Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.

As promised, al-Husayn was awarded Zaragoza with the expectation that he would always be a subordinate of Córdoba.

The backward nature of expectation formulation and the resultant systematic errors made by agents ( see Cobweb model ) was unsatisfactory to economists such as John Muth, who was pivotal in the development of an alternative model of how expectations are formed, called rational expectations.

He was still only 20 years old, yet now there was an expectation that he would help with the rebuilding of the club as Busby's aides tried to piece together what remained of the season.

It is possible that Bonaparte envisaged Aboukir Bay as a temporary anchorage: on 27 July he expressed the expectation that Brueys had already transferred his ships to Alexandria and three days later issued orders for the fleet to make for Corfu in preparation for naval operations against the Ottoman territories in the Balkans, although the courier carrying the instructions was intercepted and killed by Bedouin partisans.

With the end of the war in 1945, there was a great expectation that the Soviet people would not only see the end of the devastation of Nazism, but also the end of Stalin's Purges.

It is often based on, or was a result of, some form of military service or expectation of future service.

In 1964 there was only a one-day march, partly because of the events of 1963 and partly because the logistics of the march, which had grown beyond all expectation, had exhausted the organisers.

By the time the language design was completed, it was changed to an Algol-like syntax, designed by Michael Kahl, with the expectation that it would be more familiar to a wider audience of programmers:

Their answer was to insist on strict observance of the Law ( the Torah ), isolation from the gentiles, and minimalisation of the expectation of the coming of the Messiah ( the expectation which had provoked the war ).

This was partly due to expectation that contemporary writers emulate the ‘ great writers ’ of preceding eras.

In the tragedy, Iolaus, Heracles ' old comrade, and his children, Macaria and her brothers and sisters have hidden from Eurystheus in Athens, which was ruled by King Demophon ; as the first scene makes clear, their expectation is that the blood relationship of the kings with Heracles and their father's past indebtedness to Theseus, will finally provide them sanctuary.

Traditionally, this was interpreted as a method of putting the subject into a " hypnotic trance "; however, subsequent " nonstate " theorists have viewed it differently, as a means of heightening client expectation, defining their role, focusing attention, etc.

In 1974, Theodore Barber and his colleagues published an influential review of the research which argued, following the earlier social psychology of Theodore R. Sarbin, that hypnotism was better understood not as a " special state " but as the result of normal psychological variables, such as active imagination, expectation, appropriate attitudes, and motivation.

Jefferson's expectation was that by assimilating them into an agricultural lifestyle, they would become economically dependent on trade with white Americans, and would thereby be willing to give up land that they would otherwise not part with, in exchange for trade goods.

Intel was willing to undertake a very large development effort on IA-64 in the expectation that the resulting microprocessor would be used by the majority of enterprise systems manufacturers.

As little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika's mission, and the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, there was no expectation of Laika's survival.

This expectation was, in reality, never quite met: Motorola's only released example of a ROM'd software module was the MC6839 floating-point ROM.

The Trustees of the Foundation appointed Dr. Ray to that position with the stated expectation that he would succeed the present Secretary General upon the latter's eventual retirement.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

Unemployed older workers who have no expectation of securing employment in the occupation in which they are skilled should be able to secure counseling and retraining in an occupation with a future.

Pure altruism consists of sacrificing something for someone other than the self ( e. g. sacrificing time, energy or possessions ) with no expectation of any compensation or benefits, either direct, or indirect ( e. g., receiving recognition for the act of giving ).

In it, he reads " I am writing this with my full conscience and I am writing this in expectation of the end, which is near.

These are not acts of kindness with an expectation of measure for measure.

Possibly the most common type of collector is the hobbyist, who amasses a collection purely for fun with no real expectation of profit.

Investors buy with the expectation that the value of their purchase will increase over the long term.

Speculators, be they amateurs or commercial buyers, generally purchase coins in bulk and often act with the expectation of short-term profit.

Many newly independent states thus found themselves impoverished, with minimal administrative capacity in a fragmented society, while faced with the expectation of immediately meeting the demands of a modern state.

These companies offered their services or end product for free with the expectation that they could build enough brand awareness to charge profitable rates for their services later.

Resective surgery can be considered palliative if it is undertaken with the expectation that it will reduce but not eliminate seizures.

Other freeware projects are simply released as one off programs with no promise or expectation of further development.

An accredited investor is an individual person with a minimum net worth of US $ 1 million or, alternatively, a minimum income of US $ 200, 000 in each of the last two years and a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year.

