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Journal articles on the topic "California 1980s"

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Ekland-Olson, Sheldon, William R. Kelly, and Michael Eisenberg. "Crime and Incarceration: Some Comparative Findings from the 1980s." Crime & Delinquency 38, no. 3 (1992): 392–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128792038003007.

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Incarceration, crime, and unemployment rates from Texas, California, and the United States during the 1970s and 1980s are examined to explore the link between incarceration policies and crime rates. Comparing Texas and California, despite different incarceration policies in the 1980s, there are few differences in violent crime rate trends. By contrast, in the late 1980s, property crimes increased in Texas and decreased in California. These state-rate differences across types of crime parallel findings across four successive parolee cohorts in Texas, where increases in repetitious property offending patterns were noted, and repetitious violent offending remained stable. Variations in incarceration rates and economic conditions are noted as explanatory factors.
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Hess, Alan. "The Origins of McDonald's Golden Arches." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 45, no. 1 (1986): 60–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/990129.

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The original prototype for McDonald's drive-in hamburger stands featuring the full-scale golden arches and red-and-white tile walls was a major influence on roadside strips throughout the United States from its introduction in 1953 to its phased elimination in the 1970s and 1980s. Based on interviews with the original clients, architects, contractors, and franchisees, this paper documents for the first time how this popular-culture icon was created. Its development can be understood in the context of the car-strip's commercial and cultural requirements as it evolved and prospered after World War II. The perspective from the car and the linear expanse of the strip dictated the architecture's scale and simple form. The commercial function demanded an image appealing to customers in that era. Clients Richard and Maurice McDonald worked closely with architect Stanley Clark Meston to design a building that carried on the traditions of drive-ins of the 1920s and 1930s in Southern California and updated it in an appropriate and memorable aesthetic. This paper also documents the location, dates, and condition of the earliest stands franchised, in California and Arizona, based on interviews, building permits, and tours of the original sites.
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Würsig, Bernd, Thomas A. Jefferson, Gregory K. Silber, and Randall S. Wells. "Vaquita: beleaguered porpoise of the Gulf of California, México." Therya 12, no. 2 (2021): 187–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.12933/therya-21-1109.

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The vaquita (Phocoena sinus), an endemic porpoise of the Gulf of California, México, was first described scientifically in 1958, from three skulls. It is considered a sister taxon of an ancestor of the Southern Hemisphere Burmeister’s porpoise (P. spinipinnis) and spectacled porpoise (P. dioptrica), a case of antitropical distribution and speciation. Vaquita in modern times seem to have existed largely in waters 10 to 30 m deep of the very northern Gulf of California, and may have already existed in relatively low numbers by the 1950s and 1960s. The external appearance of the vaquita was not described until the late 1970s, and not until the 1980s and 1990s did additional information about ecology and biology emerge. Those studies and more recent shipboard and aerial visual line transect surveys, as well as stationary and boat-towed acoustic arrays, mapped occurrence patterns and approximate numbers in greater detail than before. The first credible estimates of abundance appeared in the 1990s, with numbers in the mid-hundreds and declining. While several reasons for the decline were originally postulated, mortality due to entanglement in nets has been established as the only known cause of decline, especially due to bycatch in large-mesh gillnets set for the endangered croaker fish totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi). This fish is prized in China for human consumption of its swim bladder, generally ground up for purported therapeutic purposes. An extensive, lucrative fishery for totoaba, now illegal for many decades, has existed since at least the 1920s, and has recently increased. Although there have been laudable attempts to stem or halt totoaba fishing, these have largely been unsuccessful, and as of this writing the vaquita is on the brink of extinction. However, rapid concentrated action against illegal fishing with gillnets may yet save the species, and hope (with attendant action) must be kept alive. This overview is followed by an appendix of a previously unpublished popular essay by K.S. Norris describing when, where, and how he first discovered the species, and subsequent early work relative to this newly-described porpoise.
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Wagner, Laura A., Linda Ownby, and Janet Gless. "The California Mentor Teacher Program in the 1980s and 1990s." Education and Urban Society 28, no. 1 (1995): 20–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013124595028001003.

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Rosenthal, Nicolas G. "Rewriting the Narrative: American Indian Artists in California, 1960s–1980s." Western Historical Quarterly 49, no. 4 (2018): 409–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/whq/why109.

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Klyza, Christopher McGrory. "Ideas, Institutions, and Policy Patterns: Hardrock Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policy on United States Public Lands, 1870–1985." Studies in American Political Development 8, no. 2 (1994): 341–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x00001279.

