Evolution of Two Urbanized Estuaries: Environmental Change, Legal Framework, and Implications for Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability by Pedro J. Pinto, G. Mathias Kondolf

“…The San Francisco Bay (CA, USA) and the Tagus Estuary (Lisbon, Portugal) share striking similarities in terms of morphology and urban development. …”
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Margaret O’Mara, The Code. Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America reviewed by Antti Tarvainen by Antti Tarvainen

“…As the Valley’s technology monopolies and utopias expand, there is a growing need for critical histories that help to ground and contextualize the futures that are spreading from San Francisco Bay. In this review essay, I suggest that a settler-colonial approach offers interesting possibilities for the creation of such histories. …”
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The Garden of Entangled Paths: Landscape Phenomena at the Albany Bulb Wasteland by Karl Kullmann

“…Over four decades, the Albany Bulb in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States of America metamorphosed from a dumpsite to a thicket harbouring a clandestine community. …”
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Scales of environmental justice: combining GIS and spatial analysis for air toxics in West Oakland, California by Fisher, J, Kelly, M, Romm, J

“…This paper examines the spatial point pattern of industrial toxic substances and the associated environmental justice implications in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. Using a spatial analysis method called Ripley’s K we assess environmental justice across multiple spatial scales, and we verify and quantify the West Oakland neighborhood as an environmental justice site as designated by the US Environmental Protection Agency. …”

International Consensus Recommendations on Microtia, Aural Atresia and Functional Ear Reconstruction by Tian-yu Zhang, Neil Bulstrode, Kay W. Chang, Yang-Sun Cho, Henning Frenzel, Dan Jiang, Bradley W. Kesser, Ralf Siegert, Jean-Michel Triglia

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Involving Extension in Urban Food Systems: An Example from California by Lucy Diekmann, Rob Bennaton, Jessica Schweiger, Cole Smith

“…This article illustrates how Extension in the San Francisco Bay Area is developing urban agriculture programming and engaging in food-system-related partnerships. …”
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Discrete-event simulation modeling for housing of homeless populations by Dashi I. Singham, Jennifer Lucky, Stephanie Reinauer

“…The San Francisco Bay Area has experienced a rapid rise in homelessness over the past decade. …”
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Improving the capacity and diversity of local public health workforce to address climate impacts to health through community partnerships and problem-based learning by Michael T. Schmeltz, Chandrakala Ganesh

“…The results from problem-based learning collaborations between undergraduate students and community and government organizations have been mutually beneficial and increased the knowledge and workforce capacity of climate and health in the San Francisco Bay Area. The authors believe the use of problem-based learning is an effective model to achieve these goals. …”
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Discrete-event simulation modeling for housing of homeless populations. by Dashi I Singham, Jennifer Lucky, Stephanie Reinauer

“…The San Francisco Bay Area has experienced a rapid rise in homelessness over the past decade. …”
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Technology's Invisible Women: Black Geek Girls in Silicon Valley and the Failure of Diversity Initiatives by France Winddance Twine

“…This article draws upon a qualitative study of 68 male and female technology workers employed in the San Francisco Bay area. This qualitative study contributes to gender studies, racial studies, organization studies and network theory by providing an empirical case study of Black female technology workers in Silicon Valley. …”
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A Geometric Approach Towards Airspace Assessment for Emerging Operations by Vascik, Parker D., Cho, Jungwoo, Bulusu, Vishwanath, Polishchuk, Valentin

“…An alpha-shape topological method is refined to process geometrically complex airspace construct polygons over an expansive geographic area and develop 3D mappings of airspace availability.The approach is demonstrated in the San Francisco Bay Area and is readily extensible to other locations. …”
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Scaling up firms in entrepreneurial ecosystems: Fintech and Lawtech ecosystems compared by Sako, M, Parnham, R, Qian, M, Verhagen, M

“…We develop a novel database of startup companies and their founders in two markets (fintech and lawtech) and three locations (London, New York City, and San Francisco Bay Area), resulting in six ecosystems. We find that ecosystems with denser social ties experience faster growth and earlier timing for external funding. …”

Waterfowl recently infected with low pathogenic avian influenza exhibit reduced local movement and delayed migration by Claire S. Teitelbaum, Michael L. Casazza, Fiona McDuie, Susan E. W. De La Cruz, Cory T. Overton, Laurie A. Hall, Elliott L. Matchett, Joshua T. Ackerman, Jeffery D. Sullivan, Andrew M. Ramey, Diann J. Prosser

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The SLEUTH Land Use Change Model: A Review by Gargi Chaudhuri, Keith Clarke

“…SLEUTH is an open source cellular automata based land use change model which was first applied in San Francisco Bay area (California, USA) by Clarke and Gaydos (1997) to simulate the urban growth of the region. …”
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Evaluating aggregation protocols for vehicular networks in simulation by Gollakota, Subha (Subha U.)

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Transitory legality: the health implication of ending DACA by Mallet-Garcia, M, Garcia Bedolla, L

“…This study addresses this gap by using in-depth interviews with 43 Latino DACA recipients living in the California San Francisco Bay Area in 2017 and 2018. Our findings suggest that rescission announcement of DACA has led to worsening health outcomes for DACA recipients. …”

Model Youth Programs: A Key Strategy for Developing Community-University Partnerships Using a Community Youth Development Approach by Yolanda Anyon, María A. Fernández

“…While there is great potential for university-community partnerships to generate lessons for youth workers and policy makers, create powerful new knowledge for the academic field, and provide transformative experiences for community members, partnerships often fail to produce such meaningful results. In the San Francisco Bay Area, community residents who have been involved in such unsuccessful initiatives frequently perceived that university partners spent insufficient time learning about the community context, prioritized research objectives over community needs and did not make long-term commitments. …”
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The Weight of Cities: Urbanization Effects on Earth's Subsurface by Tom Parsons

“…Here I calculate the weight of San Francisco Bay region urbanization, where 7.75 million people live at, or near the coast. …”
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Incorporating expanded sampling into an alternative abundance index for the Fall Midwater Trawl survey by James R. White, Randall D. Baxter

“…The Fall Midwater Trawl (FMWT) Survey has been conducted near continuously since 1967 to assess the abundance and distribution of pelagic fish species throughout the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin estuary (Bay Delta). …”
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Biochemical composition of nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia sp. (Crustacea, Anostraca) from the Araya saltworks, northeastern Venezuela by JM Guevara, C Lodeiros

“…The population of Artemia franciscana from San Francisco Bay (USA) was used as reference because of its wide use in aquaculture. …”
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