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The archetype of the self underlies the ego-complex at its root and source in the unconscious. None of these assigns to the self the role that I feel to be so essential in the syndrome. SP 50-52 sp In regard to the method of study of these processes of the archaic, unconscious psyche in psychosis, I find myself baffled as to how to set up anything like a scientific approach to the material. In this hypothesis the model is easy to visualize but difficult to understand in terms of experience; the self is seen in this case as the center of the total psychic organism, and the ego is subsumed within this totality as the center of the field of consciousness only, that is, of contents accessible to consciousness; between the two are the autonomous complexes, which are groupings of contents not accessible to ego-consciousness (Figure 1). Reconstitutive process in the psychopathology of the self1: The following paper by J.W. Perry is published with permission from the Annals of the New York Academy of the Sciences where it was first published in January 1962. The imagery I refer to is a whole class of symbolic representations of centrality and organization, of order and highest authority; I hope to demonstrate that in these we see representations of the self and processes that transform or reorganize the self in the unconscious psyche. [Extracted from the article]

The 2020 Technical Symposium in San Francisco will offer something for everyone—and many more dynamic papers and posters than we can cover in one sitting. We've compiled a few compelling research trends to keep in mind as you earmark your sessions; visit displayweek.org for a full schedule and more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article announces the 2009 Annual Meeting for the "Journal of Finance," which will be held in San Francisco, California, from January 3, 2009 to January 5, 2009, the results of the 2008 election, which includes Jeremy Stein, Darrell Duffie, and John Cochrane, and that the AFA and the Department of Finance at Ohio State University have entered into a joint venture to maintain and enhance the finance faculty directory held on the OSU Web site.

In this paper five members of the "Community Psychoanalytic Track and Consortium" (CPT&C) in San Francisco, California, each holding different positionalities and functioning in different roles, come together in dialog with the shared aim to bring themselves and their readers inside the CPT&C. This writing project recapitulates principles of the CPT&C's vision itself: to form polyvocal groups with the shared task of supporting each other in our various roles, and members of community mental health organizations in their work and lives. From that effort new forms of psychoanalytic learning and work are generated; in this instance the process translates into a new writing form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Accurately evaluating the response capability of electric vehicles (EVs) is very important for an EV aggregator (EVA) to formulate reasonable bidding strategies in ancillary service markets. Most of the methods proposed in the existing literature only evaluate EVs' temporal response capability while ignoring their spatial distribution. In addition, the evaluation results provided by the existing methods are typically deterministic, which fails to characterize the uncertainty of EV trip. The above two issues pose high risk of economic loss for the EVA. To this end, a probabilistic evaluation method of spatial‐temporal response capability for EVA is proposed in this paper. The gravity model is adopted to calculate a spatial transfer probability matrix describing EV owners' trip characteristics between different areas at each time in a region which is divided into several different areas according to the evaluation requirements. Then, the trip chains of EVs are modelled based on the spatial transfer probability matrix, and the states of charge (SOCs) of EVs are tracked in the process. The spatial‐temporal response capability of EVA is evaluated based on charging–discharging states and states of charge of EVs, and the probabilistic evaluation results of response capability are obtained by multiple Monte Carlo simulations. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified on a real dataset from San Francisco, CA, USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Bears are a large global community of big and hairy gay, bisexual and queer (GBQ) men. Little sustained empirical scholarship has investigated Bears' lives and communities, and none from within geography. Three geographic lenses are used to demonstrate the significance of a geographic approach to Bears. First, rural and urban imaginaries are entwined with Bear masculinities and ideals of 'real men'. However a geographically specific North American working class rural imaginary is particularly important. Second, the global trajectory of Bear begins in 1980s San Francisco and has since spread worldwide. The idea that Bear is fundamentally an American phenomenon is challenged by evidence of global variation in Bear identities, communities, and spaces. Third, the material and aesthetic production of Bear spaces relates to Bear masculinities and bodies, particularly fat bodies. Regarding more ephemeral Bear events, the 'Bearing' of space (including queer space) may provide a means of understanding these. The paper argues first that geography is crucial for understanding Bears and second that geographers of masculinities, sexualities, and fatness/bodies could productively engage with Bear identities, communities, and spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the traditional criminal justice system, an arrest is followed by multiple decision points determining detention, prosecution, guilt, and sentence. Many jurisdictions across the U.S. are exploring alternative programs and approaches that consider individual needs and assessed risks at each decision point. San Francisco County, California, uses post‐filing pretrial diversion programs as alternatives to the traditional criminal justice system for defendants based on factors including social and behavioral needs. In this paper, we estimate the impact of a referral to felony pretrial diversion programs on case outcomes and subsequent criminal justice contact. To address selection bias associated with nonrandom assignment into diversion programs, we exploit the random assignment of felony cases to arraignment judges and use variation among judicial diversion referral rates as an instrument for the diversion referral. We find that a referral to diversion increases the time to disposition in the current case and decreases the probability of a subsequent conviction up to five years following case arraignment. Subgroup analyses find that the benefits of diversion are concentrated among females, those who are under the age of 25, and those facing drug sales charges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For a new corporate headquarters in San Francisco's Mission Bay district, SHoP Architects designed a semi‐conditioned atrium space inside the external glazed envelope