Sentences with phrase «on confounding»

Because the univariate effect of the representativeness of the sample was lost in multivariate analysis, we conclude that this effect was based on a confounding variable (the use of control groups rather than test norms in community - based studies with representative samples).

Psychiatric diagnosis was made within 5 days of surgery using the Geriatric Mental State schedule and other standardized instruments, and data on confounding factors was collected.

Commenting on the confounding image - object relationship probed within these works, Muniz observes, «It always goes both ways.

We have kept tabs on this confounding disease and arrived at a troubling diagnosis.

Two rather compelling studies find no evidence on confounding, although neither has been replicated, and neither addresses all sources of confounding.

An answer could come from replicating the studies on confounding using different models.

Because the evidence on confounding by student background variables is mixed, those who make decisions about teachers should allow for its potential to occur.

Whether value - added fully levels the playing field is a question that can't be answered without more evidence on confounding and the conditions under which it is likely to occur.

Whether value added fully levels the playing field is a question that can't be answered without more evidence on confounding and the conditions under which it is likely to occur.

Here's how and why the architect of all this disruption, CEO Travis Kalanick, plans to keep on confounding expectations.

Not exact matches

Wenger, on the other hand, is purely an optimist who doesn't plan for anything going wrong and is confounded when things go against him.

On red meat, though, «Chance, bias, and confounding could not be ruled out with the same degree of confidence.»

They not only rely on analytical processes (those that produce either / or choices) but also exhibit the ability to see all of the salient — and sometimes contradictory — aspects of a confounding problem and create novel solutions that go beyond and dramatically improve on existing alternatives.

Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.

That the cuts are paired with some tax increases on individuals, like the elimination of the deduction for state and local income taxes and the Social Security number requirement, which kicks some 3 million kids off the child tax credit, makes the choice even more confounding.

That the cuts are pared with some tax increases on individuals, like the elimination of the deduction for state and local income taxes and the Social Security Number requirement which kicks some 3 million kids off the child tax credit, makes the choice even more confounding.

This drop confounded analysts, who forecasted a stronger dollar based on expectations for higher US interest rates.

When your predictions are confounded, do you carry on regardless?

In our statistical analysis, we include all of the confounding factors discussed above, and control for demographic and regional differences in order to tease out the effects of different factors on whether Canadians support, oppose, or have no opinion about an FTA with China.

This drop confounded analysts, who forecasted a stronger dollar based on expectations...

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendencOn the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendencon in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

After 2012 confounded Mayan predictions and turned out to be a feel - good epic, how on earth could the next year possibly live up to it?

Whoso has felt the Spirit of the Highest Can not confound nor doubt Him nor deny: Yea with one voice, O world, tho, thou deniest, Stand thou on that side, for on this am I.

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.

With the Higgs Boson we confirmed the existence of the Higgs field which goes a long way to explaining the interactions between particles on a quantum level and is giving us a peek into something that has long confounded us, what Einstein called «sp o o ky action at a distance».

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.

God, at the beginning of the Bible, walking in a garden in the cool of the day, making a woman from a man's rib, confounding men's speech lest they build a tower too high, trying to slay a man at a wayside inn because his child was not circumcised, or dwelling on Mt. Sinai, where he says to Moses, «You shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen,» is a very different deity from the one you find at the Bible's end, «God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.»

His most recent articles for «On the Square» were Pius XII and the Distorting Ellipsis and Pope Benedict Confounds His Critics.

The turbulence of the past decade has had a confounding effect both on our individual lives and on our collective life in society.

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.

Man, of course, is like one of the natural objects in the hands of man: «Their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops...» What is forgotten is that when the power of man is unleashed it is never in the hands of all men («man» here means some men rather than all men, and this is even more flagrantly so today).

Did not the burning bush speak, the moving finger write on a despot's wall, the Tower of Babel confound language and, thus, communication, the Pentecost bring tongues of fire that translated love into each listener's native language?

I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins, 26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?

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.»

KJV 1Pe 2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

William White recognized in 1782 that the future of the Episcopal Church in America, where the distinction between «Church» and «Dissenters» would not be known, depended on not «confounding english episcopacy, with the subject at large.»

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

At his interrogation on that day he had said «the Act of Parliament is like a sword with two edges, for if a man answers one way: it will confound his soul and if he answers the other way it will confound his body».

Abstinence from Kona, tobacco, and alcohol by many Adventists has afforded a near - unique opportunity for studies to be conducted within that population group on the health effects of Kona drinking, free from confounding factors.

After putting in another match winning performance for Arsenal, depending on whether or not you agree with the player ratings from Just Arsenal earlier that is, Mesut Ozil continues to confound his critics and help to keep the Gunners in strong contention for the Premier League trophy.

The Gunners were up against it in Milan on Thursday but Arsenal managed to confound everyone by taking apart the inform AC Milan side that have been rejuvenated since Gennaro Gattuso was made manager in December.

If Clemson's gonna start doing this in addition to the million other confounding things they do on offense, we're all in trouble.

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational individual, which is why what has and is going on at Arsenal confounds me... little wonder people have gone so far as to suggest that Wenger is actually sabotaging the club... one only needs to look at our starting 11 to stoke the flames of conspiracy... just think of the perceived importance of this game, considering the loss to Stoke, the historically significance of the two teams involved, the controversy that swirled around our two meetings last season, the proximity to the closing of the window and the general disdain being directed towards the manager once again... how is it even possible that you wouldn't come to Anfield with all guns blazing... not a single shot on target, with the back - up keeper in no less... where were the new signings?

By hanging on to defeat Washington 34 - 24, the Cowboys qualified for a wildcard spot in the NFL playoffs, but once again last season's Super Bowl winners exhibited their confounding second - half swoon

It has been a similar story for years but this season we seem to have perfected the art of confounding the general consensus and the bookies, by losing games that the football world see as a banker win for Arsenal and then winning games which no one gave Arsene Wenger and the lads a snowball's chance in hell of coming out on top in.

But in the recent history of this fixture, these facts mean absolutely nothing on the day, and the Swans have an amazing record of confounding the odds against the Gunners.

Little Willie Hoppe played matches crawling around on billiard tables, confounding and infuriating his grown - up adversaries

As he matured with age, many expected him to retire gracefully, but Big Nev confounded the critics and just kept on going, adding a second FA Cup winners medal to his collection in 1995.

Not that the draws and especially the loss against Manchester City were not utterly confounding but I feel that these results have not left Liverpool as out of reach of the top - four as they could have and on the field Liverpool have the ingredients to churn up some positive results, if the form of a few Liverpool players improves.

It is important to note that these studies, which support breast milk's power to develop infants» cognitive ability are based mainly on observation and could contain confounding factors such as minor differences in mother - baby interaction.