Despite our exclusion criteria, other confounding influences may have occurred as a result of inapparent inflammatory disease. |
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Highly ramified issues of land ownership are confounding attempts either to relocate villages or to rebuild in the same places. |
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He writes in a confounding way that always makes me end up thinking that he is a raving buffoon or an extraordinarily perceptive genius. |
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Precipitation of a peptide in the top agar with subsequent release of amino acids can also lead to confounding results. |
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Sports media have gone into hyperdrive to assess this confounding hybrid of the most widely viewed of all American institutions. |
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Japan always succeeds in confounding our preconceived notions about the Land of the Rising Sun and its citizens. |
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Rather, he revels in confounding his audience and the media, cultivating a persona rife with contradictions. |
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Dutch brick went round the world as ballast in trading ships, confounding its origins as a local, geologically dependent material. |
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After looking at the criminal justice system for many, many years that is what is confounding me tonight. |
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To be sure, one can arrive late and leave early, confounding the schedule's disciplining force. |
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But what's confounding me is how it managed to get through a dry cleaner and still be there. |
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He still enjoys confounding expectations, corrupting the stereotype of the ageing thesp. |
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The housing market is confounding expectations by growing steadily, the country's leading building society said on Tuesday. |
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Why, she's confounding our expectations once again, playing with our notions of gender and roles! |
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And financial markets remain calm, confounding worrywarts who prophesied turmoil once the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates. |
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Kilcummin were confounding the critics as they played with dash and flair, first to every ball as they attacked in waves. |
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It was a low-key event, confounding expectations of gossip columnists dispatched to observe the dirt. |
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Gangs of criminals are confounding expectations by helping to reduce the fear of crime through making their neighbourhoods a safer place. |
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This difference was significant, even in the rigorous statistical analysis for the cluster level design, controlling for confounding variables. |
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Milne gives a big Aberdonian laugh and says how much she loves confounding expectations. |
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It also offered the benefit of controlling for potential confounding effects of conglomerate firms. |
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The pair ham up their villainous parts while Nelson and the boys play it straight, confounding the audience about who to sympathize with. |
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The data extraction sheet attempted to collate confounding variables, but no data were provided in the trial reports. |
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Study designs with community comparisons must adequately control for potential confounding factors. |
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In addition, the probability of the results being distorted by confounding factors has not been adequately addressed. |
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The small sample size was obviously a confounding factor in interpreting the results. |
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We have a most jolly fellow for a postman and here of late I've been confounding and delighting him. |
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We reduced confounding variables by using a randomised crossover trial and the same browser for searching both schemes. |
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Clinical history can be unreliable as a diagnostic indicator of latex allergy because of confounding variables. |
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Matching is a traditional approach to control for potential confounding in epidemiology. |
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His second solo album is a full-blown prog epic that is equally confounding and captivating. |
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The photographs are both stunning and confounding in their simplicity and in the commonalities that they share. |
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One explanation for these differences is confounding by poorly measured or unmeasured risk factors that varied between communities. |
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Adjustment had little impact on measures of association, but confounding by unmeasured factors cannot be ruled out. |
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But their action just proved another confounding piece of this negligent puzzle. |
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Perhaps the most confounding situation involved an infantry captain and an infantry sergeant first class assigned to the G3 section at the Division Main Command Post. |
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Similarly, most studies are plagued by confounding variables such as not observing the quality of hospital management. |
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But Michelle was also caught in conversation with Thorning-Schmidt herself, confounding those always eager to comment on the first marriage. |
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Further confounding evaluations in this area is the role of educational campaigns. |
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These include suggestions for a more detailed review of individual patient files to try to identify other confounding factors. |
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What is confounding, when we talk about asking for accountability on these reports, is it is more than just accountability, it is also honesty. |
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As confounding as that may be, the jurisprudence stands uncontradicted and was the Commissioner's guide in this case. |
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The experimental design, control-impact, is known to have serious problems of confounding. |
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Britons received four gold medals at the Athens Olympics, confounding cynical expectations that our athletes would trail home with only a miserable brace of bronzes. |
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Perhaps the anti-gambling lobby group has a person on the inside, confounding design plans, adding irrelevant bells, whistles and flashing lights. |
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At times, even other bands found Pearl Jam's steadfast desire to keep playing but grow smaller confounding. |
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The estimates were adjusted for 16 major confounding factors. |
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Even to her fellow-actors, the emotional volte-face between Moore's offscreen ordinariness and her onscreen extraordinariness can be confounding. |