known as "the commons." To ventilate this space, the facade contractor developed a transparent, steel‐framed glazing system featuring motorized bi‐fold units. These operable window units, 3.0 m wide by 4.4 m tall, are computer‐controlled in conjunction with operable skylights to maintain comfortable temperatures in the atrium and significantly reduce the need for mechanical ventilation. This paper describes the engineering and design development of this dynamic facade. A number of kinematic options were studied, resulting in the final configuration whereby window operation is guided in the visible upper and lower rails. In the upper rails, the self‐weight is resolved via newly developed double vertical hybrid rollers. The necessary lateral stability is provided by scissor arms mounted on both sides at the top and bottom, which prevent the window from moving sideways on one side over the entire opening stroke. The windows are operated via two of the currently largest chain drives on the market (lift/pull force 1500 N). In addition, a linear locking drive moves a push rod with three double claws, which additionally keep the window in the "closed" position. The chain drives are synchronized and internally controlled with the linear locking drive. All components are integrated and concealed in the central mullion. A complete opening takes approximately 155 seconds. Safety strips integrated circumferentially in the frame protect the device, while closing, from objects that are accidentally left in the window rebate and will switch off the device automatically. The units are constructed according to the European Machinery Directive 2006/42/EG, and a risk analysis was carried out in advance. The drive technology and all electrical components are UL‐certified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author presents his views on several papers discussed in the JAP Conference which was held in San Francisco, California. He discusses the papers including "Psychotherapy in the aesthetic attitude" by John Beebe and "Staying alive through living art: birth and rebirth" by JoAnn Culbert-Koehn and a research on "Union and separation in the therapy of developmental disorders" by Toshio Kawai. He also shares how he prepared endnotes of the conference.

The scarcity of strong ground motion records presents a challenge for making reliable performance assessments of tall buildings whose seismic design is controlled by large‐magnitude and close‐distance earthquakes. This challenge can be addressed using broadband ground‐motion simulation methods to generate records with site‐specific characteristics of large‐magnitude events. In this paper, simulated site‐specific earthquake seismograms, developed through a related project that was organized through the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV) Technical Activity Group, are used for nonlinear response history analyses of two archetype tall buildings for sites in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino. The SCEC GMSV team created the seismograms using the Broadband Platform (BBP) simulations for five site‐specific earthquake scenarios. The two buildings are evaluated using nonlinear dynamic analyses under comparable record suites selected from the simulated BBP catalog and recorded motions from the NGA‐West database. The collapse risks and structural response demands (maximum story drift ratio, peak floor acceleration, and maximum story shear) under the BBP and NGA suites are compared. In general, this study finds that use of the BBP simulations resolves concerns about estimation biases in structural response analysis which are caused by ground motion scaling, unrealistic spectral shapes, and overconservative spectral variations. While there are remaining concerns that strong coherence in some kinematic fault rupture models may lead to an overestimation of velocity pulse effects in the BBP simulations, the simulations are shown to generally yield realistic pulse‐like features of near‐fault ground motion records. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently a “mobility turn” has entered critical geographic discourse. This mobility turn recognizes that mobility is at once physical movement and contains social meanings that are manifested in a politics of mobility. In this paper I contribute to this emerging line of inquiry by exploring how the politics of mobility is manifested in localized urban processes. Mobility, as with the broader localized urban process, is political and ideological, and this is particularly true with contemporary debates about automobiles and parking in cities. I explore parking as an example of the broader contestation of urban space, using a case study of San Francisco, California. There are three broad factions in San Francisco's parking debates—progressives that advocate for less parking, neoliberals that advocate that market-based pricing determine the amount of parking, and neoconservatives that advocate for more parking. Throughout the paper, I provide thoughts on the relationship between parking, space, ideology, and the broader urban process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, the results of experimental work on the strength and durability performances of self‐compacting mortars (SCMs) manufactured from silica fume (SF) and fly ash (FA) were presented. The cement was partially replaced with 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25% of FA and 5, 10, and 15% of SF as binary mixes. Also, ternary mixtures were prepared by the incorporation of FA and SF at different replacement dosages by weight. In total, 14 different combinations of mixes were studied at the ages of 7, 28, and 180 days. Prismatic samples of size 40 × 40 × 160 mm3 were produced and exposed to water curing to observe mechanical behavior of SCMs. The mechanical properties of SCMs were examined by the tests of compressive strength and flexural strength. Sorptivity, porosity, water absorption, and density were also measured. To evaluate fresh properties of SCMs, mini slump flow diameter and mini V‐funnel flow time tests were conducted. The results of the study reveal that increase in the dosage of FA increases SCMs flow but also reduce segregation resistance. The enhancement in flexural strength is the best in the binary mixes of SF10 and in binary mixes of FA. Ten percent replacement of FA shows the best flexural strength performance with a value of 10.21 MPa at the age of 180 days. Compressive and flexural strengths of mortars containing SF and FA reached up to about 86.14 and 10.50 MPa, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MgO‐based binders have been widely studied for decades. Recently, the MgO–SiO2–H2O system was developed as a novel construction material, however, its reaction mechanism remains unclear. This paper investigated the reaction products and kinetics of MgO/silica fume (SF) pastes with MgO calcinated at different temperatures. The results indicate that MgO presented larger grain size after calcination at higher temperature. Mg(OH)2 and magnesium silicate hydrate (M–S–H) gel were formed when using MgO calcined at 850, 950, and 1050°C. However, only M–S–H gel was formed when using MgO calcined at 1450°C. The reaction kinetics of MgO could be described using α = 1 − e−k*t. The reaction rate of MgO increased with decreasing calcination temperature, increasing SF dosage, and the addition of sodium hexametaphosphate. Only M–S–H gel was formed when the reaction rate of MgO was below the demarcation line (about 0.250 × 10−6 s−1), and the corresponding demarcation area was around 14 days. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

