Dissertations / Theses: 'North American integration'

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Appiah, Alex Jameson. "Applied general equilibrium model of North American integration with rules of origin." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0014/NQ52704.pdf.

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Henriques, Karl A. "Habermas, democracy, rights, and European supranational integration, observations for North American critical theorists." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0014/NQ33533.pdf.

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Bair, Daniel R. "The integration of North American short-term mission teams into long-term ministry efforts in Central America and Mexico." Columbia, SC : Columbia Theological Seminary, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.023-0219.

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Thesis (D. Min.)--Columbia International University, 2007.
Typescript. "December, 2007." Also available in CD-ROM. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-173).

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Sun, Yueming (Roy), and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Management. "Financial integration of NAFTA : measurement and analysis of the North American financial markets convergence / Yueming (Roy) Sun." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Management, 2010, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2605.

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Applying market arbitrage theory on daily data, we measure the empirical financial market convergence of NAFTA’s financial markets since 1994. Radar diagram and wavelet multi-resolution analysis (MRA) scalogram movies of the statistical moments of the term interest rate differentials visualize the multidimensional convergence. From the radar movies, we find: 1) a uniform disappearance of the average forward premia; 2) a non-uniform decline of bilateral financial market risk; 3) variation of bilateral financial market pressure measured by skewness; and 4) emergence of uniform market microstructures as measured by vanishing excess-kurtosis. From the MRA movies, we find that the national term structures of interest rates converge, since the stochastic resonance coefficients of the interest rate differentials lose significance: market energy at all frequencies dissipates into “white noise.” Testing Obrimah, Prakash and Rangan’s (2009) Lemma, we find that, after 2002, higher financial flow pressure is a necessary condition for lower financial market risk.
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Washington, Carrie Smith Johnson. "A study of former Negro high school students, teachers and administrators in the Piedmont area of North Carolina." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2002. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0531102-163233/unrestricted/Washington062302.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--East Tennessee State University, 2002.
Originally issued in electronic format. UMI number: 3083443. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-91). Also available via the World Wide Web.

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Chanona, Burguete Alejandro. "The Mexican foreign economic policy and the process of formal integration in North America : Mexico's participation in NAFTA : national preference formation." Thesis, University of Essex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274327.

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Michlíčková, Lucie. "NAFTA: naplnila očekávání členských států?" Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-71828.

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This thesis is focused on the accomplishments of the North American Free Trade Agreement after fifteen years since coming into force. The objective is to evaluate the existing trends in the three countries and review if the member states succeeded in fulfilling the goals of the Agreement. First part is dedicated to the development in the area of general goals, defined in the first articles of the Agreement. Second and third chapter examine the progress made in strategic goals of each country.

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Štěpánková, Kristina. "Strategické přístupy USA, Kanady a Mexika k NAFTA." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-12408.

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The main target of my thesis is to examine the recent integration development in North America from the point of view of three member countries of NAFTA. I examine their strategies towards this agreement and their impact on the three economies and on north american integration as a whole.

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Siddiqui, Shariq Ahmed. "Navigating Identity through Philanthropy: A History of the Islamic Society of North America (1979 - 2008)." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3665939.

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This dissertation analyzes the development of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Muslim-American religious association, from the Iranian Revolution to the inauguration of our nation's first African-American president. This case study of ISNA, the largest Muslim-American organization in North America, examines the organization's institution-building and governance as a way to illustrate Muslim-American civic and religious participation. Using nonprofit research and theory related to issues of diversity, legitimacy, power, and nonprofit governance and management, I challenge misconceptions about ISNA and dispel a number of myths about Muslim Americans and their institutions. In addition, I investigate the experiences of Muslim-Americans as they attempted to translate faith into practice within the framework of the American religious and civic experience. I arrive at three main conclusions. First, because of their incredible diversity, Muslim-Americans are largely cultural pluralists. They draw from each other and our national culture to develop their religious identity and values. Second, a nonprofit association that embraces the values of a liberal democracy by establishing itself as an open organization will include members that may damage the organization's reputation. I argue that ISNA's values should be assessed in light of its programs and actions rather than the views of a small portion of its membership. Reviewing the organization's actions and programs helps us discover a religious association that is centered on American civic and religious values. Third, ISNA's leaders were unable to balance their desire for an open, consensus-based organization with a strong nonprofit management power structure. Effective nonprofit associations need their boards, volunteers and staff to have well-defined roles and authority. ISNA's leaders failed to adopt such a management and governance structure because of their suspicion of an empowered chief executive officer.

