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The diet of Pteropus voeltzkowi, an endangered fruit bat endemic to Pemba Island, Tanzania (1997)
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ENTWISTLE, A., & CORP, N. (1997). The diet of Pteropus voeltzkowi, an endangered fruit bat endemic to Pemba Island, Tanzania. African journal of ecology,

The diet of the Pemba flying fox Pteropus voeltzkowi, a species endemic to the island of Pemba off Tanzania, was investigated. Faecal pellets, ejecta and dropped fruits were collected from under roosts to facilitate dietary analysis. This was supplem... Read More about The diet of Pteropus voeltzkowi, an endangered fruit bat endemic to Pemba Island, Tanzania.

Rotation, activity and lithium in NGC 6475 (1997)
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James, D. J., & Jeffries, R. D. (1997). Rotation, activity and lithium in NGC 6475. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 292(2), 252–272. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/292.2.252

Radial and rotational velocities, chromospheric activity and lithium abundances are presented for an X-ray-selected sample of stars in the young (220 Myr) open cluster NGC 6475. Low-mass members of the cluster have been identified on the basis of pho... Read More about Rotation, activity and lithium in NGC 6475.

Apparent Absorption Efficiency and Gut Morphometry of Wood Mice, Apodemus sylvaticus , from Two Distinct Populations with Different Diets (1997)
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Corp, N., Gorman, M., & Speakman, J. (1997). Apparent Absorption Efficiency and Gut Morphometry of Wood Mice, Apodemus sylvaticus , from Two Distinct Populations with Different Diets. Physiological Zoology, 70(6), https://doi.org/10.1086/515876

Interpopulation variation in the diet of the wood mouse, Apode‐mus sylvaticus, is well documented. In this study, we examined the gut morphology and apparent absorption efficiencies of two populations of wood mice whose diet in the field was known to... Read More about Apparent Absorption Efficiency and Gut Morphometry of Wood Mice, Apodemus sylvaticus , from Two Distinct Populations with Different Diets.

Ethnic differences in women's employment (1997)
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Holdsworth, C., & Dale, A. (1997). Ethnic differences in women's employment. Work, Employment and Society, 11(3), 435-457. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017097113003

This paper uses the 1 per cent household file from the Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) for the 1991 Census and the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) to explore variations in patterns of employment and occupational attainment among women from different... Read More about Ethnic differences in women's employment.

Truncal site and detoxifying enzyme polymorphisms significantly reduce time to presentation of further primary cutaneous basal cell carcinoma. (1997)
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Lear, J. T., Smith, A. G., Heagerty, A. H., Bowers, B., Jones, P. W., Gilford, J., …Fryer, A. A. (1997). Truncal site and detoxifying enzyme polymorphisms significantly reduce time to presentation of further primary cutaneous basal cell carcinoma. Carcinogenesis, 18(8), 1499–1503. https://doi.org/10.1093/carcin/18.8.1499

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the commonest cancer in Caucasians. Its incidence is rising and many patients develop multiple primary tumours at separate sites. Factors determining time between first primary tumour presentation and the next new primar... Read More about Truncal site and detoxifying enzyme polymorphisms significantly reduce time to presentation of further primary cutaneous basal cell carcinoma..

On the initial-final mass relation and maximum mass of white dwarf progenitors (1997)
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Jeffries, R. (1997). On the initial-final mass relation and maximum mass of white dwarf progenitors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 288(3), 585–588. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/288.3.585

The four white dwarfs (WDs) discovered in the young open cluster NGC 2516 are crucial in defining the shape of the initial-final mass relation (IFMR) and upper mass limit for WD progenitors (Mwd). The cluster metallicity has been recently determined... Read More about On the initial-final mass relation and maximum mass of white dwarf progenitors.

Risk factors for basal cell carcinoma in the UK: case-control study in 806 patients. (1997)
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Lear, J. T., Tan, B. B., Smith, A. G., Bowers, W., Jones, P. W., Heagerty, A. H., …Fryer, A. A. (1997). Risk factors for basal cell carcinoma in the UK: case-control study in 806 patients. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 90(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/014107689709000704

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the commonest malignant neoplasm in white people. We present a large UK case-control study in which conditional logistic regression analysis of age-matched and gender-matched data sets was used to compare, first, cases w... Read More about Risk factors for basal cell carcinoma in the UK: case-control study in 806 patients..