San Francisco is engaged in a redevelopment project that could bring millions in investment and community benefits to a starved neighborhood-and yet the project is embedded in an urban development process that is displacing residents. In trying to unsettle these contradictions, this paper achieves two aims. First, I unearth a little known history of redevelopment activism that frames debate around the current project. Second, I use this history to argue for a reframing of the language of race. To wit: although the social construction of race and racism is well established, race is still deeply understood in everyday life as natural. This paper offers a theoretical fusing of race and class, 'race-class', to help us think race through a vital constructionist lens. Race-class makes present the economic dynamics of racial formation, and foregrounds that race is a core process of urban political economy. Race-class works both 'top-down' and 'ground-up.' While it is a vehicle for capital's exploitation of people and place, race-class also emerges as a mode of power for racialized working-class residents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper advances the concept of 'waste formations' as a way of thinking together processes of race, space, and waste in brownfield redevelopment projects. Defined as formerly industrial and contaminated properties, in the 1990s brownfields emerged as the grounds for new forms of urbanization and an emerging environmental remediation industry. Through their redevelopment, the twentieth century's urban wastelands-environmentally degraded, economically divested, and often racially marked-have become sites of investment, resignification, and value formation. The concept of waste formations provides a critical framework on the ways these socio-ecological transformations rework twentieth century urban inequalities-in particular, the articulation of waste and toxic waste-and the ways they produce new geographies of environmental injustice through the displacement of toxic waste to newly waste-able spaces. This paper develops an analytic of waste formations and applies it to the process of brownfield redevelopment at the Hunters Point Shipyard in southeast San Francisco. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the 41st Annual Research in Medical Education RIME) Conference held in San Francisco, California from November 10-13, 2002. Agenda of the conference; Participants of the conference; Research papers presented during the conference.

Ira Herscowitz died on 28 April 2003 of pancreatic cancer. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his doctorate, studying the control of gene expression in phage lambda. As a young professor at the University of Oregon he started his seminal work on yeast molecular biology. Extending the pioneering work by Yasuji Oshima, he provided molecular interpretation of the cassette theory of yeast mating type interconversion. Later at the University of California, San Francisco, he continued to make key contributions on gene regulation and control of cell cycle with the yeast system. I think it a natural development that, in later years, he was concerned with the mammalian biology of pharmacogenetics of membrane transporters. Ira had a remarkable ability to untangle complex phenomena by clear reasoning and impressed us with his persuasive presentation. He was also an enthusiastic folk and blues singer. When I organized a biology meeting, I asked him to bring his guitar. He said that ‘I will bring my instrument made in Japan’, real or joke? I present below some of the witty lines he sang. I feel very sad that I cannot reproduce his attractively deep voice. (Jun-ichi Tomizawa, ‘Tomi’). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The San Francisco Bay Area in California is undergoing a technology-driven wave of growth arguably more thoroughgoing than the first 'dot-com' bubble, fueling hypertrophic gentrification and tales of a deeply class-divided, 'Blade Runner kind of society'. While Silicon Valley is still the industry's employment center, San Francisco is seeing faster tech firm growth, and is transforming its downtown to become more 'livable' and promoting public space as key to innovation. In this context, this paper offers a reading of urban public space not just as a consumption amenity but also as the 'shop floor' of a labor process that goes beyond the walls of the firm to mobilize the social itself in the production of privately appropriated value. With innovation now the watchword of gentrification, the stakes of this shift oscillate between the total commodification of urban vitality and the recognition of the social process of value production itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Utilizing a bricolage of interactionist cultural studies, ethnic foodways, and situational analysis this paper examines how Latino immigrants, representing six countries and multiple preimmigration class positions, come to perform Latinidad through the lay health practice of comiendo bien (eating well). Comiendo bien was examined through participant observation of 15 families living in San Francisco and 27 key informant interviews. Comiendo bien is a performance that exists through the convergence of multiple identity positions. Latina/o immigrants not only enact the Latinidad in the United States through artistic expression or political strategizing, but also by sharing an idealized practice of healthy eating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the relation between the linguistic and the visual in indexing social meaning and performing gender, focusing on fronted /s/ among a community of drag queens in SoMa, San Francisco. I argue that as orders of indexicality (Silverstein 2003) are established, linguistic features like fronted /s/ become linked with visual bodies. These body‐language links can impose top‐down restrictions on the uptake of gender performances. Non‐normatively gendered individuals like the SoMa queens embody cross‐modal figures of personhood (see Agha 2003, 2004) like the fierce queen that forge higher indexical orders and widen the range of performative agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report on the Eighth International Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology which took place in San Francisco, California. The themes of the congress were movements in social and cultural groups and changes in perception of the attitudes to personal relationships, to men and women in society and the relation of psyche and soul in analytical psychology. Over-valuing the positive aspects of the trickster may underestimate the destructive and ungrounded aspect of the negative role of the archetype.

