Increased salinity decreases annual gross primary productivity at a Northern California brackish tidal marsh by Sarah J Russell, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Ellen J Stuart-Haëntjens, Brian A Bergamaschi, Frank Anderson, Patty Oikawa, Sara H Knox

“…Rush Ranch, a well-monitored brackish tidal wetland of the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, experiences highly variable annual salinity regimes. …”
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Using Online Surveys for Evaluating School-based Drug Prevention Programs by Shobana Raghupathy

“…Subjects: Sixteen focus group participants were recruited from counties in and around the San Francisco Bay area in Northern California. Eight of the participants were district-level prevention coordinators and county-level health administrators who administered State and Federal grants to schools within their counties. …”
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The impact of changing nonimmigrant visa policies on international students’ psychological adjustment and well-being in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitativ... by Chulwoo Park, Shannon Shimada

“…Methods We conducted a total of 34 online semi-structured in-depth interviews with international students from 18 countries of origin studying in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. More than 60% of the participants (21 out of 34) were aged 21 to 25. …”
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Qualitative exploration of melanoma awareness in black people in the USA by Eleni Linos, June K Robinson, Susan Swetter, Isabella de Vere Hunt, Sidney Owen, Adaure Amuzie, Vanessa Nava, Anna Tomz, Leandra Barnes, Jenna Lester

“…Recruitment flyers were posted around the San Francisco Bay Area and shared on our team Facebook page, with further participants identified through snowball sampling.Results We interviewed 26 participants from 10 different states. …”
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Capacity challenges on the California high-speed rail shared corridors : how local decisions gave statewide impacts by Levy, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph)

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Towards regional scale stormwater flood management strategies through rapid preliminary intervention screening by Webber, James L., Balbi, Mariano, Lallemant, David, Gibson, Michael J., Fu, Guangtao, Butler, David, Hamel, Perrine

“…This novel regional scale approach is demonstrated across a case study of the San Francisco Bay Area, spanning 8300 sq km. The main opportunity from this regional approach is to identify spatial and temporal trends which are used to inform regional planning and direct future detailed modelling efforts. …”
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Understanding the concept of trust and other factors related to COVID-19 vaccine intentions among Black/African American older adults prior to vaccine development by Orlando O. Harris, Tam E. Perry, Julene K. Johnson, Peter Lichtenberg, Tangy Washington, Bonita Kitt, Michael Shaw, Sahru Keiser, Thi Tran, Leah Vest, Marsha Maloof, Elena Portacolone

“…Methods: Data were collected between July and September 2020 from 8 virtual focus groups in Detroit, MI and San Francisco Bay Area, CA with 33 older African Americans and 11 caregivers of older African Americans with cognitive impairment, supplemented by one virtual meeting with the project's Community Advisory Board. …”
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Effectiveness, Acceptability, and Feasibility of a Telehealth HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Care Intervention Among Young Cisgender Men and Transgender Women Who Have Sex With Men:... by Rebecca A Braun, Rebecca K Erenrich, Karin K Coyle, Thuan-Huong P Doan, Jeffrey D Klausner

“…MethodsThis is the protocol for an RCT of young cisgender men and transgender women who have sex with men in 4 regions within the United States: the San Francisco Bay Area, California; Los Angeles County, California; Miami-Dade County, Florida; and Broward County, Florida. …”
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“VINO IN MY DINO”: ITALIANO E ITALIANITÀ NELLA COMUNICAZIONE COMMERCIALE ONLINE DELLE WINERIES CALIFORNIANE DELLA NORTH COAST by Stefania Scaglione

“…Particular attention is given to the northern San Francisco Bay area, intensively settled by Italian emigrants since the second half of the 19th century and currently populated by the highest percentages of their descendants within the State. …”
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Development of an assessment model for predicting public electric vehicle charging stations by Shekar Viswanathan, Jeffrey Appel, Lixia Chang, Irina V. Man, Rami Saba, Ahmed Gamel

“…The model tested using data from San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles County matched well to the predictions. …”
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The East Asian gut microbiome is distinct from colocalized White subjects and connected to metabolic health by Qi Yan Ang, Diana L Alba, Vaibhav Upadhyay, Jordan E Bisanz, Jingwei Cai, Ho Lim Lee, Eliseo Barajas, Grace Wei, Cecilia Noecker, Andrew D Patterson, Suneil K Koliwad, Peter J Turnbaugh

