Since the Taif agreement of 1989, which helped end the civil war, half of Parliament has been reserved for Christians, the other half for Muslims, with each half distributed among 11 of Lebanon's 18 officially recognized sects (Maronite, Greek Orthodox, Protestant, Sunni, Shiite, Druze, Alawite, etc).
The simplest way to do this is to split the center section in half, distributing equal amounts of the section to the two side sections.
Half of the fund's annual earnings are reinvested; the other half are distributed to Alaskans every October.
No absolute or proportionate bias could be detected, as nearly a half of all points lay on the 45° line with the other half equally distributed above and below this line.
Moreover, around half of the JCV strains detected in this study belonged to the African clade (subtype 3), and the other half was distributed between Asian and European subtypes.
Others cite a Planning Commission of India report that found more than half of distributed food grains end up in the black market.
The deal would now split $163 million of the funds in equal measure, with half being distributed by Schneiderman's office to programs that prevent avoidable foreclosure or help prevent future financial fraud, and the rest going to the state's general fund to be spent on housing-related programs, the newspaper said.
Immature ears (1-6 cm) were cut in half and distributed randomly among the different collection tubes for RNA or proteomics analysis.
In Helicosporidium, the rRNA genes are separated by 22.6 kb of sequence, but tRNA-Ile and tRNA-Ala genes remain associated with the SSU and LSU genes, respectively, such that a typical rRNA operon has been broken in half and distributed at opposing ends of the circle.
(F ) Same data, fit with linearized models of Ca2+ diffusion and buffering (continuous curve, constant coupling distance; small dashing, half-normally distributed coupling distance; large dashing, skewed-normally distributed coupling distance; corresponding distributions shown as insets on the right).
The absolute value |v u | is then half-normally distributed with expectation value v ̄ = 2 Π · σ v.
