The finding in ethnobotanical studies that one-half to three-quarters of tree species in the Amazon have specific cultural uses is an illustration of just how tightly dependent Amazonian tribes are on their environment.
As prices continued to fall and inventories rose, analysts at Credit Suisse in December estimated that one-half of the aluminum industry was "losing money at current prices".
After correcting for this error, the Science-Metrix group concluded that open access reached a 50% "tipping point" in 2011, meaning that one-half of the papers published that year are now freely available.
But Enron Metals reports just $265 million in assets, which represents less that one-half of 1% of the $51.4 billion in total assets of the Enron companies participating in the filing.
In addition, the constitution requires that one-half of the council's members be replaced every three years.
Based on a preliminary review of the names of what they claimed were the first 150 dead Palestinians, the Israelis concluded that one-half were, in fact, fighters.
Furthermore, during the eighteenth century, one doctor in Manchester believed that one half the children born in London before 1770 died within two years, while in Manchester, one half died by age five (Wilson 368; see also George Ch. 1, passim, and 406-410, 215-218).
We placed two different objects on a table and manually moved camera and gripper around them in a way that one half of the objects is already occluded before the gripper pushes one object.
Dr. Radford was chairman of a committee of the National Academy of Sciences that released an initial report in 1979 indicating that one-half of 1percentt of Americans would develop cancer from manufactured sources of radiation like power plants and X-rays.
In particular, participants were told that one half of the devices in the study were modified in such a way that the investigators did not expect the device to be efficacious.
