summer.

This is particularly true in site selection.

The quantity and quality of water sources is often a big factor in site selection.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

There is a broad spectrum of organisms from which selection for a specified military purpose might be made.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

Tone analysis will continue to be difficult and unsatisfactory until a more representative selection of systems is familar to every practicing field linguist.

You will come to Alemagna, a delightful, though moderately expensive restaurant, which is particularly noted for its exceptional selection of ice creams and patisseries.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

Body parts, pointers, adapted mice, joysticks, or eye tracking could be used, whereas switch access scanning is often used for indirect selection.

Informally put, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, it is possible to make a selection of exactly one object from each bin.

In many cases such a selection can be made without invoking the axiom of choice ; this is in particular the case if the number of bins is finite, or if a selection rule is available: a distinguishing property that happens to hold for exactly one object in each bin.

He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.

The trademark dishes of American Chinese cuisine remain on the menu, but there is more emphasis on fresh vegetables, and the selection is vegetarian-friendly.

This account, supported by biologist E. O. Wilson and philosopher Michael Ruse, proposes that the human experience of morality is a by-product of natural selection, a theory philosopher Mark D. Linville calls evolutionary naturalism.

Speech is fluent and effortless with intact syntax and grammar, but the patient has problems with the selection of nouns.

This acts as a sort of stock room when a species is plagued by the perils of natural selection.

Chinese classic texts, or Chinese canonical texts, () today often refer to the pre-Qin Chinese texts, especially the Neo-Confucian titles of Four Books and Five Classics ( 四書五經 ), a selection of short books and chapters from the voluminous collection called the Thirteen Classics.

In the United States, the term " Darwinism " is often used by creationists as a pejorative term in reference to beliefs such as atheistic naturalism, but in the United Kingdom the term has no negative connotations, being freely used as a short hand for the body of theory dealing with evolution, and in particular, evolution by natural selection.

In the United Kingdom the term often retains its positive sense as a reference to natural selection, and for example Richard Dawkins wrote in his collection of essays A Devil's Chaplain, published in 2003, that as a scientist he is a Darwinist.

In the days before station-controlled playlists, the DJ often followed their personal tastes in music selection.

Dennett sees evolution by natural selection as an algorithmic process ( though he spells out that algorithms as simple as long division often incorporate a significant degree of randomness ).

The term " niche construction " is more often used in reference to the under-appreciated feedback mechanism of natural selection imparting forces on the abiotic niche.

Job analysis is often described as the cornerstone of successful employee selection efforts and performance management initiatives.

With candidates for employment, individual assessment is often part of the personnel selection process.

However, selection bias and sampling bias are often used synonymously.

Following Darwin's primary usage the term is often used to refer to both the evolutionary consequence of blind selection and to its mechanisms.

However, this does not imply that natural selection is always directional and results in adaptive evolution ; natural selection often results in the maintenance of the status quo by eliminating less fit variants.

More generally, intrasexual selection is often associated with sexual dimorphism, including differences in body size between males and females of a species.

Peppered moth evolution is often used by educators as an example of natural selection.

Thus, the individual genotypes ( or species ) may be seen as the units on which selection acts and biologists will often speak of a single genotype's fitness.

Mitigation of risks often means selection of security controls, which should be documented in a Statement of Applicability, which identifies which particular control objectives and controls from the

Bird species often demonstrate intersexual selection, perhaps because-due to their lightweight body structures-fights between males may be ineffective or impractical.

Because traits held to be due to sexual selection often conflict with the survival fitness of the individual, the question then arises as to why, in nature, in which survival of the fittest is considered the rule of thumb, such apparent liabilities are allowed to persist.

In addition, in the late 1970s Janzen and Mary Willson, noting that male flowers are often larger than female flowers, expanded the field of sexual selection into plants.

The thesis, in a nutshell, is that synergistic effects have often provided functional advantages ( economic benefits ) in relation to survival and reproduction that have been favored by natural selection.

These relate to the way in which observations have been gathered and may often involve an assumption of random selection of some type.

Individual genetic advantage often fails to explain certain social behaviors as a result of gene-centred selection, and evolution may also act upon groups.

By the mid-1960s, both systems showed enough promise to start development of base selection for a limited ABM system dubbed Sentinel.

With only five or six human generations in 150 years, time for natural selection has been very limited, suggesting that increased skeletal size resulting from changes in population phenotypes is more likely than recent genetic evolution.

Founder shares typically have no economic rights, and voting rights over only a limited range of issues, such as selection of the investment manager.

He was a gifted blind musician from Kyoto who changed the limited selection of six songs to a brand new style of koto music which he called kumi uta.

The fecundity of both females and males ( for example, giant sperm in certain species of Drosophila ) can be limited via " fecundity selection ".

The beer selection is mainly limited to beers brewed by that particular company.

For that reason ergometer scores are generally not used as the sole selection criterion for crews, and technique training is limited to the basic body position and movements.

This feature proved essential as the growth of the Usenet made it impossible to read every article in even a limited selection of newsgroups.

Thus, sexual selection takes two major forms: intersexual selection ( also known as ' mate choice ' or ' female choice ') in which males compete with each other to be chosen by females ; and intrasexual selection ( also known as ' male – male competition ') in which members of the less limited sex ( typically males ) compete aggressively among themselves for access to the limiting sex.

The conditions determining which sex becomes the more limited resource in intersexual selection can be best understood by way of Bateman's principle which states that the sex which invests the most in producing offspring becomes a limiting resource over which the other sex will compete.

There was, however, a very limited selection of praenomina, such as Gaius, Gnaeus, Marcus, Quintus, Publius, Tiberius, and Titus.

It is difficult for selection, however, to favour aid to offspring from parents and grandparents Irrespective of living standards, adaptive responses are limited by physiological mechanisms.

It is larger in size and has a wider selection than a traditional grocery store, but is smaller and more limited in the range of merchandise than a hypermarket or big-box shop.

Many of the chain's stores in low-income urban areas are significantly smaller than those in popular suburbs, and have much more limited hours and selection.

The assumption that innate power of kin recognition must be present, and that cue-based mediation of social cooperation based on limited dispersal and shared developmental context are not sufficient, has obscured significant progress made in applying kin selection and inclusive fitness theory to a wide variety of species, including humans, on the basis of cue-based mediation of social bonding and social behaviours.

These include, but are not limited to, crop rotation and nutrient management ; sanitation to remove pest habitat ; provision of habitat for beneficial organisms ; selection of pest-resistant crops and animals ; crop protection using physical barriers, such as row covers ; and crop diversification through companion planting or establishment of polycultures.

Visitors to Edna Bay without a local contact would be well advised to bring with them everything needed for remote outdoor survival, although food and a limited selection of non-food supplies can be purchased at the General Store located approx.

They also carry a limited selection of parts for boat repair.

These chemical classes should be rotated so that selection pressure on the disease in limited as to avoid resistant strains of this disease.

Subscription-based cable television from Virgin Media uses DVB-C, alongside a limited selection of analog channels.

It maintained the status quo in patenting arrangements, it limited project selection to scientists, and it narrowed projects to basic research.