This complicates inference of orthologous and paralogous relationships [ 8] and can even obscure the definition of boundaries between species for prokaryotes.
However, reduction of CUC activity further obscures the definition of the sepal-receptacle boundaries of ath1 flowers [ 9].
The above plethora of associations has up to now obscured the definition of a general underlying functional theme that adds to the accepted associations with nitrogen metabolism and flagellar biosynthesis.
Rather, the calories increase body fat, which obscures muscle definition.
Colen's work and other pieces presented here — with their scattered, postmodern anti-focus, their incorporation of referents, high and low, culturally ubiquitous and totally obscure — resist easy definition, much like political issues in the lead-up to an election, which may be why the book's text falls so flat.
O'Brien and Lyman (2003 135) argued that empirical-type definition obscured historical relationships between Clovis and Dalton types, and that intensional paradigmatic classification and cladistic analysis alone could reveal it.
(This statement amounts to a significant revision of Lukes's earlier analysis of power, in which he argued against defining power as power-to on the grounds that such a definition obscures "the conflictual aspect of power — the fact that it is exercised over people" and thus fails to address what we care about most when we decide to study power (1974, 31).
These faces float deliberately bodiless, not so much for artistic effect but because life's buffeting obscures any more definition.
With the public apparently opposed both to tax increases and to benefit cuts, the main politically feasible way to avoid such a fate seems to involve some monkeying with obscure aspects of the definition of benefits.
To begin with, no one really knows the size of the net per-taxpayer subsidy because these loopholes, by definition, are obscure.
