The phrase "a means of selecting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or processes for choosing or picking something from a group or set.
Example: "The committee established a means of selecting the best candidates for the scholarship program."
Alternatives: "a method for choosing" or "a way to pick".
A means of selecting the optimal mesh points in the Hlavacek-Kubicek approximation to linear operators is proposed.
Cross-validation methodologies have been widely used as a means of selecting tuning parameters in nonparametric statistical problems.
She became widely known for opposing prenatal testing as a means of detecting disabilities, and abortion as a means of selecting babies without them.
Cake seems to have a macabre history in almost all cultures: the Celts used it as a means of selecting victims for sacrifice, for example.
In May, accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers announced it would no longer be using A-level grades as a means of selecting trainees.
But London Oratory lost its bid to include a family's "Catholic service" – a points system that rewarded church flower arranging and choir membership – as a means of selecting pupils for the oversubscribed secondary school.
Sperm selection using hyaluronan binding provides, for the first time, a means to select individual sperm of enhanced genetic and developmental integrity for use in ICSI.
Successful bacterial transformations require a mechanism of genomic remodeling with a high enough efficiency to be effective with a reasonable population of bacteria and a means to select rare transformants.
The literature identifies an unmet need for a rigorous means of selecting indicators according to suitability for purpose and use contextually [ 14]. *Abbreviations: Hmos health management organizations, NHIS national health insurance scheme.
Our results illustrate a successful means of selecting representative waterbodies to conduct a regional assessment of cyanobacteria distribution using accessible GIS analyses.
This approach identified tumor-induced heterogeneity in cell surface antigen expression profiles associated with HMEC escape from cytotoxic T cell-mediated cell death and provides a novel means of selecting cells for the development of a cellular cancer vaccine.
