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Colleges encourage applicants to apply early to enhance their image of selectivity.
The selectivity of attention shows that what we perceive depends on us, as when you focus on a bird in flight and ignore the sky behind it.
His buying was marked by its selectiveness.
Did this culinary selectivity represent a distortion of tradition?

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Examples of selectivity

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Future studies may address whether unexpected ionic or molecular selectivities appear in the substates.
It is unclear however how ganglion cells may derive such cone selectivity.
Quinoxalines block the mechanism of directional selectivity in ganglion cells of the rabbit retina.
When the test spot was moved in nonpreferred directions, the selectivity for opposing motion disappeared.
The main weakness of the text is its somewhat arbitrary selectivity.
Since response phase is not affected by these nonlinearities, we relied primarily on it to summarize the linear component of direction selectivity.
Our fourth research question focused on the issue of selectivity, that is, whether apparent differences are explained by other demographic and family influences.
A protein's selectivity for a particular nucleotide, for example, is quantified in terms of its relative affinities for two different, but similar, nucleotides.
The participants were from universities that differed widely in the selectivity of student admissions.
Having established the retinotopic location, the approximate extent of the receptive field, and estimated direction selectivity, we proceeded with the experimental conditions.
When conventional symmetrical biphasic pulses were used, there was little selectivity between activation of local cells and activation of axons of passage.
The dual whole-cell patch clamp method for recording single-channel currents is useful for determination of junctional channel ionic permeability and selectivity.
We also show that dark rearing causes concomitant reductions in both inhibition and size selectivity.
The images show a narrowly selective peak in the signal direction flanked by regions with a broader selectivity.
Comparative studies of the mobility of proteins alone and in complexes is giving insight into the role dynamics play in complex formation and selectivity.
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