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Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution Sex selection, in genetics; Mate selection, in mating; Sexual selection in humans, in human sexuality
Jury selection is the selection of the people who will serve on a jury during a jury trial.The group of potential jurors (the "jury pool,” also known as the venire) is first selected from among the community using a reasonably random method.
The deviance of the b-sentences is addressed in terms of selection. The selectional restrictions of the predicates is wilting and drank are violated. When a mismatch between a selector and a selected element triggers reinterpretation of the meaning of those elements, that process is referred to as coercion. [4]
It allows the user to manipulate all the selected items at once through direct manipulation. The technique also appears in data wrangling tools, allowing the user to make the same changes to several records of the same kind in a table. The term simultaneous editing is also used to describe collaborative editing in collaborative real-time editors.
In Australia, the term has been in common usage since the 1920s to describe the selection of candidates by political parties for public office. One usage of the term is in describing elected public officeholders in Westminster type party systems as being selected by the voters after being preselected by their parties. [ 7 ]
In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample. [1] [2] [3] [4]In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and primary method for appointing political officials, and its use was regarded as a principal characteristic of democracy.
Personnel selection is the methodical process used to hire (or, less commonly, promote) individuals.Although the term can apply to all aspects of the process (recruitment, selection, hiring, onboarding, acculturation, etc.) the most common meaning focuses on the selection of workers.
The choices are mutually exclusive; when the user selects a radio button, any previously selected radio button in the same group becomes deselected (making it so only one can be selected). Selecting a radio button is done by clicking the mouse on (or touching the screen over) the button, or the caption, or by using a keyboard shortcut.