Validation of Demographics, Etiology, and Risk Factors for Chronic Pancreatitis in the USA: A Report of the North American Pancreas Study (NAPS) Group

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to set out to examine and critique the current state and future trajectory of interdisciplinary accounting research in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on the author's involvement in and research into accounting research and publication contexts, drivers and patterns in the accounting discipline. Findings – In all likelihood, research will continue established traditions that prevent the explorations of economics and finance from material broadening. This paper identifies how that which everyone believes to be such a good idea cannot bear fruit. Research limitations/implications – Conventional economics-based accounting research has proliferated in volume but has largely exhausted its potential for significant contributions to knowledge. Failure to embrace broadened interdisciplinary perspectives risks a crisis of accounting research contribution to policy, practice, and society. Originality/value – This critique reveals the serious weaknesses and serious risks to international accounting scholarship of the continuance and global mimicking of the North American pursuit of an exclusively economic accounting research perspective.

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Gene, environment and Surgical risk of diabetes mellitus in patients with chronic pancreatitis from the North American pancreatitis study 2 (NAPS2)

Pancreatology ◽

10.1016/j.pan.2018.05.243 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

pp. S90

Author(s):

Tanvi Nagpal ◽

Melina Bellin ◽

Dhiraj Yadav ◽

Phil Greer ◽

Mark O. Goodarzi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Diabetes Mellitus ◽

Chronic Pancreatitis ◽

North American ◽

Surgical Risk ◽

The North ◽

Gene Environment

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International Trade and the Convergence in Youth Technological Awareness and Expectations within NAFTA: The Case of GMOs and Nuclear Power Technologies

10.20944/preprints201905.0143.v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ibrahim Niankara ◽

Lee C. Adkins

Keyword(s):

International Trade ◽

Free Trade ◽

North American ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Genetically Modified Organisms ◽

Situational Factors ◽

Model Parameters ◽

Probit Regression ◽

The North ◽

The Usa

Relying on the USA, Canada and Mexico extract from the cross-national data sample on the environmental affection and cognition of adolescent students (Niankara, 2019), along with seemingly unrelated bivariate weighted ordered probit regression modeling (Niankara and Zoungrana, 2018), this study reports on the convergence of technological awareness and expectations within the context of international trade. We achieve this by adopting a regional perspective in investigating the effects of affective, cognitive and situational factors on youth's awareness and expectations about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and nuclear power technology (NPT) within the North American free trade block. Identification of model parameters is achieved using maximum simulated likelihood methods. The findings show that although it has been over 20 years as of 2015 that USA, Canada, and Mexico ratified the north American free trade agreement (NAFTA), the diffusion of technology and information within the trade block has not succeeded in homogenizing awareness and expectations about GMOs and Nuclear power technology, as observed in the youth population across the three countries. Indeed, with regards to technological awareness, compared to youth from the USA, those from Canada show 15% (GMOs) and 7.1% (NPT) more awareness respectively; while those in Mexico are respectively 34.4% and 19.5% less aware about GMOs and NPT. With respect to technological expectations, compared to youth from the USA, those from Canada and Mexico are respectively 34.4% and 39.9% more optimistic about GMOs, while 15% and 49.7% more optimistic about NPT. Overall, youth within NAFTA country members are respectively 2.5% and 6.7% more optimistic about GMOs and NPT for every level increase in their awareness about the two technologies.

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Early-Onset and Late-Onset Idiopathic Chronic Pancreatitis in the North American Pancreatitis Study (NAPS2-CV) Cohort

The American Journal of Gastroenterology ◽

10.14309/00000434-201410002-00318 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 109 ◽

pp. S97

Author(s):

Michele Lewis ◽

Jyothsna Talluri ◽

Dhiraj Yadav ◽

David Whitcomb

Keyword(s):

Chronic Pancreatitis ◽

North American ◽

Early Onset ◽

Late Onset ◽

The North ◽

Idiopathic Chronic Pancreatitis

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Youth Awareness and Expectations about GMOs and Nuclear Power Technologies within the North American Free Trade Bloc: A Retrospective Cross-Country Comparative Analysis

Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity ◽

10.3390/joitmc6020034 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 34 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ibrahim Niankara ◽

