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52. Safe Haven.
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Paper, Heather J.
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WOMEN interior decorators - Abstract
Features Susan Bahl, an interior designer from Sebastopol, California, about remodeling houses for resale. Sensitivity of Bahl to chemical-filled products she used in her work; Information on outgassing; Coverage and decorative possibilities of low- and zero-volatile organic compound paints. INSETS: Color Cues;Palatable Paints.
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- 2003
53. Solar-plus-storage economics: What works where, and why?
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McLaren, Joyce, Laws, Nick, Anderson, Kate, DiOrio, Nick, and Miller, Hannah
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SOLAR technology , *ECONOMICS , *COST control , *ECONOMIC policy , *FUTURES market , *ECONOMIC databases , *SOLAR system - Abstract
Graphical abstract Highlights • Technology cost and utility rate structure are key drivers of economic viability of solar and storage systems. • Solar-plus-storage systems are more often economical under time of use and demand charge rates. • Savings from storage-only projects come mainly from demand charge reductions; solar combined with storage also provides energy charge savings. • Savings from solar with storage is largely independent of building load variability, likely due to the energy cost reductions from the solar. Abstract This paper explores the economics of solar-plus-storage projects for commercial-scale, behind-the-meter applications. It provides insight into the near-term and future solar-plus-storage market opportunities across the U.S. We explore the impacts of location, building load profile, technology cost, utility rate structure, and policies on solar-plus-storage economic viability, and identify which factors are most significant to project economics. While savings from storage-only projects are largely derived from demand charge reductions, solar combined with storage also provides significant energy charge savings. A common assumption is that load profiles with peaks are likely candidates for savings from storage, due to the opportunity for demand charge reduction. Our results indicate that potential for savings from combining solar with storage is independent of building load variability, likely due to the energy cost reductions from the solar. Systems are more often economical under time of use and demand charge rates, particularly when demand charges are >$10 per kilowatt. Where systems were found to be economical, expected lifetime savings averaged between 7%–10%, with savings of 30% in numerous cases. Near term markets exist for solar-plus-storage in locations such as California and New York. As technology prices drop, the number of building types that can benefit increase, and additional markets appear in Colorado, New Mexico, and Alaska. All data from the study and interactive modeling results are available at: https://openei.org/wiki/Solar+Storage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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54. Moralizing regulation: the implications of policing “good” versus “bad” immigrants.
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Andrews, Abigail L.
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UNDOCUMENTED immigrants , *SOCIAL conditions of immigrants , *IMMIGRANTS , *LAW enforcement , *SOCIAL integration , *TWENTY-first century , *SOCIAL history - Abstract
Recently, the US has dramatically expanded immigration enforcement. At the same time, some advocates have sought to support “good” immigrants. This paper considers how the resulting good/bad binaries affect undocumented immigrants. I examine a case study in Los Angeles, where policing intertwined with protection. Based on participant observation and interviews, I show that respondents believed state agents classified them either as “bad” criminals or “good”, immigrants. To the extent immigrants identified as “good”, they credited the US with offering them “freedom” and hoped for political inclusion. At the same time, in what I call moralizing regulation, they also performed “good” behaviour and distinguished themselves from those seen as “bad”. Some also tied “good” behaviour to femininity and “acting white”. At the extreme, they blamed other migrants for inviting state mistreatment. The effects were ambivalent: while immigrants appreciated US support, they also adopted and adapted to the state’s moral norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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55. Televised Sports and Marital Relationships.
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Gantz, Walter, Wenner, Lawrence A., Carrico, Christina, and Knorr, Matthew
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SPORTS , *MARRIAGE , *ADULTS , *INTERPERSONAL relations - Abstract
This paper describes the role of televised sports in married life. It documents how adults integrate televised sports into their relationship with their spouse and evaluate its impact on that relationship. Telephone interviews were conducted with 399 married adults residing in San Francisco and Indianapolis. Respondents were asked about their own TV sports viewing behaviors as well as those of their spouse. Televised sports appears to play a generally positive albeit small role in marital life. TV sports viewing often is a shared activity and does not appear to trigger many scheduling or TV viewing conflicts. And, when such conflicts occurs, they appear to be resolved amicably and easily. It may be that accommodations for differing interests in TV sports are resolved early in a marital relationship, along with other accommodations that marriage often dictates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1995
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56. Trotsky papers found at Hoover.
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Avallone, Susan
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HISTORIANS , *ARCHIVES - Abstract
Focuses on the discovery of the papers of historian Leon Trotsky and his son Lev Sedov at the Hoover Institution Archives in Stanford, California. Availability of the papers in microfilm.
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- 1987
57. Tobacco co.'s stolen papers on Web.
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Boehning, Julie
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CORRUPT practices in the tobacco industry , *ACTIONS & defenses (Law) , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
Informs that the University of California at San Francisco can continue to display on the World Wide Web papers stolen from Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. The June 1995 ruling by the California Supreme Court; The papers' revelation that tobacco companies concealed the addictiveness of nicotine from the public for years; How the university obtained the papers; Number of users accessing the papers on the Web site; Details.
