VCs are just tired So for startups in the 2015 and 2016 cohorts, there was real selectivity (or at least, more selectivity) when it came to getting an investment from a top investor.
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That was where selectivity was taking me four years ago.
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That is too bad, not simply because of the selectivity.
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And university selectivity seems only to have grown over time.
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And the discriminatory selectivity isn't just reserved for major labels either.
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In addition to selectivity, another key to reducing violence is legitimacy.
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This difference in "extinction selectivity" can be explained by different drivers.
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This year, elite schools saw an increase in applications and selectivity.
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One business about to benefit from this selectivity is commercial aviation.
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And as cameras and digital memory multiply, the need for selectivity diminishes.
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Criteria include academic excellence, student selectivity and financial resources of the school.
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So don't be afraid to look into schools whose selectivity is soaring.
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Bias is also a selectivity of what gets covered and what does not.
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Indeed, stop promoting yourselves based on those ridiculous selectivity numbers you yourselves bemoan.
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Selectivity may also matter more in other parts of the higher education universe.
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Their selectivity and upfront content guidelines helped them generally avoid a fake news problem.
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Cianfrance pushes too hard for his audience's emotional response, with little nuance and strange selectivity.
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As more apply, selectivity will increase, as administrators chase higher U.S. News & World Report rankings.
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Thus, selectivity around app downloads illuminates trends that represent a major shift in the internet economy.
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The best studies have looked at large numbers of undergraduates who attend schools of varying selectivity.
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While it continues to tweak its criteria, it relies primarily on measures of reputation and selectivity.
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"When compared to water splitting … conversion rates, efficiencies, and selectivity are low," the MIT report notes.
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Underscoring their selectivity, for every 20 properties that are viewed, the company accepts just one for auction.
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Indeed, there appears to be some selectivity at play here, and no small amount of reporting bias.
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Stanford University offered admission to 2,063 students out of 43,997 candidates, a selectivity rate of 4.7 percent.
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Only a few investors cite success investing in the space, noting the importance of selectivity and timing.
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For generations, top colleges and universities in the U.S. have been defined by their selectivity and cost.
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The steep entry fee is is part of the high-gloss veneer of selectivity favored by the organization.
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This selectivity is the most common cause of failed cooperation, and it appears to be Manafort's undoing here.
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Tusa forecasts an EPS reset closer to $1, material restructuring and project selectivity, and changing capital allocation strategies.
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You can paint a nun as being a dickhead if you want, depending on the selectivity, quotes, and framing.
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This can be due to the high selectivity afforded through energy competitions in conjunction with the de-risking services.
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But the fact is the bias of selectivity is the one that I&aposve been taking about-- PIRRO: Yes.
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It appears that the U.S. does not use poverty or good governance as a selectivity benchmark to receive aid.
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This phenomenon, called socioemotional selectivity theory, was noted by Stanford psychologist Laura L. Carstensen, who found it in various cultures.
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The Trump administration recognized, rightly, that staying in the Human Rights Council would at best ensure continued bias, selectivity and disappointment.
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Their comments could scare people out of particular stocks of companies that are doing well, but they rarely have any selectivity.
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The revelations about Syrian aid are an example of failure in the selectivity category, which describes how donation recipients are selected.
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They compared students with similar credentials who had been accepted to comparable sets of schools but attended schools of varying selectivity.
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Instead, with the book out on his previously poor selectivity, Pillar's become much more disciplined with pitches outside of the zone.
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Just 16 percent of chief business officers said their institutions benefited from changing demographics, and only 693 percent said they decreased selectivity.
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This all gets at a big question: Does Silicon Valley only work if there is some exclusion, some selectivity, and some prestige?
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Reflecting the selectivity seen in Hong Kong, the sale at Christie's raised £220 million, selling just over half of the 215 lots.
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The hyper-selectivity has resulted in the stereotype that Chinese-Americans (and Asian-Americans more broadly) are smart, competent and hard-working.
