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Other prison slang words and phrases were possibly invented merely to confound eavesdroppers.
The presence of low copy-number repeats can also confound assembly, especially for whole-genome shotgun sequencing projects [ 1].
Of course these kinds of questions always confound me because I'm from a country where Disney owns the evening news and the only compelling rhythm is the beat of my heart when the camera zooms in on Peter Jennings.
News fiddles with the rankings to confound our intuition and sell magazines.
One reason for ambiguity of the duplication status was gaps in the genome sequence; if either the query or the subject L1 had a stretch of more than 50 Ns in the 3 kb of downstream flanking sequence, indicating a gap in genome sequence, these were excluded from the analysis because they tended to interfere with the assessment of duplication and confound the automatic analysis.