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Farías, Pelcastre Iván. "The institutionalisation of regional integration in North America." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5413/.

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Current studies of regional integration in North America claim that this process is limited to the entering of intergovernmental agreements that aim to expand and enhance crossborder flows of goods and capitals between Mexico, Canada and the US. Such studies claim that the political effects of the process on nation-states are limited and constrained by the decisions of the national governments. In contrast, this thesis argues that the actions of transnational actors have increased the policy interdependence between the three countries in the arenas of environmental protection, labour cooperation and protection of foreign direct investment. Transnational actors have used, applied and interpreted the rules originally created by the intergovernmental agreements –NAFTA, NAAEC, BECA and NAALC– and have subsequently demanded additional and improved rules. Regional institutions have in turn responded to these demands by supplying new and improved regional rules. In doing so, transnational actors and regional institutions have furthered the policy interdependence between the three countries. This phenomenon, known in other contexts as institutionalisation, demonstrates that the process of regional integration in North America is more substantial than previous studies claim. In addition, it illustrates the relevance of the theories of Liberal Intergovernmentalism and Supranational Governance to the analysis of the emergence and development of the North American integration process.

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Leslie, John F. (John Franklin). "Assimilation, integration or termination? the development of Canadian Indian policy, 1943-1963 /." Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0013/NQ42797.pdf.

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Silva, Rodrigo. "Free trade area of the Americas : the viability of a regional legal order." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33366.

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The creation of a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by the year 2005 has been a serious undertaking in the hemisphere since the first Summit of the Americas held in Miami in December of 1994. This entails the creation of a free trade agreement that would include virtually all the nations of the Western Hemisphere. However, this is not the first attempt at the creation of trade agreements within the region. From early efforts such as the Latin American Free Trade Agreement to current ones such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the MERCOSUR, there has been a push for the past 40 years at the use of free trade as a tool for economic development. Nevertheless, traditionally there has been a lack of legal and institutional analysis in the formation of these trading blocs. The same thing appears to be happening in the formation of the FTAA. This thesis analyzes and compares the differing trading blocs in the Western Hemisphere in terms of institutions and capacity to create regional norms and proposes the institutional framework needed for successful regional integration for the FTAA. It then looks at legal obstacles within the Constitutions of select States to the formation of this framework and problems that may arise in jurisdictional uncertainties between the plethora of trading blocs.

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Carisse, Karl. "Becoming Canadian federal-provincial Indian policy and the integration of Natives, 1945-1969 : the case of Ontario /." Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada, 2002. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ57095.pdf.

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Gagnon, Marie-Hélène. "Three Essays on Financial Market Integration and Political Convergence in North America." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27377/27377.pdf.

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Soltz, Wendy Fergusson. "Unheard Voices and Unseen Fights: Jews, Segregation, and Higher Education in the South, 1910–1964." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469136499.

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Gallagher, Kevin P. "Economic integration, environment, and development : assessing the Mexican experience /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 2003.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2003.
Chair: Frank Ackerman. Submitted to the Interdisciplinary Doctorate Program. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-205). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

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Derksen, Christopher Peter. "Integrating passive microwave remotely sensed imagery and gridded atmospheric data, a study of North American Prairie snow cover." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ65231.pdf.

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Pontuschka, Martin. "Uma análise econométrica da integração financeira entre o Mercado Acionário Brasileiro e o Norte Americano em dados intradiários." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/127209.

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O objetivo desta dissertação será analisar a dinâmica do processo de integração financeira entre o mercado acionário brasileiro e o norte americano. Buscaremos identificar a relação de interdependência entre os dois mercados acionários ao longo do tempo por meio de testes de cointegração, e de causalidade de Granger com rolling windows, e através de um modelo de correção de erros estimado por meio do filtro de Kalman. Por fim, verificaremos se as séries temporais obtidas nos procedimentos iterativos possuem relação com a volatilidade ou quantidade de negócios dos contratos analisados. Evidenciamos nesta dissertação que a relação de integração financeira observada apresenta caráter variável ao longo do tempo. Isso vale tanto para a relação de cointegração, quanto para a relação de causalidade de Granger entre as séries temporais observadas. Evidenciamos também que a volatilidade das séries apresenta uma relação positiva e significativa com a relação de cointegração observada através dos testes de cointegração por meio de rolling windows.
The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the dynamics of financial integration between the Brazilian and the North American stock market. We will seek to identify the interdependence relationship between the two stock markets over time using rolling cointegration tests, rolling Granger causality tests, and estimating an error correction model using Kalman filter. Finally, we look if the time series obtained in the iterative procedures are related to volatility or quantity of trades from the contracts. We show in this dissertation that the financial integration relationship observed has a time varying character over time. This goes for both the cointegration relationship, and for the Granger causality relationship between the observed time series. We show also that the volatility of the time series has a positive and significant relationship with the cointegration relationship observed through the rolling cointegration tests.

