In particular, Dr. Martin and Mr. Scher are looking at an obscure element known as neodymium, which washes into the oceans with sediment from the continents.
I'll be surfing Epicurious.com, dreaming of cooking a green curry or Senegalese yassa chicken, and come across some obscure element that can be found only at the teeming Belleville market, which is legendary for its range of exotic fruits and vegetables.
As so often in the book, Paterson uses the unattached demonstrative to indicate a long, complex sentence that includes obscure elements.
The book reveals a world in which obscure elements of the process -- Congressional budget reconciliation or closed rules in the House of Representatives -- can have enormous consequences for society, by changing the relationship between politics and policy.
Mr. Weitz, speaking from London, said the latest changes were largely intended to bring clarity to a tale that depends on obscure elements, including a powerful cosmic substance known simply as "dust".
The high culture of this verse, combined with an opening up of the formerly obscure elements in his poetry and a synthesis of the eternal with the contemporary, made his poetry extremely popular.
They brought a case at the World Trade Organisation alleging that China was unfairly restricting its exports of tungsten, molybdenum and 17 "rare earths", obscure elements such as terbium and europium, used in the manufacture of many high-tech goods including fluorescent lights.
Furthermore, while informal interpreters are considered 'second best' from a policy perspective and within the professional interpreting community, some service-users prefer to use family members and friends as interpreters because, in their experience, formal interpreters may align themselves with general practitioners, thus obscuring elements of the patient's narrative.
However, those advantages should not obscure the elements of their popular appeal that are available to thoroughbred racing as a whole.
HealthMap thus provides a structure to information flow that would otherwise be overwhelming to the user or obscure important elements of a disease outbreak.
Yet issues of spatial heterogeneity in these complex environments may obscure unique elements of neighborhood life that may be protective or harmful to human health.
