What sorts of taphonomic biases might be confounding the picture?
Confounding the picture for Calvert are Libertarian candidate Gene Berkman and Republican-turned-independent write-in candidate Bob Lynn, each of whom is more likely to drain votes from Calvert than Takano.
The inability to differentiate unfavorable outcomes attributable to glucocorticoids from those occurring as a complication of the disease treated or as co-morbidities also confounds the picture.
Failure of post-CRT functional imaging to accurately predict the pathological response may be due to post-CRT oesophagitis [25] or because cell 'stunning' effects, which have nothing to do with tumour cell viability [18], confound the picture.
In the light of our data, we suggest several reasons for that failure: (i) both clades include species (groups) with unique morphology, (ii) both comprise species with large or Central European distribution areas, (iii) the large number of interclade hybrids has confounded the picture, and (iv) several morphologically defined taxa had multiple origins and are probably inadequately circumscribed.
This is by no means a trivial academic exercise, as one needs to quantify how anthropogenic selection pressures influence harvested resources and their ecosystems, how this interplays with natural selection, and how ecological feedbacks and other environmental processes may confound the picture or alter the outcome.
It is at once a realistic picture of the ambiguous time between day and night and a confounding surrealist image of a world where time has stopped making sense.
Because prior shock resuscitation might confound the clinical picture, we focused on direct admissions only.
Increased reticulocytes, lactate dehydrogenase, and bilirubin, as well as reduced haptoglobin, are observed in conditions other than hemolysis that may confound the clinical picture.
However, intrabiliary growth by metastatic tumor can occasionally confound the clinical picture and result in diagnostic confusion, even in patients with a known history of CRC.
