Germany's good shale potential is marred by a vociferous opposition.In America shale gas was seen as an overnight sensation, but in reality it took two decades of research and tentative drilling before it began to reshape the energy landscape.
This research is tentative and needs to be confirmed, but it fits into a fascinating framework of the role of personality types in politics, explored in a recent book, "Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics," by two political scientists, Marc J. Hetherington of Vanderbilt University and Jonathan D. Weiler of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
It is worthwhile to note that prior research using tentative models for selection pressure on codon usage has suggested that selection coefficients might be greater in N. crassa than in other eukaryotes such as Arabidopsis and equal or greater than species of Drosophila and Caenorhabditis (dos Reis and Wernisch 2008).
But now, I realized, I had been perfectly content to follow Wheeler's lead, and so I was leaving Oman with a thoroughly researched yet tentative impression of a country of forts, wadis, and a pleasant capital, Muscat.
Our analysis identifies a number of potentially useful areas for the study of facilitated modelling workshops from a decision development perspective, and articulates a number tentative research questions and testable propositions amenable to empirical research.
Hirsch said tentative research from the US suggested that when some states introduced a welfare payment limit for mothers who gave birth while on benefits, there was some suggestion that it may have contributed to a rise in abortions.
Since then, tentative research by the justice department and a St Louis criminologist has suggested the "Ferguson effect" is plausible as an explanation for a single-year spike in violent crime.
In "no theory first", there is a broad and tentative research question with some preliminary variables at the outset.
Next, on the theory continuum, there is the well-known contribution of case study research in building tentative theory by eliciting constructs or concepts and their relationships out of data.
While some tentative research did not find sperm, one trial found sperm present in 10 out of 27 volunteers.
From this debate, it is evident that inferences about longer-term immunobiological kinetics that are derived from short-term experimental research should be tentative.
