San Francisco State University

Star Wars at Fifty

This symposium celebrates the 50th anniversary of Star Wars (1977) with nineteen short essays from scholars who discuss its meaning, impact, and legacy. The essays examine the migrations and manifestations of the Star Wars universe across media, including animation, video games,...

Interrupted Time Series Analysis of the Efficacy of Bilingual Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training

Purpose: In response to the need for more appropriate anomia treatment materials for bilingual persons with aphasia (BPWAs), we have created linguistically and culturally appropriate versions of AbSANT (Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training) for several languages that we...

Physicochemical and urban land-use characteristics associated with resistance to precipitation in estuaries vary across scales

Estuaries are subject to frequent stressors, including elevated nutrient loading and extreme hydrologic events, which impact water quality and disrupt ecosystem stability and function. The capacity of an estuary to resist changes in function in response to precipitation events is...

Priority Effects Shape Interactions Between Invasive Parasites in Darwin's Finches of the Galápagos Islands

ABSTRACT Invasive parasites are a major threat to naïve, island hosts. Furthermore, hosts often deal with multiple parasite taxa (hereon, co‐parasitism), which can directly compete with each other or indirectly interact through the hosts' immune system (i.e., priority effects). S...

Obesity Disparities in California Vary by School Ethnic Segregation and School Neighbourhood Income

ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how ethnic disparities in childhood obesity differ across combinations of school ethnic composition and school neighbourhood income in California, to identify the contexts in which disparities are greatest. Prior studies have been unable to...

Proper Time Oscillators as Physical Relational Clocks: Toward A Many-Clock Extension of the Page–Wootters Mechanism

The Problem of Time in canonical quantum gravity arises from the timeless structure of the Wheeler--DeWitt equation. While the Page--Wootters mechanism shows how relational dynamics can emerge by conditioning a global quantum state on an internal clock, the physical clock is gene...

The Curious Case of Centaurus A II: On the Subject of the Quenched satellites

The satellite system of Centaurus A presents a curious cosmological puzzle: while the global population is consistent with theoretical expectations, its inner regions (d<150 kpc) exhibit a deficit of luminous satellite galaxies. Using the Galacticus semi-analytic model applied to...

Monitoring Coastal Geomorphic Change and Sediment Transport Using Kite Aerial Photography (KAP) and Structure-from-Motion (SfM) Photogrammetry

Coastal areas are particularly suitable study sites for kite aerial photography (KAP) surveys because of consistent wind and open space. This study uses KAP surveys conducted in January, March, June, August, and October 2025, combined with Structure from Motion photogrammetry and...

Six Stages of Blessed Learning and Six Facades of Solid Training

Hung-ping Tsao (2026). Six Stages of Blessed Learning and Six Facades of Solid Training. In: "Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)", Lawrence K. Wang and Hung-ping Tsao (editors). Volume 8, Number 9L, September 2026; 56 pages. L...

Six Stages of Blessed Learning and Six Facades of Solid Training

Hung-ping Tsao (2026). Six Stages of Blessed Learning and Six Facades of Solid Training. In: "Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)", Lawrence K. Wang and Hung-ping Tsao (editors). Volume 8, Number 9L, September 2026; 56 pages. L...

Alliance Theory: Balancing, Bandwagoning, and Détente

Stephen M. Walt’s “balance-of-threat” theory of alliance formation (1988) is examined as a focus theory. Walt’s theory is compared with a Kenneth A. Waltz’s “balance-of-power” as a supporting theory (1979), and supporting evidence for the focus theory is presented. Then, Walt’s t...

Leveraging the private sector for health system development in sub-Saharan Africa

Development assistance has historically supported major gains in health and health-system development in sub-Saharan Africa, but recent reductions in development assistance have intensified financing and service-delivery pressures across the region. As governments seek more durab...

Trajectories of physical activity and screen media use in toddlers and related parenting practices: Child and Mother Physical Activity Study (CAMPAS)

<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Background:</bold> Physical activity (PA) and screen media use are key behaviors for healthy development in early childhood. This study aimed to investigate 12-month trajectories of PA and screen time among toddlers and examine their associations wit...