In 1928 Krebs reported that the concentration of copper in the serum was significantly raised in the terminal stages of pregnancy. Since that time this observation has been confirmed by a number of workers (Gorter, Grendel, and Weyers, 1931; Locke, Main, and Rosbash, 1932; Sachs, Levine, and Fabian, 1935; Nielsen, 1944), who have shown that at full term the serum copper level is approximately t...

To understand the ethical aspect of paying attention to waste, this article is grounded in the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas, who argues that an openness to the ‘Other’ is a sign of the ethical. If we are complacent, we cannot act ethically. The horror, fear, shock and disgust we feel when confronted by waste jolts us out of our complacency. We recognize in waste not only the humanity of the o...

This study investigates the orthographic and phonological contribution of visually masked primes to reading aloud in Dutch. Although there is a relatively clear mapping between spelling and sound of words in Dutch, words starting with the letter are ambiguous as to whether they begin with the phoneme /s/ (e.g., FLWURHQ ‘lemon’) or with the phoneme /k/ (e.g., FRPSORW ‘conspiracy’). Therefore...