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- 1995
58. Heroin-related overdose: The unexplored influences of markets, marketing and source-types in the United States.
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Mars, Sarah G., Fessel, Jason N., Bourgois, Philippe, Montero, Fernando, Karandinos, George, and Ciccarone, Daniel
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BLOOD-vessel physiology , *RATING of sales personnel , *COMPARATIVE studies , *DRUG addiction , *DRUG overdose , *HEROIN , *INJECTIONS , *INTERVIEWING , *LONGITUDINAL method , *MARKETING , *RESEARCH methodology , *PARTICIPANT observation , *SUBSTANCE abuse , *QUALITATIVE research , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,DRUG overdose risk factors - Abstract
Heroin overdose, more accurately termed ‘heroin-related overdose’ due to the frequent involvement of other drugs, is the leading cause of mortality among regular heroin users. (Degenhardt et al., 2010) Heroin injectors are at greater risk of hospital admission for heroin-related overdose (HOD) in the eastern United States where Colombian-sourced powder heroin is sold than in the western US where black ‘tar’ heroin predominates. (Unick et al., 2014) This paper examines under-researched influences on HOD, both fatal and non-fatal, using data from a qualitative study of injecting drug users of black tar heroin in San Francisco and powder heroin in Philadelphia Data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured interviews carried out in 2012 that were conducted against a background of longer-term participant-observation, ethnographic studies of drug users and dealers in Philadelphia (2007–12) and of users in San Francisco (1994–2007, 2012). Our findings suggest three types of previously unconsidered influences on overdose risk that arise both from structural socio-economic factors and from the physical properties of the heroin source-types: 1) retail market structure including information flow between users; 2) marketing techniques such as branding, free samples and pricing and 3) differences in the physical characteristics of the two major heroin source forms and how they affect injecting techniques and vascular health. Although chosen for their contrasting source-forms, we found that the two cities have contrasting dominant models of drug retailing: San Francisco respondents tended to buy through private dealers and Philadelphia respondents frequented an open-air street market where heroin is branded and free samples are distributed, although each city included both types of drug sales. These market structures and marketing techniques shape the availability of information regarding heroin potency and its dissemination among users who tend to seek out the strongest heroin available on a given day. The physical characteristics of these two source-types, the way they are prepared for injecting and their effects on vein health also differ markedly. The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the unexplored factors that may lead to heroin-related overdose in the United States and to generate hypotheses for further study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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59. New Ideas Coming Off The Bench At PARC.
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Duvall, Mel
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PAPER , *RESEARCH institutes , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations - Abstract
Describes an electronic paper in a laboratory in Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California. Comments from scientist Robert Sprague; Reputation of the center; Information on the development arm of Xerox called Xerox New Enterprises; Future plans of Xerox.
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- 1998
60. Not the N.E.A.'s fault.
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Gorman, James and Lieblich, Rebecca
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BLOTTING paper , *FOLK art - Abstract
Reports that Philip Cushway's gallery Artrock in San Francisco, California displays blotter paper soaked in liquid LSD as folk art. Description of several blotter paper works.
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- 1995
61. Experiencias femeninas de migración: Yucatecas en Los Ángeles.
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CHÁVEZ ARELLANO, María Eugenia
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MEXICANS , *WOMEN immigrants , *IDENTITY (Psychology) , *GROUP identity ,EMIGRATION & immigration in Mexico ,UNITED States emigration & immigration - Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present the initial results of a study on Maya-Yucatecan migrant women who have settled permanently in Los Angeles, California. The reasons that led them to migrate are addressed as well as the way they came to the United States and joined the work force. Certain aspects that permitted their insertion into Los Angeles society are highlighted, together with identity recovery practices to show that adaptation to the host culture is slow, irregular and incomplete, but enough for them to deploy survival strategies. The paper is based on the assumption that female migration lends this phenomenon specific characteristic that warrant special attention. Accordingly, the analysis of the document is based on an interpretation of the meaning of the actions, for which the content of ten in-depth interviews conducted in Los Angeles in 2012 was used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
62. Drug tainted currency.
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DRUG traffic , *PAPER money - Abstract
Reports on the dismissal of a case against a man suspected of drug trafficking after a Los Angeles, Calif. court found no evidence clearly connecting the man's drug-tainted money to drugs. Proliferation of bills that contain traces of cocaine or another illicity drug actually stuck to the paper.
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- 1995
63. The paper chase.
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Laiserin, Jerry
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COMPUTER software - Abstract
Evaluates the Argos for Windows software from Sepialine in San Francisco, California.
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- 2001
64. Technology-Forcing and Law-Forcing: The California Effect in Environmental Regulatory Policy.
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Klepetar, Dillon
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ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL standards , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *PRIVATE sector , *ENVIRONMENTAL economics , *POLICY diffusion , *STATE laws - Abstract
The diffusion of environmental laws across U.S. states has become the subject of some theoretical debate. Much of the empirical work surrounding environmental law in a federalist system has focused on the "race to the bottom". In order to attract business investment, the patchwork system of state laws supposedly creates perverse incentives for the most lenient environmental standards. Others believe the federalist system engenders a "race to the top" through contagion. In this alternative scenario, adoption of new environmental laws acts as a catalyst for surrounding states to do the same. These divergent views oversimplify the responses of private firms to the threat or enactment of state environmental regulations. This paper develops a theoretical framework wherein private sector responses to state laws are conditioned by the mobility of firms and the relevance of jurisdictional boundaries. Several pioneering laws in California are examined to better understand if and when environmental policies and consumer standards are diffused or extended to other states. The findings suggest the federalist system can operate under a "lowest common denominator" mechanism in which firms adhere to the strictest state-specific regulations across the country or push for more consistent federal standards. This is because cost-minimizing firms operating under economies of scale will opt to produce and market similar products nation-wide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
65. Do Various Minority Groups vote similarly to Whites? An examination of the policy positions of different racial/ethnic groups on various California initiatives and referenda.
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Grummel, John A.
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VOTING , *ELECTIONS , *POLITICAL science conventions , *RACISM , *AFRICAN Americans , *HISPANIC Americans - Abstract
A conference paper on the analysis of the voting patterns of several racial groups in California's General Elections of 1992 and 1994 through ballot measures, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association in Portland, Oregon, March 22-24, 2012. It discusses the comparison of votes of White American, African American, and Hispanic voters. It also presents an overview on the voting pattern of minority voters.
