The phrase "and the confound of" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It appears to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, and without additional context, it is difficult to determine its intended use.
Example: "The study examined the confound of variables affecting the results."
Alternatives: "and the confusion of" or "and the mix-up of".
However, the small number of plant species that produced domatia, and the confounding of plant life history and domatia presence, limited our analysis and complicated interpretation of either variable.
What a perfect setting, then, for a novel exploring the chaos of war and the confounding disorientation of its aftermath.
The second issue is the confounding of duration and immigration cohort (Myers and Lee, 1996).
This design avoided the confounding of time and condition by comparing endogenously vs. exogenously induced changes in analytes.
Many previous studies collected samples from different sites at different times, potentially resulting in the confounding of spatial and temporal variation.
To correct for the confounding of physical and mental health, negative coefficients for some subscales subtract back the unwanted variance.
Using synthetic data, we show that the coevolution model better addresses the confounding of the coevolution process, and the conditional model better addresses the confounding of the conditional process.
I tried watching World Cup games four years ago and was preoccupied with the peculiarity of a sport that doesn't allow the use of arms, which, after all, make up half our complement of excellent sporting appendages (forty per cent, if you include heads), and of the confounding combination of endless minutes of scoreless running around and free kicks that lead to sudden goals.
However, after controlling for individual institutional effects and the potential confounding of other sociodemographic variables the picture shifted somewhat.
They spoke with composure, and while they continued to blame the United States, they also condemned Al Qaeda and the Taliban and even the confounding designs of fate.