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The problem with this module is that it isn't selective with its powers; it's not even clear that such selectivity would be possible.
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One of his last purely realist works, "Shoes" prefigures the way Kelly would go on to pair chance operations with an assured selectivity.
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Additionally, there is concern among critics that such programs don't actually represent choice for parents, since admissions sometimes rely on selectivity or chance.
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In other words, Doll is all in on the theory that selectivity is going to be much more important in the years ahead.
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People consider the range of causes for an occurrence much as they weigh the dining options at a restaurant: with a built-in selectivity.
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The problem is not just the selectivity of these efforts but the fact that the other deer seem to have immunity by popular demand.
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They like to keep the rate high because selectivity conveys status in some popular rankings (which, themselves, are not as meaningful as they look).
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This trend is sometimes ascribed to the growing numbers of female graduates, but the economists control for that and still find evidence of growing selectivity.
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The unevenness (some might say selectivity) of the market strength lately is perhaps one thing the bulls need to prove can support further price gains.
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In the year that followed, the number of applicants nearly doubled and the school's selectivity went to 40 percent from 60 percent, according to McCardell.
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But this all offered a chance to test a big question: Does Silicon Valley only work if there is some exclusion, some selectivity, and some prestige?
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This selectivity enables him to elide what historians of race and religion, including Paul Harvey and Mark Noll, recognize as the "theological racism" tradition in evangelicalism.
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On the other hand, the challenges are legion, not the least of which is the brain interface itself: current models lack the necessary bandwidth, selectivity, or longevity.
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Even if it does, the importance of selectivity in determining graduate outcomes suggests that much of a university education is about "signalling", rather than learning useful skills.
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"Increased project selectivity started to impact revenues in the first quarter as planned, and the group anticipates this impact will accelerate through the year," the company added.
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The US News rankings include SAT/ACT scores as part of their student selectivity portion, but these scores are weighted only about 8% in the total formula.
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Colleges report receiving record numbers of applications that push up their selectivity numbers and their rankings on lists of top colleges — and increase the anxiety for students.
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The secrecy and selectivity of the Royal Archives are well known among academics and historians, many of whom have encountered delay and censorship by the archives' custodians.
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The researchers found that school selectivity, as measured by the average SAT scores of the school's admitted students, is correlated with post-college incomes and decisions about marriage.
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Many colleges and universities rely on early decisions to demonstrate a high "yield," the percentage of admitted students who enroll, which bolsters a school's selectivity in national rankings.
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The problem is the selectivity of deficit hysteria, which somehow kicks in only when a Democrat is president or progressives propose spending that would make American lives better.
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The U.S. News rankings include SAT/ACT scores as part of their student selectivity portion, but these scores are weighted only about 8 percent in the total formula.
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That sort of selectivity in scheduling, long a staple of Williams's career, has increased in recent years, when she has focused more and more on Grand Slam events.
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Inside a major groove, or sulcus, that runs through the auditory cortex, there was a "hot spot of music selectivity," he said, above and a little forward of the ear.
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As such, the city maintains selectivity and control over the messages conveyed by the flags flown on our flag poles, and has chosen not to display the 'Straight Pride' flag.
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Ranking Foreign Aid Agency Best Practices: New Donors, New Findings reviews foreign aid agencies based on criteria they developed using five categories: transparency, overhead costs, specialization, selectivity, and ineffective channels.
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These rankings are based not on selectivity but on student performance and specifically on the performance of black and Hispanic students from low-income backgrounds compared with the state average.
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Colleges do so by engaging in what he called "an arms race" toward higher selectivity in an effort to improve their rankings, and students by applying to so many colleges.
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They also speculated that selectivity might correlate with high confidence; people who are ultra sure of themselves might be more likely to stick to their guns when it comes to preferences.
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The company's Medium Voltage business in the Energy Management division, a drag for the past couple of years, returned to growth as selectivity initiatives under the Medium Voltage Rebound program completed.
