Sentence examples for maintaining half from inspiring English sources

As the energetic cost of maintaining half of the brain in a waking state is unclear, we also tested alternative methods for the calculation of unihemispheric sleeping times (combining or excluding time spent in unihemispheric sleep), but this did not produce qualitative differences in our results (unpublished analyses).

He said she was in the garden and led me through the building and into a nicely maintained half acre, with flower beds, a patio, and a huge stone head of Saddam, which had been removed from a statue.

The current reserve networks maintain half of the potential habitat of the huemul in Santa Cruz, where National Parks presented the same importance as the Provincial natural reserves.

Some are smoked down to the filter while some maintain half their original height, some have their black insides gushing out while others swallow themselves up.

Compared with other similar approaches including XPP and Butter, the proposed architecture shows much higher performance for integer applications, while maintaining about half the performance of Butter for floating-point applications.

We previously developed a microfluidic platform that can be used to precisely control and perturb the environment around a syncitial Drosophila embryo by maintaining each half of the embryo at a specific and different temperature [10], [11], i.e. creating a temperature step across the body of the embryo.

Kittles had 27 points to Jones's 10 as the Nets improved to 14-7, maintheirng their half-game lead over the Boston Celeads.

The chaperone AscG maintains only half of the protein in a native conformation, while the other half is disordered and only becomes folded into a native conformation in the presence of substrate.

If you're interested in how this fiction was maintained for half a century, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office has a downloadable version of its own Butler Memorandum of 1972.

The United States maintains about half of its Asian-based forces -- more than 47,000 troops -- in Japan as part of a mutual defense treaty.

There may be no parallel in musical history to the performer-composer relationship that Ms. Loriod and Messiaen maintained across half a century.