I have colleagues who've spent hundreds of pounds on online subscriptions, and many of us buy our own textbooks to help get our heads around courses that are so tentative in their expectations because the powers that be haven't really decided if they are worthy or still in flux.
This approach follows the tradition of Strauss and Corbin (1990), which suggests that it is appropriate to begin a project with a tentative set of expectations while leaving room for new ideas to emerge when there is enough conceptual background that fully inductive work is not necessary.
Once managers develop a vision of what market they want to enter, with what offering, they come up with a tentative agreement on the performance expectations that would constitute success.
Since 2010, both gas and electricity prices have risen markedly, largely due to rises in wholesale prices on the back of the tentative global economic recovery and expectations of higher demand.
Brad Lauer, a 19-year-old forward, made himself noticeable when he scored the team's only goal there, but Brad Dalgarno, the team's first-round pick in 1985, did not live up to expectations and played a tentative game.
In these periods, scientists speculate and develop tentative theories, which may lead to novel expectations and experiments and observations to test whether these expectations can be confirmed.
Assignments were made using BLASTX and BLASTP respectively against the MIPS catalogue of functionally assigned proteins (funcat) [ 50, 51], tentative functional assignments were filtered using the expectation value < 1e-10.
If a student is offered E.D. admission but the tentative aid package is lower than family expectations, the student does not have to make a deposit.
Stocks rose yesterday on the lowest trading volumes of the year as investors gave a tentative signal that they had already taken into account expectations that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates by half a percentage point later this month.
One possibility becomes evident once we notice that most of our aims are tentative in the sense that we adopt them in the expectation that we may later revise them.