SUMMARY Forward directivity may cause large velocity pulses in ground motion time histories that are damaging to buildings at sites close to faults, potentially increasing seismic collapse risk. This study quantifies the effects of forward directivity on collapse risk through incremental dynamic analysis of building simulation models that are capable of capturing the key aspects of strength and stiffness degradation associated with structural collapse. The paper also describes a method for incorporating the effects of near-fault directivity in probabilistic assessment of seismic collapse risk. The analysis is based on a suite of RC frame models that represent both past and present building code provisions, subjected to a database of near-fault, pulse-like ground motions with varying pulse periods. Results show that the predicted collapse capacity is strongly influenced by variations in pulse period and building ductility; pulse periods that are longer than the first-mode elastic building period tend to be the most damaging. A detailed assessment of seismic collapse risk shows that the predicted probability of collapse in 50 years for modern concrete buildings at a representative near-fault site is approximately 6%, which is significantly higher than the 1% probability in the far-field region targeted by current seismic design maps in the US. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After almost 30 years of Federal retraction from anti-poverty initiatives, many American cities have been left with the dual burden of intensified poverty and far fewer resources to combat the problem. At the same time, such devolution has afforded cities the authority to forge poverty policy at the local level, such that the familiar neoliberal imperatives of state retraction and the mobilization of territory for capitalist expansion are frequently tempered by more progressive political imperatives at the local scale. What has thus emerged is a deeply ambivalent policy landscape, of which “kinder and gentler” poverty management strategies are a central feature. Using the example of a recent homeless program in San Francisco, “Care Not Cash”, this paper argues that such poverty management strategies, while less punitive than their revanchist predecessors, nonetheless introduce a new set of exclusions to the service delivery system, many of which are obscured by the language of compassion. In order to illustrate those new exclusions, I describe the city's homeless geographies—the public spaces, shelters, service sites, and housing models—that have been produced and reconfigured according to a logic of managing homelessness through the provision of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Urban public library systems have always transported and delivered library materials within their branch systems. In recent years, however, the introduction of internet-based, online library catalog systems has allowed users to search the library''s catalog, select and reserve a book or a video and have it delivered to the branch of their choice. Consequently, the demand for delivery services is increasing at rapid rate in large urban public libraries systems. Having experienced a similar growth in the demand for delivered items, the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) commissioned a study to improve its delivery operations. Using operations management concepts, such as pre-sorting of material to avoid double handling, cross docking to reduce cycle time of delivery, and workload balancing among delivery routes to effectively increase delivery capacity, the delivery operations were restructured. We developed optimization models for library delivery operations that specifically accounted for pre-sorting, cross docking and route balancing. We also developed heuristics for solving these models and implemented them to redesign the delivery operations at SFPL. The redesigned delivery operations will reduce the cycle time and the cost of delivery by almost half. Furthermore, through balanced utilization of existing truck capacities, the delivery operations will be able to handle significantly larger delivery volume and thereby accommodate future delivery service growth without additional investments. The operations management concepts and techniques illustrated in this paper through the example of SFPL should prove to be useful to other urban, multi-branch library systems as they deal with their delivery challenges. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This paper evaluates the costs, benefits and related impacts of living wage policies implemented at the San Francisco Airport (SFO). Unlike other living wage ordinances, the policies at SFO cover a large proportion of the low-wage labor force in a distinct labor market. The authors find that about 73 percent of the ground-based non-managerial workers at SFO received substantial wage increases as a direct or indirect result of the policies; the proportion of these workers earning under$10 per hour fell from 55 percent to 5 percent, significantly reducing earnings inequality. Other benefits to workers included enhanced health benefits and an arrest of declines in quality of life indices. The costs of the policies to employers amounted to an average of 0.7 percent of fare revenue, or$1.42 per airline passenger. We observe a series of dynamic adjustments that reduced those costs, including dramatically reduced turnover, improved worker morale and greater work effort. We find some limited evidence of worker-worker substitution, but no evidence of employment decline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay provides an overview of the 11th International Conference of the Greening of Industry Network held in San Francisco, USA, on 12–15 October 2003. The conference gave Greening of Industry Network (GIN) members the opportunity to debate issues around the theme of Innovating for Sustainability in a location central to technological innovation in the United States. This special issue of Business Strategy and the Environment focuses on the diverse interpretations of innovation and their impacts on the different strands of sustainability. The conference was timely in its debates about the nature of innovation from system level to product level, and from technological innovation to innovations in the management of a wide range of stakeholders and the resulting impacts on environmental, economic, social and ethical sustainability. This essay briefly discusses the relationship between innovation and sustainability, and considers the factors that either facilitate progress towards a more sustainable future, or present barriers to achieving sustainability. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Profiles Joan Ablon, professor emerita of medical anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. Details of her anthropology career at the University of Texas; Information on a study conducted by Ablon on dwarfism; Concern of Ablon on the social well-being of individuals.