Lee C. Adkins

Keyword(s):

Free Trade ◽

North American ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Genetically Modified Organisms ◽

Free Trade Area ◽

Probit Regression ◽

The North ◽

Trade Bloc ◽

The Usa ◽

Cross Country

This study reports on the cross-country heterogeneity in youth awareness and expectations about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and nuclear power technology (NPT) within the North American free trade area (NAFTA). Models are estimated with data on youth respondents from the USA, Canada and Mexico, using seemingly unrelated bivariate weighted ordered probit regression, with maximum simulated likelihood estimation. Our findings show that the diffusion of technology and information within the trade bloc, for the 20 years prior to the 2015 data collection period, did not significantly contribute to cross-country convergence in youth awareness and expectations about GMOs and NPTs. Indeed, with regard to awareness, compared to youth from the USA, those from Canada show 15% (GMOs) and 7.1% (NPT) more awareness, respectively; while youth from Mexico show 34.4% and 19.5% less awareness about GMOs and NPT, respectively. With respect to expectations about future developments of the two technological artifacts, compared to youth from the USA, those from Canada and Mexico are 34.4% and 39.9% more optimistic about GMOs, respectively, while 15% and 49.7% are more optimistic about NPT. Overall, our findings show that the youth population within NAFTA is 2.5% and 6.7% more optimistic about GMOs and NPT for each level of increase in their awareness about the two technologies, respectively. Theoretically, our results seem to reject the hypothesis of NAFTA being a technology convergence country club in the Schumpeterian view, while seemingly supporting the existence of heterogeneous growth regimes within NAFTA.

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Risk Factors for Decreased Quality of Life in Thyroid Cancer Survivors: Initial Findings from the North American Thyroid Cancer Survivorship Study

Thyroid ◽

10.1089/thy.2015.0098 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 25 (12) ◽

pp. 1313-1321 ◽

Cited By ~ 57

Author(s):

Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy ◽

Benjamin James ◽

Sapna Nagar ◽

Sharone Kaplan ◽

Vanessa Seng ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Risk Factors ◽

Thyroid Cancer ◽

Cancer Survivors ◽

Cancer Survivorship ◽

North American ◽

The North

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NAFTA at 20

World Economy and International Relations ◽

10.20542/0131-2227-2015-7-41-52 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 41-52

Author(s):

E. Komkova

Keyword(s):

Free Trade ◽

North American ◽

Free Trade Agreement ◽

Trade Agreement ◽

The United States ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

Export Market ◽

The North ◽

The Usa ◽

Trade And Investment

2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which created the world’s largest free trade area. Now it links 470 million people producing more than 19 trillion USD worth of goods and services. The article addresses five issues: the international importance of NAFTA; the economic transformation that has occurred in the USA, Canada and Mexico since the advent of the NAFTA; a “thought experiment” on what American, Canadian and Mexican performance might have been without the NAFTA; the detrimental effect of 9/11 on the North American economic integration; and what’s next? At the time of its signing, NAFTA in many ways was considered a “gold standard” in terms of international free trade agreements. For the first time ever a free trade agreement brought together both developed and developing countries. It also broadened the scope of traditional FTAs by embracing services, foreign investments and property rights, and recognized the importance of workers' and environmental rights and issues. In terms of trade and investment NAFTA has been an undisputed success. Canada ranks as the United States’ largest export market, while Mexico is its second-largest export market. Today – thanks to NAFTA – North Americans not only sell more goods to one another, they also make more things together. For every dollar of goods that Canada and Mexico export to the USA, there are 25 cents’ worth of US inputs into Canadian goods and 40 cents’ worth into Mexican ones. Regardless of the impressive economic record, NAFTA has its critics. The agreement has not underwent a major update since its inception in 1994, i.e. prior to the rise of electronic commerce and, digital services, advanced manufacturing and many other innovative features of the global economy. As far as there is no political appetite to update NAFTA directly, indirect route is a subject of wide speculation. Canada, the USA and Mexico are negotiating partners to the Trans-Pacific Partnership and any benefits conferred by the TPP that go further than NAFTA would take precedence. It is assumed that the TPP should help to modernize NAFTA commitments and upgrade the North American trade and investment.

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