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Strohmaier, Mahla. "Alaskan Native Social Integration and Academic Achievement." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500923/.

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The variables communication skills, state anxiety, communication apprehension, and level of integration are studied in relation to the assimilation of Alaskan Natives into a western-culture university. Specifically, the differences in communication skills between the two cultures and their effects on course grades are addressed. Results of the statistical analyses (ANOVA, MANOVA, discriminant function analysis, multiple regression) were not significant, most likely due to the small Alaskan Native sample size. The most significant relationship appeared between situational communication apprehension and the ethnicity of the interaction partner. Other results were directional, indicating that variables may be related to assimilation of Native students into a western university environment. Further research and replication is warranted, using an adequate sample of Alaskan Natives.

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Anders, Joel D. "Future paths for regional fare collection in Atlanta: a case study analysis of the planning and implementation of next generation fare collection systems for regional transit in North America." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45962.

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The Atlanta region will soon be faced with a choice as to how it will go about planning for and implementing its next regional fare collection system that will replace the current BREEZE system. In 2006, MARTA became the first transit agency in the United States to implement an all contactless smartcard for use on its services. However, there have been many advances in new technologies and the consumer payment preferences have evolved since the initial implementation. These developments, coupled with the rapid consumer adoption of smartphones and changing attitudes within the financial payments industry towards transit properties, have recently led four major transit agencies within North America to implement new fare collection systems based on open payments, the development of mobile ticketing applications, or a combination. This research uses a case study methodology to answer several questions related to the planning and implementation of regional fare collection systems in Chicago (CTA), Dallas (DART), Philadelphia (SEPTA) and Toronto (TTC). Based on the experience of the case study agencies, the implementation of Atlanta's next fare collection system is sure to be a long and arduous process. However, by utilizing the lessons learned from DART, CTA, SEPTA and TTC, MARTA and the other regional operators (Cobb Community Transit, Gwinnett County Transit and the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority) will be better poised to provide their patrons with additional means of paying fares while, at the same, minimizing the disruption to the existing fare collection system during the transition period.

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Harris, Mary C. "Assimilation in Charles W. Chesnutt's Works." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1635.

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ABSTRACT Charles W. Chesnutt captures the essence of the Post Civil War period and gives examples of the assimilation process for African Americans into dominant white culture. In doing so, he shows the resistance of the dominant culture as well as the resilience of the African American culture. It is his belief that through literature he could encourage moral reform and eliminate racial discrimination. As an African American author who could pass for white, he is able to share his own experiences and to develop black characters who are ambitious and intelligent. As a result, he leaves behind a legacy of great works that are both informative and entertaining.

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Pamboukdjian, Lucy. "Iniciativas de integração e consolidação de bolsas: a experiência européia e norte-americana e os efeitos na América Latina." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9296.

