bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Student and Organizer Perceptions of Beauty Pageants in School Intramurals in Leyte, Philippines
Authors: Macasil Ma. Alena N. 
Published: January 2017

School Intramurals in the Philippines often center on sports, athletics, games, and other competitive physical activities. Usually a separate and external event, the beauty pageant has become a popular and integral part of school intramurals. Little is known about the intramural beauty pageant. It is a topic that still needs to be explored further so it may be understood better and, consequently, be made more relevant to the lives of students and society at large. This non-experimental, descriptive study looked into the intramural beauty pageants in seven colleges in Leyte Province, Philippines, to describe the intramural beauty pageant’s nature and purpose, as well as students’ and organizers’ attitudes and perceptions about intramural beauty contests. Data gathered from 28 actives, and 168 passive pageant participants were organized thematically to extract insights and patterns that would depict the phenomenon coherently. The study found, among others, that schools hold pageants to choose representatives for external beauty contests and to entertain spectators during the intramurals. It was also found that students ascribe positive value to the intramural beauty and consider it important but not relevant to school intramurals. Keywords - Physical education, school intramurals, sports, beauty pageant, descriptive research, Leyte, Philippines, Southeast Asia
The Monitoring and Evaluation Tool of the Department of Education
Authors: Salvador Jose E. , Canencia Oliva P. 
Published: January 2017

Monitoring and Evaluation tool play a vital role in measuring the cause and effect of achieving a quality education. It determines the performance of both administrators and teachers in the delivery of knowledge and skills to our students. The study described and analyzed the monitoring and evaluation tool for the Department of Education in the case of Iligan City Division Philippines. The study used the descriptive – evaluative method and analyzed both descriptive and inferential statistics. General findings revealed that monitoring and evaluation tool was not piloted in the field at the same time performance indicators were not known by the teachers. It is also noted that teacher’s overall very satisfactory (VS) rating does not correspond to National Achievement Test (NAT) rating for the last (4) four years. Subsequently, a localized Monitoring and Evaluation tool is created with proper information dissemination and piloting so that teachers are aware of what to do during the class observation. Moreover, monitoring and evaluation must come up with skills indicators that would measure the skills transfer to ensure performance development of students that can compete globally. Keywords - Education, comprehensive, monitoring, evaluation, tool, descriptive design, DepEd, Iligan City, Philippines
Family Involvement and Practices of Special Education Classes: A Case Study on SPED Program of West City Central School, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines
Authors: Lago Joanna Ruby Regalado 
Published: January 2017

There were primary concerns partnered with challenges and issues in ensuring the delivery of quality Special Education (SPED) Program. The study aimed to assess the family involvement and practices in educating the school learners with special needs. It focused on determining the extent of the families’ involvement and practices at West City Central School, Cagayan de Oro City Philippines. A survey research design was used to achieve the objectives of the study. Moreover, a total of 47 respondents were selected to complete the survey questionnaires concerning the involvement of families in school’s activities and programs. The questionnaires were collected personally, and descriptive statistics was utilized to obtain accurate results from the data gathered. As a result, there were seen opportunities for the families to portray further their roles as primary partners of the school; there were methods employed to promote accepting atmosphere for them; and contrariwise, there were few family education and training opportunities provided; few schools policies related to SPED were created and explained to them; and not all their needs and state’s standards were met. Henceforth, the families should receive regular family-teacher conferences and increase family involvement opportunities.
Rising from the Ashes: The Journey of Unmarried College Students who Got Pregnant
Authors: Bayod Rogelio P. 
Published: January 2017

Sexual adventurism among young people of today seemed to penetrate even the religiously and culturally conservative countries. Thus, it is not surprising that early pregnancy among college and university students becomes a growing issue worldwide. Things become complicated for students who got pregnant while studying because they will be forced to either temporarily or permanently quit from school. The study examined the transition experiences of eight Filipino single and unmarried college students who stopped from their schooling because of early pregnancy but chose to come back to finish their studies. Results revealed that early pregnancy was considered by the participants as a tragedy resulting in negative feelings and thoughts. Some participants thought of and even attempted abortion. However, they did not succumb to their heartbreaking situations but decided to rise and continue their drive towards the realization of their dreams. Their children and their loved ones as well their earnest desires to afford better future for their family with or without their partner’s support have motivated them to endure the difficulties during their comeback to school. As a result of this study, Cor Jesu College has formulated policy on student pregnancy and crafted student support program for pregnant students and students who are already mothers taking into account their concrete needs.
Rido Culture: It’s Impact to the Maranaos’ Contemporary Educational Aspirations
Authors: ALAYA-AY, JR. GAUDENCIO M. , CUIZON ROLANDO C. , DANGDANG GISELLE O. , BRANZUELA NIDA O. , ROMAREZ CHERILYN M. 
Published: January 2017

