So, we have Benghazi, an issue that was supposed to put a nail in the heart of the Obama administration, and yet failed to get any electoral traction, and a news show that has merely a fraction of the influence and authority it once had.
So if atheists could achieve a small fraction of that influence, the world would be a better place".
The second list reflects just a fraction of the influence that Gardner had on the rest of the world, some of which is discussed in his new memoirs.
A substantial fraction of the influence of socio-economic gradient on cervical cancer risk in our study was explained by the early age of first sexual intercourse and first pregnancy (Louie et al, 2009), as well as by high parity, whereas lifetime number of sexual partners and husband's extramarital sexual relationships did not seem to be important confounding factors.
We found a major fraction of genes influenced by AHR-status to be associated with lipid metabolism processes.
In contrast to the low fraction of genes influenced by CpG methylation (8.4%), 44% of the same genes showed significant correlation between copy numbers and gene expression using the same criteria for significance.
A large fraction of TE-influenced metabolites that could be linked to a disease of the CNS is synthesized in the tyrosine metabolic pathway, like dopamine, homovanillate, 3-metoxytyramine, tyrosine or 4-hydroxyphenylacetate, but also other key metabolites like glutamate or melanin.
Despite years of investment and official injunctions to advance Chinese technology, China has yet to produce a brand or original tech product with a fraction of the global influence of Facebook or Apple.
The associations identified so far represent only a fraction of those that influence phenotype, because there are likely to be many variants across the entire frequency spectrum, each of which influences multiple traits, with only a small average contribution to the phenotypic variance.
As an explanation for how a small fraction of cells may influence tumour response to treatment, we hypothesised that resistant CRC cells and CRC stem cells are able to mediate growth and survival of nearby cells by means of soluble factors that are released into the tumour microenvironment.