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This paper analyses the features that led the stock exchanges in Latin America to promote the integration initiatives that are currently in progress. The evaluation takes the experiences in integration and consolidation observed in Europe and the United States as main reference, as well as the opening of capital markets, introduction of electronic trading systems and demutualization processes, along with the increasing participation of institutional investors as main drivers of the transformation seen in the recent years. Since the late 1980 s, the capital markets worldwide have seen the modernization of the stock and derivatives exchanges. This movement has been occurring simultaneously to the opening of the capital markets and to the flows of capital led by institutional investors, which seem to have stimulated the adoption of more efficient electronic trading systems for the securities trading. In this sense, stock exchanges and market intermediaries started using technology to strengthen the efficiency of its intermediation models, as well as to broaden access with smaller trading costs to investors. In order to achieve more flexibility and raise financial resources to conduct these changes, the demutualization process has emerged allowing exchanges to become for-profit and market driven companies, which segregated the trading rights and the ownership rights of the intermediaries in the exchanges
A dissertação examina os elementos que motivaram as bolsas de valores da América Latina a promover as iniciativas de integração de seus mercados de capitais em curso. A análise toma como referência as experiências de integração e consolidação promovidas pelas principais bolsas de valores da Europa e dos EUA, bem como os processos de internacionalização dos mercados, de implementação de sistemas eletrônicos de negociação e de desmutualização das bolsas, além do papel dos investidores institucionais como estimuladores das transformações em curso ao longo dos últimos anos. A partir do final dos anos 1980, o mercado de capitais mundial presenciou a modernização de bolsas de valores e de derivativos. Essa transformação coincidiu com a internacionalização dos mercados de capitais e com o fluxo internacional de capitais geridos por investidores institucionais, que parecem ter estimulado o desenvolvimento de sistemas eletrônicos de negociação mais eficientes para a intermediação de ações e outros instrumentos do mercado financeiro. Nesse sentido, bolsas de valores e seus intermediários passaram a utilizar a tecnologia para potencializar a eficiência de seus sistemas de negociação e simultaneamente oferecer acesso mais adequado e custos de intermediação reduzidos aos investidores. Para atingir maior flexibilidade na sua gestão e maior capitalização financeira para implementar essas mudanças, um processo de desmutualização tomou lugar nas bolsas, que se tornaram empresas com fins de lucro e com estratégias comerciais e dissociaram o direito de acesso à intermediação do direito à propriedade dos participantes das bolsas

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Schneider, Eric B. "Studies in historical living standards and health : integrating the household and children into historical measures of living standards and health." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f2e55a37-c605-4aba-8a2e-3d699c6b82b7.

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This dissertation attempts to integrate the household and children more fluidly into measures of well-being in the past. In part one, I develop a Monte Carlo simulation to test some of the assumptions of Allen’s welfare ratio methodology. These included his assumptions that family size was constant over time, that there were no female-headed households and that women and children did not participate in the labour force. After all of the adjustments, it appears that Allen’s welfare ratios underestimate the welfare ratios of a demographically representative group of families, especially if women and children’s labour force participation is included. However, the predicted distributions also highlight the struggles of agricultural labourers, who are given separate consideration. Even the average agricultural labourers’ family with women and children working would have had to rely of self- provisioning, gleaning, poor relief or the extension of the working year to make ends meet at the poorest point in their family life cycle. Part two adjusts Floud et al.’s estimates of calorie availability in the English economy from 1700 to 1909 for the costs of digestion, pregnancy and lactation. Taken together, these three additional costs reduced the amount calories available by around 15 per cent in 1700 but only by 5 per cent in 1909 because of the changing composition of the English diet. Part three presents a new adaptive framework for studying changes in children’s growth patterns over time and a new methodology, longitudinal growth studies, for measuring gender disparities in health in the past. An adaptive framework for understanding growth provides a more parsimonious explanation for the vast catch-up growth achieved by slave children in the antebellum American South. The slave children were only able to achieve this catch-up growth because they were programmed for a tall height trajectory by relatively good conditions in utero. Finally, impoverished girls experienced greater catch-up growth than boys in two schools in late-nineteenth century Boston, USA and early-twentieth century London, suggesting that girls were deprived relative to boys before entering these institutions.

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Richmond, Chantelle Anne Marie. "Social support, material circumstance and health : understanding the links in Canada's aboriginal population." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103286.

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Societies that foster high quality social environments and integration produce healthier populations. The mechanisms underlying the protective effect of social integration appear to be through various forms of social support. In the Canadian Aboriginal context, few authors have explored the relationship between health and social support. This gap in understanding is significant because Aboriginal frameworks of health point to the salience of larger social structures (i.e., family), yet patterns of population health point to distinctly social causes of morbidity and mortality (e.g., violence, alcoholism). An interesting paradox emerges: patterns of Aboriginal health suggest that social support is not working to promote health. This dissertation explores this paradox through a mixed-methods approach to describe the value of social support for Aboriginal health, and to critically examine the social-structural processes and mechanisms through which social support influences Aboriginal health at the community level.
Principal components analyses of the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) identified social support as a consistent dimension of Metis and Inuit health, and multivariable logistic regression modelling of the 2001 APS identified social support to be a significant determinant of thriving health among Indigenous men and women (e.g., those reporting their health as excellent/very good versus good/fair/poor). The results also indicate a distinct social gradient in thriving health status and social support among Aboriginal Canadians.
Narrative analyses of 26 interviews with Aboriginal Community Health Representatives point to two key explanations for the health-support paradox: (i) social support is not a widely accessible resource; and (ii) the negative health effects of social support can outweigh the positive ones. The formation of health behaviours and cultural norms - which underpin social supports - are inextricably tied to the poor material circumstances that characterize Canada's Aboriginal communities. The thesis concludes with a critical examination of the processes through which environmental dispossession has influenced the determinants of Aboriginal health, broadly speaking. Effects are most acute within the material and social environments of Aboriginal communities. More research attention should focus on identifying the pathways through which the physical, material and social environments interact to influence the health of Aboriginal Canadians.

