A massive new steel shelter, designed to fit over the sarcophagus, is scheduled to be finished next year, but it is meant to contain the reactor for only another century — longer than the life of a person, but a fraction of the half-life of some of the contaminants present.
According to a court filing posted on the Foss Patents blog, Apple is seeking $2.5bn£1.6bnbn) in lost profits and royalty fees but is offering a fraction of that amount - half a cent in damages for each handset it has sold that uses its rival's technologies - to settle Samsung's countersuit.
The lack of correlation between the number of BrdU-positive cells and the degree of thickening in each specimen may be due to the fact that the BrdU from one injection is present for only a fraction of the time (half an hour) over which the neural tube is exposed to Plxdc2 over-expression (24 hours).
In defiance of this failure, a company in China claims to have produced a "laser AK-47" that can burn targets in a fraction of a second from half a mile away.
Although, to a viewer on a bad night, the channels can look pretty interchangeable, frequent commercial breaks have major consequences for the pacing and shaping of a show: a perfect instance was Des Lynam discovering that, because of the adverts, he had only a fraction of the room for half-time punditry that he had been used to at the BBC.
By the summer of 2006, my route had shrunk to a fraction of its old self: about half a mile between two posts of armed Iraqis.
His sentence, though, was only a fraction of the six and a half years handed down last week to Conrad Black, the companys former chairman and chief executive.
One possible reason for the reduced fraction of half hairpin as compared to barcode reference signals passing the threshold is the PCR reaction used to amplify the molecular tags.
"The department's going after less than half of a fraction of the larger amount of improper billing that the Pennsylvania lending agency engaged in," Mr. Dannenberg said.
Last year 626,000 people applied for asylum to the EU (only a fraction of them came by boat); roughly half of the applicants who were processed were successful.
The fineness of cashmere is what gives it its warmth and softness and loft, Lamb explained, and the width of a Mongolian-cashmere fibre should be no more than sixteen and a half microns, a fraction of the width of a human hair.