In this paper we examine the effects of different components of corporate culture on two different categories of action in both routine and jolted environments. Data were collected on a heterogeneous sample of 54 corporations in the San Francisco Bay Area. We examined how the values, knowledge, and practices dimensions of corporate culture influenced actions to prepare for responding to future earthquake disasters and actions to mitigate or reduce future physical and associated earthquake losses. The findings show that corporate earthquake culture is a multidimensional concept, that varied elements of culture function to impact corporate action differently is distinct organizational environments, and that culture's impact on organizational action is contingent on the type of action being considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The San Francisco, California, bay area is subject to continuous seismic risk. One particular response has been the development of community-based training programmes designed to teach residents basic emergency response skills. Citizens are taught emergency medical techniques, search and rescue, fire suppression and other fundamental response skills. Current estimates in the Bay Area place the number of programmes at more than 100. Many programmes now include an annual community drill to reinforce the training and to evaluate the programme. The study described here is based on an evaluation of an effort initiated by BayNET (Bay Area Neighborhood Emergency Training), a voluntary association of communities with community-based disaster preparedness programmes. In April 1996, BayNET asked all of its members to hold a community earthquake drill. After the drill, a mail survey was conducted of all programme managers. The survey examined the structure and administration of the programmes, training efforts and other related components. This paper describes the typology of drill formats that communities used, the role of the simulation in the city's preparedness efforts, the qualitative costs and benefits, as well as an assessment of the drill based on survey respondents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses, in brief, about some of the papers presented at the 2001 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, held in San Francisco, California. All these papers have a common theme to bring legislative affairs into the limelight. The paper "A Tools of the Trade' Look at the Comparing Congress with State Legislatures" offers a primer on comparing and contrasting U.S. Congress with the American state legislatures. The paper "Senate Apprenticeship in Historical Perspective" addresses the conventional wisdom among U.S. senators.

This paper describes ORGANIZE Training Center's approach to transforming union locals. The Project for Labor Renewal worked intensely with two San Francisco Bay Area union locals. The article describes and analyzes the organization's development process, successes, difficulties, and lessons from this experience, arguing for an extension of current understanding of organizing to include a number of community-building activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As temperatures rise, it is increasingly important to monitor changes in habitat conditions for aquatic species and mitigate emerging stressors. The ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrument provides temperature products at a spatial and temporal scale not previously available. Here, we utilize ECOSTRESS temperature products to assess fluctuations in thermal habitat suitability for an endangered fish species and we also demonstrate the utility of the data set to assess water surface and bulk temperature changes following completion of two tidal wetland restoration efforts in the San Francisco Estuary and Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta (Bay Delta). During all hours of the day throughout the 2018–2022 study period, key Delta Smelt habitat areas including Honker Bay, West Suisun Bay, and Mid Suisun Bay had greater than 75% of their areas suitable; there were several instances during which less than 25% of the area was thermally suitable generally coinciding with heatwave events. Overall, midday hours are less frequently suitable than morning and evening hours. Early evidence from ECOSTRESS indicates that there may be a decrease in surface water temperature of up to several degrees in tidal restoration areas, but more data is needed to show statistically significant outcomes. The ECOSTRESS record began in summer of 2018, and a longer record is needed to fully capture temperature changes associated with wetland processes and restoration efforts. Future applications of ECOSTRESS products can the capacity to help further understand ecosystem conditions and how restoration efforts affect water temperature, informing decisions that benefit Delta Smelt and other at‐risk aquatic species. Plain Language Summary: Water temperatures are rising in the San Francisco Estuary and Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta (Bay Delta), negatively affecting endangered fish survivability. An instrument aboard the International Space Station called the ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) can give vital information about Bay Delta water temperatures at a broader scale than field measurements with reasonable spatial resolution and on a more frequent basis than previously available to understand where habitat management efforts would be most useful and even assess the impacts of previous restoration efforts on temperature. Here, we look at how favorable the Bay Delta water temperatures are for endangered Delta Smelt and assess the effects of two completed restoration efforts on water temperature (The Tule Red and Winter Island tidal wetland restoration projects). As managers and decision makers continue to evaluate actions toward protecting endangered aquatic species, ECOSTRESS can provide information to support the decision making process. Key Points: Aquatic thermal habitat conditions vary diurnally and spatiallyMidday periods and inland regions have unsuitable habitat for the Delta Smelt most frequentlyECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station shows early evidence of surface water temperature cooling benefits from tidal wetland restoration projects of up to 5.4°C [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper compares alcohol consumption and casualties in probability samples of two diverse emergency room populations: San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) (n = 2516) and four hospitals representative of a nearby California county (n = 3609). Both studies used similar