San Francisco State University

About: San Francisco State University is a education organization based out in San Francisco, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Planet. The organization has 5669 authors who have published 11433 publications receiving 408075 citations. The organization is also known as: San Francisco State & San Francisco State Normal School.

Multicultural Counseling Competencies = Ethical Practice

Abstract: The adoption of the Competencies is indicative of ethical and culturally responsive practices. Historical marginalization based on ethnic, racial, cultural, and socioeconomic differences and scientific racism have adversely affected the mental health professions and clients deserving of services.A rationale for the adoption of the Competencies is articulated based on existing research and examples of application of the Competencies. Rebuttals are made to criticisms about the Competencies by Weinrach and Thomas (2002). Viewing the Competencies as a living document indicates their future evolution as a set of culturally universal and culturally relative guidelines for the mental health professions.

DNA hybridization evidence of hominoid phylogeny: a reanalysis of the data.

Abstract: Sibley and Ahlquist (1984, 1987) presented the results of a study of 514 DNA-DNA hybrids among the hominoids and Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae). They concluded that the branching order of the living hominoid lineages, from oldest to most recent, was gibbons, orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzees, and human. Thus, a chimpanzee-human clade was indicated, rather than the chimpanzee-gorilla clade usually suggested from morphological evidence. The positions of the gibbon and orangutan branches in the phylogeny are supported by substantial evidence, but whether the chimpanzee lineage branched most recently from the human lineage or from the gorilla lineage remains controversial. The conclusions of Sibley and Ahlquist (1984, 1987) have been supported by several independent studies cited by Sibley and Ahlquist (1987), plus the DNA sequence data of Hayasaka et al. (1988), Miyamoto et al. (1988), Goodman et al. (1989, 1990), and the DNA-DNA hybridization data of Caccone and Powell (1989). The laboratory and data analysis methods have been criticized by Marks et al. (1988) and Sarich et al. (1989). In response to these critics, and for our own interests, we present a reanalysis of the Sibley and Ahlquist data, including a description of the corrections applied to the "raw counts." The validity of the laboratory methods is supported by the congruence of tree topology and delta values with those of Caccone and Powell (1989), although their tetraethylammonium chloride technique differs from the hydroxyapatite method in several respects. The utility of the T50H distance measure is indicated by its congruence with percent sequence divergence at least to delta T50H 30, as noted by Goodman et al. (1990). The Sibley and Ahlquist uncorrected data indicate that Pan is genetically closer to Homo than to Gorilla, but that Gorilla may be genetically closer to Pan than to Homo. Melting curves are presented for the pertinent experiments, plus one that includes representatives of most of the groups of living primates.

The NASA-UC Eta-Earth Program. I. A Super-Earth Orbiting HD 7924

Abstract: We report the discovery of the first low-mass planet to emerge from the NASA-UC Eta-Earth Program, a super-Earth orbiting the K0 dwarf HD 7924. Keplerian modeling of precise Doppler radial velocities reveals a planet with minimum mass M_P sin i = 9.26 M_⊕ in a P = 5.398 d orbit. Based on Keck-HIRES measurements from 2001 to 2008, the planet is robustly detected with an estimated false alarm probability of less than 0.001. Photometric observations using the Automated Photometric Telescopes at Fairborn Observatory show that HD 7924 is photometrically constant over the radial velocity period to 0.19 mmag, supporting the existence of the planetary companion. No transits were detected down to a photometric limit of ~0.5 mmag, eliminating transiting planets with a variety of compositions. HD 7924b is one of only eight planets detected by the radial velocity technique with M_P sin i < 10 M_⊕ and as such is a member of an emerging family of low-mass planets that together constrain theories of planet formation.

Stations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics

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A coupled ocean-ecosystem model of the Ross Sea: 2. Iron regulation of phytoplankton taxonomic variability and primary production

Abstract: [1] A model of the Ross Sea pelagic ecosystem has been developed by incorporating biological and nutrient dynamics into an ocean general circulation model. Surface heat and salt fluxes are calculated in the model using sea ice concentrations that are specified daily using the 20 year climatology derived from passive microwave satellite data. Surface spectral irradiance is calculated and propagated through both the water column and the sea ice. The biological state variables include two phytoplankton groups (diatoms and Phaeocystis antarctica), two nutrients (NO3 and Fe), detritus, and zooplankton. Nutrients are supplied to the sea surface from upwelling of nutrient-rich deep waters, and in the case of Fe, from melting sea ice and snow which have accumulated aeolian-derived Fe during the preceding autumn and winter. Phytoplankton growth rate is computed as a function of light or nutrient limitation. The model is able to accurately simulate the temporal evolution of the two well-described phytoplankton blooms that dominate the southwestern Ross Sea: the diatom bloom in the shallow mixed layer of the western continental shelf (including Terra Nova Bay) and the P. antarctica bloom in the more deeply mixed Ross Sea polynya region. The simulated temporal progression of both phytoplankton blooms as well as their magnitude of primary production are in good agreement with time series estimates made using satellite ocean color data as validated by in situ observations. Model results suggest that Fe availability controls annual primary production in the Ross Sea, with only about two thirds of the available macronutrients in surface waters being consumed during the course of the bloom, but that Fe has little role in determining phytoplankton community composition. Rather, the taxonomic composition of the phytoplankton blooms is determined by the differential responses of shade-adapted P. antarctica and high light-adapted diatoms to the different mixing (and hence light) regimes within the Ross Sea. The model also predicts the development of a previously undescribed phytoplankton bloom along the eastern continental shelf, just north of the Ross Ice Shelf. The physical environment of this third phytoplankton bloom differs from that of the western shelf and the Ross Sea polynya region in that it receives a larger input of sea ice-derived Fe and experiences complete exhaustion of surface NO3. Consequently, annual production on the eastern continental shelf is higher than anywhere else in the Ross Sea and supports an unusually large grazer population.