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- 2012
66. Race, Wealth, and Charter Schools.
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Clark, Constance
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RACE , *WEALTH , *ACHIEVEMENT gap , *MULTIPLE regression analysis , *SOCIAL groups , *CHARTER schools , *ACADEMIC achievement - Abstract
In the last twenty years, charter schools have been portrayed as a potential solution to educational achievement gaps in the United States. Even though charter schools are public institutions, they exercise significant control over what is taught and how it is taught. This educational flexibility not only distinguishes charters from traditional public schools. It also creates considerable variation among charters themselves. Using an original data set on charter school characteristics, this paper examines the advertised educational mission statements charter schools in California and assesses whether their programmatic variation correlates with the race and wealth of their student bodies. Using multiple regression analysis and GIS mapping software, this study finds that the racial and socioeconomic makeup of charter schools in California varies considerably as do their school mission statements. In addition, certain charter school programs correlate with specific racial and socioeconomic categories. The study has implications for understanding how social groups sort themselves based on educational preferences and for estimating the ability of market-based plans to reform America's schools and close educational achievement gaps between student groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
67. Big State, Small State: The Shifting Nature of Electoral College Strategies.
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Goux, Darshan J.
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ELECTORAL college , *POLITICAL campaigns , *PRACTICAL politics , *DECISION making , *PARTISANSHIP - Abstract
State electoral votes and state competitiveness are central to most popular and academic conceptualizations of geographic presidential campaign strategy. And yet, the true influence of state size and competitiveness on campaign strategists' decisionmaking remains inadequately understood. This paper explores the influence of these two core components on the strategic campaign classification of the states and campaign resource allocations using archival campaign data. By looking at different strategies over time and reexamining the conditional nature of the variables' relationship, I find the influence of electoral votes and state level competitiveness is not static but varies by campaign and over time. The data reveal a dramatic shift in the relative power of these two independent variables on decisionmaking, as strategists shifted their focus from the big states to those states that are most competitive. Notably, the recent partisan solidification of states like California and Texas does not explain this change. The substantial shift in presidential campaign targeting, from high to lower population states, carries potentially important ramifications for both voters and the nation's issue agenda and offers clues to the recent manifestation of the battleground concept in political discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
68. The discovery of feeblemindedness among immigrant children through intelligence tests in California in the 1910s.
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Omori, Mariko
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INTELLIGENCE testing in children , *IMMIGRANTS , *IMMIGRANT children , *INTELLECTUAL disabilities , *CHILD psychology , *EDUCATION , *CHILDREN , *BASIC education , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY of segregation , *HISTORY of immigrants - Abstract
This paper explores the way in which psychologists classified immigrant children as feebleminded through the use of intelligence testing and how state organisations consequently segregated them from public schools based on the scientific evidence. First, I show the way in which the psychologist Lewis Terman utilised intelligence testing to identify immigrant children deemed feebleminded. I focus closely on a survey and on his methodology and analysis. I then discuss the possibilities of education for the feebleminded and the segregation of immigrant children from regular classroom of public schools. Through his survey, Terman concluded that the exceptionally high ratio of feebleminded children in the tested region was caused by the large population of immigrant children, although the selection of the sample was often subjective, leading to “miscalculation” in his analysis. Terman’s survey was influential in terms of segregating feebleminded children by stating their incurability; possibilities of education for the feebleminded were thus denied. At his suggestion, special classes and schools, along with a home for the feebleminded, were established. Terman’s psychological survey was a cue for psychologists to enter the school system. The State Board of Education was not only attempting to discover the percentage of feebleminded children but also trying to apply psychology to school training. With the cooperation of the Board, the training of teachers for the feebleminded proceeded. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2018
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69. Using Collabo RATE, a brief patient-reported measure of shared decision making: Results from three clinical settings in the United States.
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Forcino, Rachel C., Barr, Paul J., O'Malley, A. James, Arend, Roger, Castaldo, Molly G., Ozanne, Elissa M., Percac‐Lima, Sanja, Stults, Cheryl D., Tai‐Seale, Ming, Thompson, Rachel, and Elwyn, Glyn
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CONFIDENCE intervals , *MEDICAL cooperation , *PATIENT psychology , *SENSORY perception , *PRIMARY health care , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *RESEARCH , *RESEARCH funding , *SURVEYS , *LOGISTIC regression analysis , *RESEARCH methodology evaluation , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *ODDS ratio , *FIELD notes (Science) - Abstract
Introduction Collabo RATE is a brief patient survey focused on shared decision making. This paper aims to (i) provide insight on facilitators and challenges to implementing a real-time patient survey and (ii) evaluate Collabo RATE scores and response rates across multiple clinical settings with varied patient populations. Method All adult patients at three United States primary care practices were eligible to complete Collabo RATE post-visit. To inform key learnings, we aggregated all mentions of unanticipated decisions, problems and administration errors from field notes and email communications. Mixed-effects logistic regression evaluated the impact of site, clinician, patient age and patient gender on the Collabo RATE score. Results While Collabo RATE score increased only slightly with increasing patient age ( OR 1.018, 95% CI 1.014-1.021), female patient gender was associated with significantly higher Collabo RATE scores ( OR 1.224, 95% CI 1.073-1.397). Clinician also predicts Collabo RATE score (random effect variance 0.146). Site-specific factors such as clinical workflow and checkout procedures play a key role in successful in-clinic implementation and are significantly related to Collabo RATE scores, with Site 3 scoring significantly higher than Site 1 ( OR 1.759, 95% CI 1.216 to 2.545) or Site 2 (z=−2.71, 95% CI −1.114 to −0.178). Discussion This study demonstrates that Collabo RATE can be used in diverse primary care settings. A clinic's workflow plays a crucial role in implementation. Patient experience measurement risks becoming a burden to both patients and administrators. Episodic use of short measurement tools could reduce this burden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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70. Addressing discriminatory benefit design for people living with HIV: a California case study.
