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Efficient Tracing of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variants in Santa Barbara County Using a Rapid Quantitative Reverse Transcription PCR Assay [PDF]

Diagnostics, 2022
The emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in 2021 is associated with a global surge of cases in late 2021 and early 2022. Identifying the introduction of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants to a population is imperative to inform decisions by clinicians and ...
Zach Aralis, Stewart Comer, Henning Ansorg, Carl Palmer, Jennifer Smith, Stuart C. Feinstein, Lynn N. Fitzgibbons, Carolina Arias   +7 more
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Seroprevalence of Baylisascaris procyonis Infection among Humans, Santa Barbara County, California, USA, 2014–2016 [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
Baylisascaris procyonis (raccoon roundworm) infection is common in raccoons and can cause devastating pathology in other animals, including humans. Limited information is available on the frequency of asymptomatic human infection.
Sara B. Weinstein, Camille M. Lake, Holly M. Chastain, David Fisk, Sukwan Handali, Philip L. Kahn, Susan P. Montgomery, Patricia P. Wilkins, Armand M. Kuris, Kevin D. Lafferty   +9 more
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Investigating a hybrid mixed population leads to recognizing a new species of Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae) [PDF]

PhytoKeys
While investigating the potential for Arctostaphylos species to hybridize in the mixed populations of Point Sal and Burton Mesa in Santa Barbara County, California, we discovered that Arctostaphylos from the Nipomo Mesa (San Luis Obispo County), formerly
Tito Abbo, Morgan A. Stickrod, Alexander Krohn, V. Thomas Parker, Michael C. Vasey, William Waycott, Amy Litt   +6 more
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Climate-driven variation in the phenology of juvenile Ixodes pacificus on lizard hosts [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors
Background Ectothermic arthropods, like ticks, are sensitive indicators of environmental changes, and their seasonality plays a critical role in the dynamics of tick-borne disease in a warming world.
Samantha Sambado, Amanda Sparkman, Andrea Swei, Andrew J. MacDonald, Hillary S. Young, Jordan Salomon, Arielle Crews, Kacie Ring, Stephanie Copeland, Cheryl J. Briggs   +9 more
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A mixed-methods community needs assessment of Santa Maria and Guadalupe, California [PDF]

Discover Social Science and Health
Santa Maria and Guadalupe are neighboring cities in northern Santa Barbara County that have a lower socioeconomic profile than the county overall, are >75% Latino, and have up to 32,000 residents who identify as Indigenous, primarily Mixtec-speaking ...
Marilyn Tseng, Daisy Rojas, Edgardo Hernandez, Mario Alberto Viveros Espinoza-Kulick, Irebid Gilbert, Maritza Perez, Elisa Gonzalez, Suzanne Phelan   +7 more
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A fossil species found living off southern California, with notes on the genus Cymatioa (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Galeommatoidea) [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2022
A small bivalve mollusk previously only known from the Pleistocene of Los Angeles County has recently been found living intertidally near Santa Barbara, California.
Paul Valentich-Scott, Jeffrey H. R. Goddard   +1 more
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Beyond a Focus on Fuel Reduction in the WUI: The Need for Regional Wildfire Mitigation to Address Multiple Risks

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
There are thousands of communities and millions of homes in fire-prone wildland–urban interface (WUI) environments. Although future developments may be sited and designed to be more survivable and resistant to losses, an over-arching strategy is needed ...
Max A. Moritz, Max A. Moritz, Rob Hazard, Kelly Johnston, Marc Mayes, Marc Mayes, Molly Mowery, Katie Oran, Anne-Marie Parkinson, David A. Schmidt, Graham Wesolowski   +10 more
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Wildfire Risk in the Complex Terrain of the Santa Barbara Wildland–Urban Interface during Extreme Winds

Fire, 2022
Each year, wildfires ravage the western U.S. and change the lives of millions of inhabitants. Situated in southern California, coastal Santa Barbara has witnessed devastating wildfires in the past decade, with nearly all ignitions started by humans ...
Katelyn Zigner, Leila M. V. Carvalho, Charles Jones, John Benoit, Gert-Jan Duine, Dar Roberts, Francis Fujioka, Max Moritz, Nic Elmquist, Rob Hazard   +9 more
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*A Field Guide to Oil in Santa Barbara*: Pedagogy and Practice for Environmental Media Studies

Media + Environment, 2022
During fall 2018, a multidisciplinary cohort of graduate students participated in a course conducted by professors Javiera Barandiarán and Mona Damluji as part of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective at the University of ...
Emily Roehl, Sage Gerson
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Mask R-CNN with New Data Augmentation Features for Smart Detection of Retail Products

Applied Sciences, 2022
Human–computer interactions (HCIs) use computer technology to manage the interfaces between users and computers. Object detection systems that use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been repeatedly improved.
Chih-Hsien Hsia, Tsung-Hsien William Chang, Chun-Yen Chiang, Hung-Tse Chan   +3 more
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