The Maranaos are practicing rido, a long time bloody culture wherein their fami­lies since in the past fought among themselves because of some feuds which greatly affected their plans, ambitions, and dreams in life. This knowledge led to determine the impacts of rido culture among the Maranaos specifically to their contemporary educational aspirations. The study also directed to answer the questions on the causes and modes of rido settlement as perceived by the secondary teachers, parents, and students and was conducted in the municipality of Balo-i, Lanao del Norte, Philip­pines. The descriptive research design was employed and utilized the questionnaire and interview in data gathering. Frequency counts, percentages distribution, and weighted mean were the statistical tools applied in analyzing the data. It was revealed that the respondents were very responsive and had different views to the causes of rido in the community but murder and theft were the most frequently cited causes. The impacts of rido culture to their educational aspirations were mostly negative. As to the perception of the parent-respondents, majority responded on the hindrance of education, financial burden, community relationship was highly affected, and can­not cooperate to the school activities. However, in terms of the perception of the student-respondents, majority regarded that it greatly affected them as to their aca­demic performances, disturbed them in gathering and organizing their projects and assignments. With the above revelations, it can be concluded that the rido culture really can ruin one’s life.Keywords: Social Science, Rido Culture, Maranao culture, contemporary educational aspirationsof the Maranaos, descriptive design, Balo-i, Lanao del Norte, Philippines
Educators in a Milieu of Maratabat Culture: Its Implication to Teaching Performance
Authors: CUIZON ROLANDO C. , ALAYA-AY, JR. GAUDENCIO M. 
Published: January 2017

Maratabat is a Muslim Maranao term which means family honor. It is the wellspring of family values and their inspiration to improve economic status to the point of endangering lives of family members. The study aimed at finding the influence of Maratabat culture on the teaching performance of teachers in Pantao Ragat District, Lanao del Norte Division during SY 2012-2013. Specifically, this study explored the respondents’ level of awareness on Maratabat in the dimensions of ideology, social position, and social coercion. The research method was descriptive using adapted standardized questionnaire. Data from survey were analyzed using frequency count, percentage, mean, and Pearson Moment of Correlation. The study found more than one-half of the respondents in the age range of 51 to 60 years old and in service for more than 20 years, all are female, and majority are married. The respondents are very aware of the three dimensions of Maratabat; the Ideology, Social Position and Social Coercion. The study concludes that Maratabat has an influence on their teaching performance. It is recommended to teachers to integrate Maratabat values in class and to school administrators to initiate outreach programs which are aimed to increase positive Maratabat values of the community.Keywords: Social Sciences, Maratabat, descriptive research, Lanao del Norte, Philippines
Prioritization and Implementation of Information Technology Funding in Higher Education Institutions in the Philippines
Authors: Marcial Dave E. 
Published: January 2017

Information Technology (IT) funding impacts the opportunities of the group as well as the opportunities of the entire organization. IT funding is among the top-ten IT issues in higher education institutions nowadays. The paper measured empirically the level of prioritization and degree of implementation of IT funding in higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines. A total of 95 HEIs in the Philippines were evaluated. The respondents are all heads in the Management Information Technology units. A survey questionnaire was used that was based on the critical questions from EDUCAUSE. The study reveals that the level of prioritization of IT funding in the Philippine HEIs is high but the degree of implementation is moderate. The study shows that there is a significant positive relationship between degree of implementation of IT funding and level of technical skills possessed by the respondents. There is no significant positive relationship between degree of implementation of IT funding and the respondent’s gender, educational attainment, teaching status, human skill level, conceptual skill level, working status, extent of decision-making, and HEI’s internet bandwidth. It is concluded that there is a remarkable gap between the level of prioritization and degree of implementation of IT funding in these institutions.Keywords: IT in Education, IT funding, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), descriptive design, Philippines
Common Errors in English Written by the Academic Journal Contributors
Authors: DJUWARI . 
Published: January 2017