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From the mid–1800s through the mid–1980s, the federal government initiated programs to manage three types of resources on the lands that it controlled. The discovery of gold in California and elsewhere in the West prompted the first government policy in the 1860s. Debate over the nation's forests began in the 1870s, and a system of national forests to be managed by a federal Forest Service was created in the late 1800s and early 1900s. And in the 1930s, the government finally began to manage the lands no one wanted, its grazing lands. The federal government continues to be an active manager of national resources. Indeed, with control of nearly 30 percent of the nation's land, it is the largest land manager in the country.
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Johnson, Lorin, and Donald Bradburn. "Fleeing the Soviet Union, Dancing on the West Coast." Experiment 20, no. 1 (2014): 297–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2211730x-12341266.

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In the 1970s and 1980s, Los Angeles audiences saw Soviet defectors Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexander Godunov, Natalia Makarova, and Rudolf Nureyev in the prime of their careers at the Hollywood Bowl, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Greek Theater. Dance photographer Donald Dale Bradburn, a local Southern California dancer describes his behind-the-scenes access to these dancers in this interview. Perfectly positioned as Dance Magazine’s Southern California correspondent, Bradburn offers a candid appraisal of the Southern California appeal for such high-power Russian artists as well as their impact on the arts of Los Angeles. An intimate view of Russian dancers practicing their craft on Los Angeles stages, Bradburn’s interview is illustrated by fourteen of his photographs, published for the first time in this issue of Experiment.
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Rosenthal, Nicolas G. "Rewriting the Narrative." California History 96, no. 4 (2019): 54–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2019.96.4.54.

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A vibrant American Indian art scene developed in California from the 1960s to the 1980s, with links to a broader indigenous arts movement. Native American artists working in the state produced and exhibited paintings, prints, sculptures, mixed media, and other art forms that validated and documented their cultures, interpreted their history, asserted their survival, and explored their experiences in modern society. Building on recent scholarship that examines American Indian migration, urbanization, and activism in the twentieth century, this article charts these developments and argues that American Indian artists in California challenged and rewrote dominant historical narratives by foregrounding Native American perspectives in their work.
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Davy, Josh S., Larry C. Forero, Matthew W. K. Shapero, et al. "Mineral status of California beef cattle1." Translational Animal Science 3, no. 1 (2018): 66–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tas/txy114.

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Abstract Optimal mineral nutrition is required for cattle reproduction, immune function, and structural development. Formal evaluation of the current mineral status of California beef cattle is currently lacking. In 2017, a survey was initiated that evaluated a panel of 10 different minerals in 14 counties across California. Samples were collected from 555 cattle at 50 different ranches. Region of the state significantly affected herd mineral status. Herd use of supplements was also significant, and increased most blood levels of the mineral(s) targeted for supplementation. Forage source was idiosyncratic on its effect of mineral status. Previous blood survey data showed selenium to be widely deficient in California cattle in the 1970s and 1980s, but in this case, it was generally adequate in all areas of California. This indicates a good producer understanding of where supplementation is needed. Copper deficiency was more widespread in the southern region when compared with further north. Zinc deficiency was seen ubiquitously statewide, with 36% of animals being deficient. Manganese has been largely ignored in California. This study is the first known documentation of manganese levels in the state. Sampling found 92% of cattle fell below critical manganese levels. However, further research to better define manganese critical levels is probably warranted. The status of other minerals is presented.
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Barkan, E. R. "Return of the Nativists?: California Public Opinion and Immigration in the 1980s and 1990s." Social Science History 27, no. 2 (2003): 229–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01455532-27-2-229.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "California 1980s"

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Muller, Craig. "In Reagan's backyard : an examination of the condition of liberalism in California in the early 1980s." University of Western Australia. History Discipline Group, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0073.

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In 1980, Ronald Reagan became the fortieth president of the United States following an election that was said to have presaged a political turn to the right in that country. This thesis identifies three broad historical themes that characterised the period in the immediate aftermath of the 1980 election. Firstly, there was the notion that the voting public was becoming more conservative in its choices in federal politics. This is tested by looking at voter behaviour in the 1982 midterm elections. Secondly, the idea that the liberal-conservative dialectic was becoming less important in United States politics is examined using as a framework the actions and statements of prominent liberals. Thirdly, the thesis examines the accuracy of prognoses that were being made about liberalism as a viable political entity in the wake of the 1980 elections. These themes are examined via a series of parallel, occasionally overlapping narratives, following the main strands of liberal activity and thought in one state California in the early 1980s. Many of the sources used were derived from commentary that was being made as events unfolded. The debate about the meaning of the 1980 election therefore changes and this change is part of the story told here. Answering some questions also involved using source material that was more reflective. Hence, parts of the thesis are historiographical. Despite its political content, this thesis is a work of history. It examines the drama of men and women acting within their time, bound by the world around them, but also trying to change that world.
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Muller, Craig. "In Reagan's backyard : an examination of the condition of liberalism in California in the early 1980s /." Connect to this title, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0073.