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Kar, Anirban. "Is the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) detrimental to the Euro-area firms' performance?" Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Management, c2012, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3361.

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This thesis provides new insight into the EMU’s impact on the Euro-area firms’ performance, by examining the firms’ accounting rates of return and financial cash flows. The impact is evaluated separately for the EMU formation and the physical Euro adoption, and over different time horizons. The existing literature does not directly examine these issues. This study uses the regression model of the difference-in-differences approach to examine 121 Euro-area and North American firms, covering 14 sectors, over the period from 1992 to 2008. The results indicate a positive impact of the EMU on the firms’ financial cash flows, especially after the Euro adoption, which support the related literature. However, the accounting rates of return suggest a mostly negative impact. The magnitude of the impacts declines over time. The results are robust with respect to GDP as a control variable. The study also reports the EMU’s impact on 4 major industrial sectors.
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Duka, Ada. "Comparative Sugar Transport by Crustacean Hepatopancreas and Intestine." UNF Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/466.

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Glucose is transported in crustacean hepatopancreas and intestine by Na+-dependent co-transport, while Na+-dependent D-fructose influx has only been described for the hepatopancreas. It is still unclear if the two sugars are independently transported by two distinct cotransporter carrier systems. In this study lobster (Homarus americanus) hepatopancreas brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) were used to characterize, in detail, the cation-dependency of both D-[3H] glucose and D-[3H] fructose influxes, while in vitro perfused intestines were employed to determine the nature of cation-dependent sugar transport in this organ. Over the sodium concentration range of 0-100 mM, both 3H-D-glucose and 3H-D-fructose influxes (0.1 mM; 1 min uptakes) by hepatopancreatic BBMV were hyperbolic functions of [Na+], exhibiting Km values of 2.30 ± 0.59 and 2.58 ± 0.95 mM, respectively. D-[3H] glucose and fructose influxes by hepatopancreatic BBMV over a potassium concentration range of 15-100 mM were hyperbolic functions of [K+], exhibiting Km values of 9.85 ± 0.41 and 12.6 ± 0.80 mM respectively. Both sugars displayed significant (p < 0.01) Na+/K+-dependent and Na+-independent uptake processes. Transepithelial 25 μM D-[3H] glucose and D-[3H] fructose fluxes across lobster intestine over a luminal sodium and potassium concentration range of 0 – 50 mM and 5-100 mM, respectively, were hyperbolic functions of luminal [Na+] and [K+]. As with hepatopancreatic sugar transport, transepithelial intestinal sugar transport exhibited both significant (p < 0.01) Na+/K+-dependent and Na+-independent processes. Results suggest that both D-glucose and D-fructose are transported by a single carrier process in each organ with sodium being the preferred cation for both sugars in the hepatopancreas, and potassium being the preferred cation for both sugars in the intestine.

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Ratliff, Jeffery D. "The North American Free Trade Agreement integration and issues /." 1993. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32471169.html.

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Shahi, Chander Kamal. "Economic Analysis of the North American Softwood Lumber Markets." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/11259.

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Markets have an important role to play in advancing an improved understanding of international trading relationships. Two most important economic issues, which contribute to improved national welfare and ensure long-run competitive market equilibrium in international markets, are market integration and market efficiency. To provide softwood lumber markets related information to the policy makers, economic analyses relating market integration and market efficiency of the combined markets of Canada and the US have been conducted. The economic analyses include: (i) testing cointegration of prices among North American softwood lumber markets; (ii) identifying price leading markets in long-run price structure of these cointegrated markets; (iii) examining the degree of market integration among these markets; and (iv) testing the efficiency of spatial arbitrage among these markets. First, the price linkages in the North American softwood lumber markets have been explored over different trade regimes. The results indicate that market integration is affected by product aggregation of data. Further investigations of market integration are, therefore, limited to homogeneous softwood lumber product markets. Second, oligopsonistic pricing behavior of traders is identified as the possible reason for imperfect competition among Douglas Fir product markets, while imperfect competition among the markets of Spruce-Pine-Fir and Hem Fir products can not be explained by this behavior. Third, a comprehensive picture of the adherence to price parity is formulated by evaluating the magnitude and persistence of deviations from equilibrium relation of prices. It is found that large volumes of trade, product substitutability, lower prices, and certainty of trade are the factors which contribute to higher degree of market integration among North American softwood lumber product markets. Finally, the inter-temporal shifts in regime probabilities of competitive market equilibrium are assessed over different trade regimes. It is found that lower transaction costs, large volumes of trade, short distances between markets, and certainty of trade contribute to high market efficiency among softwood lumber product markets of North America.