In the business world, stockholders, customers, business partners and governments have the expectation that corporate officers will run the business in accordance with accepted business practices and in compliance with laws and other regulatory requirements.

Most of these establishments allow patrons to sing for free, with the expectation that sufficient revenue will be made selling food and drink to the singers.

A number of scholars prefer the neutral translation of " expectation.

A 2007 review of 13 studies found evidence for the efficacy of hypnosis in the reduction of pain in some conditions, though the number of patients enrolled in the studies was low, bringing up issues of power to detect group differences, and most lacked credible controls for placebo and / or expectation.

Due to the aforementioned need to apply costly techniques such as formal verification or manual review, the size of the TCB has immediate consequences on the economics of the TCB assurance process, and the trustworthiness of the resulting product ( in terms of the mathematical expectation of the number of bugs not found during the verification or review ).

* The expectation of life ( or life expectancy ), the number of years which an individual at a given age could expect to live at present mortality levels.

The Box – Muller transform ( by George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller 1958 ) is a pseudo-random number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed ( zero expectation, unit variance ) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers.

The sum of an expectation is the expectation of the sum ( regardless of whether the variables are independent ), so the expectation of the sum ( the expected number of monochromatic r-subgraphs ) is

He insisted that psychological techniques should always be tried first, for example " even where a violent and destructive maniac could be calmed by a single dose of an antispasmodic referred to opium, observation teaches that in a great number of cases, one can obtain a sure and permanent cure by the sole method of expectation, leaving the insane man to his tumultuous excitement ... ... and seeing, again and again, the unexpected resources of nature left to itself or wisely guided, has rendered me more and more cautious with regard to the use of medications, which I no longer employ — except when the insufficiencies of psychological means have been proven.

Less than 1 % of the current contents of the universe is in neutrinos, but WMAP's measurements have found, for the first time in 2008, that the data prefers the existence of a cosmic neutrino background with an effective number of neutrino flavors of 4. 4 ± 1. 5, consistent with the expectation of 3. 06.

Although the Queen was set against Beatrice marrying anyone in the expectation that she would always stay at home with her, a number of possible suitors were put forward before Beatrice's marriage to Prince Henry of Battenberg.

Pythagorean expectation is a formula invented by Bill James to estimate how many games a baseball team " should " have won based on the number of runs they scored and allowed.

It follows from the classic theorem of Crofton expressing the length of a plane curve as an expectation of the number of intersections with a random line.

Other ways of financing, different way of debt repayment, different lifetime expectation, different interest rate, can lead to a significantly different number.

A 2007 review of 13 studies found evidence for the efficacy of hypnosis in the reduction of pain in some conditions, though the number of patients enrolled in the studies was small, bringing up issues of power to detect group differences, and most lacked credible controls for placebo and / or expectation.

For a closed manifold the number is the vacuum expectation value.

The major features of the New Look included ( 1 ) greater reliance on nuclear weapons, using the advantage the United States had over the Soviet Union in such weapons ; ( 2 ) elevation of strategic air power, the major means to deliver nuclear weapons, to a more important position ( not an expansion in the number of Air Force wings but rather development and production of better equipment ); ( 3 ) cuts in conventional ground forces, based both on reliance on strategic and tactical nuclear weapons and the expectation that U. S. allies would provide ground troops for their own defense ; ( 4 ) an expanded program of continental defense, which, along with strategic air power, would serve as a principal ingredient of the New Look's deterrence program ; and ( 5 ) modernization and enlargement of reserve forces, enhancing the military manpower base while reducing active duty forces.

When the number of observations is relatively small, Chebychev's inequality can be used for an upper bound on probabilities, regardless of any assumptions about the distribution of experimental errors: the maximum probabilities that a parameter will be more than 1, 2 or 3 standard deviations away from its expectation value are 100 %, 25 % and 11 % respectively.

* It is common to ignore some number of samples at the beginning ( the so-called burn-in period ), and then consider only every th sample when averaging values to compute an expectation.

The exponential of its vacuum expectation value determines the coupling constant g, as for compact worldsheets by the Gauss-Bonnet theorem and the Euler characteristic, where g is the genus that counts the number of handles and thus the number of loops or string interactions described by a specific worldsheet.

He requested the number 28 ( his number at Sporting ), as he did not want the pressure of living up to the expectation linked to the number 7 shirt, which had previously been worn by players such as George Best, Bryan Robson, Eric Cantona, and David Beckham.