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Rodriguez, Zina L. "Writing to survive nuyorican literary and cultural performativities across genres in the 1970s and 1980s /." Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1874932051&sid=1&Fmt=7&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Yee, Alfred. "The rise, dominance, and passing of Chinese American supermarkets in Northern California, 1930s-1970s /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488192447428213.

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Moore, Ryan M. "Anarchy in the USA : capitalism, postmodernity, and punk subculture since the 1970s /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9992382.

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Maher, Matthew C. "Community factors associated with family income and poverty in California (1980) white, Black and hispanic families /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/28922678.html.

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Adamu, Ayalew. "An Analysis of the Shift of Employment Toward Multi-Sectoral Services Industries in California, 1960-1980." PDXScholar, 1987. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/526.

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The structural change in the United States economy represented by the growth of the service sector has received a great deal of discussion and analysis in recent years. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that have determined the growth of the separate service sectors (namely distributive, personal, social, and business) from 1960 to 1980 in the regional economy of California. The research addresses many issues. First, a general discussion is presented of the structural change in the United States economy toward a growing service sector. An obvious indicator of this change is the disproportionately higher rate of employment growth in the service industries as compared to the goods producing sectors. Second, it is pointed out that the current structural shift toward service affects the regional economy in shifting the labor force toward a service-oriented economy. Establishing the basic facts of this change, the research investigates the role of the four service industries in the region of California. This is carried out by analyzing the market and industrial factors thought to be the determinants of this growth and the causes of decentralization within the metropolitan areas in California. The empirical findings offer some answers to question of cause for employment changes in the service industries in the regional economy. The most important is that the growth of employment in the four service industries is not brought about by a single factor. Rather, growth is attributable to a combination of market and industrial variables, and the relative strength of the variables differs among the different service industries. The research also presents findings about the relationships among the service industries in terms of the employment changes in them. In general the research provides a contribution to future discussions of the service industries in the metropolitan labor market of the regional economy, and of the nature of regional occupational growth arising out of the structural change described.
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Elkin, Courtney Carmel. "Clashes of cultural memory in popular festival performance in Southern California 1910s-present /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1495960481&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Haines, Robert T. "A numerical study of interannual wind forcing effects on the California Current System, 1980-1983." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/28411.

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A high resolution, multi-level, primitive equation ocean model is used to examine the response of an idealized, flat-bottomed, eastern boundary oceanic regime on a beta-plane to climatological average (1980-1989) and individual yearly (1980-1983) wind forcing. The focus of this study is the California Current System (CCS) along the coastal region, from 35 deg N to 47.5 deg N, of the Western United States. Five experiments were initialized from a state of rest and two from the fields remaining at day 360 from the climatological average wind forcing. With the climatological average wind forcing, a surface equatorward jet and poleward undercurrent are generated. Eddies form along the entire eastern boundary and a field of cyclonic eddies approximately 200 km in diameter remain at day 360. Results for the non-El Nino (1980-1981) years are very similar to the results for the climatological average wind forcing. Early in the year, the El Nino wind fields for 1983 are more intense than the average and 1980-1982 winds, and they have a much stronger poleward component. A surface poleward current develops over an equatorward undercurrent
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Yamazato, Akiko. "Interminority Relations in the Early 1990s in California: Conflicts among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans." W&M ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626388.

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Books on the topic "California 1980s"

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Markey, Dave. We got power!: Hardcore punk scenes from 1980s Southern California. Bazillion Points, 2012.

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Freedman, B., and B. J. Freedman. A Natural Lizard Activity. Smashwords, 2010.

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Institute for Civil Justice (U.S.) and Rand Corporation, eds. Civil juries in the 1980s: Trends in jury trials and verdicts in California and Cook County, Illinois. Rand, Institute for Civil Justice, 1987.

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California casual fashions, 1930s-1970s. Schiffer Pub., 2001.

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Malcolm, Davies. Coordinating justice in California: There ought to be a law about it : excerpts from a survey report on theexpansion of the criminal justice and penal system during the 1980s. California Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Criminal Statistics and Special Services, 1988.

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The dream endures: California enters the 1940s. Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Hundley, Norris. The great thirst: Californians and water, 1770s-1990s. University of California Press, 1992.

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Johnson, Hans P. Undocumented immigration to California, 1980-1993. Public Policy Institute of California, 1996.

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Levy, Stephen. Top 25 California cities since 1980. Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, 1986.

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Material dreams: Southern California through the 1920s. Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Book chapters on the topic "California 1980s"

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Williams, Daniel K. "Reagan’s Religious Right: The Unlikely Alliance between Southern Evangelicals and a California Conservative." In Ronald Reagan and the 1980s. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230616196_9.

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Bernstein, Shana. "The Long 1950s." In A Companion to California History. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444305036.ch21.

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Berger, Karol. "The Secret of Music-Dramatic Form." In Beyond Reason. University of California Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520292758.003.0002.

