title: Specialization
text: # 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
  * Specialization in multicellular organisms
  
  ## 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
  * Specialization of knowledge
  * Interactive specialization, a theory of brain development
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Specialized Mobile Radio, analog or digital trunked two-way radio system
  