The phrase "a selected ability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific skill or talent that has been chosen or identified for a particular purpose or context.
Example: "In this training program, participants will focus on developing a selected ability that aligns with their career goals."
Alternatives: "a chosen skill" or "a designated talent."
But do rich desserts have a select ability to change our longer-term eating habits?
Al-Hajj et al. [ 3] stated that solid tumors exhibited a distinct population of cells with a select ability to form tumors in rats and named them tumorigenic cells or cancer initiating cells because they were really able to give rise to new neoplasms.
5 In this context, the main goal of this study was to evaluate a selected motor ability (reaching movement) in people of different ages in order to assess the correlation between upper-limb motor function and aging in an objective manner.
Some of these applications rest on the ability of a selected (low) number of mtSNPs providing a high discrimination power when analysing human population or casework evidentiary samples.
The ability of a selected oligonucleotide to resist unauthorised removal in kerosene, gasoline, diesel and gasohol was also investigated.
We capitalized on the ability of a selected antimicrobial peptide to interact specifically with and alter to a different extent the outer membrane surface charge density of bacterial cells and illustrated the impact of altering the surface charge of the bacterial cells on their detection by the α-HL nanopore.
This choice of penalty parameters allows for strong grouping, leading to heavy group sparsity and intermediate sparsity within a selected gene, yet has the ability to select a wide range of causal gene configurations.
Yes, Oxbridge is an elite – but, in theory, it should be an elite selected by ability.
However, the key metrics for evaluating this system are the ability to encrypt selected regions, ability to support multiple video compression algorithms, and the resulting increase in bitrate.
The private schools issue is different: private schools form an elite selected not by ability, but by parents' ability to pay".