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Carl Dahlhaus’s voluminous writings on Wagner from the 1960s though the 1980s provide the most important attempt to understand the form of the music dramas since Alfred Lorenz’s studies of the 1920s and 1930s. The chapter offers an analysis and critique of Dahlhaus’s approach and proposes an alternative analytical procedure to be followed in the present book.
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"1980s." In New Classic Winemakers of California. University of California Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520932685-005.

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Rosen, Ellen Israel. "The 1980s." In Making Sweatshops. University of California Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520233362.003.0007.

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Morris, Andrew D. "“Chinese” Baseball and its Discontents, 1970s–1980s." In Colonial Project, National Game. University of California Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520262799.003.0006.

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Kopp, Peter A. "Hop Wars." In Hoptopia. University of California Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520277472.003.0011.

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Alfred Haunold’s hybrid hops saved the Oregon hop industry by appealing to macro brewers such as Anheuser Busch, Miller, and Coors. But, at the same time, a craft beer revolution unfolded on the Pacific Coast. This chapter explains that, while the big brewers helped sponsor the hop breeding efforts, they did not always want the end result. In fact, the big brewers used only a handful of the two dozen hop varieties that Haunold released until his retirement in 1996. The hops we have in our microbrews today are the result of newfound collaborations resulting from the craft brewers of the 1980s and 1990s. And, unlike the 1950s and 1960s, the hop has become a visible component of beer marketing.
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Jun, Xiao, and Bai Hua. "Political Allegory in the 1980s." In Speaking to History. University of California Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520255791.003.0005.

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Harrison, Henrietta. "The Village Since the 1980s." In The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village. University of California Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520273115.003.0008.

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Man, Simeon. "Conclusion." In Soldiering through Empire. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520283343.003.0008.

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The conclusion summarizes the major arguments of the book and explains the multiple legacies of the decolonizing Pacific since the 1970s. It describes the militarization of U.S. foreign policy and permanent war that continued in the 1980s and into the present, as well as the ways that the U.S. empire continues to legitimate itself in the name of freedom and opportunity, namely, through representations of multiculturalism in the all-volunteer force during the Gulf War. It also explores the ongoing struggles for democracy and indigenous sovereignty in Asia and the Pacific since the 1980s.
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Conference papers on the topic "California 1980s"

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Price, Henry, and Robert Cable. "Parabolic Trough Power for the California Competitive Market." In ASME 2001 Solar Engineering: International Solar Energy Conference (FORUM 2001: Solar Energy — The Power to Choose). American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sed2001-151.

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Abstract California is about to complete its third year of a deregulated competitive wholesale power market. During the first two years of the competitive market, power prices averaged between 2 and 3¢/kWh. During 2000, electric supply to California was constrained a number of times causing maximum the price of power to peak over 100¢/kWh, and the average price of power to quadruple. The power output from solar plants tends to coincide with the high power demand periods in California. This fact had been demonstrated by the solar electric generating stations (SEGS) located in the California Mojave Desert, which operate under specific contracts signed in the 1980’s and early 1990’s with the local utility. This paper, on the other hand, examines how new parabolic trough solar plants would have faired on the wholesale competitive power market during 1999 and 2000.
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Moulton-Patterson, Linda. "The Emergence of Conversion Technologies in California as a Viable Alternative to Landfilling." In 12th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec12-2201.

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In the 1980’s, California faced landfill siting problems and a projected shortage of landfill capacity that could impact the health and safety in California. To address this issue, the California Integrated Waste Management Act was passed in 1990 and established a framework to limit reliance on landfills. This framework gives greater emphasis to recycling, waste prevention, source reduction, and composting. The Integrated Waste Management Act required each city and county to implement plans to divert 25% of solid waste by 1995 and 50% by 2000 from landfills. Although we have achieved a 47% diversion rate and have 170 composting facilities, we still have approximately 30 millions tons of material being landfilled. This may be an untapped resource for energy and alternative fuels production.
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Cole, Matt, Scott Martin, and Scott Adams. "Use of Remote Equipment in Reactor Decommissioning." In ASME 2009 12th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2009-16326.

