Following last year's disappointing result when Bonnie Tyler came 19th, predictions had been that Molly Smitten-Downes would score in the top five.
We think that the outcome of these experiments is not disappointing, but rather indicates the necessity to complement bioinformatic predictions by biological experiments.
It was disappointing, then, when biomarkers identified in one cohort (e.g., for prediction of response to therapy) showed little or overlap with biomarkers developed in independent cohorts [ 52, 53].
It's rarely wise to make upbeat predictions about a group of lawmakers as reliably disappointing as the United States Senate.
Indeed, Home Depot lowered its annual earnings prediction in the face of the ailing housing market, a disappointing outlook that was more in line with investors' expectations about housing-related business activity.
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: "The UNODC's prediction of an increase in opium cultivation levels this year is disappointing, but not unexpected given the continuing high opium prices and an improvement in the conditions for growing poppy this year.
The halting recovery has been punctuated by disappointing monthly job reports and -- just as important -- by gloomy predictions from the Conference Board's monthly survey of consumer confidence.
Many prediction studies of T2D have been reported, yet the genetic contribution to their predictive accuracy has been disappointing: genes alone yield ~60% AUC, and adding genes to clinical risk factors yields incremental improvements of ~1-2% AUC [ 16, 17].
But the disappointing, if record-breaking sale of the 250 GTO, might signal that those predictions won't hold up.
