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the ability to distinguish, especially to recognize small differences or draw fine distinctions

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the property of being selective

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The BOC implements a color selectivity system in the ports wherein shipments are tagged accordingly: green, as low risk; yellow, as medium risk; and red for high-risk containers.
The soft and flexible polyvinyl acetate polymer operates above T g with high permeability but low selectivity [8].
The researchers find that school selectivity, as measured by the average SAT scores of the school's admitted students, is correlated with post-college earnings for some groups, even after controlling for student characteristics.
Vegh Weis traces the entire history of "crime" under capitalism through the lens of what she calls "criminal selectivity." By this she means that in each phase of capitalist development, some types of socially destructive activities were "under-criminalized," while other were "over-criminalized." She illustrates how the laws defining "crime" changed over time to fit the needs of the ruling class, and explores how certain types of laws were over- and others under-enforced.
'Because the system is being handled with human contact, some form of favouritism and selectivity has been noticed by some of our members.
K-PRO technology combines the know-how and experience of K-COT(TM) with a novel high selectivity, low-cost, dehydrogenation catalyst that does not require precious metals.
Two alternative cases were simulated by using the operating model to account for the potential impacts of time-varying natural mortality and fishery selectivity. The first case, referred to as time-invariant, involved a single fixed rate of natural mortality over the entire time period.
Gillnet selectivity studies in Indian waters are mainly concerned with optimization of mesh size for the commercial exploitation of important marine and fresh water fishes.
Sulaymaniyah / National Iraqi News Agency / nina / -A senior leader of the Kurdish Movement for Change stressed the need to work together and concerted efforts to heal the rift in order to address the problems and coups between the Kurdistan region and the central government through dialogue and in accordance with the Constitution without selectivity. Shawrash Haji, member of the Executive Council of the Movement for Change, said in a letter sent to the Movement of Wisdom on the occasion of the opening of his office in the city of Sulaymaniyah, during which he praised the historical fatwa issued by the supreme religious authority Sayyed Mohsen al-Hakim in the sixties of the last century forbidding the fighting of the Kurdish people.
Some research groups have reported applied radiometric techniques to separate and determine the [sup.90]Sr content from field samples with high selectivity. However, these methods make use of relatively complicated chemical procedures and have detector limitations due to the relatively weak energy emission during decay of [sup.90]Sr.
Thus, it is still a challenging task to enhance the selectivity for the hydrogenation of C=O group to form COL [2, 6, 7].
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The Premier stressed that the law is applied to all those found involved in corruption, with no discrimination or selectivity. Accusing the government with selectivity is "null" and only aims to "defend and cover up the corrupt," he said.
The efficiency of separation of impurities by membranes is assessed by their selectivity: