Sentences with phrase «as confounding»

Despite maternal depression being included in the analysis as a confounding variable, information on maternal diagnoses was available only from psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric units, but not from primary care settings, where the majority of cases of maternal depression is expected to be recognised.

Like the arbitrary UHI ajustments, these sources of error are disregarded altogether, subjected to arbitrary adjustments without adequate experimental verifications, and generally denied as a confounding problem in the preparation of the IPCC reports and conclusions.

He left a legacy that is perfect in its inscrutability: a spiralling monument as confounding as the coils of fossil ammonites were to pre-Darwinian eyes.

Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly were peers and close friends, and their purely abstract paintings can be as confounding as they are moving.

If you're anything like me, MOBAs tend to come off as a confounding mess of strategies sung to the tune of aggressively shouted obscenities from «real players».

That will probably change in the revisions slated for 2015, as this confounding and too - smooth interface has been a sticking point for consumers, but it's doubtful that Ford will differentiate Lincoln much in the process.

The body count, as it were, isn't so much satisfying as confounding and even frustrating.

Again starring Elisabeth Moss, this time alongside Katherine Waterston (right off the back of Inherent Vice) and edited by Robert Greene, the director has rather amusingly said he hopes it will be «regarded as a confounding, misunderstood follow up a la INTERIORS.»

The movie is as confounding as it is grisly.

Paulina's curious reaction, or lack thereof, to the rape is as confounding as Michèle's in Paul Verhoeven's Elle, yet rather than veering toward the transgressive, Mitre's film remains on more theoretical ground.

Making the case that modern romance is just as confounding in the 21st century as it was in the»60s, Down With Love deserves another look.

It is nevertheless difficult to define the association between caffeine and reproductive health as confounding factors such as changes in diet, smoking, and incorrect or imprecise assessment of the duration of exposure to caffeine may limit the ability to draw clear conclusions1.

Lead author Dr Andrew Thompson, from Warwick Medical School, said: «The presence of anxiety and depressive symptoms as confounding factors in those with sleep disturbance could potentially explain the findings.

Specifically, estimates of air pollution exposure are not perfect and it remains possible that something related to air pollution, but not air pollution itself (known as confounding), was responsible for the association.

For 36 months, scientists tracked 4175 yellow taxis and 12,525 blue taxis from the same Singapore - based fleet; they also used 3 months of data from more than 3000 drivers» GPS logs to rule out differences in driving speed, number of stops, and distance covered as confounding factors.

The balance of power in the Senate is as confounding to insiders as outsiders.

As confounding and exhausting as a nighttime - alert baby can be, this phase does tend to resolve itself over time.

And just as confounding was the way U.S. stocks surged in the aftermath — because implicit in that surge was a belief that a Trump administration could overcome some very challenging economic obstacles.

The unmatched size between live and robotic fish in [20] may act as a confound for elucidating the role of flow cues produced by fish locomotion on collective behavior.

s angle was, because whoever wrote the headline seems as confounded as I am by this, but my god, reading Bacon's account of her routine and diet is like staring into a wound in the universe.

An impossible love affair rendered in impeccable detail, «Phantom Thread» beguiles as it confounds while articulating a universal truth: Nobody can possibly fathom the inner workings of other people's relationships.

My smaller paintings could be described as confounded aphorisms.

Not exact matches

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

In a meta - analysis of 3 million people, which controlled for confounding factors such as demographics and objective isolation, loneliness increased odds of an early death by 26 %.

But here's the confounding thing: The stocks plummeted even as the industry posted all - time highs for occupancy rates and revenue per available room, or RevPAR.

But as ever, the evidence confounds.

The IARC acknowledges the difficulty of determining causality, but their report concludes that, «the consistent associations of colorectal cancer with consumption of processed meat across studies in different populations, which make chance, bias, and confounding unlikely as explanations.»

Domestic punters, he added, were confounded by the PBOC's «extremely confusing» policy actions and, as a result, were pulling their money out of Chinese markets.

There is good reason to believe, then, that we are still early, that the bull is proceeding as it always has, confounding the great majority of experts, defying the well - armed but uncritical skeptics and taking its sweet time.

At whatever point I read a site, I acknowledge that it doesn't confound me as much as this one.

As one of his followers explained, he came to hear Millers lecture with a «determination to not believe, and to expose him and his folly to the people who should be present,» but he left «convicted, confounded and converted.»

Jesus confounds us moderns as well.

As long as the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statementAs long as the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statementas the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statements.

Some of the ideas that religion imparts upon politics are good, such as helping your fellow man, but religion is not necessary for those ideas to exist and indeed can confound those ideas when mixed with other messages from the same religion.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

The doctors, including some of the great specialists of the commonwealth — the University Hospital boasts of being one of the 100 institutions in the country — were confounded as to an exact diagnosis.

For, as there is no created thing, no matter how lowly, in which one can not recognize the me facit Deus... there is none that does not confound the mind once it stops to consider it.»

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

It is also a description of relational power as operating ideally and without reference to the baffling and confounding realities which constitute our empirical existence.

Also compare the penetrating echo of the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament with something as mysterious and utterly confounding and void of human - to - human concern as the Dao De Jing.

Talk of flesh and eating arouses in us, as well as in that original audience, a stronger and more confounding response.

In the Christmas event, God confounds our claims of self - sufficiency and our self - image as generous givers by putting us on the receiving end of God's love.

He said: Though ye make mock of Us, yet We mock at you even as ye mock; (38) And ye shall know to whom a punishment that will confound him cometh, and upon whom a lasting doom will fall.

... The sole distinguishing characteristic of Morrison's writings is psychological waywardness — derived, it appears from his unhappy childhood as the son of an aloof naval officer... According to his biographers Morrison's chief boyhood pleasure was defying, confounding, and tormenting other people.

Regarding phlyogeny v. phylogenetics, if what you meant to say was that phylogeny based on morphology has been shown to be false or is confounded by unreasonably high error rates in light of phylogenetic techniques, you're patently incorrect as the prior trees based on morphology have consistently, albeit not perfectly, matched the trees produced by genetic comparisons.

In short, by allowing Christian faith to be the consensual foundation of the political and social order, as it were the form of political life, Christendom confounded the things of Caesar with the things of God.

While this definition, Peirce adds, «seems to be correct... it must not be confounded (as Kant himself confounded it) with infinite divisibility.»

The Pope's action has confounded both defenders of Bishop Finn, as well as skeptics of Francis's promise to combat abuse in the Church.

They are confounded by the claim that God is specifically located in a particular person» with a birthday and a birthplace, a nationality, a genealogy, and a biography, as summarized in the Apostles» Creed, of one «who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried... [and] on the third day rose from the dead.»

Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonour that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt Let them be as chaff before the wind....