A Musical Technography of John Bischoff

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Douglas Kahn
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Electronic Components ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Impact

John Bischoff has been part of the formation and growth of electronic and computer music in the San Francisco Bay Area for over three decades. In an interview with the author, he describes his early development as a student of experimental music technology, including the impact of hearing and assisting in the work of David Tudor. Bischoff, like Tudor, explored the unpredictable potentials within electronic components, and he brought this curiosity to bear when he began working on one of the first available micro-computers. He was a key individual at the historical turning point when computer music escaped its institutional restric-tions and began becoming widespread.

scholarly journals Commuter Response to Traffic Information on an Incident

1998 ◽  
Vol 1621 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Koo ◽  
Youngbin Yim
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Traffic Information ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Telephone System ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

How traffic information is obtained and how it affects travel behavior when a major freeway is congested are presented and discussed. Immediately following a major highway incident south of San Francisco that caused congestion, a telephone survey was conducted of commuters who use the affected corridor of the highway. The behavior of commuters before and during their commute at the time of the incident was determined, including obtaining traffic information and how the information influenced changes in route, mode of travel, and departure time. The results of the survey suggest that traveler behavior is largely unaffected by individual incidents of congestion. Furthermore, although a fair proportion of commuters do obtain traffic information, they do not often modify their travel behavior in response. This study is one of several that collectively will provide insight into how travel behavior changes over time and allow the authors to assess the impact of TravInfo Traveler Advisory Telephone System in the San Francisco Bay Area.

scholarly journals Examination Of The Influence Of Service Quality On Membership Renewal In Fitness Centers In San Francisco Bay Area

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Chih Wei ◽  
Huang-Chia Hung ◽  
Hiu-Chu Yang ◽  
Yu-Jui (Arthur) Hsu ◽  
Zhengwei Ma
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Fitness Centers ◽  
Fitness Center ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Impact

Corporations have to learn how to satisfy their customers’ various demands as the era of interactivity with customers has emerged (Pepper & Rogers, 1999). For fitness center, customers’ demands are increasing and diversified. Therefore, service quality is an index of quality assessment from customers for service-producing industries. Furthermore, the concept of corporate expansion and customer relationship has become the foundation of service-providers for higher profitability through customers’ renewal of membership. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of service quality on the renewal willingness of fitness center membership. Customers from four fitness centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA, were randomly selected for this survey. A total of 50 subjects participated in this survey. The data was analyzed by multiple regression and stepwise regression. The result indicated that the service quality has positive influence on the renewal willingness of membership.

scholarly journals GNSS Interference Characterization and Localization Using OpenSky ADS-B Data

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Zixi Liu ◽  
Sherman Lo ◽  
Todd Walter
Keyword(s):  
Convex Optimization ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Source Localization ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Satellite System ◽  
Navigation Satellite ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite ◽  
The Impact

There is a growing dependence of critical and safety-of-life systems on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). GNSS interference events can cause severe impacts on aircraft safety, including unavailability of GNSS-based landing services. Therefore, it is important to be able to identify, localize, and remove interference sources that may cause these impacts. This project concentrates on events that affect the the airport environment and aims to provide improved situational awareness and safety for local airspace users. This paper contains three main sections: OpenSky ADS-B data processing, interference event characterization, and interference source localization. Specifically, we identified and removed incorrect timestamps from ADS-B ground receivers. We characterized the impact of interference events based on reported interference events that occurred at a San Francisco bay area airport. In addition, we designed a convex optimization model for localizing the interference sources given the ADS-B measurement. This article looks at common characteristics caused by the impact of interference events and shows a possible way to localize interference sources using ADS-B data.

scholarly journals Effects of COVID-19 “Sheltering in Place” on Activity in People with Multiple Sclerosis

2020 ◽  
pp. 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000982
Author(s):  
Valerie J Block ◽  
Riley Bove ◽  
Jeffrey M Gelfand ◽  
Bruce A C Cree
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Wearable Technology ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Neurological Conditions ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Primary Form

People with neurological conditions that impair mobility such as multiple sclerosis (MS) have low levels of physical activity, with walking their primary form of exercise. When the San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order was announced in mid-March 2020 to flatten the curve of SARS-CoV-2 infections, the abrupt closure of gyms, fitness studios, and malls greatly limited options for safe exercise. We leveraged an ongoing study utilizing wearable technology, to understand the impact of the shelter-in-place policy on physical activity in people with MS (PwMS) at-risk for neurological worsening.