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Nuclear reactor decommissioning continues to remain at the forefront of the energy and defence industries as many reactors built from the 1940s to the 1970s are reaching the end of their life cycles. As demand for decommissioning increases, the focus on worker’s health and safety has become paramount. This focus on worker safety, coupled with the unique challenges faced in reactor decommissioning, continues to promote the use of remote equipment in the decommissioning process. New technologies available in the market today have also created new opportunities for the implementation and application of remote equipment for reactor decommissioning. These technologies include: carbon fibre, high pressure liquid cutting, and advanced control packages. Also, the methods for remote deployment of existing decommissioning technologies such as flame cutting, shearing, and heavy equipment continue to evolve. This paper will focus on the use of this technology at the following facilities: the decommissioning of the Rancho Seco reactor in California, the Brookhaven graphite research reactor in New York, the Windscale Pile 1 Reactor in the United Kingdom, and the Fort St. Vrain HTG Reactor in Colorado. These have all used remote equipment and emerging technologies to solve complex problems in nuclear reactor decommissioning. The purpose is this paper is to outline some of the challenges associated with reactor decommissioning, describe new technologies and deployment techniques being used in the decommissioning field, and to provide an overview of projects using these new technologies.
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Turchi, Craig S., Parthiv Kurup, and Guangdong Zhu. "Revisiting Parabolic Trough Concentrators for Industrial Process Heat in the United States." In ASME 2016 Power Conference collocated with the ASME 2016 10th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2016 14th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2016-59621.

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After significant interest in the 1970s, but relatively few deployments, the use of concentrating solar collectors for thermal applications, including enhanced oil recovery, desalination, and industrial process heat (IPH), is again increasing in global interest. In particular, recent advances in collector design and manufacturing have led to reduced cost per square meter of aperture area. In this study, analysis of a modern parabolic trough that is suited for use in small solar IPH (SIPH) applications predicts that the installed solar field cost can be as low as $170/m2. A slightly higher cost of $200/m2 is estimated for facilities typical of a SIPH plant size. Full project costs will include additional costs for contingency, piping and heat exchanger interface, and project indirect costs. The cost for solar-generated heat by SIPH is quantified by defining the levelized cost of heat (LCOH). California offers a favorable environment for SIPH given its good insolation, gas prices typically higher than the national average, and policies promoting solar-thermal deployment. Given historically low gas prices, competing with natural gas remains the primary challenge to deployment. However, this study finds that the solar LCOH for many regions in California is lower than the LCOH from natural gas, using a representative installed solar hardware price and the average price for industrial natural gas in California. Lastly, modification are in progress to the parabolic trough model within NREL’s System Advisor Model (SAM) to allow users to more easily predict performance for these steam-generation applications.
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Jarocki, Dmitri, and James H. Wilson. "Wave Energy Converter Performance Modeling and Cost of Electricity Assessment." In ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2010-37756.

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California is experiencing a rapid increase in interest for the potential of converting ocean waves in into carbon-free electricity. Numerous applications have been submitted for the permitting of such renewable energy projects; however the profitability, practicability, and survivability have yet to be proven. Wave energy conversion technology has steadily matured since its naissance in the 1970’s, several wave energy power installations currently exist, and numerous plans for commercial power plants are in the works on the shores of multiple continents. This study aims to assess the economic viability of two proposed commercial wave energy power plant projects on the Central California Coast. A hypothetical 25 MW capacity wave energy plant located at a site located 5 nautical miles off of Point Arguello, in Santa Barbara County is compared to a similar site 5 nautical miles off of Morro Bay, in the County of San Luis Obispo. The Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Green Wave Energy Solutions, LLC have proposed full-scale commercial wave power plants at these sites, and are currently undergoing the federal permitting processes. Historical wave resource statistics from 1980 to 2001 are analyzed with performance specifications for the AquaBuOY, Pelamis P1, and WaveDragon wave energy converters (WECs) to calculate the annual electrical output of each device at each site. Sophisticated computer modeling of the bathymetric influence on the wave resource at each site is presented using the program Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) developed by the Delft University of Technology. The wave energy flux, significant wave height, and peak period are computed at each site for typical summer and winter swell cases, using seafloor depth measurements at a 90 meter grid resolution. The economic viability of commercial electricity generation is evaluated for each WEC at each site by the calculation of the net present value of an estimated 25-year project life-cycle, the internal rate of return, and the required cost of electricity for a 10-year project payback period. The lowest required price of electricity is $0.13/kWh and occurs at the Point Arguello site using the AquaBuOY WEC. The highest annual capacity factor is 18% using the Pelamis WEC. The net present value and internal rate of return calculations suggest that the AquaBuOY WEC is profitable at both sites for electricity prices above $0.14/kWh. Shallow water wave propagation SWAN modeling demonstrated favorable wave energy flux states for WEC operation and power generation.
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Lin, Genevieve Shaun, and Kayvan Karimi. "Spatial Patterns in Mass Consumption: The Fast Food Chain Network and its Street Patterns, Clusters and Impact on Street Safety." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5844.