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McMenamin, Sara B, Shimkhada, Riti, Hiller, Sarah P., Corbett, Garen, and Ponce, Ninez
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HIV infection epidemiology , *DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) , *HEALTH insurance , *LEGISLATION , *POLICY sciences , *TIME - Abstract
Concern is growing in the United States regarding the potential for health insurance benefit designs to discriminate against persons living with HIV as research demonstrates that such practices are occurring. A recent complaint filed against health insurers in seven states alleges that some health insurance companies have been using benefit designs that discourage enrollment of people living with HIV either by not covering essential HIV medications or by requiring cost-sharing for these prohibitively expensive medications. Legislators across the country have reacted by introducing legislation to address these growing problems. This paper describes Assembly Bill 339, legislation passed in California in 2015 and going into effect on 1 January 2017, which provides protection for people living with HIV by requiring coverage for single-tablet regimens to manage HIV while placing a cap on patient cost-sharing. Given California’s size and influence, and the uncertainty of the future of the Affordable Care Act, this legislation has the potential to influence the national policy debate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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71. Universal opt-out screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) within correctional facilities is an effective intervention to improve public health.
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Morris, Meghan D., Brown, Brandon, and Allen, Scott A.
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HEPATITIS C virus , *MEDICAL screening , *DISEASE prevalence , *CRIMINAL justice system , *PUBLIC health , *PRISON overcrowding , *HEPATITIS C diagnosis , *CORRECTIONAL institutions , *COST effectiveness , *HEPATITIS C , *RESEARCH funding , *ECONOMICS - Abstract
Purpose Worldwide efforts to identify individuals infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) focus almost exclusively on community healthcare systems, thereby failing to reach high-risk populations and those with poor access to primary care. In the USA, community-based HCV testing policies and guidelines overlook correctional facilities, where HCV rates are believed to be as high as 40 percent. This is a missed opportunity: more than ten million Americans move through correctional facilities each year. Herein, the purpose of this paper is to examine HCV testing practices in the US correctional system, California and describe how universal opt-out HCV testing could expand early HCV detection, improve public health in correctional facilities and communities, and prove cost-effective over time. Design/methodology/approach A commentary on the value of standardizing screening programs across facilities by mandating all facilities (universal) to implement opt-out testing policies for all prisoners upon entry to the correctional facilities. Findings Current variability in facility-level testing programs results in inconsistent testing levels across correctional facilities, and therefore makes estimating the actual number of HCV-infected adults in the USA difficult. The authors argue that universal opt-out testing policies ensure earlier diagnosis of HCV among a population most affected by the disease and is more cost-effective than selective testing policies. Originality/value The commentary explores the current limitations of selective testing policies in correctional systems and provides recommendations and implications for public health and correctional organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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72. The Most Popular Kid in the Class: Diffusion of Inclusionary Zoning across San Francisco Bay Area Governments.
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Meltzer, Rachel and Schuetz, Jenny
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ZONING , *LOCAL government , *LAND use - Abstract
Local governments in the U.S. can choose from among a wide array of tools to address most policy issues, and the effectiveness of a policy will vary based on circumstances of time and location. Thus the widespread emergence of one particular tool or instrument raises the question: why do some policies become especially popular? Local inclusionary zoning (IZ) programs are one example of a recent trend in land use regulation that is spreading rapidly. IZ programs either require or offer incentives for developers to set aside a certain percentage of the units within their market-rate residential developments at prices or rents affordable to specified income groups. There is considerable disagreement over the effects of IZ: critics warn that it may constrain production and increase prices, but advocates believe that any negative effects can be mitigated through cost offsets and are justified by the potential for affordable housing production in a time of scarce subsidies. Cities and counties in the San Francisco Bay Area have been particularly enthusiastic adopters of IZ policies; by 2007, 68 percent of jurisdictions in the Bay Area had adopted some form of IZ. In this paper, we test the relative importance of various hypotheses that could explain the rapid diffusion of IZ, using a unique dataset that includes the adoption dates and characteristics of IZ programs, indicators of partisan political affiliation and preferences over a range of related policies, as well as demographic, economic, geographic and housing stock characteristics for 114 counties, cities and towns in the Bay Area. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
73. Faith-based Providers of Urban Social Services: A Story of Niche Effectiveness.
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Monsma, Stephen V. and Soper, J. Christopher
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SOCIAL services , *FAITH-based human services , *COMPARATIVE studies - Abstract
This paper conceptualizes nonprofit social service program effectiveness in terms of ultimate, intermediate, and enabling outcomes. It then presents data from a study of welfare-to-work programs in Los Angeles County that focus on differences in the effectiveness of faith-based programs, compared to the effectiveness of government-run and for-profit programs. We conclude that our findings support the concept of niche effectiveness, that is, that different types of welfare-to-work programs are especially effective in providing certain types of services, instead of certain types of programs possessing across-the-board effectiveness. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
74. 3-D simulations of rigid microwave-propelled sails including spin.
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Schamiloglu, Edl, Abdallah, Chaouki T., Miller, Kristina A., Georgiev, Daniel, Benford, James, Benford, Gregory, and Singh, Gurkirpal
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SPACE flight propulsion systems , *BEAM dynamics - Abstract
This paper discusses the three-dimensional (3-D) stability of carbon fiber sail structures (beam riders) that are being studied in a series of experiments at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and U.C. Irvine by a team led by Microwave Sciences, Inc. The stability analysis is developed for a limited set of conical sail configurations, and the code described in this paper has been developed at JPL by one of the coauthors. The assumptions in the model and the principles behind the simulation, in addition to their relationship to earlier experiments utilizing disk configurations are discussed. Results of stability analyses for several beam rider configurations will be presented at the Forum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
75. THE WEEK.
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INTERNATIONAL trade , *AMERICAN speeches, addresses, etc. , *JOURNALISTS , *EMPLOYMENT , *POLITICAL attitudes ,PRESIDENTIAL messages of United States Presidents - Abstract
This article presents news including foreign trade bill that was discussed during United States President John F. Kennedy's State of the Union address, other factors discussed in Kennedy's address, which reflects his 1961 pattern of relations with the U.S. Congress, and several hundred journalists in Los Angeles, California, who lost their newspaper jobs when two downtown papers went out of business.
