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Mercury level in water in Senegal

Gerson et al. measured THg and MeHg concentrations in soil (n = 119), sediment (n = 22), and water (n = 25) from four active artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) villages and one non-ASGM reference village in Senegal. Nearly all samples had THg and MeHg concentrations that exceeded the reference village concentrations and USEPA regulatory standards. The highest median THg concentrations were found in huts where mercury-gold amalgams were burned (7.5 μg/g), while the highest median MeHg concentrations and percent Hg as MeHg were found in river sediments (4.2 ng/g, 0.41%).

Asthma/Allergies in Norway (and Tanzania, if i find data)

NORWAY:20% of (2nd to 8th graders enrolled in school) showed  indications / diagnoses of asthma. Source: Norway's Asthma and Allergy Association (NAAF). Nordlandsstudien (1995-2009 p: 6000)5% of children require medical treatment for asthma (estimate). 25-30% of youths have allergic symptoms.Source: the Norwegian Institute of Public HealthTANZANIA: 

Keller, E. Dynamic Objectivity quotes

For this, I want to return to Shapiro's Autonomy and Rigid Character (1981), as well as to his earlier work, Neurotic Styles (1965). In the latter work, Shapiro described the cognitive counterparts of obsessive-compul sive and paranoid psychology; for completeness, I will add some remarks about the cognitive counterparts of sadism.The central concern of the obsessive-compulsive is control, not so much of others as of oneself.

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Questioning allocentric perception

According to the author, the capacity to employ an allocentric perception in the pursuit of objective knowledge of the world requires more than interest; it requires development of the capacity to distinguish self from Other. She also claims that "Allocentric perception is perception in the service of a love which wants to affirm others in their total and unique being." However, I wonder to what extent this is actually applicable to the social sciences. Our "objects" of analysis are humans, and the urge to "affirm others" in turn renders us the ones to do the affirming.