For more than a century, Chinese typewriters have been objects of curiosity, confusion and even a fair bit of ridicule — after all, how do you type a language that has no alphabet?
This paper, from researchers at Google, UCLA, Oxford and Johns Hopkins, describes a new method by which a computer can specify objects without question of confusion.
Don a minister's collar at Pride and suddenly you're an object of fascination and confusion: people take pictures, gawk, look at you with "what the hell?" expressions.
From Dictionary.com: something untidy or overfilled with objects a state or condition of confusion.
Other works isolate objects or images of objects (the confusion seems to be deliberate) against backgrounds of solid color, recalling earlier Charlesworths.
He said this was in part because of confusion over the way some objects were counted: whether, for example, a group of African spears was in fact one object or several.
16 17 These include creating cues to remember things, separating similar objects and tasks so that there is less likelihood of confusion, and checking you have got the correct resources before committing to an action.
This review also documents the prevalence of confusion arising from failure to specify the exact object of explanation, and it provides a useful taxonomy of evolutionary explanations for alleles that cause disease (see Table 2).
The same is generally true of the rarer symptom of confusion: the perception of two different overlapping objects owing to binocular misalignment.
As should be familiar to many Pastoralism readers, a major feature of knowledge politics is a politics of confusion where scientific research poorly matches the management and livelihood realities of the object of concern (in this case 'rangelands'rangelands
