Word: fractionalized
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...other faculties are an underutilized resource. The new dean should take steps to facilitate such inter-school cooperation which would improve pedagogy, student-faculty contact, and advising, particularly in the social sciences. Such a solution not only makes practical sense, but given that FAS would pay a fraction of a full professor’s salary to get someone to teach a course, it makes financial sense as well...
...complex as our mental abilities develop. The dreams of very small children don't just seem prosaic because tikes lack the eloquence to bring them to life in the retelling-they really are prosaic. Two-thirds of dreams are almost exclusively visual, a quarter feature sound and a smaller fraction smell and taste. Nine out of 10 contain emotion, most commonly mild anxiety or frustration. Our dreams tend not to be reproductions of past events but rather, according to research led by Tore Nielsen, director of the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory at Sacr?-Coeur Hospital in Montreal, reinterpretations of events that...
...best reason to leave the maglev on its test track. Terai counters that the maglev aims to compete with air travel, and that reducing travel time between Tokyo and Osaka to around one hour actually makes it faster than going by plane. But air travel makes up only a fraction of the short-haul market precisely because bullet trains are more convenient and almost as fast. (And they're getting faster - the express shinkansen does Tokyo-Osaka in two and a half hours, while this week a French train running on rails almost matched the maglev speed record...
...Lebanon has a growing Iraqi refugee population, currently numbering between 20,000 and 40,000, according to the U.N. - a small fraction of the estimated 2 million Iraqis who have fled the spiraling violence in their country. But what makes Lebanon's Iraqi refugee intake unusual is that about 30% of them are Christian, although Christians constitute just about 3% of Iraq's population...
...mobile-phone users in a big way. There are 2.2 billion cell-phone subscribers worldwide, a total that is growing by about 25% each year, according to the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). Yet spending on ads carried over cellular networks last year amounted to just $1.5 billion worldwide, a fraction of the $424 billion global ad market...