The phrase "a conscious selection of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the deliberate choice or decision-making process regarding a particular item or group of items.
Example: "The artist's work reflects a conscious selection of colors that evoke strong emotions."
Alternatives: "an intentional choice of" or "a deliberate selection of".
We made a conscious selection of different phenotypes to avoid an unnaturally uniform patient population for this pilot study.
According to Peters, defining public issues such as PI as "policy problems" helps to "explicate the relationships between problems and instrument choice" [ 15], and may thus lead to a "conscious selection of instruments, as opposed to their selection merely on the basis of custom, familiarity and institutional inertia" [ 15].
For all we know this tiny pod could be the environmentally conscious selection of a fashionable urbanite seeking to reduce their carbon footprint, or the thoughtless impulse of a student who only plans to use it as a base and occasional "crash-pad", or even the clandestine choice of a relatively well-off unfaithful spouse who works nearby.
More specifically, it does not elaborate on a metacognitive component that would enable conscious selection of internal collaboration script components.
Using Emergy Analysis, designers and clients can make better-informed, environmentally-conscious selections of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems.
Selection, both intentionally by humans (conscious selection) and as a result of environmental factors (natural or automatic selection) has, in most crops, established the traits associated with the domestication syndrome (Hammer, 1984).
Therefore, the control populations experienced all conditions similar to the selected populations except that they were not under any conscious selection for the timing of emergence.
Captive wild boar that are subjected to a relaxation of natural selection should theoretically also undergo morphological changes due to their captive conditions (review in [ 13]), even in the absence of conscious selection.
Whether these phenotypic differences in lab strains are driven by conscious selection, inadvertent selection, a relaxation in selection, or are simply the fixation of deleterious mutations, is not known.
Shadle points out that the classical canon is rooted in "conscious selection performed by individuals in positions of power".
Both unconscious and conscious selection are 'natural' in the sense that they immediately increased the individual fitness of the plants (and humans) in an agricultural environment.