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Can the fast-food chain network, to some extent, support the socio-spatial structure and safety of the street? Is there an urban spatial pattern within the ‘Chain Network’ and mass consumption? This papers dwells on spatial patterns on mass consumption in the global capitalistic cities of London and Tokyo, through the lens of the fast food chain network. Their symbols (for instance, the Golden Arches of McDonalds) are instantly recognizable both by locals and tourists. McDonalds started off as a hot dog stand in California in the 1940s and rapidly expanded across America in lieu of the mass usage of the automobile and construction of freeways. A foreigner can order easily from a McDonalds menu in Tokyo, without speaking Japanese, because the menu is created in a “global language”. Fast food chain stores, such as McDonalds and Starbucks, seem to be sprouting in every street corner, even as much as 3 of the same shop on the same street. You don’t have to find them, because they will find you. Rather than casting them aside as complex economic or political factors, the first part of the research focuses on its spatial clustering, and to see if there is an intrinsic spatial relationship with high-choice, or highly integrated streets. How far deep does the network go from the highest choice streets? The second part of the research will see if the clusters of fast-food chain, with their “night economy” would lead to safer and more pleasant street and communities. Fast food chains do indeed play a vital spatial role in our physical communities in the 21st century.
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Lal, Manish Kumar, Tae Hyung Kim, and Darrin M. Singleton. "Data Science Use Case for Brownfield Optimization - A Case Study." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/200781-ms.

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Abstract Data Science is the current gold rush. While many industries have benefitted from applications of data science, including machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the applications in upstream oil and gas are still somewhat limited. Some examples of applications of AI include seismic interpretations, facility optimization, and data driven modeling – forecasting. While still naïve, we will explore cases where data science can be used in the day to day field optimization and development. The Midway Sunset (MWSS) field in San Joaquin Valley, California has over 100 years of history. The field was discovered in 19011 and had limited development through the 1960s. Since the start of thermal stimulation in 1964, the field has seen phased thermal flooding and cyclic stimulation. Recently there has been an increase in heat mining vertical and horizontal wells to tap the remaining hot oil. As with any brownfield, the sweet spots are long gone. Effort is now to optimize the field development and tap by-passed oil, thereby increasing recovery. The current operational focus includes field wide holistic review of remaining resource potential. Resources in the MWSS reservoirs are produced by cyclic steam method. Cyclic thermal stimulation has been effective as an overall depletion process and for stimulating the near wellbore region to increase production. It is imperative to properly identify target wells and sands for cyclic stimulation. Cyclic steaming in depleted zones or cold reservoirs is often uneconomical. The benefit comes when we can identify and stimulate only the warm oil. Identification of warm oil and short listing the wells for cyclic stimulation is a labor-intensive process. The volume of data can get so large that it may not be feasible for a professional to effectively do the analysis. In this paper, we present a case study of data analytics for high grading wells for cyclic stimulation. This method utilizes the machine power to integrate reservoir, and production data to identify and rank wells for cyclic stimulation and potentially increase success rate by minimizing suboptimal cyclic candidates.
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Sreedharan, Priya, Alan H. Sanstad, and Joe Bryson. "Informing Climate Change Policy Through Economics and Engineering Perspectives on Energy Efficiency." In ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2009-90435.

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Energy “sustainability” and energy supply have again emerged as central public policy issues and are at the intersection of the economic, environmental, and security challenges facing the nation and the world. The goal of significantly reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with energy production and consumption, while maintaining affordable and reliable energy supplies, is one of the most important issues. Among the strategies for achieving this goal, increasing the efficiency of energy consumption in buildings is being emphasized to a degree not seen since the 1970s. “End-use” efficiency is the core of the State of California’s landmark effort to reduce its GHG emissions, of other state and local climate-change initiatives, and is emphasized in emerging federal GHG abatement legislation. Both economic and engineering methods are used to analyze energy efficiency, but the two paradigms provide different perspectives on the market and technological factors that affect the diffusion of energy efficiency. These disparate perspectives influence what is considered the appropriate role and design of public policy for leveraging not just efficient end-use technology, but other sustainable energy technologies. We review the two approaches and their current roles in the GHG policy process by describing, for illustrative purposes, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s assessment of energy efficiency in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 Discussion Draft. We highlight opportunities and needs for improved coordination between the engineering, economic and policy communities. Our view is that a better understanding of disciplinary differences and complementarities in perspectives and analytical methods between these communities will benefit the climate change policy process.
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Carroll, Francis, and Jan Hayes. "Effective Risk Management for In Service Pipelines: Achieving ALARP by Pressure Management and Slab Protection." In 2018 12th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2018-78170.