“…We conducted a multi-omic study of 46 lean and obese East Asian and White participants living in the San Francisco Bay Area, revealing marked differences between ethnic groups in bacterial richness and community structure. …”
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Application of rate dependent soil model, MIT-SR, for evaluation of long-term ground movements due to consolidation and creep by Rellán, Gonzalo

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Reanalysis of the settlement of a levee on soft bay mud by Nguyen, Hoang Q. (Hoang Quang)

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Approaches to customer information for public transportation : application to the San Juan Metropolitan Area by Sheikh, Mikael

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Second home real estate market : economic analysis of residential pricing behavior near Heavenly Ski Resort, CA by Lee, Sean, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Using Smartphone Survey and GPS Data to Inform Smoking Cessation Intervention Delivery: Case Study by Amanda Luken, Michael R Desjardins, Meghan B Moran, Tamar Mendelson, Vadim Zipunnikov, Thomas R Kirchner, Felix Naughton, Carl Latkin, Johannes Thrul

“…MethodsData came from an ecological momentary assessment study with young adult smokers conducted from 2016 to 2017 in the San Francisco Bay area. Participants reported smoking and nonsmoking events through a smartphone app for 30 days, and GPS data was recorded by the app. …”
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Surveillance for highly pathogenic influenza A viruses in California during 2014–2015 provides insights into viral evolutionary pathways and the spatiotemporal extent of viruses in... by Andrew M Ramey, Nichola J Hill, Troy Cline, Magdalena Plancarte, Susan De La Cruz, Michael L Casazza, Joshua T Ackerman, Joseph P Fleskes, T Winston Vickers, Andrew B Reeves, Frances Gulland, Christine Fontaine, Diann J Prosser, Jonathan A Runstadler, Walter M Boyce

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Granzymes, IL-16, and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 increase during wildfire smoke exposure by Juan Aguilera, MD, PhD, Abhinav Kaushik, PhD, Nicholas Cauwenberghs, PhD, Anja Heider, PhD, Ismail Ogulur, PhD, Duygu Yazici, PhD, Eric Smith, BS, Shifaa Alkotob, MD, Mary Prunicki, MD, PhD, Cezmi A. Akdis, MD, PhD, Kari C. Nadeau, MD, PhD

“…Objective: We sought to determine the impact of wildfire smoke exposure on the immune system and epithelial barriers by using proteomics and immune cell phenotyping. Methods: A San Francisco Bay area cohort (n = 15; age 30 ± 10 years) provided blood samples before (October 2019 to March 2020; air quality index = 37) and during (August 2020; air quality index = 80) a major wildfire. …”
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Patient and physician perspectives on treatments for low-risk prostate cancer: a qualitative study by Alice Guan, Eduardo J. Santiago-Rodríguez, Benjamin I. Chung, Janet K. Shim, Laura Allen, Mei-Chin Kuo, Kathie Lau, Zinnia Loya, James D. Brooks, Iona Cheng, Mindy C. DeRouen, Dominick L. Frosch, Todd Golden, John T. Leppert, Daphne Y. Lichtensztajn, Qian Lu, Debora Oh, Weiva Sieh, Michelle Wadhwa, Matthew R. Cooperberg, Peter R. Carroll, Scarlett L. Gomez, Salma Shariff-Marco

“…Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted among 43 racially and ethnically diverse patients diagnosed with low-risk PCa, who were identified through a population-based cancer registry, and 15 physicians who were selected to represent a variety of practice settings in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Results Patients and physicians both described several key individual (e.g., clinical) and interpersonal (e.g., healthcare communications) factors as important for treatment decision-making. …”
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Eikonal equation-based seismic anisotropy tomography and its application to the imaging of the crust and uppermost mantle by Liu, Yongsheng

“…Contrarily, seismic anisotropy in the mid-lower crust may be attributed to the lattice-preferred orientations of mica schists. The San Francisco bay area (2-6 km) is characterize by both strong velocity contrasts and fault-oblique FVDs (~450 or above), suggesting that the faults there are mechanically weak. …”
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