A group of geographical and historical experts from around Wales say Welsh place names are particularly important, as they tend to be descriptive of the conditions at the time of naming, whereas English place-names are subject to obscure influences from Latin, German, French and Scandinavian languages.
In addition, the multifunctionality ranking is expected to "perform best" when performance is measured using ROC curves; Singh-Blom et al. use something more akin to precision-recall, which tends to obscure the influence of multifunctionality (and node degree), while being more heavily influenced by critical edges.
Therefore, the residual effects of physiological stressors used to induce dehydration in these trials may obscure any influence of fluid intake on cognitive performance.
While providing a broad genomic perspective, these categories may obscure the influence of more specific biological function on genetic constraint [19] suggesting the need for a more specific biological definition.
In addition, medication may obscure the influence of other factors, e.g., psychotic symptoms that may otherwise have been correlated with cognitive test scores.
These changes may have obscured the influence over time of discrete supervisors, as changes in training company were not accounted for in the study design.
Filtering by a minimum expression level obscures the influence of extreme variability of low expressed genes.
In contrast, the EU-FME source population we investigated had more severe disease and may represent a more clinically homogeneous group, which could help to reduce factors obscuring an influence of iPTH level on costs.
The one relevant Thai study did not find a link between height and breast cancer, but the proportion of taller women in their study population was much less, perhaps obscuring any influence of greater height.
And be sure to catch British Sea Power, an appealing band that obscures its influences (Joy Division, the Pixies) behind its eccentricities (leafy branches decorating the stage, poetry between songs).
