A Response to Mike Thike (2011)

A Conceptual Overview to Understand Commodities , Linkages and Industrial Development in Africa * Paper submitted to Afreximbank November 2011 Mike

Sub-Sahara African commodity exporting economies have benefitted greatly from the commodities boom of the past decade. The conventional wisdom argues that resource extraction is corrosive of industrial development due to a combination of the macroeconomic consequences of resource exploitation and the assumed enclave nature of mineral and energy extraction. The paper challenges this pessimistic ...

Mike Anderson

Mike Holcombe

The generalized stream X-machines (stream X-machines with basic functions replaced by relations and having as output, strings of symbols rather than single symbols) with output delimiter (any output string has at the right end side a special delimiter) are introduced. It is proved that testing methods similar to those already developed for ordinary determi-nistic stream X-machines may be applie...

Response to Landis and Chapman (2011).

Congratulations to the authors for their concise summary of the flaws, frailties, and limitations of ANOVA-based toxicity metrics. Having made similar calls for a transition to model-based inference, I am naturally fully supportive of the Landis and Chapman ‘‘fatwa’’ on bankrupt statistical methods in ecotoxicology. This timely article should, and no doubt will, generate much discussion among e...

Mike Greenberg

Mike Greenberg Harvard Medical School Mike Greenberg grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but has lived and worked in the Boston area for the last 30 years. He is currently the Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. His scientific passion is to understand how genes and the environment (nature and nurture) are intertwined at ...