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Kessler, Judi A. "North American economic integration, transnational apparel production networks, and industrial upgrading the Southern California-Mexico connection /." 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/48888635.html.

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"Integration of Remote Sensing, Field Observations and Modelling for Ecohydrological Studies in Sonora, Mexico." Doctoral diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.27442.

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abstract: Ecohydrological responses to rainfall in the North American monsoon (NAM) region lead to complex surface-atmosphere interactions. In early summer, it is expected that soil properties and topography act as primary controls in hydrologic processes. Under the presence of strongly dynamic ecosystems, catchment hydrology is expected to vary substantially in comparison to other semiarid areas, affecting our understanding of ecohydrological processes and the parameterization of predictive models. A large impediment toward making progress in this field is the lack of spatially extensive observational data. As a result, it is critical to integrate numerical models, remote sensing observations and ground data to understand and predict ecohydrological dynamics in space and time, including soil moisture, evapotranspiration and runoff generation dynamics. In this thesis, a set of novel ecohydrological simulations that integrate remote sensing and ground observations were conducted at three spatial scales in a semiarid river basin in northern Sonora, Mexico. First, single site simulations spanning several summers were carried out in two contrasting mountain ecosystems to predict evapotranspiration partitioning. Second, a catchment-scale simulation was conducted to evaluate the effects of spatially-variable soil thickness and textural properties on water fluxes and states during one monsoon season. Finally, a river basin modeling effort spanning seven years was applied to understand interannual variability in ecohydrological dynamics. Results indicated that ecohydrological simulations with a dynamic representation of vegetation greening tracked well the seasonal evolution of observed evapotranspiration and soil moisture at two measurement locations. A switch in the dominant component of evapotranspiration from soil evaporation to plant transpiration was observed for each ecosystem, depending on the timing and magnitude of vegetation greening. Furthermore, spatially variable soil thickness affects subsurface flow while soil texture controls patterns of surface soil moisture and evapotranspiration during the transition from dry to wet conditions. Finally, the ratio of transformation of precipitation into evapotranspiration (ET/P) and run off (Q/P) changed in space and time as summer monsoon progresses. The results of this research improve the understanding of the ecohydrology of NAM region, which can be useful for developing sustainable watershed management plans in the face of anticipated land cover and climate changes.
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Tang, Xiaoli. "An Economic Analysis of North American Pulp and Paper Markets, and A Competitiveness Study of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Products." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17266.

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North America is the world’s largest pulp and paper producing region as well as the largest consuming region. An understanding of market integration is critical for designing relevant policies since it is important to improve national welfare and ensure long-run competitive market equilibrium. In addition, it is crucial for the Canadian industry to maintain the competitiveness for its pulp and paper products in the world market, because any deterioration in the performance of the Canadian pulp and paper industry will have negative social and economic impact on the well-being of Canada and affect Canadian balance of payment. This thesis contains three essays that investigate the market integration of the combined markets of Canada and the US, and the competitive position of Canadian pulp and paper products in the US market. The first essay presents an econometric analysis of spatial integration of the US and Canada newsprint markets as reflected in newsprint prices. It applies the Johansen multivariate cointegration procedure to test the law of one price for five regional markets (British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, US east, US west) of newsprint using monthly data for the 1988 to 2004 period. Preliminary data analysis shows that all price series are non-stationary I(1) processes. The hypothesis that the Law of One Price (LOP) holds for all five regional newsprint markets simultaneously was not supported by the Johansen multivariate test. The LOP was also tested for national markets, and it was found to hold between US west and US east newsprint prices. The results suggest that there is a single newsprint market in the US, whereas there are several distinct newsprint markets in Canada. The second essay examines the degree of market integration among US import markets for three pulp and paper products, and further analyses the dynamic interaction between US domestic and US import markets. Persistence profile results show that long-run equilibrium exists in the US import markets for three pulp and paper products of interest; moreover, given a system-wide shock, a new equilibrium could be reached in a relatively short period. Forecast error variance decomposition suggests that US markets are critical since shocks to domestic US prices for relevant pulp and paper products explain a substantial amount of movements in import prices. The third essay studies substitution between main categories of imported pulp and paper products and between imported and domestic pulp and paper products in the US market. A restricted translog subcost function approach was employed to derive the elasticity of substitution. The results suggest that Canadian pulp and paper products are still competitive and have maintained their competitiveness in the US market. However the consecutive demand decline for pulp and paper in the US has brought hard times to Canada. It seems that if Canadian pulp and paper industry wants to retain a dominant position in the world market place, it will have to create global reach and develop new markets.