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- 1962
76. Imagining a “cultural turn” in transportation geography.
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Attoh, Kafui
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TRANSPORTATION , *CULTURAL geography , *HUMAN geography , *PUBLIC transit , *MAPS - Abstract
This paper asks what a “cultural turn” in transportation geography might look like. In taking seriously Susan Hanson's claim that transportation geography has become a “moribund corner” of the discipline, this paper suggests a set of new avenues for inquiry. To do so, the paper draws on fieldwork I conducted in California's East Bay, as well as the story a fictitious transit system called the “B-Line.” Despite being a fiction, I argue that the B-Line offers an excellent entry point into mapping what a “cultural turn” in transportation geography might entail. Speaking to the larger theme of “doing cultural geography,” this essay argues that doing cultural geography not only means continuing to explore questions of representation, ideology, and cultural meaning, but it also means applying those questions to areas of study like transportation geography—areas where such questions remain largely unexplored. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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77. Reluctant Cities, Colonias and Municipal Underbounding in the US: Can Cities Be Convinced to Annex Poor Enclaves?
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Mukhija, Vinit and Mason, David R.
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MUNICIPAL annexation , *NEIGHBORHOODS , *METROPOLITAN areas , *LOCAL government , *INFRASTRUCTURE financing , *URBAN economics - Abstract
Scholars typically study affluent neighbourhoods resisting annexation by poorer adjacent cities. This paper focuses on the mirror image of this problem: municipal underbounding—the unwillingness of cities to annex poor neighbouring areas. In the paper, such local governments are called reluctant cities and it is suggested that urban studies scholars need to reach a better understanding of the practice. Here, a seemingly counter-intuitive case from California is documented where adjacent cities were convinced to annex poor neighbourhoods, designated as colonias. It is suggested that there may be opportunities for local co-operation leading to annexation. The important role of federal infrastructure funding is noted and the need for deeper involvement of residents of annexed neighbourhoods in decision-making is emphasised. Although race was not an issue in this case study, it is likely to be an important concern in annexations and the literature’s call for regional approaches and institutional reforms is supported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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78. Abstracts of semifinalists' papers.
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SYPHILIS prevention , *MEDICINE awards - Abstract
Presents an abstract of the paper ``Rockin' the Rock House' A Music Video to Prevent Syphillis in South Central Los Angeles,' by Juli Schmidt, a semifinalist paper in the contest for the 1989 Secretary's Award for Innovations in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
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- 1990
79. Campus paper takes heat for lack of O.J. trial coverage.
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Wolper, Allan
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O. J. Simpson Trial - Abstract
Reports on the University of Southern California and their annoyance at not getting enough on the O.J. Simpson trial in the school newspaper Daily Trojan. Details; The L.A. Times did it; Role of the Daily Trojan. INSET: Simpson freed, by Elisa Ung..
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- 1995
80. California Secretary of State Demands Paper Trail.
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ELECTRONIC voting , *SECRETARIES of State (State governments) , *STATE government personnel - Abstract
Reports on the controversy over the decisions of California State Secretary Kevin Shelley and Nevada State Secretary Dean Heller that touch screen voting machines must provide a paper trail by 2006. Comments of Shelley and Heller on the electronic voting system; Advantages and disadvantages of producing a paper trail; Issue on the reliability of the data produced by the system.
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- 2004
81. The California Digital Library Opens the eScholarship Repository for Working Papers.
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DIGITAL libraries , *WEBSITES , *ONLINE information services , *INFORMATION services - Abstract
Reports the launch of a Web site and associated digital services by the California Digital Library. Intent to distribute academic research results and working papers; Features of the eScholarship Repository; Focus on working papers from the humanities and social sciences; Background on the tools behind the eScholarship Repository.
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- 2002
82. Parallel Citizenship: Southern Californian Latino Gangs and their Concept of Citizenship.
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Virgin, Tiffany F.
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CITIZENSHIP , *SALVADORANS , *HISPANIC Americans , *GANGS - Abstract
For Salvadorans who relocated to the United States, the marginalization imposed by American society, the victimization enacted by Mexican gangs and their negative experience with El Salvador's practice of citizenship brought them to create the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and modify 18th Street gangs in the neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Living on the fringes of society, they were kept from attaining the social, civil and economic benefits of a liberal democratic model of citizenship. This paper claims that, in order to survive, they took it upon themselves to create a parallel model of citizenship, combining anarchism with ''citizenship as agency'' under the gang structure. Following Philip Oxhorn's analysis of models of citizenship, this study examines how Salvadoran refugees came to create such alternative citizenship in the framework of the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs. Analysis asserts that the structure and development of membership in the gangs is not a coincidence, but rather a response to their marginalization, negative experience of state citizenship, and their participation in public arenas modeled as an extension of social contracts. Understanding the views of these, now transnational, gangs in terms of citizenship can aid policymakers and Central American governments as they approach these groups, eliminating violence and promoting development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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83. Analysis of 2019 Patients Undergoing Revision Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction From a Community-Based Registry.
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Arianjam, Afshin, Inacio, Maria C. S., Funahashi, Tadashi T., and Maletis, Gregory B.
