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San Francisco State University

EducationSan Francisco, California, United States
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.


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TL;DR: The role of biofilm in facilitating metal accumulation on plastic debris is highlighted and contributes to current understanding of the underlying processes that influence the behavior of microplastics as aquatic contaminants.

137 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate a dynamic model of how consumers learn about and choose between different brands of personal computers (PCs) by estimating a model of active learning, i.e., a model in which consumers make optimal sequential decisions about how much information to gather prior to making a purchase.
Abstract: We estimate a dynamic model of how consumers learn about and choose between different brands of personal computers (PCs). To estimate the model, we use a panel data set that contains the search and purchase behavior of a set of consumers who were in the market for a PC. The data includes the information sources visited each period, search durations, as well as measures of price expectations and stated attitudes toward the alternatives during the search process. Our model extends recent work on estimation of Bayesian learning models of consumer choice behavior in environments characterized by uncertainty by estimating a model of active learning—i.e., a model in which consumers make optimal sequential decisions about how much information to gather prior to making a purchase. Also, following the suggestion of Manski (2003), we use our data on price expectations to model consumers’ price expectation process, and, following the suggestion of McFadden (1989a), we incorporate the stated brand quality information into our likelihood function, rather than modeling only revealed preference data. Our analysis sheds light on how consumer forward-looking price expectations and the process of learning about quality influence the consumer choice process. A key finding is that estimates of dynamic price elasticities of demand exceed estimates that ignore the expectations effect by roughly 50%. This occurs because our estimated expectations formation process implies that consumers expect mean reversion in price changes. This enhances the impact of a temporary price cut. Finally, while our work focuses specifically on the PC market, the modeling approach we develop here may be useful for studying a wide range of high-tech, high-involvement durable goods markets where active learning is important.

137 citations

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01 Oct 1998-Genetics
TL;DR: A new model for the origin and radiation of commensal house mice is derived, whose main features are an origin in west-central Asia and the sequential spreading of mice first to the southern Arabian Peninsula, thence eastward and northward into south-Central Asia, and later from south- central Asia to north-centralAsia (and thence into most of northern Eurasia and to southeastern Asia).
Abstract: The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region and flanking tRNAs were sequenced from 76 mice collected at 60 localities extending from Egypt through Turkey, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal to eastern Asia. Segments of the Y chromosome and of a processed p53 pseudogene (Psip53) were amplified from many of these mice and from others collected elsewhere in Eurasia and North Africa. The 251 mtDNA types, including 54 new ones reported here, now identified from commensal house mice (Mus musculus group) by sequencing this segment can be organized into four major lineages-domesticus, musculus, castaneus, and a new lineage found in Yemen. Evolutionary tree analysis suggested the domesticus mtDNAs as the sister group to the other three commensal mtDNA lineages and the Yemeni mtDNAs as the next oldest lineage. Using this tree and the phylogeographic approach, we derived a new model for the origin and radiation of commensal house mice whose main features are an origin in west-central Asia (within the present-day range of M. domesticus) and the sequential spreading of mice first to the southern Arabian Peninsula, thence eastward and northward into south-central Asia, and later from south-central Asia to north-central Asia (and thence into most of northern Eurasia) and to southeastern Asia. Y chromosomes with and without an 18-bp deletion in the Zfy-2 gene were detected among mice from Iran and Afghanistan, while only undeleted Ys were found in Turkey, Yemen, Pakistan, and Nepal. Polymorphism for the presence of a Psip53 was observed in Georgia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Sequencing of a 128-bp Psip53 segment from 79 commensal mice revealed 12 variable sites and implicated >/=14 alleles. The allele that appeared to be phylogenetically ancestral was widespread, and the greatest diversity was observed in Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal. Two mice provided evidence for a second Psip53 locus in some commensal populations.

137 citations

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TL;DR: The first 2.5 years of the Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAS) survey as mentioned in this paper achieved 3m/s Doppler precisions from the 3.9m AU Telescope, making it the highest precision planet search in the southern hemisphere.
Abstract: We report results from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search -- a survey for planets around 200 solar-type stars in the southern hemisphere, which is being carried out on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope. Limiting Doppler precisions of 3m/s have been demonstrated from the first 2.5 years of operation, making this the highest precision planet search in the southern hemisphere. From these data we report results for two new sub-stellar detections. The first is a "51 Peg"-like planet around the star HD179949 with Msin i = 0.84 Mjup. Photometric study reveals this is not a transiting system. The second is a brown dwarf or very low-mass star companion to HD164427 in an eccentric orbit with Msin i = 46Mjup. Hipparcos data indicate this latter object is unlikely to have a mass greater than 0.18 Msol.

136 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors report results of the Chandra deep-imaging observation of the closest post-core-collapse globular cluster, NGC 6397, where 25 sources are detected within 2' of the cluster center, of which ~20 are likely cluster members, with LX 3 × 1029 ergs s-1.
Abstract: We report results of the Chandra deep-imaging observation of the closest post-core-collapse globular cluster, NGC 6397. Some 25 sources are detected within 2' of the cluster center, of which ~20 are likely cluster members, with LX 3 × 1029 ergs s-1. The X-ray spectra suggest identifications with one quiescent low-mass X-ray binary (qLMXB) detected by the thermal emission from its neutron star (NS) and nine cataclysmic variables (CVs), eight of which are identified in our deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging survey (reported separately). Three (of 16) BY Dra main-sequence binary candidates identified in our earlier HST imaging study (Taylor et al.) are detected, of which one is indeed the counterpart of the eclipsing millisecond pulsar (MSP) as recently identified by Ferraro et al. Two other BY Dra candidates are also detected, whereas none of the probable He white dwarf (WD) binaries identified by Taylor et al. are, indicating they do not contain MSP primaries. The ratio of CVs to MSPs appears to be ~10 times greater than in 47 Tuc.

136 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Yuri S. Kivshar126184579415
Debra A. Fischer12156754902
Sandro Galea115112958396
Vijay S. Pande10444541204
Howard Isaacson10357542963
Paul Ekman9923584678
Russ B. Altman9161139591
John Kim9040641986
Santi Cassisi8947130757
Peng Zhang88157833705
Michael D. Fayer8453726445
Raymond G. Carlberg8431628674
Geoffrey W. Marcy8355082309
Ten Feizi8238123988
John W. Eaton8229826403
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2022104
2021575
2020566
2019524
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