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.

Payments for Ecosystem Services in Mexico: Nature, Neoliberalism, Social Movements, and the State

Abstract: Prominent advocates of payments for ecosystem services (PES) contend that markets in biodiversity, carbon storage, and hydrological services can produce both conservation and sustainable development. In Mexico's national PES programs, however, conceived as models of market-based management, efficiency criteria have clashed with antipoverty goals and an enduring developmental-state legacy. Like other projects for commodification of nature, Mexico's PES is a hybrid of market-like mechanisms, state regulations, and subsidies. It has been further reshaped by social movements mobilized in opposition to neoliberal restructuring. These activists see ecosystem services as coproduced by nature and campesino communities. Rejecting the position of World Bank economists, they insist that the values of ecosystems derive less from the market prices of their services than from their contributions to peasant livelihoods, biodiversity, and social benefits that cannot be quantified or sold. These divergent conceptualizatio...

Teaching ESL writing

Abstract: Chapter 1 Overview of Native English Speaker (NES) Composition Beginnings The Expressive School The Cognitive School Early Writing Process Research Basic Writers Current Research Trends The Social Nature of Writing Ethnographic Research and Composing Processes Computers and Composition Teaching James Kinneavy and Traditional Rhetoric The Reading-Writing Connection Individualization and Collaboration in the Classroom Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Testing and Assessing Writing Classroom Implementation Conclusion Discussion Questions/Writing Chapter 2 Overview of ESL Composition Early ESL Methods Controlled Writing "Free Writing"/Guided Writing Language-Bases Writing The Pattern/Product Approach The Process Movement Current Trends and Research Composing and Revising processes Contrastive Analysis/Error Analysis Cohesion/Coherence The Process-Product Classroom Communicative Competence Collaborative Learning Computer-assisted Language Learning (C.A.L.L.) Proficiency Testing Conclusion Discussion Questions/Writing Chapter 3 Pedagogical Issues in ESL Writing Cross-Cultural Communication The cross-Cultural ESL Writing Classroom The ESL Writing Teacher as Cultural Informant Learning and Teaching Styles Contrastive Rhetoric Schema Theory The Writing-Reading Connection Differences Between Speaking and Writing Conclusion Discussion Questions/Writing Chapter 4 Curriculum and Syllabus Design Curriculum Development Designing a Curriculum Statement Syllabus Development Syllabus Design for Writing Courses Horizontal and Vertical Syllabi Designing the Linear Syllabus Designing the Modular Syllabus Content-Based Syllabus Design Evaluating and Revising Existing Curricula/Syllabi Planning Curriculum and Syllabus Revision Evaluating Textbooks Conclusion Discussion Questions/Writing Chapter 5 Blind Random: The First Weeks Learning about Student (and Teacher) Styles Planning Ahead Teacher-Student Responsibilities Operating Procedures The First Day Lesson Plans Troublespots Student diversity Lack of Community Mismatches in Student-Teacher perceptions Uneven Pacing Student "Resistance" to Change Levels of Anxiety Conclusion Discussion Questions/Writing Chapter 6 Collaborative and Cross-Cultural Activities Selection and Design Criteria for Classroom Activities Start-Ups The First Days: Introductions Warm-Ups Collaborative learning and Group Work Planning Group work The Journal (Daybook, Learning Log) Cross-Cultural Activities Group Projects Conclusion Discussion Questions/Writing Chapter 7 English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Integrated Skills Activities Sequencing Assignments Sample Sequences The Writing-Reading Connection Journal (Daybook, Learning Log) Writing and Reading Reading(and Writing about) Peer and Self-Writing Nonfiction Readingand Writing Readingand Writing about Literature Integrated Skills Activities Surveys Games, Role-Play, and Writing Situations and Writing Designing Activities and Writing Assignments Conclusion Discussion Questions/Writing Chapter 8 Responding to Student Writing Student Response Issues in Peer Review Peer Review Worksheets Alternative Audiences Teacher Response Conferencing Mini-conferencing Conclusion Discussion Questions/Writing Chapter 9 Evaluating Student Writing Accuracy and Fluency Revision Grading Scales Analytic Scoring Holistic Scoring Teacher Evaluation Forming a Philosophy of Evaluation Evaluation Criteria Cover Sheets Evaluating Evaluation Portfolio Assessment Plagiarism Conclusion Discussion Questions/Writing Chapter 10 Teaching ESL Writing: Becoming a Professional Individual Professional Development Theory: The Foundation of the Profession From Theory to Practice: Reflective Teaching Action Research Conclusion Discussion Questions/Writing APPENDICES Appendix 1: Personality Surveys Appendix 2: Learning and Teaching Style Surveys Appendix 3: Teacher Observation Sheets GLOSSARY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY WORKS CITED

The N2K Consortium. II. A Transiting Hot Saturn around HD 149026 with a Large Dense Core

Abstract: Doppler measurements from Subaru and Keck have revealed radial velocity variations in the V = 8.15, G0 IV star HD 149026 consistent with a Saturn-mass planet in a 2.8766 day orbit. Photometric observations at Fairborn Observatory have detected three complete transit events with depths of 0.003 mag at the predicted times of conjunction. HD 149026 is now the second-brightest star with a transiting extrasolar planet. The mass of the star, based on interpolation of stellar evolutionary models, is 1.3 ± 0.1 M_☉; together with the Doppler amplitude K_1 = 43.3 m s^(-1), we derive a planet mass M sin i = 0.36M_J and orbital radius 0.042 AU. HD 149026 is chromospherically inactive and metal-rich with spectroscopically derived [Fe/H] = +0.36, T_(eff) = 6147 K, log g = 4.26, and v sin i = 6.0 km s^(-1). Based on T_(eff) and the stellar luminosity of 2.72 L_☉, we derive a stellar radius of 1.45 R_☉. Modeling of the three photometric transits provides an orbital inclination of 85o.3 ± 1o.0 and (including the uncertainty in the stellar radius) a planet radius of (0.725 ± 0.05)R_J. Models for this planet mass and radius suggest the presence of a ~67 M_⊕ core composed of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. This substantial planet core would be difficult to construct by gravitational instability.

Trophic rank and the species-area relationship

Abstract: We acknowledge support by the National Science Foundation (to R. D. Holt and G. A. Polis), and by the National Environmental Research Council (R. D. Holt, J. H. Lawton, and N. D. Martinez). R. D. Holt and N. D. Martinez thank the NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, for support and hospitality. We have profited from conversations on this and related topics with many scientists, and wish to thank in particular P. A. Abrams, W. B. Anderson, J. Bengtsson, W. J. O’Brien, Jr., M. Rosenzweig, T. Schoener, T. Tscharntke, and J. Wright.