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    Contributors

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    Contributors to Ethnic Studies Review, Vol. 23, No. 1,2&3, April 2000

    Dancing the World Smaller

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    This book examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger cultural struggles over how to reconcile the nation’s new role as a global superpower. In dance as in cultural politics, Americans labored over how to realize diversity while honoring difference and manage dueling impulses toward globalism, on the one hand, and isolationism, on the other

    PROMOTING – A BASE COMPONENT OF THE MARKETING MIX IN MUSEUMS. CASE STUDY: THE MUSEUM OF THE ROMANIAN PEASANT

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    The Museum of the Romanian Peasant is part of the European museums family of Art and Popular Traditions. It is a national museum which is under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, being the owner of some extremely rich object collections, housed in a building – historic monument, in a neo-Romanian style, it practices a distinct museum science, which brought it the honor of being awarded the EMYA (European Museum of the Year Award) trophy in 1996.Cultural Institutions, Museums, the Marketing Mix, promoting.

    Masakwa dry season cropping in the Chad Basin

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    In the inundation area - the basin of the former larger Lake Chad - a special type of sorghum is grown on the clay soils (firgi). This dry-season guinea corn is also called dwarf sorghum or masakwa. In Kanuri, the dominant language in the region, sorghum is called ngawuli. The dry-season types are called ngawuli firgibe (lit. translated: sorghum of the firgi). During the dry season when the natural vegetation becomes dry and yellow, masakwa fields appear in prominent green covering large areas of the clay plains. The most important natural factor for this specialized dry season cropping is the presence of soils with a high clay content. For a better understanding of masakwa and its related issues, a multidisciplinary sub-project (G1) has been established within the SFB 268 (Joint Research Project: History of Culture and Language in the Natural Environment of the West-African Savannah). This project in which all disciplines participate is entitled: "Natural basis for masakwa cultivation and its meaning for the settlement history of the clay plains (firgi) in the Chad basin"

    John Wesley Powell. VI. The Promotor of Research.

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    Multiple Testing Techniques in Growth Econometrics

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    This paper discusses two longstanding questions in growth econometrics which involve multiple hypothesis testing. In cross sectional GDP growth regressions many variables are simultaneously tested for significance. Similarly, when investigating pairwise convergence of output for nn countries, n(n−1)/2n(n-1)/2 tests are performed. We propose to control the false discovery rate (FDR) so as not to erroneously declare variables significant in these multiple testing situations only because of the large number of tests performed. Doing so, we provide a simple new way to robustly select variables in economic growth models. We find that few other variables beyond the initial GDP level are needed to explain growth. We also show that convergence of per capita output using a time series definition with the necessary condition of no unit root in the log per-capita output gap of two economies does not appear to holdGrowth Empirics; Multiple Testing; Convergence; Bootstrap

    John Wesley Powell. A Biography. V. The Investigator.

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