The phrase "active half" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to electronics, physics, or any field where a system or process is divided into two parts, with one part being the active component.
Example: "In the circuit design, the active half is responsible for signal amplification."
Alternatives: "active component" or "operational half".
Surely the precious institutional and intellectual capital of the new music world is better invested in the bracing variety of today's work than in disputing crude characterizations of the lifework of composers active half a century ago.
"Paulus Hook's the most active half square-mile in town, aside from Newport," said Robert Cotter, the city's planning director, comparing the historic neighborhood to Jersey City's booming Newport development a mile up the Hudson River.
The active half of the comet also appeared to be flinging baseball- to basketball-sized chunks of water ice into the coma, further enhancing the gas production from the comet as they sublimated away.
For application in monolithically integrated structures, photoelectrocatalytically active half cell developments with p-Si are described.
We are half the laity in the Church -- the more active half, actually — so clearly we have some insights and ideas to contribute to key discussions in the Church.
Therefore the recorded number of bat active half seconds referred to as 'bat counts' over a thirty-minute trial provides a quantitative index of bat activity during that period.
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Secondly, intrabodies being proteins possess a much longer active half-life compared to iRNA.
'Transbodies' introduced into the cell would possess only a limited active half-life, without resulting in any permanent genetic alteration.
Upon internalization, the recombinant transcription factors would only have a limited active half-life, so that their effects are only transient.
Thirdly, when the active half-life of the intracellular target molecule is long, gene silencing through iRNA would be slow to yield any effect, whereas the effects of intrabody expression would be almost instantaneous.
