In the even-numbered patients, the opposite allocation procedure was performed, i.e. with the first half being allocated to the IUCS and the second half being further cultured in vitro.
Half the stadium's seats are assigned to civilians – who in summer all wear white hats, white shirts and red ties – while the other half is allocated to the military.
In the odd-numbered patients, the first half of the culture droplets with injected oocytes was allocated to the in vitro arm and the other half was allocated to the IUCS arm.
It is anticipated that 8 schools will commence in the first year of the study with the remaining 4 the following year with half being allocated as intervention schools and the other as control schools.
Two used participant identification numbers (Ford 2006; Gates 2009), and two allocated the first half of a simple random sample of participants to receive one version of a questionnaire, while the remaining half was allocated to a second version (McColl 2003 1; McColl 2003 2).
The left gonad was split into two subsamples of approximately equal size, and each subsample was placed in a preweighed microcentrifuge tube containing a stainless steel bead and snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen; the anterior half was allocated for metabolomics analysis (to be reported elsewhere) and the posterior half used for RNA extraction.
About half of participants were allocated to active follow up three monthly and half to passive follow up being seen at baseline and at their two year visit only.
The publications of Russia and Turkey were allocated half to Asia and half to Europe.
Six local authorities spent less than half the money they were allocated for these "discretionary housing payments" by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Half a million dollars were allocated to the national chess academy to draw up a course, create textbooks, train instructors and buy equipment.