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In Australia (and the UK), pipeline operating companies have a regulatory obligation to ensure that their assets are designed, constructed, operated and maintained so that risk to people and the environment is as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP). In many routine cases, demonstration that risk is ALARP is a matter of compliance with relevant technical standards. There are some cases, however, that are more complex. If a pipeline has been subject to significant urban encroachment and does not conform to current design standards for this service, how does a pipeline operator decide whether risk controls are sufficient? In Australia, rather than either ‘grandfathering’ requirements or mandating retrospective compliance with new standards, operators are required to ensure pipelines are safe and that risk levels are acceptable. The answer in cases such as this is a matter of judgment and we have legal, moral and reputational responsibilities to get decisions such as this right. There is currently no formal requirement in the US for pipeline risks to be ALARP, although the concept is gradually being introduced to US industry safety law. Examples include US offshore well control rules, California refinery safety regulations and the nuclear sector concept of ‘as low as reasonably achievable’. In this paper, we demonstrate application of the ALARP process to a case study pipeline built in the 1960s that has been heavily encroached by urban development. The Australian risk-based approach required formal ALARP assessment including consideration of options to reduce pressure, relocate or replace the pipeline, or increase the level of physical or procedural protection. Current and predicted operating conditions on this existing pipeline allowed reduction in operating pressure in some of the encroached segments, sufficient to achieve the equivalent of current Australian requirements for ‘No Rupture’ in high consequence areas for new pipelines. In other areas this was not achievable and a lesser degree of pressure reduction was instigated, in combination with physical barrier protection. The physical barrier slabbing comprised over 7 km of 20 mm thick high-density polyethylene (HDPE) slabs, buried above the pipeline. This approach was new in Australia and required field trials to confirm effectiveness against tiger tooth excavators and rotary augers. These upgrades to the case study pipeline have significantly decreased the risk of pipeline failure, by reducing both likelihood and consequences of accidental impact. In combination with rigorous procedural controls such as patrol surveillance and community liaison, real risk reduction has been achieved and ALARP has been demonstrated.
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Panchal, Yashesh, Nihal Mounir, Mehdi Loloi, Ibrahim Mohamed, Omar Abou-Sayed, and Ahmed Abou-Sayed. "Application of Slurry Injection Technology in Biowaste Management - A New Discipline in Managing Bio-Waste in Economic and Environmentally Friendly Manner." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/200836-ms.

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Abstract Carbon offset describes the environmental benefit from an initiative that avoids, reduces or removes greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the atmosphere. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4) and Nitrous Oxide (N2O) as major constituent of the GHGs. Wastewater Treatment Facilities (WWTFs) among several other sectors is a neglected source for GHG emission. Considering the risk of rise in GHGs, United States along with other countries signed the Paris Agreement to respond to the global climate change threat in 2016. It is assessing projects to cut GHGs in exchange for emission credits that can be used to comply with goals they set under the United Nations pact. In order to curb the GHG emission by WWTFs, an innovative approach "Bioslurry Injection" (BSI) can be implemented to reduce the emission of the GHGs produced during the course of biological and chemical treatment of wastewater. The technology is inherited from the traditional drill cutting injection and Carbon sequestration technology implemented by the Oil and Gas industry since 1980's. The BSI operation has the ability to accept the feed from different treatment stages after the initial screening process to prepare the injection slurry and help in controlling the GHG emission at respective treatment stage along with managing the intake volume. The slurry can be prepared by mixing the treated biosolids with wastewater and injected into a pre-selected underground earth formation, where biosolids undergo anaerobic digestion and decompose into CO2 and CH4. An injection formation with sufficient capacity to accept the slurry is selected by conducting a detailed geomechanical and fracture simulation analyses. Along with the injection feasibility, the calculations of the amount of Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) sequestrated underground by implementing BSI technique is presented in this paper. The sequestration of decomposed GHGs is an environmentally friendly activity that has proved to be economically beneficial due to its ability to earn carbon offsets. According to the new carbon law in the state of California the amount of CO2e eliminated from the atmosphere can be traded to earn carbon credits. TIRE facility through its ability to sequester and thus eliminate emission of the GHGs from the atmosphere can gain up to $1.5M worth of carbon credits per year providing both environmental and economic benefit. Also, low capital and operating cost for the BSI facility due to its compact surface requirement is an additional advantage along with reduced risk of spillage hazard when BSI facility is incorporated within the WWTF boundaries.
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Reports on the topic "California 1980s"

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Waddell, K. L., and T. M. Barrett. Oak woodlands and other hardwood forests of California, 1990s. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/pnw-rb-245.

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Barrett, T. M. Estimation procedures for the combined 1990s periodic forest inventories of California, Oregon, and Washington. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/pnw-gtr-597.

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Costa, Dora, and Matthew Kahn. Why Has California's Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w15978.

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Tweet, Justin S., Vincent L. Santucci, Kenneth Convery, Jonathan Hoffman, and Laura Kirn. Channel Islands National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (public version). National Park Service, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2278664.