In linguistics, common errors in writing, especially by the non-nativespeakers of English, are beneficial for analysis. Common errors written by theacademic journal contributors especially by the Indonesian authors are typical.Since English in Indonesia is a foreign language, the articles submitted to thejournal may have errors. When editing these articles, some common errors arefound. This research attempted to investigate common errors in English writtenby the academic journal contributors from Indonesia. It is a descriptive researchusing Error Analysis (EA) and Contrastive Analysis (CA) theories. The data weretaken from 15 articles submitted by the Indonesia contributors of the accreditedacademic journals Ventura published by STIE Perbanas Surabaya. First, they wereanalyzed before they were edited and then classified according to the types oferrors. From this, common errors were identified. After this, they were describedbased on the morphological and sentence levels. Finally, possible treatment can be asserted. The results show that there are six types of common errors such as morphological levels: a) Head-Modifier, b) Agreement, c) To-Infinitive andsentence level: Dangling, Agreement, Passive Construction, and Perfect Tense. Itcan be generalized that most of the common errors are due to L1 system so thatCA for L1 with L2 is required.Keywords: Linguistics, Error Analysis (EA), Constrastic Analysis (CA), L1, and L2, Indonesia
Biomarkers in Lake Van sediments reveal dry conditions in eastern Anatolia during 110.000–10.000 years B.P.
Authors: Randlett Marie‐Eve , Bechtel Achim , van der Meer Marcel T. J. , Peterse Francien , Litt Thomas , Pickarski Nadine , Kwiecien Ola , Stockhecke Mona , Wehrli Bernhard , Schubert Carsten J. 
Published: January 2017

AbstractLipid biomarkers were analyzed in Lake Van sediments covering the last 600 ka, with a focus on the period between 110 and 10 ka, when a broad maximum in pore water salinity as a relict from the past suggests dry conditions. The occurrence and distribution of biomarkers indicative for terrestrial plants (long‐chain n‐alkane C29), haptophyte algae (methyl alkenones C37) and halophilic archaea (archaeol) all point toward a dry climate in Lake Van region during this time interval. The hydrogen isotopic composition of C29 n‐alkanes (δDC29) and C37 alkenones (δDC37) is enriched between MIS 4 and MIS 2, which is interpreted as a decrease in the regional ratio of precipitation to evaporation. Similarly, the low abundance of the acyclic glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether GDGT‐0 relative to archaeol, quantified by the Archaeol and Caldarchaeol Ecometric (ACE) is assumed to reflect the presence of halophilic euryarchaeota adapted to high salinity water. The climate around Lake Van appears in phase with the Yammouneh basin 800 km southwest and Lake Urmia 250 km southeast of Lake Van over the last two glacial periods. The results highlight the potential of combining ACE, δDC29, and δDC37 for reconstructing salinity changes and regional precipitation to evaporation ratio from lake sediments.
Impacts of a Pinatubo‐size volcanic eruption on ENSO
Authors: Predybaylo Evgeniya , Stenchikov Georgiy L. , Wittenberg Andrew T. , Zeng Fanrong 
Published: January 2017

AbstractObservations and model simulations of the climate responses to strong explosive low‐latitude volcanic eruptions suggest a significant increase in the likelihood of El Niño during the eruption and posteruption years, though model results have been inconclusive and have varied in magnitude and even sign. In this study, we test how this spread of responses depends on the initial phase of El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the eruption year and on the eruption's seasonal timing. We employ the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory CM2.1 global coupled general circulation model to investigate the impact of the Pinatubo 1991 eruption, assuming that in 1991 ENSO would otherwise be in central or eastern Pacific El Niño, La Niña, or neutral phases. We obtain statistically significant El Niño responses in a year after the eruption for all cases except La Niña, which shows no response in the eastern equatorial Pacific. The eruption has a weaker impact on eastern Pacific El Niños than on central Pacific El Niños. We find that the ocean dynamical thermostat and (to a lesser extent) wind changes due to land‐ocean temperature gradients are the main feedbacks affecting El Niño development after the eruption. The El Niño responses to eruptions occurring in summer are more pronounced than for winter and spring eruptions. That the climate response depends on eruption season and initial ENSO phase may help to reconcile apparent inconsistencies among previous studies.
Protein Structure and Interactions from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Authors: Ghose Ranajeet 
Published: January 2017