Women's work and family health: Evidence from the Staffordshire Potteries, 1890-1920 (1997)
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Holdsworth, C. (1997). Women's work and family health: Evidence from the Staffordshire Potteries, 1890-1920. Continuity and Change, 12(1), 103–128. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026841609700283X

The progress of industrialization throughout the nineteenth century had profound effects on health and mortality. One relationship that contemporaries found particularly alarming was the potentially damaging effect that the employment of women in ind... Read More about Women's work and family health: Evidence from the Staffordshire Potteries, 1890-1920.

Seasonal variation in the resting metabolic rate of male wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus from two contrasting habitats 15 km apart. (1997)
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Corp, N., Gorman, M., & Speakman, J. (1997). Seasonal variation in the resting metabolic rate of male wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus from two contrasting habitats 15 km apart. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 167, 229–239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s003600050069

Diurnal and nocturnal resting metabolic rates of winter- and summer-acclimatized adult male wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus from two adjacent populations, 15 km apart, were measured. One population lived in deciduous woodland, and experienced a narrowe... Read More about Seasonal variation in the resting metabolic rate of male wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus from two contrasting habitats 15 km apart..

Truncal tumor site is associated with high risk of multiple basal cell carcinoma and is influenced by glutathione S-transferase, GSTT1, and cytochrome P450, CYP1A1 genotypes, and their interaction. (1997)
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Lear, J. T., Smith, A. G., Bowers, B., Heagearty, A. H., Jones, P. W., Gilford, J., …Fryer, A. A. (1997). Truncal tumor site is associated with high risk of multiple basal cell carcinoma and is influenced by glutathione S-transferase, GSTT1, and cytochrome P450, CYP1A1 genotypes, and their interaction. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 108(4), 519-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/1523-1747.ep12289738

A photoemission investigation of the valence band electronic structure of and (1997)
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Brown, D., Crapper, M. D., Bedwell, K. H., Petty, M., Smith, J. G., & Telling, N. D. (1997). A photoemission investigation of the valence band electronic structure of and. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 9(14), 2955-2961. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/9/14/010

The valence bands of the intermetallic compounds and have been investigated by ultraviolet photoemission utilizing synchrotron radiation. The valence bands of both alloys have a width of 7 - 8 eV with a prominent peak at a binding energy of 2.6 eV... Read More about A photoemission investigation of the valence band electronic structure of and.

Ranging behaviour and time budgets of male wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus in different habitats and seasons (1997)
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Corp, N., Gorman, M. L., & Speakman, J. R. (1997). Ranging behaviour and time budgets of male wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus in different habitats and seasons. Oecologia, 109, 242–250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420050079

Radiotelemetry was used to measure the range areas, activity patterns and time budgets of 21 adult male wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) between May 1991 and August 1992. The study investigated variation in range, total distance travelled, speed of mo... Read More about Ranging behaviour and time budgets of male wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus in different habitats and seasons.

Tumor necrosis factor microsatellite haplotypes are different in male and female patients with RA. (1997)
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Hajeer, A., John, S., Ollier, W. E., Silman, A. J., Dawes, P., Hassell, A., …Worthington, J. (1997). Tumor necrosis factor microsatellite haplotypes are different in male and female patients with RA. Journal of Rheumatology, 24(1), 217-219

We investigated whether tumor necrosis factor (TNF) microsatellite polymorphisms are associated with sex and age at disease onset in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A case-control study was used to compare the frequencies of TNF microsatellite alleles in... Read More about Tumor necrosis factor microsatellite haplotypes are different in male and female patients with RA..

Glutathione S-transferase and cytochrome P450 genotypes as risk factors for laryngeal carcinoma (1997)
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Jahnke, V., Strange, R., Matthias, C., & Fryer, A. (1997). Glutathione S-transferase and cytochrome P450 genotypes as risk factors for laryngeal carcinoma. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, 254, S147–S149. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02439747

While cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption have been linked to laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), the role of genetic factors in determining individual susceptibility is unknown. We describe the role of allelism at the glutathione S-transf... Read More about Glutathione S-transferase and cytochrome P450 genotypes as risk factors for laryngeal carcinoma.