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HSBC spent $2.4 billion on compliance in 2014, up by about half compared with a year earlier.
In one arm of a study called the Fracture Intervention Trial, or FIT, sponsored by Merck and involving about 2,000 women ages 55 to 81 with an existing vertebral fracture, Fosamax cut the risk of a new vertebral fracture by about half compared with a placebo.
However, the amount of IFN-γ that was secreted from PSdko T cells was reduced by about half, compared to control T cells from heterozygous littermates (Figure 5A).
Generally, electroporation reduced viable cell numbers recovered after 24 h of culture by about half compared to non-treated control cells (Fig. 2, upper panel).
Motor unit number estimation was decreased by about half compared to healthy controls.
Marked bike lanes and bike routes were found to reduce injury or crash rates by about half compared to unmodified roadways.
And we were about half compared to Facebook or Dropbox.
However, Laaksonen et al. [ 14] reported that middle-aged men without MS who complied with the PA recommendations had reduced risk of developing MS by about one-half compared with those engaging in no more than 60 minutes of moderate exercise per week, independent of CRF.
However, planned classroom assistant redundancies were reduced by about half.
A recent report recommended cutting the number by about half.