methods and data collection instruments. Patients were breathalysed and interviewed regarding self-reported alcohol consumption 6 hours prior to the injury or illness event, usual drinking patterns and alcohol-related problems. Injuries were found to be positively associated with breathalyser readings, self-reported consumption prior to the event and more frequent heavy drinking in both samples. In the county sample injuries were also positively associated with more frequent drunkenness, symptoms of alcohol dependence and loss of control and prior alcohol-related accidents. The SFGH sample had higher rates than the county sample on all alcohol variables and both samples reported higher rates of alcohol-related problems than that found in U.S. general population surveys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we characterize the relationship between spatial pricing and capacity based on distributed service design (DSD) decisions in a two‐sided sharing economy platform. We leverage theoretical tenets on two‐sided markets and on spatial pricing and capacity management in the sharing economy to inform a set of empirical and simulation models. Empirically, we use data on 156,520 observations of dynamic pricing and capacity distribution within Uber's San Francisco region. Estimation of a spatial econometric model reveals that the number of active drivers in neighboring zones negatively impacts the price in focal zones. Simultaneously, we find that spatial proximity is a significant factor in determining the distribution of prices when service demand levels are sufficiently high. We leverage this simultaneity finding to advance the literature on the sharing economy by incorporating operational considerations such as distributed capacity into service design. We link these econometric results with profit and welfare using a simulation that tests a variety of DSD pricing strategies under varying elasticity and revenue‐sharing conditions. Our findings offer guidance to firms managing two‐sided sharing economy platforms on tracking demand‐ and supply side price elasticity levels as well as revenue sharing spread when seeking to maximize profit, welfare, or both. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent urban scholarship shows how zoning and real estate dynamics shape ongoing processes of gentrification and deindustrialization. While studies demonstrate the impact of planning and property market pressures on the arts, less research has examined their effect on urban manufacturers in gentrifying industrial districts. Given the differential impact of zoning and real estate pressures, our research focuses specifically on how 'cultural manufacturers' negotiate changing land use patterns in gentrifying urban industrial areas in San Francisco and Melbourne. Our findings show how cultural manufacturers develop flexible workspace arrangements, business models and professional networks to negotiate urban restructuring and avoid displacement. Though innovative, these survival strategies provide limited ability to navigate structural barriers. Here, the presence of intermediary organizations can help coordinate a strategic response to industrial gentrification and indifferent planning policy. In our research we highlight the everyday practices of adaptation and collective action in an under‐researched cultural sector to provide a counterweight to macro‐scale transitional narratives. While cities have deindustrialized owing to technological and competitive pressures, to focus exclusively on this misses a range of resilience practices that have sustained manufacturers in restructuring cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A time‐domain Boussinesq model was applied to modeling wave interference and its effects on nearshore circulation in San Francisco Bar and the adjacent Ocean Beach, CA. The model predicted the wave interference phenomena caused by the ebb shoal, with interference scales consistent with the radar observation and are persistent with nodal lines unchanged with time. Nearshore circulation predicted by the model shows small‐scale flow structures tied with the wave modulation patterns. However, the small‐scale modulation in the wave field seems not to generate alongshore variation in wave setup at similar scales. Therefore, in a large‐scale view, the alongshore currents predicted by the Boussinesq model still keep the general features shown in a wave‐averaged model, such as the flow divergence caused by the pressure gradient force associated with the alongshore variation of wave setup. The further analysis based on idealized short crest waves on a plane beach suggests that the alongshore pressure gradient is mainly balanced by the gradient of radiation stresses in the antinodal region, while by the flow advection in the nodal region. The rip current behavior is forced locally near breakers, rather than by gradients in wave setup close to shore. The time‐domain Boussinesq model predicted the spatial variability of wave‐induced processes. The alongshore‐varying wave breakers caused by wave interference are the source of the vorticity generation, inducing energetic vortex eddies nearshore. Plain Language Summary: Ocean wave interference, caused by the oblique interaction or superposition of two or more trains of plane waves, is a common phenomenon caused by surface wave interaction with seabed topography, nearshore structures, or coastal currents. Conventional spectral wave models cannot predict interference patterns as they do not preserve phase information for the individual wave components. The objective of the present study is to use a time‐resolved model to examine previously observed wave interference occurring landward of the ebb‐tidal delta offshore of the Golden gate, San Francisco, CA. The model shows interesting small‐scale features caused by wave interference, with spatial scales consistent with the radar measurements. The model results reveal that the small‐scale fingering structures in the wave height distribution result in a significant alongshore variation in nearshore circulation and energetic vortex eddies in the surf zone, but do not induce a small‐scale modulation in wave setup at the shoreface. To explain the phenomena, we carried out a momentum balance analysis for an idealized case of two intersecting waves propagating onto a plane beach, and show that the alongshore variability in forcing needed to balance variations in set‐up is largely absent landward of where breaking becomes saturated in the alongshore direction. Key Points: A time‐domain Boussinesq model reproduced wave interference observed at Ocean Beach, CAThe model reveals small‐scale persistent fingering