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Smith, Sarah Ellen Kathleen. "Cultural brokering : art, national identity, and the influence of Free Trade." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1360.

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This thesis explores the intersections of culture, nationalism, and neoliberal globalization through examination of the construction of Mexican identity in Canada after the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. I evaluate how visual art has been used by the governments of Canada and Mexico to negotiate new bilateral relationships in the face of increased North American integration under free trade. My study includes analysis of two Canada-based exhibitions, “Mexican Modern Art, 1900-1950” and “Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art.” Framing my discussion within the larger history of North American integration, I argue that these two exhibitions are part of a larger exchange in the area of cultural diplomacy between Canada and Mexico, which was especially prominent at the turn of the millennium. These case studies provide a means to assess the manipulation of culture, the creation of a new North American identity, and the management of national/ist narratives within the larger project of neoliberal globalization. Critically situating my study within the current discourse of globalization theory, I contend that artworks in these exhibitions were positioned in a manner to positively reinforce new trade relationships under NAFTA.
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Jimenez, Jimena. "Canada, the United States and Mexico asymetrical integration in North America /." 2005. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/85766832.html.

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Robertson, Raymond Eugene. "Labor market consequences of international economic integration." 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/40388331.html.

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Lei, Cecilia. "Conflict and integration : an examination of a selection of lumber trade conflicts in North America and Europe." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/681.

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In a world that is moving at a feverish pace toward regional economic integration, much has yet to be understood about the process. In particular, research that delineates key factors in preventing, mitigating or resolving trade conflicts that arise between integration partners is in want. In the hope of contributing to filling this academic vacuum, this paper compares conflicts in different integration frameworks in North America and Europe. The cases are the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute, an anti-dumping case involving the Nordic countries, a state aid conflict in Germany, and conflicts over export and import restrictions in the Slovak Republic and Poland respectively. Information on these cases was obtained from primary and secondary sources, as well as from interviews with officials in key stakeholder groups. These cases are assessed using variables of analysis familiar to integration theorists, namely, actors, mechanisms, and motivations. It is found that subnational actors were more likely than national or supranational actors to instigate and escalate conflicts. It is also found that the accessibility of multiple dispute resolution processes to actors at multiple levels were important in preventing, mitigating and resolving conflicts. From these findings, it is concluded that the multi-level governance theory of integration is better suited to explain the outcome than neofunctionalism or intergovernmentalism. These findings have significant implications for the management of relationships in integration frameworks.

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Ducummon, Sheryl L. "The North American Bats and Mines Project : a cooperative approach for integrating bat conservation and mine-land reclamation." 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9619.

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Inactive underground mines now provide essential habitat for over half of North America's 45 bat species. However, thousands of abandoned mines have already been closed or are slated for safety closures, and many are destroyed during renewed mining. The available evidence suggests that millions of bats have already been lost due to these closures. Bats are primary predators of insects that cost farmers and foresters billions of dollars annually, therefore, threats to bat survival are cause for serious concern. Fortunately, mine closure methods exist that protect both bats and humans. Bat Conservation International and the USDI-Bureau of Land Management founded the North American Bats and Mines Project to provide leadership and coordination to minimize mine-roosting bats losses. This partnership involves federal, state, and local officials and the mining industry. BCI has trained hundreds of managers in bat/mine assessment techniques and bat-compatible closure methods, published technical bat/mine information, presented papers at national mining and wildlife conferences, and collaborated with numerous government and private partners to protect the most important mine-roosting bat populations. Our new initiative, Mining for Habitat, helps mining companies and private landowners develop bat habitat conservation and enhancement plans including bat education, surveys, mitigation, and even artificial roost creation.

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Sovičková, Michaela. "Integrace učiva zeměpisu a přírodopisu na druhém stupni základní školy na příkladu živé přírody Ameriky." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-343739.

