The phrase "a degree of selective" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks a noun to follow "selective." You can use it when discussing the extent or level of selectivity in a particular context, but it needs to be completed for clarity.
Example: "The study showed a degree of selective attention among participants when presented with conflicting information."
Alternatives: "a level of selectivity" or "a measure of selectiveness."
This change is likely to reflect improvements in multi-disciplinary postoperative care, strict patient selection, a degree of selective reporting and the increasing concentration of procedures into high-volume centres, which have repeatedly been shown to have improved outcomes [ 23, 26].
Met-Enk levels in the brain were reduced more rapidly and for a longer duration than Met-Enk levels in the serum, indicating a degree of selective targeting to the CNS.
Many of these are conserved across phylogeny, suggesting a degree of selective pressure over time that may be indicative of functional importance [ 21, 28].
While some synonymous mutations could experience a degree of selective pressure [ 29], for example for translational efficiency [ 30, 31], it is difficult to see how this could differ sufficiently between parasitic and autotrophic plants to explain the acceleration in synonymous substitution rates in parasites seen in this study.
It is more probable that there is a degree of selective non-participation of individuals from opposite ends of a spectrum: on the one hand, the youngest age band (non-response to Health Survey), currently in employment, and with minor episodes of knee pain, and, on the other, the most elderly, who are more likely to have persistent or severe knee pain and other morbidity.
Microsatellites provide a framework for crucial genetic rearrangements with their reversible frame-shift mutations that can confer a certain degree of selective advantage on pathogenic bacteria.
The high level of homozygosity among microsatellite haplotypes in Ethiopia might be due to a high degree of selective pressure, which in turn might be assisted by population bottlenecks brought about by a narrow malaria transmission season and limited exchange of parasites, with neighboring regions resulting from limited migration.
The ratio of pulmonary vascular resistance to systemic vascular resistance (a measure of the degree of selective pulmonary circulation vasodilatation) was higher after vardenafil administration when compared with sildenafil, tadalafil, and inhaled nitric oxide.
Such a degree of conservation suggests high selective pressure.
Age and severity might have an effect, and the degree of selective motor control might also affect the response to training for some children with unilateral CP [ 40].
In this regard, two major evolutionary roles may be ascribed to the AZFc amplicons: (i) the generation of novel genetic variants that may confer some degree of selective advantage (even though selection is particularly weak and diffuse in the Y chromosome); and (ii) the maintenance of the functional integrity of AZFc genes via conversion and/or dosage mechanisms.