structures in the wave height distribution tied with nearshore flow structuresAlongshore‐varying wave breakers caused by wave interference are the source of vorticity generation, inducing energetic vortex eddies nearshore [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dr. Zlotta concluded that, in the absence of randomised trials, this large contemporary study provided strong evidence to support tri-modality therapy for the treatment of these patients. In a retrospective analysis of 1116 patients with muscle invasive urothelial bladder cancer from institutions in Boston, Toronto and Los Angeles, the results at 5 years favoured bladder preservation for both cancer specific survival (78% vs 85%, I P i = 0.02) and overall survival (70% vs 78%, I P i < 0.001). The 2022 American Society of Clinical Cncology (ASCO) Genitourinary cancer meeting took place in San Francisco in February and a blended meeting including face-to-face attendance combined with online viewing of 600 abstracts that covered the whole breadth of genitourinary oncology [1 ]. https://conferences.asco.org/gu/program Amongst the highlights was a multi-institutional comparison of radical cystectomy to bladder preserving, tri-modality therapy (maximal TURBT with concurrent chemoradiotherapy) for muscle invasive bladder cancer that was presented by Dr. Alex Zlotta from Toronto, Canada (Abstract 433). [Extracted from the article]

Background and Objectives: While inadequate nutrition can weaken the immune system and lead to negative health sequelae for vulnerable populations, little is known about nutritional intake among people who inject drugs (PWID). We aimed to quantify nutritional intake among PWID and to explore associations between protein intake and drug use. Methods: A cross‐sectional design was used to analyze self‐reported participant data. PWID were recruited from community settings in California in 2016/2017. Participants reported on food consumption per day for a 30‐day period, from which a continuous protein intake variable was created. Results: Modal characteristics of participants (N = 937) were: white (42.5%), male (75.3%), healthy body mass index (BMI) (56.6%), and unhoused (82.9%). Less than 1% of participants met or exceeded recommended guidelines for protein intake (0.80 g/day/1 kg body weight). The final multiple regression model found protein intake to be significantly positively associated with older age, high school or greater education, frequency of opiate and marijuana use, while Latinx ethnicity was inversely associated with protein intake, adjusting for gender. Discussion and Conclusions: Our study shows PWID are generally not underweight, yet they are grossly protein deficient, which can be harder to recognize. Poverty, homelessness, and other structural barriers likely contribute to this issue, which demonstrates the need for communities to provide more access to nutrient‐rich food to PWID. Scientific Significance: Our study demonstrates the novel findings that opiate and marijuana use frequency, but not stimulants (methamphetamine and cocaine) may increase preference for protein‐rich foods among PWID. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One dimensional wave propagation is studied in a cantilever conical structure deforming in shear. The structure has rectangular cross‐section both dimensions of which decrease linearly along the polar axis (hence, doubly tapered). The equation motion is derived and solved in terms of spherical Bessel functions, which can be expressed exactly as finite algebraic expressions in terms of powers and sine and cosine functions of the polar coordinate. The transfer‐matrix for a truncated pyramid element is then derived and generalized to a chain of elements. The model is used to represent a 48‐story pyramid‐shaped steel‐frame skyscraper, the Transamerica Tower in San Francisco, California, in which the Loma Prieta, 1989 earthquake (Mw=6.9${M}_{\mathrm{w}}=6.9$, epicentral distance, R≈90$R \approx 90$ km) was recorded by an array of accelerometers. The building is modeled by homogeneous and layered truncated pyramids. Wave propagation through the building is studied by analysis of impulse response functions computed from the observed earthquake accelerations. In addition, its equivalent homogeneous beam shear‐wave velocity is identified solely from its geometry and observed fundamental frequency of vibration. Further, the variation of wave velocity along is height is identified by least squares fit of a layered pyramid model in the observed impulse response functions. The results reveal equivalent homogeneous pyramid wave velocity of about 150–160 m/s in both directions, which is similar to other steel‐frame structures. The identified wave velocity profiles are consistent with the structural design. The identified parameters can be used as reference in future structural health monitoring of this structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study records the impact on workforce retention of the nearly doubling of wages for homecare workers in San Francisco County over a 52-month period. Using descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis the author finds that the annual retention rate of new providers rose from 39 percent to 74 percent following significant wage and benefit increases and that a $1 increase in the wage rate from $8 an hour—the national average wage for homecare—would increase retention by 17 percentage points. The author also shows that adding health insurance increases the retention rate by 21 percentage points. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The new headquarter of Uber, designed by SHoP Architects, for a total of up to 3.000 employees is located in the Mission Bay neighbourhood of San Francisco (USA). The project's goal is to bring this developing stretch of Mission Bay into step with the successful, human‐scaled urban environments for which San Francisco is famous. Key to that goal is the "inside‐out" design of the two central cubic six and eleven‐story tall elements with transparent building envelopes. While developing and planning the sophisticated facade system the major challenge was implementation of high architectural demands to achieve a building envelope with a maximized transparency. Furthermore, a high ground acceleration due to the geographical location resulting in large seismic deformation and forces had to be considered during design of the facade structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP) held in August 1998 in San Francisco, California. Background information on ICAP; Guests and participants in the event; Benefits of ICAP membership; Various issues highlighted during the conference.

