Browsing by Subject "California"
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An Analysis of Water Management Strategies in Drought Prone Areas
(2018-04-26)There is an old adage in the West: “whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting”. In the American West, as well as locales all over the globe, water scarcity is a subject rife with conflicts and emotion. Human beings ... -
An Economic and Policy Analysis of the Introduction of High-Speed Rail in California: Phase One from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles and Anaheim
(2012-04-26)Should Phase One of California’s high-speed rail (HSR) system be built? With a rapidly growing population and congested airports and highways, California plans to build the nation’s first, true HSR system, with 800 miles ... -
Antimicrobial-Resistant Shigella spp. in San Diego, California, USA, 2017-2020.
(Emerging infectious diseases, 2022-06)Annually, Shigella spp. cause ≈188 million cases of diarrheal disease globally, including 500,000 cases in the United States; rates of antimicrobial resistance are increasing. To determine antimicrobial resistance and risk ... -
Burnout in the NICU setting and its relation to safety culture.
(BMJ quality & safety, 2014-10)Burnout is widespread among healthcare providers and is associated with adverse safety behaviours, operational and clinical outcomes. Little is known with regard to the explanatory links between burnout and these adverse ... -
Closing the “Energy-Efficiency Gap”: An Empirical Analysis of Property Assessed Clean Energy
(2012-04-27)Until federal regulators halted operations, a handful of municipal PACE programs across the US offered property-secured loans from city or county funds to homeowners for residential clean energy investments. These loans, ... -
Cryptococcus gattii VGIII isolates causing infections in HIV/AIDS patients in Southern California: identification of the local environmental source as arboreal.
(PLoS Pathog, 2014-08)Ongoing Cryptococcus gattii outbreaks in the Western United States and Canada illustrate the impact of environmental reservoirs and both clonal and recombining propagation in driving emergence and expansion of microbial ... -
Daily intake of antioxidants in relation to survival among adult patients diagnosed with malignant glioma.
(BMC Cancer, 2010-05-19)BACKGROUND: Malignant glioma is a rare cancer with poor survival. The influence of diet and antioxidant intake on glioma survival is not well understood. The current study examines the association between antioxidant intake ... -
Exploring Leadership in California’s Environmental Policy Space
(2020-04-20)California’s federal policymakers often consider their state to be an environmental policy leader. These policymakers see the state as a laboratory for innovative environmental policies to address a range of challenges including ... -
Follow the Leader? Evaluating California as an electricity model for the future
(2009-04-23)As the search for low carbon sources of electricity in the US continues it makes sense to consider those systems which are already providing electricity without significant CO2 emissions. In the US there are a few states ... -
Gobbling Up Habitat? Impact of Wild Turkeys on Native Bird Habitat Selection
(2008-04-25)The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an invasive species currently causing heated debate in California. Not only is there a question as to whether or not the bird is actually invasive, as a very similar species of wild ... -
Impact of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles on California's Electricity Grid
(2009-04-24)Several automakers are preparing for the next generation of passenger transportation, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs). These vehicles are slated to be commercially available starting in 2010. PHEVs operate similar ... -
Increasing Water Affordability through a Statewide Customer Assistance Program in California
(2023-04-28)California has adopted a statewide policy where “every human being has the right to clean, safe, affordable, and accessible water.” Yet having the right to clean and affordable water is not the same as having clean and affordable ... -
MEASURING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT: POLICY OPTIONS FOR CALIFORNIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
(2003)NOAA manages the coastal zone in the United States under the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA). One of the goals of the act is to provide opportunities for the public to participate in the coastal zone management (CZM) ... -
Patterns of Song across Natural and Anthropogenic Soundscapes Suggest That White-Crowned Sparrows Minimize Acoustic Masking and Maximize Signal Content.
(PloS one, 2016-01)Soundscapes pose both evolutionarily recent and long-standing sources of selection on acoustic communication. We currently know more about the impact of evolutionarily recent human-generated noise on communication than we ... -
Persistent Bacillus cereus Bacteremia in 3 Persons Who Inject Drugs, San Diego, California, USA.
(Emerging infectious diseases, 2016-09)Bacillus cereus is typically considered a blood culture contaminant; however, its presence in blood cultures can indicate true bacteremia. We report 4 episodes of B. cereus bacteremia in 3 persons who inject drugs. Multilocus ... -
Point-of-care diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis in non-neutropenic patients: Aspergillus Galactomannan Lateral Flow Assay versus Aspergillus-specific Lateral Flow Device test in bronchoalveolar lavage.
(Mycoses, 2019-03)<h4>Background</h4>We compared new Aspergillus Galactomannan Lateral Flow Assay with the newly formatted Aspergillus-specific Lateral Flow device tests for the diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) ... -
Protecting Surf Breaks and Surfing Areas in California
(2015-04-21)In California, surfing is part of a 24 billion dollar coastal economy, a form of water-based recreation recognized in state coastal policy, and is positively identified with the state’s broad history and culture. Where surfing ... -
Rare mould infections caused by Mucorales, Lomentospora prolificans and Fusarium, in San Diego, CA: the role of antifungal combination therapy.
(International journal of antimicrobial agents, 2018-11)Non-Aspergillus invasive mould infections (IMIs) are associated with devastating morbidity and mortality rates and are increasingly diagnosed in immunocompromised hosts. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology ... -
Right coronary wall CMR in the older asymptomatic advance cohort: positive remodeling and associations with type 2 diabetes and coronary calcium.
(J Cardiovasc Magn Reson, 2010-12-30)BACKGROUND: Coronary wall cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a promising noninvasive approach to assess subclinical atherosclerosis, but data are limited in subjects over 60 years old, who are at increased risk. ... -
Risk factors and outcomes of culture-proven acute Coccidioides spp. infection in San Diego, California, United States.
(Mycoses, 2020-06)<h4>Background</h4>Coccidioides spp. are dimorphic fungi endemic to parts of the United States, Mexico, Central and South America. Infection can cause a range of disease from self-limited acute pneumonia to severe disseminated ...
