Sentence examples for contrary to expectations for from inspiring English sources

This is contrary to expectations for standard crystallisation experiments, in which faster mixing is expected to lead to a higher number of nuclei and thus smaller crystals; in this example once nuclei are formed the crystallisation process becomes growth driven and so is dependent on mass transfer for increased crystal growth.

At sufficiently low temperature we observe a sharp transition from a uniformly oriented chiral state to a disordered structure consistent with locally ordered domains, contrary to expectations for a superfluid glass phase6.

Also contrary to expectations for an intracellular endosymbiont, the genome of T. turnerae suggests a recent history of exposure to bacteriophage.

Other than inorganic C, N, P, and metals, Prochlorococcus has no known nutritional requirements for growth [65], [66], and in fact grows better when dense versus dilute, contrary to expectations for an organism with a nutritional deficiency.

Contrary to expectations for a tissue under oxidative stress, nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes are uniformly down-regulated.

Contrary to expectations for phylogenetic host specificity, we found that within a site more closely related plants had more distinct AMF communities despite their having similar phenologies.

This is contrary to expectation for eigenvalue problem.

For total vegetable consumption there was a negative association (consistent with expectations), but a positive association (contrary to expectation) for fruit consumption, accounted largely by the increase in fruit consumption between 1990 and 2001 during a period of increase in CRC incidence in both men and women.

This technique of trimming patients in the tails of the propensity score distribution excludes patients treated strongly contrary to expectation (for example, a patient who was strongly predicted to receive a proton pump inhibitor but received an H2 receptor antagonist instead) and thus reduces residual confounding.

We assess how revenue models affect collaboration in OpenStack: contrary to expectations, firms competing for the same revenue model (i.e., where rivalry is expected) tend to collaborate more than firms which do not compete for the same revenue model; being the exception only those firms that provide public cloud services (in the case of OpenStack, these are HP, Rackspace and Canonical).

Contrary to expectations, after controls for the other variables in the model the likelihood to oppose FGM increases with age.