This study utilizes satellite data to investigate water quality conditions in the San Francisco Estuary and its upstream delta, the Sacramento--San Joaquin River Delta. To do this, this study derives turbidity from the European Space Agency satellite Sentinel-2 acquired from September 2015 to June 2019 and conducts a rigorous validation with in situ measurements of turbidity from optical sensors at continuous monitoring stations. This validation includes 965 matchup comparisons between satellite and in situ sensor data across 22 stations, yielding R² = 0.63 and 0.75 for Nephelometric Turbidity Unit and Formazin Nephelometric Unit (FNU) stations, respectively. This study then applies remote sensing to evaluate patterns in turbidity during the Suisun Marsh Salinity Control Gates Action ("Gates action"), a pilot study designed to increase habitat access and quality for the endangered Delta Smelt. The basic strategy was to direct more freshwater into Suisun Marsh, creating more low salinity habitat that would then have higher (and more suitable) turbidity than upstream river channels. For all seven acquisitions considered from June 29 to September 27, 2018, turbidity conditions in Bays and Sloughs subregions were consistently higher (and more suitable) (26-47 FNU) than what was observed in the upstream River region (13-25 FNU). This overall pattern was observed when comparing images acquired during similar tidal stages and heights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Estuaries worldwide are experiencing stress due to increased droughts, which often prompt intervention by environmental managers and government agencies. Effective management of water resources in estuarine systems can be enhanced by new technologies and methodologies to support decision-making processes. Here, we evaluate the use of high-frequency, high-resolution satellite remote sensing within two managementrelevant case studies in the San Francisco Estuary and the Sacramento--San Joaquin River Delta. We used a remote sensing-derived time series of turbidity maps to (1) identify favorable turbidity conditions for the endangered fish species, delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus), during the height of the great California drought in the dry season of 2015, and (2) evaluate changes in turbidity following the installation of an emergency saltwater intrusion barrier. The mapping results indicate several persistent areas of turbidity refugia throughout the summer in the north and west Delta; however, there was infrequent connectivity. A comparison of images captured during ebb tides before and after barrier installation showed a mean increase of 6.6 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) in the San Joaquin River and 4 NTU in Fisherman's Cut. Our assessment of the barrier supports previous findings, which used field samples to conclude barrier installation may have resulted in increased turbidity near the barrier and enhances these findings by providing spatial context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Vaginal rings are a promising approach to provide a woman‐centred, long‐acting HIV prevention strategy. Prior trials of a 25 mg dapivirine (DPV) ring have shown a favourable safety profile and approximately 30% risk reduction of HIV‐1 infection. Extended duration rings replaced every three months may encourage user adherence, improve health service efficiency and reduce cost overall. We evaluated safety, pharmacokinetics, adherence and acceptability of two three‐month rings with different DPV dosages, compared with the monthly DPV ring. Methods: From December 2017 to October 2018, MTN‐036/IPM‐047 enrolled 49 HIV‐negative participant in Birmingham, Alabama and San Francisco, California into a phase 1, randomized trial comparing two extended duration (three‐month) rings (100 or 200 mg DPV) to a monthly 25 mg DPV ring, each used over 13 weeks, with follow‐up completed in January 2019. Safety was assessed by recording adverse events (AEs). DPV concentrations were quantified in plasma, cervicovaginal fluid (CVF) and cervical tissue, at nominal timepoints. Geometric mean ratios (GMRs) relative to the comparator ring were estimated from a regression model. Results: There were no differences in the proportion of participants with grade ≥2 genitourinary AEs or grade ≥3 AEs in the extended duration versus monthly ring arms (p = 1.0). Plasma and CVF DPV concentrations were higher in the extended duration rings compared to the monthly ring. Plasma GMRs were 1.31 to 1.85 and 1.41 to 1.86 and CVF GMRs were 1.45 to 2.87 and 1.74 to 2.60 for the 100 and 200 mg ring respectively. Cervical tissue concentrations were consistently higher in the 200 mg ring (GMRs 2.36 to 3.97). The majority of participants (82%) were fully adherent (ring inserted at all times, with no product discontinuations/outages) with no differences between the monthly versus three‐month rings. Most participants found the ring acceptable (median = 8 on 10‐point Likert scale), with a greater proportion of participants reporting high acceptability (9 or 10) in the 25 mg arm (73%) compared with the 100 mg (25%) and 200 mg (44%) arms (p = 0.01 and p = 0.15 respectively). Conclusions: The extended duration DPV rings were well‐tolerated and achieved higher DPV concentrations compared with the monthly DPV ring. These findings support further evaluation of three‐month DPV rings for HIV prevention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on an econometric analysis of the pricing structures at public access golf courses in San Francisco, California. Comparisons of generic measure of price discrimination; Different types of golf courses surveyed in the study; Population from which a golf course draws its golfers; Population of potential golfers related to demographics of underlying population.