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Selective

Selective school, a school that admits students on the basis of some sort of selection criteria


4-Nonylphenylboronic acid

4-Nonylphenylboronic acid is a potent and selective inhibitor of the enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), with an IC50 of 9.1nM, and 870x selectivity for FAAH over the related enzyme MAGL, which it inhibits with an IC50 of 7900nM.

A Final Storm

A Final Storm is the third studio album by Swedish post-rock band Khoma, released in 2010 by Selective Notes.

Alpha-7 nicotinic receptor

WAY-317,538 - selective potent full agonist with nootropic and neuroprotective properties

Australian Langshan

The Australian Langshan was bred in Australia during the early 20th century by selective cross breeding of Croad Langshan's, Orpington's, Wakfer Chinese Langshan and Modern Langshan.

Berwick Academy

While these relationships have continued, graduates now matriculate at a wide variety of highly selective colleges in the United States, including the Ivy League, the Little Ivies and the Ancient Universities.

Bilateral filter

GIMP implements a bilateral filter in its Filters-->Blur tools; and it is called Selective Gaussian Blur.

Bobita

Currently Bobita works only in selective roles, but is still active in the Dhallywood celluloid world.

C20H27NO3

A-77636, a selective dopamine receptor D1 agonist

C24H26N2O4

Carvedilol, a non-selective beta blocker/alpha-1 blocker indicated in the treatment of mild to moderate congestive heart failure

Caryophyllene

In a study conducted by Jürg Gertsch et al. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), beta-caryophyllene was shown to be selective agonist of cannabinoid receptor type-2 (antiinflammatory effects in mice.

CBiPES

CBiPES is a drug used in scientific research that acts as a selective positive allosteric modulator for the metabotropic glutamate receptor group II subtype Christoph Meiners

Meiners wrote that the noblest race was the Celts, and they were able to conquer various parts of the world, were more sensitive to heat and cold and their delicacy is shown by the way they are selective about what they eat.

Dieter Matthaei

Matthaei D, Frahm J, Haase A, Schuster R, Bomsdorf H. Chemical-shift-selective magnetic-resonance imaging of avascular necrosis of the femoral head.

Ficus citrifolia

Ficus citrifolia is under strong selective pressure to flower and produce fruit year round due to its mutualistic relationship with its pollinating agaonid wasp.

Grand strategy

In the piece, Barry Posen classified himself as a "selective engagement" advocate, with the caveat that the United States should not only act to reduce the likelihood of great power war, but also oppose the rise of a Eurasian hegemon capable of threatening the United States.

GSK2606414

GSK2606414 is a drug which is the first selective inhibitor discovered for the enzyme protein kinase R (PKR)-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (PERK), which is involved in various processes relating to cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.

HEK

Hektoen enteric agar (also abbreviated as HE) is a selective agar used in microbiology, commonly used to recover Salmonella and Shigella species

Hilliard P. Jenkins

Jenkins served in other leadership roles with the Mobile-Baldwin Area Boy Scouts of America, the Baldwin County Mental Health Board, the Baldwin County Executive Committee, and the Alabama Selective Service Board.

Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology

Over 85,000 aspirants applied for these seats in ISAT 2012 making IIST one of the most selective institutes in India.

Kooringal High School

Kooringal High School (abbreviated KHS) is a secondary high school and a partially selective, co-educational, public high school, located in the Wagga Wagga suburb of Kooringal, New South Wales, Australia.

Lindow Common

Current work at Lindow Common is aiming to start selective removal of birch trees, in order to promote regrowth of heather (Calluna vulgaris) to return the area to heathland.

Long Island Medium

Some observers have expressed doubts as to the veracity of Caputo's abilities and suggested that the show's seemingly paranormal performances could simply be the result of age-old exploits like the Forer effect, cold reading, selective editing, and her subjects' eagerness to believe.

Magnetorheological fluid

It made its debut in both Cadillac (Seville STS build date on or after 1/15/2002 with RPO F55) as "Magneride" (or "MR") and Chevrolet passenger vehicles (All Corvettes made since 2003 with the F55 option code) as part of the driver selectable "Magnetic Selective Ride Control (MSRC)" system in model year 2003.

