The phrase "act of selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a choice or decision-making process is being described, particularly in academic or formal writing.
Example: "The act of selection in this study was crucial for ensuring the validity of the results."
Alternatives: "process of choosing" or "selection process".
She points out that there is actually no act of selection taking place, that every organization fulfilling the permit requirements will be able to exhibit or perform.
It's an act of selection: what sort of microphone, where to put it, when to begin, when to end? Opening and closing our eyes is easy; it's much harder to close our ears, so deciding to listen to just this, for just this long, is quite unnatural.
When it comes to language, though, every act of selection and interconnection itself adds another layer of meaning (just start typing into a search box to find out what auto-completed ideas are associated with your name).
For example, the very act of selection causes the genotype distribution to deviate from a Gaussian (Turelli and Barton 1990; Turelli and Barton 1994) (see also equation 6 below).
There are countless poems that describe grainy black-and-white photographs in a tenderly impartial tone, as though photographs and the poems that describe them weren't acts of selection and judgment.
In this impassioned work, Jeanneney argues that Google's unsystematic digitization of books from a few partner libraries and its reliance on works written mostly in English constitute acts of selection that can only extend the dominance of American culture abroad.
The wise or virtuous person acts with a view to obtaining preferred items and avoiding their opposites, but it is as an expression of his perfected reason that acts of selection are good, not because they secure, or tend to secure, preferred items for him or protect, or tend to protect, him from their dispreferred opposites.
The "negative selection" of Thomas Morus's student intake, says Mr Steffens, is "downright extreme".The plight of Turkish students has many causes, but they begin with an earlier act of negative selection, the "guest-worker" programme launched in the 1950s.
Immediately, these nullomers have been assumed to be caused by the act of negative selection, and thus considered useful for a variety of basic science and application scenarios, including drug target identification, pesticide development, environmental monitoring, and forensics [1], [5].
The causes for limited adaptation that makes species less fit in the environmental conditions of newly introduced territories can be genetic (e.g., inadequate levels of genetic variation for target traits in response to the act of natural selection) or ecological (e.g., trade-offs that involve the traits of ecological importance).
However, the petition also identified another practice in violation of Kindle's terms: The act of "combining selections of works they had already published into purportedly new books". It's a much-hated move that's called "book stuffing" by the self-publishing community.