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"If I had to bet my dollar on something here, I think Apple could have a hard time overturning the selectivity argument," said Georg Berrisch, a partner at Baker Botts in Brussels.
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Why it matters: Facebook's selectivity is telling—it will require advertisers to submit an application, including licenses and whether they are traded on exchanges, using these outside signals to filter out scams.
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Join the international gathering of museum directors and curators, major collectors and art advisors drawn to the quality and selectivity embodied by the Fair's elite roster of leading dealers and editions publishers.
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"Bruno's fast hiring and warm welcome from his fan base is yet another sign of criminal selectivity, aggravated by a context of social intolerance regarding femicide and violence against women," Dinez says.
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The winnowing process even has a clinical name: socioemotional selectivity theory, a term coined by Laura L. Carstensen, a psychology professor who is the director of the Stanford Center on Longevity in California.
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Horse sales by Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton have produced returns mirroring the trend seen throughout recent sales seasons: steady results indicating marketplace stability combined with selectivity among buyers who place emphasis on quality.
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But Hoxby confirmed through data what many anxious students and parents and counselors suspect: Higher education has become increasingly stratified, with very different outcomes for students at different points on that selectivity ladder.
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Laura Carstensen, a Stanford University psychologist, developed an influential theory called "socioemotional selectivity": As people sense their remaining time growing brief, they shed superficial relationships to concentrate on those they find most meaningful.
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For example, given the prejudicial filters for access to campus platforms, we need an affirmative action program to bring thoughtful conservative and religious scholars to institutions that pride themselves on research and selectivity.
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The document hunters would then move into abandoned regime facilities and collect every document that they are able to salvage, retrieving every single paper in order to avoid accusations of selectivity in evidence collection.
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Colleges seek to move up in the rankings by competing on selectivity, student test scores, alumni giving and academic spending, among other metrics on which colleges do best when they stick to privileged students.
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This is so because speech and data presented as if they were independent of any mechanism of selectivity will float free of the standards of judgment that are always the content of such mechanisms.
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Adrian Wojnarowski intimated that Dunn's medical reports are being released to teams with careful, strategic selectivity—the teams that know the most about Dunn's shoulder are the ones he most wants to play for next year.
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To the Editor: I read with interest your April 103 article about college selectivity and the increased pressure to apply to lots of very selective schools ("Common Application Saturates the College Admission Market, Critics Say," nytimes.com).
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Dr. Levy said, "we're now more tuned in to the fact that children with autism have many co-occurring conditions," such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, intellectual disability, sleep problems, seizures, anxiety and severe food selectivity.
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John Glaser, head of foreign policy studies at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, cited its selectivity, suggesting it targets traditional American "enemies" but passes over abusers in nominal ally countries like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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While the growth potential of these courses is in theory limitless, Pearson emphasized there was no incentive to enroll huge numbers of students, as selectivity was a big part of the appeal of institutions such as King's.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Expected tactics of England and South Africa in Saturday's Rugby World Cup final at Yokohama International Stadium: Speed, pace, urgency, quickness of thought and deed, and selectivity in when to engage in the physical battle.
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" Peter Sillem, a former journalist who shifted careers last year at age 50 and started a gallery for contemporary photography in Frankfurt, said he was attracted to the fair for its "smallness, its focus and its selectivity.
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Although many participants reported that they cared for all people equally, brain imaging revealed a different story: people care about some more than others, and their subconscious selectivity was based on nothing more than a one-word label.
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This sort of selectivity gets much more difficult when tariffs cover 2628 percent of U.S. imports from China, and it disappears all together if the president follows through on his threat to ramp up to 28500-percent coverage. 6900.
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What separates Snapchat from competitors, and what will surely be an appeal to investors as Snapchat readies for an upcoming IPO, is Snapchat's selectivity about its Discover partnerships, which allows them to weed out potential spam or misleading information.
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Overall, that means selectivity is gravitating heavily toward streaming shows, even though the hunt for something worthwhile across the congested landscape of Netflix and its brethren can often be akin to Springsteen's frustration when he only had 57 channels to peruse.