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All of these commentators noted confounding issues in ABS, but felt them to be surmountable obstacles. |
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It is a clever technique that can transform a good guy into a bad guy in an instant, confounding us with its devilish mix of fiction and reality. |
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It is possible that initial weight status may be an important confounding variable in studies evaluating treatment programs. |
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Essentially, controlling for confounding factors is trying to answer the question: what would have happened if deregulation had not taken place? |
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The percentages are also broken down by the level of crime in the community, to control for the confounding effect of that variable. |
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Good evidence comes from studies where bias is minimized and confounding factors controlled for. |
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Potential confounding of results due to increased dexamethasone levels cannot be ruled out. |
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There is a risk of confounding several notions of illegality with the informal sector in general. |
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A question that any health study of lung cancer must address is the confounding effect presented by the smoking of cigarettes. |
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Without a simultaneous matched control group, evaluation of the policy would not have been possible due to confounding influences. |
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Potential confounding by parental educational status, parental smoking, sibship size, and housing style, and interactions with site of residence, were also explored. |
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Four Brahman and four Angus sires were rotated among breeding pastures in both forage systems each year to prevent confounding of sire and forage system effects. |
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But it is unfounded fear by an American public at minimal risk of contracting the illness that is confounding those efforts. |
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They were simply seen as easy, wealthy targets, confounding local conventions of the time. |
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Whether those increases are because of environmental exposures or from other confounding variables is difficult to determine. |
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This week a Maricopa County Superior Court jury in Phoenix came out with a confounding verdict. |
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In that regard, Eisner proved confounding, with his comments reading more like misdirection than tea leaves. |
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From 1955 to 1963, he was Chairman of the National Bank, an Irish clearing bank, again confounding those who took his owlish, academic demeanour at face value. |
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First thing you gotta have is some sort of confounding unfounded prejudicial spew and contrived agenda aimed at humanity. |
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It was one that took delight in confounding both the purists and the critics who continually assailed the band's motives and creativity even as their fan base expanded and their status soared. |
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Except for socioeconomic status and ponderosity, the ratio of weight to height, the Munich study did not appear to control for confounding factors which have a bearing on blood pressure in childhood and adolescence. |
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Newark has the trickiest, most confounding partnering ever invented in postmodern dance, and her glorious 5 or and Reset appears one night only. |
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The programme effects were calculated, while controlling for potentially confounding variables such as school type and pupils' and teachers' backgrounds. |
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These difficulties would be compounded when comparing two groups since differences in the parameters of the model could become confounding factors. |
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People are asserting their voice to defy categories and the boxes and stereotypes that others try to impose on them, confounding expectations and definitions. |
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The shadow science minister has held the seat since 2001, but with a gradually decreasing vote each election, confounding the theory of beneficial incumbency. |
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To avoid the confounding effect of hypodynamic septic shock, a protocol of fluid resuscitation was applied to maintain adequate filling pressure. |
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Hermia and Lysander are both met by Puck, who provides some comic relief in the play by confounding the four lovers in the forest. |
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Its relationship to other falcons is not clear, as the issue is complicated by widespread hybridization confounding mtDNA sequence analyses. |
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In the short term, given the number of chemicals potentially involved, and the other confounding factors, it will be impossible to fully elucidate the role chemical exposures are playing in breast cancer. |
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The weather, so balmy in June, reverted to rainy type in July, confounding predictions of a prolonged scorcher, leaving the meteorologists red-faced and the skin of stay-at-home Britons pallid. |
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Discussions of group and cooperative learning have often ignored individual difference as potential confounding variable. |
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The article by Myles et al is a perfect example of the discovery of the effects of a confounding variable. |
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Intrinsic fluorescence was a greater confounding variable than was quenching. |
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It is reasonable that the intensity of the instructors may have created a confounding variable affecting the results. |
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One of the things that Jim Servizi did, in the study that was published in 1977, was recognize that this was a confounding factor, plus the fact that bugs and fungi grow much faster at those high temperatures. |
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Now, people were staying home. All panics are confounding for outsiders, but this one was especially odd because a key piece of evidence cited by the rumour-mongers is that border officers are on high alert in El Paso. |
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As discussed above, the discussion of an overborne will has led to the confounding of the concepts of moral blameworthiness and moral involuntariness in the criminal law. |
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The confounding of calculatory with rational thinking, creates the perception that whatever cannot be measured and reduced to numbers is illusion or metaphysics. |
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Leaves are cut along the midvein, rather than using separate leaves, to avoid potentially confounding effects associated with preexisting variation in individual leaves. |
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A further confounding factor is the peculiar ability of sturgeons to produce reproductively viable hybrids, even between species assigned to different genera. |
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To the confusion and confounding of that cursed death's-head knight. |
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