Specialization

Specialization or Specialized may refer to:

Academia

• Academic specialization, may be a course of study or major at an academic institution or may refer to the field in which a specialist practices
• Specialty (medicine), a branch of medical practice

Biology

• Cellular differentiation, the process by which a less specialized cell becomes a more specialized cell type
• Specialty (medicine), a branch of medical science
• Generalist and specialist species, in biology and ecology

Computer science

• Partial template specialization, a particular form of class template specialization
• Template specialization, a style of computer programming which allows alternative implementations to be provided based on certain characteristics of the parameterized type that is being instantiated

Economics and industry

• Departmentalization, refers to the process of grouping activities into departments
• Division of labour, the specialization of cooperative labour in specific, circumscribed tasks and roles
• Economic specialization, the separation of tasks within an economy
• Flexible Specialization (Post-Fordism), a name given to the dominant system of economic production, consumption and associated socio-economic phenomena, in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century
• Network governance, also known as Flexible Specialization

Linguistics

• Specialization (linguistics)
• Specialized English, a controlled version of the English language used for radio broadcasting, easier for non-native speakers

Mathematics

• Specialization (pre)order, a natural preorder on the set of the points of a topological space
• Ring of symmetric functions#Specializations, an algebra homomorphism from the ring of symmetric functions to a commutative algebra.
• Specialization (logic)

Organizations

• SCT Logistics, transport company in Australia that formally traded as Specialised Container Transport
• Specialised Technical Committees of the African Union
• Specialized Technology Resources, an American corporation headquartered in Enfield, Connecticut
• Specialized System Consultants, a private media company that publishes magazines and reference manuals
• Specialized Bicycle Components, a company making bicycles and bicycle components

Psychology

• Cognitive specialization, refers to the theory that learning certain skills inhibits the ability to learn related but dissimilar skills
• Interactive specialization, a theory of brain development

Other uses

• Specialized Mobile Radio, analog or digital trunked two-way radio system

See also

• Specialist (disambiguation)