The phrase "a kind of selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type or category of selection in various contexts, such as biology, decision-making, or data analysis.
Example: "Natural selection is a kind of selection that favors traits beneficial for survival and reproduction."
Alternatives: "a type of selection" or "a form of selection".
As different CTRC configurations have advantage of performance indicators under different conditions, and the focused indicators may also be various with applications, this paper focuses on proposing a kind of selection maps, which is used for the selection of the four CTRC configurations in the field of engine waste heat recovery.
The principle of maximum entropy production asserts that systems utilize resources from the surroundings as rapidly as possible, construed as a kind of selection in which whoever sequesters the most energy fastest wins, starving out their slower competitors.
It would work as a kind of selection function, or filter, determining which of the hypotheses that have been conceived in the stage of discovery are to pass to the next stage and be subjected to empirical testing.
In this regard, the original position is best seen as a kind of selection process wherein the parties' deliberations are constrained by the background conditions imposed by the original position as well as the list of conceptions of justice provided to them.
Though the even moment effect is sometimes referred to as selection acting on variance, I argue below that the even-moment effect should not be treated as a kind of selection.
The difference in ratings among healthy patients might be explained by a kind of "selection effect": the healthier the inpatients become, the more they will question the need for putting up with life on a hospital ward.
In the X-inactivation and allelic exclusion processes the functional capability or incapability is determined in a kind of stochastic selection by an as yet unknown selection in each individual cell: one allele stays potentially active and its partner becomes incapable of expressing itself [reviewed in [ 10]].
This set-up enjoys the advantage of representing the entire population under a certain age and of avoiding practically any kind of selection.
This account, which has won admiration for its partial anticipation of Darwin's principle of the survival of the fittest, is plainly using a kind of natural selection to account non-teleologically for the apparent presence of design in the animal kingdom.
It's possible that a kind of natural selection among the dividing cancer cells occurs which, in extreme cases selects for one clone, or cell lineage, that for the most part fails to differentiate into non-tumor-initiating cells.
A kind of cultural selection is also at work.