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ANTERIOR cruciate ligament surgery , *LONGITUDINAL method , *RESEARCH methodology , *MENISCUS injuries , *PULMONARY embolism , *REOPERATION , *SURGICAL site infections , *VENOUS thrombosis , *ARTICULAR cartilage injuries , *BODY mass index , *TREATMENT effectiveness , *RETROSPECTIVE studies , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Background: Knowledge of patient characteristics, surgical fixation, graft choice, outcomes, and concurrent injuries of revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) is limited. Purpose: To describe the current cohort of revision ACLR captured by a community registry and the outcomes observed in the registered patients. Study Design: Case series; Level of evidence, 4. Methods: Patients who underwent revision ACLR registered between February 2005 and June 2014, by 200 surgeons in 46 hospitals, were evaluated. The Kaiser Permanente ACLR Registry (KPACLRR) collected data intraoperatively and postoperatively using paper forms, electronic medical records, administrative claims data, and patient-reported outcomes. The KPACLRR cohort was longitudinally followed, and outcomes were prospectively ascertained. Outcomes (ie, revisions, subsequent operative procedures, deep surgical site infections, and deep venous thrombosis) were adjudicated via a chart review. Descriptive statistics were employed. Results: Of 2019 patients who underwent revision ACLR, at a median follow-up of 2.2 years (interquartile range, 1.0-3.8 years), 212 (10.5%) required subsequent operative procedures, and 86 (4.3%) were revised a second time. At the time of revision, 55.1% of the patients had at least 1 concurrent meniscal injury, and 26% of those were repairable. Cartilage injuries were present in 42.0% of patients. Deep surgical site infections occurred in 12 patients (0.6%), deep venous thrombosis occurred in 5 patients (0.3%), and 1 patient (0.1%) had a pulmonary embolism. Conclusion: Revision ACLR can be performed with a low short-term revision rate and relatively few complications. At the time of revision, nearly half of these patients had an irreparable meniscal injury, and slightly less than half had a cartilage injury. A large community-based ACLR registry is useful in informing surgeons of current treatment practices, prevalence of concurrent injuries, and outcomes associated with the procedures, especially infrequent procedures such as revision ACLR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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84. Energy landscape: Los Angeles Harbor and the establishment of oil-based capitalism in Southern California, 1871–1930.
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Cooke, Jason
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ENERGY development , *PETROLEUM , *CAPITALISM , *PETROLEUM refining , *RENEWABLE energy transition (Government policy) , *TWENTIETH century , *UNITED States history - Abstract
In the first three decades of the twentieth century, the Los Angeles metropolitan area emerged as the fastest growing urban–industrial economy on the Pacific Coast. This was a significant achievement for a city without a natural harbour. Despite formidable barriers presented by physical geography, the gradual development of a deep-water harbour in Los Angeles was fundamental to the emergence of oil-based capitalism in Southern California. In the first three decades of the twentieth century, under the municipal governance of a Board of Harbor Commissioners, private oil companies developed Los Angeles Harbor into a modern transhipment facility comprising infrastructures and technologies dedicated to the efficient transportation, storage, and refining of petroleum and petroleum-based products. From this perspective, Los Angeles Harbor needs to be understood as a long-term, fixed-capital investment into oil-based energy as fuel for industry and transportation. As a transhipment facility, Los Angeles Harbor also functioned as a critical outlet for surplus energy after the discovery of several large fields in the Los Angeles Basin in the early 1920s. By focusing on a particular built landscape, this paper aims to contribute insight into how geographies of fixed-capital investment play a role in the regional dynamics of energy transition and establishment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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85. Setting a minimum age for juvenile justice jurisdiction in California.
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S. Barnert, Elizabeth, S. Abrams, Laura, Maxson, Cheryl, Gase, Lauren, Soung, Patricia, Carroll, Paul, and Bath, Eraka
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JUVENILE offenders , *JURISDICTION , *JUVENILE justice administration , *LEGAL status of children , *CHILD welfare , *HEALTH policy , *PUBLIC health , *CHILDREN'S rights , *MEDICAL jurisprudence -- Law & legislation , *JUVENILE delinquency laws , *GOVERNMENT policy -- Law & legislation , *AGE distribution , *CRIMINOLOGY , *JUVENILE delinquency , *PERSONALITY assessment , *RESEARCH funding , *SOCIAL control - Abstract
Purpose Despite the existence of minimum age laws for juvenile justice jurisdiction in 18 US states, California has no explicit law that protects children (i.e. youth less than 12 years old) from being processed in the juvenile justice system. In the absence of a minimum age law, California lags behind other states and international practice and standards. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach In this policy brief, academics across the University of California campuses examine current evidence, theory, and policy related to the minimum age of juvenile justice jurisdiction. Findings Existing evidence suggests that children lack the cognitive maturity to comprehend or benefit from formal juvenile justice processing, and diverting children from the system altogether is likely to be more beneficial for the child and for public safety. Research limitations/implications Based on current evidence and theory, the authors argue that minimum age legislation that protects children from contact with the juvenile justice system and treats them as children in need of services and support, rather than as delinquents or criminals, is an important policy goal for California and for other national and international jurisdictions lacking a minimum age law. Originality/value California has no law specifying a minimum age for juvenile justice jurisdiction, meaning that young children of any age can be processed in the juvenile justice system. This policy brief provides a rationale for a minimum age law in California and other states and jurisdictions without one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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86. Latino/a professionals as entrepreneurs: how race, class, and gender shape entrepreneurial incorporation.
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Agius Vallejo, Jody and Canizales, Stephanie L.
