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1 In Magdeburg he and Matthies found that 2-Dgal injections produced amnesia in rats .
2 In his researches Watkins found that later features — such as pre-Reformation churches and crosses — also , rather curiously , fell on these supposed prehistoric alignments in addition to subsidiary ‘ confirmation points ’ like ancient crossroads , old fords and certain types of pond .
3 C. Taylor and W. Page Faulk found that such women often have white cell antigens ( HLA ) that are unusually similar to those of their husbands .
4 A new survey recently published by the CIOB found that three quarters of the members surveyed believed that the banks have a negative policy towards the construction industry .
5 American reviewers also found evidence of fraud and misrepresentation in peer review assessments ( Crawford & Stucki ) , in similar conditions to those already commented on in the UFC Report , and , in keeping with their greater use of information technology , Crawford & Stucki found that online communications and fax machines were contributory factors .
6 In a major study of institutionalised delinquents ( delinquents in some form of custody ) in the USA in the 1950s , Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck found that delinquent boys were twice as likely to have a mesomorphic build , a chunky , muscular physique , compared with non-delinquent boys .
7 Some years ago Causton found that biological polymers called mucopolysaccharides could exclude protein from some surfaces .
8 Graham found that light gases diffuse through porous surfaces more rapidly than heavy gases .
9 Wilkinson found that those individuals who struck lucky on any one night did indeed sometimes donate blood , by regurgitation , to their less fortunate comrades .
10 In a national study of weekly-paid married male workers in Britain who could vary their work effort , Brown , Levin and Ulph found that higher rates of taxation tended to have an incentive effect on the hours worked .
11 Investigations by the RSPB among wild bird traders in Hong Kong and China found that Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ) was used by many traders , despite the airline 's claim that it will only carry captive bird species .
12 Diana Baumrind found that authoritative parents are most likely to facilitate the development of competence and self-reliance in young children by enhancing responsible , purposive and independent behaviour .
13 Slater and Fisher found that 4.1 items were consulted and 2.4 were considered useful .
14 Kate Young found that three classes had developed on the basis of wealth , land ownership and relation to the means of production .
15 Eduardo Mondlane found that African carvers in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Mozambique had made their own use of Christian themes imposed by priests and missionaries :
16 Zuwaya found that those elements in their image which depended on solidarity among kinsmen — on the massing of cousins , on the exclusion of women — had rather more than an echo in the words of their head of state .
17 Myrdal found that Southern whites , defending discrimination , picked their words with care , showing an indirectness in the way they talked about blacks : ‘ When talking about the Negro problem , everybody — not only the intellectual liberals — is thus anxious to locate race prejudice outside himself ’ ( 1944 : 37 ) .
18 Iran found that recent improvements in the price of oil had been negated by the fall in the value of the dollar .
19 Hahnemann found that many substances which were inactive in the crude form became active therapeutic agents when treated in this way .
20 Franklin D Roosevelt found that happy days were here again for 30 years with his lover Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd .
21 Thus Lawani found that French agronomists cite older literature ( more than 15 years old ) to a larger extent than do American agronomists .
22 Rand found that some firms were even trying to avoid bad publicity by cleaning up sites before they were put on the Superfund list .
23 Defending champions Essex found that two wins and 14 rubbers were insufficient to prevent them suffering relegation along with Middlesex .
24 Copeland found that more tubers were infected after they had been passed over an elevator digger which was lifting stocks of heavily infested tubers .
25 Spies working for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds found that Tanzanian traders routinely forge export papers to the UK , despite tough laws in their own country .
26 Kornhauser found that occupational differences in mental health ( broadly equivalent to ‘ satisfaction ’ ) persisted apart from the influence of education .
27 Boaden found that Labour councillors have a tendency to favour higher standards , and hence to support larger expenditures by local authorities , even when allowance is made for other contributory factors ( Boaden 1971 : 112 ) .
28 Burns and Stalker found that organic structures were better able to respond to change than mechanistic ones .
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