The results are encouraging (Table 1) because almost half of the tested TFs could reach a prediction accuracy of ~70%, although only eight histone modifications were considered in the training set.
Only 40% of individuals said shared parental leave was encouraged by their employer, although almost half of businesses said they offered enhanced pay in line with what they offered employees taking maternity leave.
The DfE maintains that it encourages innovation and says that in 2012 almost half of the successful applications were from "parent, community or charity groups".
"It is encouraging to see that police are making almost half as many arrests of girls as they were in 2008, thanks in part to our effective campaigning," said Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Our questionnaire also highlighted that inviting patients for CVRA may be worthwhile with almost half indicating that the invitation alone encouraged them to attend and have their 'heart health' assessed.
Women with low-risk pregnancies are to be encouraged to have non-hospital births under new NHS guidelines, which could see almost half of mothers-to-be planning to deliver their baby away from traditional labour wards.
The rest, almost half of business travelers, fall in between — their employer encourages them to use specific airlines, hotels and car rental companies, but does not mandate it.
The reasons for this failure may be that almost half of PCT serum samples were > 1 μg/L, thus encouraging the antibiotic treatment, and the relative low proportion of patient-days with antibiotic treatment in the control group (57%).
Bristol-Myers' shares have lost almost half their value this year as the company dealt with excess inventory that had built up because it had encouraged wholesalers to buy too much of its products.
30 While these trends are encouraging, a large proportion of children with a parent who smokes continue to report that smoking is allowed in their home (almost half) or family car (one in five).