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Classical frontal teaching, where pupils are supposed to listen to the teacher and make notes is becoming stereotypical. Therefore I decided to focus on a topic where I can apply more teaching methods both in Geography lessons and Biology ones. The goal of this work was to create a teaching guide including necessary materials covering the topic of American natural lanscapes and afterwards to evaluate the contribution of these activities. The teaching materials were tested in two classes in The Basic School in Dolní Břežany. Both classes underwent a pretest, the first posttest (immediately after the experimental lessons), the second posttest (six weeks after the experimental lessons) and pupils also tried activities in which they had to apply their achieved knowledge. The data were evaluated using statistical analyses where the results showed a progress of gained knowledge between the pretest and the first posttest, whereas their knowledge did not significantly differ between the first and second posttest. It can be concluded that pupils broadened their knowledge, which was deeper than at the beginning and the pupils were able to retain this knowledge for a longer time. Key words: North America, South America, natural lanscapes, Biology, Geography, activating teaching methods, curriculum integration

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Regular, W. Keith. "Trucking and trading with outsiders : Blood Indian Reserve integration into Southern Alberta economic environment, 1884-1939, a case of shared neighbourhoods /." 1999.

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Gontovnick, Howard A. "An Agenda of Caution: The Influence of Productivization on the Integration of East European Jews in North America During the late 19th and early 20th centuries." Thesis, 2012. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/977251/1/Gontovnick_PhD_S2013.pdf.

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Abstract An Agenda of Caution: The Influence of Productivization on the Integration of East European Jews in North America During the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Howard A. Gontovnick, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2012 This dissertation begins with the premise that there was a growing sense of anxiety throughout the North American Jewish community over the increasing number of Jewish immigrants flowing in from Eastern Europe after 1880. This concern emanated from fears that these Eastern European Jews (1) will be unable to adjust to the North American way of life; (2) that the non-Jewish North American population will misunderstand the lifestyle and practices of these Jews, leading to a negative perception of all Jews; and (3) that the increasing numbers of East European Jews could result in an escalation of incidents of anti-Semitism. As a consequence of these concerns, this dissertation proposes that certain Jewish philanthropic and community groups adopted and promoted a series of responses influenced by a model of “productivization”. Productivization was a strategy of increasing the “productivity” of a group (in this case East European Jews) so as to improve how they were seen by non-Jews and Jews alike. This strategy influenced how these immigrants were relocated and depicted in public. The goal was to present this group in a better light, while discouraging any form of anti-Jewish activity that could arise from one or more of these concerns.

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Lee, Chaehwa. "On Integrating Theories of International Economics in the Strategic Planning of Global Supply Chains and Dynamic Supply Chain Reconfiguration with Capacity Expansion and Contraction." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-12-10207.

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This dissertation discusses two independent topics. The first part of the dissertation relates three theories of international economics (comparative advantage, competitive advantage, and competitiveness), and formulates the thesis that incorporating them in the form of readily available individual competitiveness indicators in OR/MS models offers promise to enhance decision-support for the strategic planning of global supply chains in general, and for locating facilities in particular. The objectives of this research were to relate each of these theories and to describe their interrelationships; to describe measures provided by two well-known annual competitiveness reports; and to illustrate application of the theories as a means of supporting the thesis of the research, and justifying the research questions we pose for future research. While this research discusses topics relative to the broader background of global supply chain design, it illustrates applications associated with facility location, a component of the global supply chain design. In the last chapter of the first part of the dissertation, we provide a vision to foster future research that will enhance the profitability of international enterprises under NAFTA. The second part of the dissertation deals with the DSCR model with capacity expansion and contraction. The strategic dynamic supply chain reconfiguration (DSCR) problem is to prescribe the location and capacity of each facility, select links used for transportation, and plan material flows through the supply chain, including production, inventory, backorder, and outsourcing levels. The objective is to minimize total cost. The configuration must be dynamically redesigned over time to accommodate changing trends in demand and/or costs by opening facilities, expanding and/or contracting their capacities, and closing facilities. The problem involves a multi-period, multi-product, multi-echelon supply chain. Research objectives are alternative formulations of DSCR and tests that identify the computational characteristics of each model to determine if one offers superior solvability in comparison with the others. To achieve the first objective, we present an initial MIP model, a refined model that relates decision variables according to a convenient structure, and branch and price (B&P) schemes for the refined model. We found that the network-based formulation offered superior solvability compared to the traditional formulation.

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