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AMONG THE gilets jaunes on French streets last month were students protesting against the way the government is changing the university admissions system from one that admits pretty much everybody to one in which there is a modicum of selectivity.
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The selectivity of these institutions and the types of students both tend to serve shows that the schools enrolling a higher number of low-income students and students of color are precisely those served more by institutions like Montclair State.
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Selectivity matters, especially for black students Scalia and other affirmative action opponents have positioned the mismatch theory as central to the case against affirmative action because it creates the impression that policy changes that eliminate affirmative action would benefit black students.
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Not only are they more likely to have graduated than those who did not immigrate from their countries of origin, but they are more likely to have graduated from college than the U.S. mean — what we refer to as "hyper-selectivity".
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When Measure of America analyzed the rate for each method, it found that selectivity and graduation rates declined essentially in lock step, and that as graduation rates fell, the students were more likely to be poor and black or Hispanic.
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Writing is so ingrained in human consciousness and so intertwined with people's imaginative lives that any attempt to single out its impact on the course of history is bound either to end in bland generalities or to be marked by arbitrary selectivity.
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"Given the extended near-term nature of the market&aposs rally, selectivity, along with an expectational edge and a proven track record of prior reporting success will be key to alpha generation during earnings season," he wrote in a note to clients.
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" From a strategist perspective, Emanuel writes that "simply buying companies with the largest buybacks was a reasonable strategy," but "as we enter the later stages of the current bull market and interest rates are expected to rise, we believe selectivity is even more important.
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"The 'resolution' is nothing more than a document for interference in internal affairs of sovereign states and represents the culmination of politicization, selectivity and double standards of human rights," Mun Jong Chol, a counselor at North Korea's mission to the U.N. in Geneva, told reporters.
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Compounding the problem is that the best-known arbiters of college quality, like U.S. News & World Report, reward schools for prestige and selectivity, not for serving the needs of adults and all the other students who actually make up most of America's college classrooms.
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SAN FRANCISCO — China's state-sponsored hackers have drastically changed how they operate over the last three years, substituting selectivity for what had been a scattershot approach to their targets and showing a new determination by Beijing to push its surveillance state beyond its borders.
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The brilliance of his own raid on Rome lies in the principle of selectivity he has brought to it — what is done to Rome matters as much as what Rome does to the world — and the depth of his research (his informative source notes cover 18 pages).
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" And as he transitions to becoming the face of the NFL, Rosner said, Mahomes "will have the kind of leverage in the marketplace, not only from a dollars perspective but from a selectivity perspective, that 99.9% of professional athletes, if not more, can only dream of.
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The children of those who went to integrated school demonstrated increased math and reading test scores, reduced likelihood of grade repetition, increased likelihood of high school graduation and college attendance, improvements in college quality/selectivity, and increased racial diversity of student body at their selected college.
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But nevertheless the game successfully had me caring about every connection that I made—and you can't make them all on a single playthrough, so selectivity plays a part, just as it does when you're of school age and torn between whose same-day party to show up at.
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The researchers were also able to demonstrate that the selectivity of these neurons lessened — that is, the neurons were more likely to respond to other stimuli — if the researchers interrupted the flow of certain chemicals in the brain that naturally help groups of connected neurons (what's known as a "neural circuit") communicate with one another.
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But this study is "a remarkable example that addresses this knowledge gap; by studying the impacts of tropical cyclones with spatiotemporal replications and control sites, they show that selectivity for more aggressive colonies of Anelosimus studiosus is a robust evolutionary response to cyclone-induced disturbance," Eric Ameca, a researcher at Beijing Normal University, wrote in a Nature commentary.
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U.S. Ambassador Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Haley: 'Threats of China on full display' in Hong Kong Juan Williams: Trump's trouble with women MORE was right to lead efforts over the past year to reform the United Nations Human Rights Council, a 22019-nation body that suffers a credibility deficit, with its work often marked by selectivity and politicization.
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