The phrase "are selected upon" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not a commonly used expression and may cause confusion in communication.
Example: "The candidates are selected upon their qualifications and experience."
Alternatives: "are chosen based on" or "are selected according to".
They are selected upon entry if their transcripts and placement exam scores are high enough.
Here, treatment targets are selected upon what the client values as sources of subjective well-being in his life.
Results in [ 50] also suggested that mate signalling selects for varying dorsal wing patterns while ventral characters are selected upon by predation pressure.
Gene flow can introduce novel alleles into plant populations and may or may not lead to introgression (the transfer of alleles from one taxon to another; Anderson and Hubricht 1938) depending on the degree to which the novel alleles alter fitness and therefore are selected upon (Slatkin 1987; Lenormand 2002).
Franz Roth's photographs of the dead bodies inside Lviv prisons were selected upon Hitler's personal orders and distributed to the American press via AP.
These values were selected upon conducting pre-experiments during system pre-commissioning.
They indicate that bacteria carrying specific pathways and primarily carrying tmoA/xylM/xylE1 genotypes, are being selected upon BTEX contamination.
In such cases a sample of auxiliary data can be selected, upon which the auxiliary variable totals and means can be estimated and used together with model predictions that link the auxiliary variables with the target variable.
IBC tumors were selected upon clinical criteria as T4d tumor.
Stable transfectants were selected upon exposure to zeocine and individual clones were isolated and characterized for PC-1 expression [21].
Single colonies of the 2fTGH cells were selected upon co-transfection of the ISG15 constructs with a puromycin resistance marker and selection on 3 µg/mL puromycin.