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HISPANIC American businesspeople , *CAPITAL , *SOCIAL classes , *GENDER & society , *RACE & society , *ETHNICITY & society , *ETHNICITY , *ETHNIC discrimination , *TWENTY-first century , *ECONOMIC history - Abstract
This paper examines how race, class, and gender intersect to shape professional Latinos’ entrepreneurial incorporation, as observed by the conditions that prompt professional Latinos to start a business, including access to capital and experiences with discrimination. In-depth interviews with professional Latino business owners in Los Angeles reveal that individual human capital – via resources and wealth accrued through corporate careers – facilitates entrepreneurial activity. Race, ethnicity, and gender, as intersectional social group identities, combine with class to shape variegated impacts on access to capital and business experiences by gender and target market. Ethnicity is a resource for those serving the coethnic community and is more significant in shaping business ownership experiences for men who target a racially/ethnically diverse clientele, whereas gender and race are more salient for women outside the coethnic community. This study contributes to the ethnic enterprise literature by going beyond ethnicity to demonstrate that multiple dimensions of identity shape professional Latino/as’ entrepreneurial incorporation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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87. Citizens' use of policy symbols and frames.
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Straus, Ryane
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SIGNS & symbols , *CITIZENS , *GOVERNMENT policy , *VERSTEHEN , *EDUCATION policy , *SEGREGATION - Abstract
This paper argues that citizens are capable of developing and promoting complex policy symbols, and that these symbols include supporting frames that explain and justify them. Based on a long-term study of education policies in Los Angeles, California, the paper uses interpretive methods to reconstruct and analyze these frames. Citizens developed two specific policy symbols while the district was engulfed in a desegregation debate; citizens identified schools as places where students gained academic knowledge and as institutions that affected broader race relations. However, education policy in Los Angeles could not support these two symbols over a long period of time, and a political movement to end mandatory busing eventually caused the academic symbol (originally the weaker of the two symbols) to become dominant. This trend reflects broader national discussions, in which education is now discussed in terms of standards and accountability and is evidence of continuing racism in US policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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88. L.A. Rainmaker.
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Streisand, Betsy
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BILLIONAIRES , *PHILANTHROPISTS - Abstract
The article focuses on Eli Broad, a powerful billionaire who is one of the most philanthropic men in Los Angeles, California. He is the major mover behind the city's downtown redevelopment and a liberal Democrat who made his money in real estate and insurance. Along with Ron Burkle, another successful businessman, he is making bids for the news paper company Tribune Co.
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89. Performance history of The Geysers steam field, California, USA
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Goyal, K.P. and Conant, T.T.
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GEYSERS , *GEOTHERMAL resources , *WELLHEAD protection , *STEAM engineering , *RESERVOIRS , *ELECTRIC power production - Abstract
Abstract: The performance of Calpine''s Geysers steam field from startup in 1960 to 2008 is described in this paper. Since October 2003, Calpine has received approximately 482L/s of tertiary-treated reclaimed water from the City of Santa Rosa. To accommodate and derive benefit from this water, Calpine has converted 20 wells (ten producers, six shut-in, two observation, and two suspended wells) to high-rate injection service. Additional nine wells were also converted to low-rate injectors that receive 12.6L/s or less. Annual recovery factors (i.e., fieldwide increase in annual steam production divided by annual injection) for the first 5 years of Santa Rosa Geysers Recharge Project (SRGRP) operation have been estimated at 17.6%, 26.1%, 37.1%, 39% and 44.6%, respectively; reasonably close to or slightly higher than the values, predicted prior to SRGRP startup. Using a revised definition that includes the amount of un-boiled water in the reservoir, the annual recovery factors turn out to be 17.6%, 16.1%, 14.6%, 12.4% and 12.2% from year one through year five. Improvements in the wellfield, water injection, and power plant modifications from January 1995 through December 2008 are also discussed in this paper. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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90. Security in public space: an empirical assessment of three US cities.
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Németh, Jeremy
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PUBLIC spaces , *TOWN security & safety measures , *ZONING , *SECURITY systems - Abstract
Critics often mourn a loss of publicness in cities due to the increased presence of antiterror security zones and related behavioral and access controls, although recent work suggests that security landscapes have shifted from the hard, intense, militarized architecture of the late 1990s-early 2000s to a softer, less obtrusive approach more commonly seen today. Nonetheless, these studies are mostly anecdotal in nature: few studies attempt to back these claims with empirical evidence and even fewer connect this physical security imposition with the policies and plans governing its implementation and operation. In this paper I describe results of site visits to Civic Centers and Financial Districts in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. In each neighborhood I catalog security landscapes using a simple tool to assess the intensity, duration, and location of individual security zones. I find that the security landscape covers between 3.4% and 35.7% of publicly accessible space in the districts studied, and that this landscape is most prevalent and intense in New York City. I also find that security zones governed by multistakeholder networks are more intense and militarized than zones managed by a single entity. By understanding how the policies impact physical security, albeit in a relatively small sample of cities and districts, we can better predict what the future of urban security measures might hold. This paper provides empirical grounding to more common theoretical speculations regarding the future of the urban security landscape in the global West. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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91. Between relationality and territoriality: investigating the geographies of justice movements in The Netherlands and the United States.
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Beaumont, Justin and Nicholls, Walter
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HUMAN territoriality , *JUSTICE , *URBANIZATION , *SOCIAL movements , *NEOLIBERALISM , *CIVIL unions , *ECONOMICS - Abstract
This paper examines the geographies of justice movements in Rotterdam in The Netherlands and Los Angeles in the United States. In their wider national and international frameworks movements in both countries continue to contest unjust forms of urbanization characterized by neoliberal initiatives that undermine the socioeconomic status of low-income residents. These movements are constituted by relations that stretch across several geographical levels. There remain, however, significant differences in their spatial organizational form: Rotterdam is characterized by loose networks of local associations which relate to constellations of nationally based Christian churches, unions, and humanist organizations, whereas networks between associations, unions, and university activists in Los Angeles have undergone institutionalization at the urban level. We show that movement territorialization is particularly evident at the urban level in Los Angeles while embedded at the national level in the shadow of state - corporatist institutional legacies and power relations in Rotterdam. By drawing upon important insights from several economic geographers, we develop a conceptual framework for explaining the spatialities of contention and contribute to contemporary controversies over relationality, territoriality, and political action at a variety of scales. A normative implication of the paper concerns the learning capacities of contesting actors to forge alliances and achieve their ambitions within path-dependent institutional frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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92. PORT COMPETITION BETWEEN LOS ANGELES and LONG BEACH: AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS.