Missing girls

Missing women of Asia, a shortfall in the number of women in Asia relative to the number that would be expected if there was no sex-selective abortion or female infanticide or if the newborn of both sexes received similar levels of health care and nutrition

Muscle atrophy

A novel class of drugs, called SARM (selective androgen receptor modulators) are being investigating with promising results.

New England Conservatory

The Youth Philharmonic Orchestra formerly headed by Benjamin Zander is arguably the most selective group at the school.

Opticks

He demonstrates how the appearance of color arises from selective absorption, reflection, or transmission of the various component parts of the incident light.

Pegdinetanib

Pegdinetanib (USAN; planned trade name Angiocept) is an investigational anti-cancer drug that acts as a selective antagonist of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2), hindering vascularization of tumors.

Portadown College

Portadown College (often shortened to the College) is an academic selective grammar school in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, founded in 1924.

Regional Science High School for Region VI

The ADHS is modeled after the Manila Science High School which offers Special Science Secondary Education Curriculum with selective admission and retention requirements for students.

Ro4938581

Ro4938581 is a nootropic drug invented in 2009 by a team working for Hoffmann-La Roche, which acts as a subtype-selective inverse agonist at the benzodiazepine binding site on the receptor.

Rosetta Burke

The appointment, made available by President Bill Clinton and was signed by the National Director of the Selective Service System, Gil Coronado.

Samuel Whitbread Academy

Originally designated Shefford & District Upper School, it was as Samuel Whitbread Upper School that it opened on a purpose-built site on 4 September 1973, as part of Bedfordshire County Council's re-organisation into a 3-tier, non-selective school system.

Selective Heat Sintering

Selective Heat Sintering (SHS) is an Additive Manufacturing technique used for low volume production and prototyping of models and components.

Selective Insurance

Selective provides insurance, alternative risk management products and related services to businesses and individuals, and administers flood insurance policies for the National Flood Insurance Program.

Selective serotonin releasing agent

The term 'selective serotonin releasing agent' was coined by David E. Nichols.

Selective Service System

The Selective Service Act of 1917 (40 Stat. 76) was passed by the 65th United States Congress on May 18, 1917 creating the Selective Service System.

Silver Fox rabbit

The Silver Fox breed was developed after 14 years of selective breeding by Walter B. Garland of North Canton, Ohio and was the third breed to be developed in the United States.

Steve J. Rosen

Floyd Abrams, a leading First Amendment attorney, said the AIPAC case "is the single most dangerous case for free speech and free press" (Washington Post, March 31, 2006) and Alan Dershowitz called it “the worst case of selective prosecution I have seen in 42 years of legal practice” (Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2006).

TCBS

Thiosulfate-citrate-bile salts-sucrose agar, a selective media agar type used in microbiology for cholerae culture

Tetracyclic antidepressant

Vabicaserin (SCA-136) is a selective 5-HT2C full agonist that was being investigated as an antidepressant and atypical antipsychotic and was later dropped by its developer, Wyeth.

The Gregg School

The Gregg School is a non-selective coeducational independent day school in Townhill Park, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.

Thomas Anantharaman

He is best known for his work with Feng-hsiung Hsu from 1985-1990 on the Chess playing computers ChipTest and Deep Thought at Carnegie Mellon University which led to his 1990 PhD Dissertation: "A Statistical Study of Selective Min-Max Search in Computer Chess".

TROX-1

Unlike ziconotide, TROX-1 is not so selective, and also blocks the intrathecally, by injection into the spinal fluid.

It was developed as a potential analgesic after the discovery that the selective ziconotide is an active analgesic with similar efficacy to strong opioid drugs but comparatively milder side effects.

Unit of selection

Leo Buss in his book The Evolution of Individuality proposes that much of the evolution of development in metazoans reflects the conflict between selective pressures acting at the level of the cell and those acting at the level of the multicellular individual.

University of Michigan School of Kinesiology

The Masters and PhD programs have become highly selective, with 41.4% and 27.8% selectivity rates respectively and is ranked as 5th in the nation with University of Southern California being first.

Western woolly lemur

Because the Avahi as a species is highly selective in their folivorous diet, depending on plants with specific characteristics, it is hard to keep Avahi in captivity.

Wildlife control

Nuisance wildlife management, the term given to the process of selective removal of problem individuals or populations of certain species of wildlife


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