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Channel Island National Park (CHIS), incorporating five islands off the coast of southern California (Anacapa Island, San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island), has an outstanding paleontological record. The park has significant fossils dating from the Late Cretaceous to the Holocene, representing organisms of the sea, the land, and the air. Highlights include: the famous pygmy mammoths that inhabited the conjoined northern islands during the late Pleistocene; the best fossil avifauna of any National Park Service (NPS) unit; intertwined paleontological and cultural records extending into the latest Pleistocene, including Arlington Man, the oldest well-dated human known from North America; calichified “fossil forests”; records of Miocene desmostylians and sirenians, unusual sea mammals; abundant Pleistocene mollusks illustrating changes in sea level and ocean temperature; one of the most thoroughly studied records of microfossils in the NPS; and type specimens for 23 fossil taxa. Paleontological research on the islands of CHIS began in the second half of the 19th century. The first discovery of a mammoth specimen was reported in 1873. Research can be divided into four periods: 1) the few early reports from the 19th century; 2) a sustained burst of activity in the 1920s and 1930s; 3) a second burst from the 1950s into the 1970s; and 4) the modern period of activity, symbolically opened with the 1994 discovery of a nearly complete pygmy mammoth skeleton on Santa Rosa Island. The work associated with this paleontological resource inventory may be considered the beginning of a fifth period. Fossils were specifically mentioned in the 1938 proclamation establishing what was then Channel Islands National Monument, making CHIS one of 18 NPS areas for which paleontological resources are referenced in the enabling legislation. Each of the five islands of CHIS has distinct paleontological and geological records, each has some kind of fossil resources, and almost all of the sedimentary formations on the islands are fossiliferous within CHIS. Anacapa Island and Santa Barbara Island, the two smallest islands, are primarily composed of Miocene volcanic rocks interfingered with small quantities of sedimentary rock and covered with a veneer of Quaternary sediments. Santa Barbara stands apart from Anacapa because it was never part of Santarosae, the landmass that existed at times in the Pleistocene when sea level was low enough that the four northern islands were connected. San Miguel Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island have more complex geologic histories. Of these three islands, San Miguel Island has relatively simple geologic structure and few formations. Santa Cruz Island has the most varied geology of the islands, as well as the longest rock record exposed at the surface, beginning with Jurassic metamorphic and intrusive igneous rocks. The Channel Islands have been uplifted and faulted in a complex 20-million-year-long geologic episode tied to the collision of the North American and Pacific Places, the initiation of the San Andreas fault system, and the 90° clockwise rotation of the Transverse Ranges, of which the northern Channel Islands are the westernmost part. Widespread volcanic activity from about 19 to 14 million years ago is evidenced by the igneous rocks found on each island.
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Fried, Jeremy S., Charles L. Bolsinger, and Debby Beardsley. Chaparral in southern and central coastal California in the mid-1990s: area, ownership, condition, and change. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/pnw-rb-240.

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Adamu, Ayalew. An Analysis of the Shift of Employment Toward Multi-Sectoral Services Industries in California, 1960-1980. Portland State University Library, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.526.

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Lane, Lerose, R. Gary Hicks, DingXin Cheng, and Erik Updyke. Manual for Thin Asphalt Overlays. Mineta Transportation Institute, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2020.1906.

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This manual presents best practices on project selection, mix design, and construction to ensure a superior product when constructing thin asphalt overlays. Experience shows these treatments provide excellent performance when placed on pavements in fair to good condition using proper construction techniques. Though sometime referred to by other names, thin asphalt overlays have been widely used for pavement preservation throughout the world for over 50 years. Limited infrastructure funding at the local, state, and federal levels has resulted in greater emphasis on the use of pavement preservation techniques to extend pavement life and reduce maintenance costs. Thin asphalt overlays are one of many preventative maintenance treatments. Thin asphalt overlays are placed directly on existing pavement and can range from 1/2 inch to 1 1/2 inches in thickness. Thin asphalt overlays have proven to be an economical means for maintaining and improving the functional condition of an existing pavement since the 1960s. Specifically, this manual provides guidance for engineers regarding where and when to use thin asphalt overlays including: (1) Types and variations of thin overlays; (2) Materials and the design process; (3) Construction; (4) Quality Assurance; and (5) Troubleshooting. This chapter by chapter guidance enables an Agency’s engineers to design and construct a successful thin asphalt overlay project to completion. This manual is one of four new manuals prepared by the California Pavement Preservation Center (CP2Center) using funding from California Senate Bill 1 (SB-1), passed in April 2017. The other three manuals provide detailed design and construction information for (1) chip seals, (2) slurry surfacing, and (3) Cape seals. The creation of these manuals was a task funded entirely from SB-1 monies for the purpose of disseminating training and technical information on highway pavement preservation to local agencies throughout California.
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Abell, Dana L. Proceedings of the California riparian systems conference: protection, management, and restoration for the 1990s; 1988 September 22-24; Davis, CA. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/psw-gtr-110.

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Map showing ground failures from the Greenville/Mount Diablo earthquake sequence of January 1980, Northern California. US Geological Survey, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/mf1711.

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Organic Carbon Trends, Loads, and Yields to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, Water Years 1980 to 2000. US Geological Survey, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/wri20034070.

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