Travel Behavior as Function of Accessibility, Land Use Mixing, and Land Use Balance: Evidence from San Francisco Bay Area

1997 ◽  
Vol 1607 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Maria Kockelman
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Vehicle Ownership ◽  
Relative Significance ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Impact

The relative significance and influence of a variety of measures of urban form on household vehicle kilometers traveled, automobile ownership, and mode choice were investigated. The travel data came from the 1990 San Francisco Bay Area travel surveys, and the land use data were largely constructed from hectare-level descriptions provided by the Association of Bay Area Governments. After demographic characteristics were controlled for, the measures of accessibility, land use mixing, and land use balance—computed for trip-makers’ home neighborhoods and at trip ends—proved to be highly statistically significant and influential in their impact on all measures of travel behavior. In many cases, balance, mix, and accessibility were found to be more relevant (as measured by elasticities) than several household and traveler characteristics that often form a basis for travel behavior prediction. In contrast, under all but the vehicle ownership models, the impact of density was negligible after accessibility was controlled.

Chinese and Indian Restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1960s

2017 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Laresh Jayasanker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Indian Food ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

Accelerated global trade and mass immigration have brought rapid change to food culture in the United States over the past fifty years. San Francisco has been at the center of these changes. Bay Area restaurateurs Cecilia Chiang (The Mandarin) and her son Philip Chiang (P.F. Chang's), illustrate how Chinese food changed in the United States, moving out of historic Chinatowns and into the suburbs. David Brown's India House restaurant in San Francisco embodied the way Indian food was understood before the 1960s – interpreted through the lens of the British Empire. By the 2000s, Indian food had broken free of this colonial association and was available in its diverse regional variations – especially in the Bay Area suburbs fueled by the computer industry. These case studies all illustrate the impact of globalization and immigration on American food culture through the lens of San Francisco.

Computer Music Network

Leonardo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Scot Gresham-Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Type

The social climate and cultural atmosphere of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 70's early 80's plus the emergence of the nascent microcomputer industry made for a social network and approach that fostered the creation of a new type of collaborative electronic music ensemble with techniques that have come to be known as “Computer Music Network”. A transformation from initial heterogeneous to a more homogeneous underlying paradigm has brought with it aesthetic questions about the reason and evolution of this new genre.

scholarly journals The Impact of Targeted Trap–Neuter–Return Efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2089
Author(s):  
Daniel D. Spehar ◽  
Peter J. Wolf
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
The West ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Feeding Regimen ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Recently, a growing collection of evidence that associates trap–neuter–return (TNR) programs with substantial and sustained reductions in community cat populations across a variety of environments has emerged. Peer-reviewed studies emanating from the northeastern, midwestern, and southeastern United States, as well as Australia, document such reductions. The present study expands upon this body of evidence by examining the impact of a long-term TNR program on a population of community cats residing on a pedestrian trail adjacent to an oceanic bay located on the West Coast of the U.S. A population of 175 community cats, as determined by an initial census, living on a 2-mile section of the San Francisco Bay Trail declined by 99.4% over a 16-year period. After the conclusion of the initial count, the presence of cats was monitored as part of the TNR program’s daily feeding regimen. Of the 258 total cats enrolled in the program between 2004 and 2020, only one remained at the end of the program period. These results are consistent with those documented at the various sites of other long-term TNR programs.

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