The phrase "a means of selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or criteria for choosing or deciding among options.
Example: "The committee established a means of selection to ensure that the best candidates were chosen for the scholarship."
Alternatives: "a method of choosing" or "a way to select".
A-levels have long been inadequate as a means of selection for university.
UNICEF policy requires a hiring office to follow standard recruitment processes for all vacancies that do not use Talent Groups as a means of selection.
G418 (Geneticin) was used in culture medium as a means of selection up to 1000 μg/ml, until resistant clones were identified.
How selection variables predict performance within the selected group is not the same as assessing the variables as a means of selection (Burt, 1943).
The plasmid pXW-GAD-His was transformed into wild-type C. reinhardtii chloroplasts by particle bombardment along with the plasmid p228 conferring spectinomycin resistance as a means of selection.
A Shigella ΔipaJ Kan virulence plasmid was used because IpaJ is located directly upstream of the T3SS operons so that when recombination occurs between the virulence plasmid and the pLLX13- ipaJ-bla-spa40 T3SS capture vector the kanamycin-resistance gene is included in the captured region, providing a means of selection for the recombined region.
To facilitate conjugation experiments involving pVT1, and provide a mean of selection, the pSW23T suicide vector, carrying a CmR resistance marker [40] was introduced into ORF pVT1_36, which encodes a transposase of the IS4 family (Table S1), as previously described [41], generating strain VT14 (CECT4600 pVT1_36::pVT1_36.
RFs have been receiving increased attention in the data-mining field as a means of variable selection in many classification tasks in computational biology, including the selection of a subset of genetic markers and genes in microarray data analysis relevant for the prediction of a certain disease [ 47- 50].
This chain of events has cast an unfortunate light on a means of project selection that has often been exalted as a model for consensus building between competing research projects: the Decadal Survey for astronomy, conducted by the US National Academy of Sciences.
Waiver or deferral of consent might be considered as a means of avoiding selection bias and improving generalisability.
Dormancy is a major adaptive response of native plants that allows them to cope with environmental variation and provide a means of habitat selection [ 27- 29].