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Jacobs, Wouter
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HARBORS , *ECONOMIC competition , *CASE studies - Abstract
This paper focuses on the process of institutional change at the leading ports of the United States: Los Angeles and Long Beach. In order to do so, it makes use of the structure of provision-approach and the concept of regime politics which allows for a systematic analysis and comparison. Key questions are: how are both ports institutionally structured? How do they evolve in relation to each other? And what is the role of agency in this process? The paper reveals how both ports remain institutionally different in spite of competition. This persistent institutional diversity can be explained by that fact that institutions represent territorially rooted structures of power in which competitive performance will not always be the decisive interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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93. At Yesenia’s House...
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Stohlman, Sarah
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CENTRAL Americans , *RELIGIOUS life , *PENTECOSTAL churches , *HOMOPHILY theory (Communication) , *SOCIAL conditions of immigrants , *IMMIGRANTS , *ETHNOLOGY , *FIELD research - Abstract
This paper explores the multiple expressions of Central American immigrant Pentecostalism in the Pico Union district of Los Angeles. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in three temples and informal conversations with over 30 active Pentecostals, this paper shows that Central American immigrant Pentecostals tend to congregate on the basis of “congregational homophily,” or shared social and cultural characteristics, especially in terms of age, marital status, presence of infirmities or ailments, and national/regional origin. This paper also explores the ways in which Central American immigrant Pentecostals tailor their religious practices to reflect their “congregational homophily” through the differential inclusion/exclusion of practices such as healing, “roommating,” and formal and informal discussions of shared histories. By focusing on “congregational homophily” and the active constructions and reconstructions of Central American immigrant Pentecostalism, we gain more insight into the ways some Central American immigrants negotiate their lives and experiences in the increasingly fettered social, cultural, and political topography of contemporary Los Angeles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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94. From California to the Nation; Rethinking the History, of 20th Century U.S. Civil Rights Struggles Through a Mexican American and Multiracial Lens.
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Bernstein, Shana
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MEXICAN Americans , *CIVIL rights , *CITIZENSHIP , *HUMAN rights , *ETHNOLOGY , *CONSTITUTIONAL law - Abstract
The article discusses the struggles of the Mexican American civil rights in Los Angeles, California during the early Cold War era. Accordingly, the paper explains the ways in which those mid-century campaigns for Mexican American civil rights were fundamentally cooperative. The paper also highlighted the significance of the struggle of the Mexican American civil rights for Mexican Americans' quest for full citizenship
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95. Cambodians in Long Beach, California: The Making of a Community.
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Needham, Susan and Quintiliani, V
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DIASPORA , *CHRONOLOGY , *REFUGEES , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *CAMBODIANS - Abstract
Long Beach, California is home to the largest population of Cambodians outside Cambodia and is the symbolic and actual center of the worldwide Cambodian diaspora. Despite the significance of this community for both Cambodians and Long Beach, little is known about the social, historical, political, and economic processes leading to its formation. This paper situates the growth of the community within particular historical moments at both national and local levels through a chronological presentation of key events from the 1950s through the 1990s. The paper provides insights into the experiences of a largely refugee population and the new Asian immigration to the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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96. 'The Thing About Work': Gendered Narratives of a Transnational, Trilingual Mexicano.
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Menard-Warwick, Julia
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BILINGUALISM , *MULTILINGUALISM , *SECOND language acquisition , *LANGUAGE acquisition , *LANGUAGE & languages , *LIFE history interviews , *EDUCATION of immigrants - Abstract
Through narratives taken from life history interviews with an indigenous Mexican male immigrant in California, this paper examines the connection between masculinities and the learning of dominant languages associated with access to economic opportunities. In portraying the teller's engagements with work and education in both countries, these life history narratives index the way changing social contexts have caused him to emphasise different masculinities at different times in his life. Specifically, this paper explores the way a serious work injury led the teller to place new emphasis on learning English and computer skills in order to reconstruct a kind of ‘technical masculinity’ that he had previously found little scope for in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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97. Gifted Wrappers Go Beyond the Bow.
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Bhatia, Pooja
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GIFT wrapping - Abstract
Describes the gift wrapping services offered by Mimio's Papers in Pasadena, California.
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- 2001
98. Investors Feel a Side Effect Of California's Power Crisis.
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Thomas, Jo
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ENERGY industries , *COMMERCIAL paper issues - Abstract
Examines how the financial problems faced by energy utilities in California affected the investors in the commercial papers issued by the utilities in the United States.
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- 2001
99. Modernizing Homeland Defense and Security.
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Clayton, Ross and Haverty, Dan M.
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NATIONAL security , *ORGANIZATIONAL structure , *ORGANIZATION - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to draw out some of the implications of the 9/11 Commission Report for California's Homeland Defense and Security and to address government failures identified in that report. The question the paper addresses is: How can we design organizational arrangements and staff them to institutionalize imagination, foster organizational adaptability, and overcome ineffective operational management? A Matrixed Networks Model is proposed to "restructure" the way California government is organized to achieve the performance objectives alluded to in the above research question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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100. A hand in everything.
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Lavelle, Marianne
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ENERGY industries , *CORPORATE corruption , *ELECTRICITY , *PRICES - Abstract
Focuses on Enron Corp. The complexity of the company's global business, including its involvement with the energy industries in the United States; Investigation of the company for allegedly manipulating markets and price gouging; Efforts of California to limit the electricity prices which Enron can charge customers; History of the company. INSET: Enron's biggest assets are on paper, by Anne Kates Smith.
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- 2001
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