Abstract

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a biophysical technique that facilitates determination of protein structures and interactions in solution. NMR experiments are used to identify spectral signatures corresponding to specific atoms on individual protein residues and determine their order in the primary sequence. Distance, angular and orientational relationships are subsequently measured and utilised in computational protocols to obtain high‐resolution structural models. Structure determination has been aided by advances in biotechnology allowing the generation of samples optimally labelled with NMR‐active isotopes; by improvements in the design of NMR instrumentation to allow spectral signatures to be recorded with high sensitivity; by the development of efficient techniques to manipulate nuclear spins at the quantum level and by the creation of computer algorithms that allow the rapid processing and manipulation of NMR data and the incorporation of novel information available from NMR experiments into strategies to obtain the atomic models of proteins and their complexes.

Key Concepts

Solution NMR is a spectroscopic technique that enables the determination of the three‐dimensional structure of proteins and their interactions under near‐physiological conditions.

The abundance of chemical and structural information available from NMR spectra derives from the ability to selectively manipulate specific nuclei within the molecules placed in a large static magnetic field by customisable sequences of radio‐frequency pulses.

NMR signals report on the variety of chemical environments experienced by nuclei in proteins through unique spectral signatures.

The repertoire of information‐rich NMR experiments has been significantly expanded by the ability to enrich biomolecules with NMR‐active nuclei by taking advantage of advances in biotechnology.

Nuclear spins in proteins form magnetically coupled networks, with characteristic signatures in NMR spectra that can be manipulated to extract angular, distance and orientational information to enable the generation of three‐dimensional structural models.

Changes in the spectral signatures of individual nuclei that make up each component of a complex in the presence of the other component/s provide information about the mode of interaction among the constituents in the assembled state. In some cases, where three‐dimensional structures of individual constituents are available, the spectral changes or perturbations may be utilised in novel computational strategies to obtain three‐dimensional structural models of the complexes.
Genetics of Human Laminopathies
Authors: Novelli Giuseppe , D'Apice Maria Rosaria 
Published: January 2017

Abstract

Lamins A/C, encoded by
LMNA
gene, are constituents of the nuclear lamina, a meshwork of proteins underneath the nuclear envelope. Human disorders linked to
LMNA
mutations are known as laminopathies and include cardiac and muscular dystrophies, lipodystrophies, progeroid syndromes and overlapping phenotypes. Associated with this wide clinical variability, there is also a large allelic heterogeneity that is still expanding. New links between
LMNA
mutations and human diseases with already known or unknown molecular cause have been established. In other cases, no evidence that a human disease is another laminopathy has been found. Moreover, the recent availability of high‐throughput sequencing technologies has made feasible to uncover the disease‐causing mutations in patients who were originally diagnosed with laminopathies but whose mutational analysis of candidate gene did not reveal any change in
LMNA
.

Key Concepts

Mutations in the
LMNA
gene, encoding A‐type lamin proteins, lead to a wide range of diseases known as laminopathies.

The clinical and allelic heterogeneity of laminopathies is still expanding.

Studies of the molecular mechanisms underlying laminopathies have led to advances in the understanding of lamin A functions and developing novel therapeutic strategies.

A group of progeroid phenotypes is phenocopy of progeroid laminopathies.

High‐throughput sequencing technologies have made it possible to uncover the disease‐causing mutations in genes that encode proteins involved in nuclear envelope architecture or in control of genomic stability.

Nuclear alterations are linked to human ageing.
Species–Area Relationship
Authors: Tjørve Even , Tjørve Kathleen MC 
Published: January 2017

Abstract

The species–area relationship (SAR) describes the increase in species numbers with increasing area and is often referred to as one of ecology's few genuine laws. Different (mathematical) regression models can be fitted to species–area data to generate a species–area curve. The power model,
S
=
cA

z

, is the most commonly used, but more than 20 models have been proposed. Community ecologists of the early nineteenth century were the first to propose a mathematical model. Subsequently, the SAR has become an important part of biogeography, macroecology and conservation. Two main types of SARs are described: those generated from sample areas (mainlands) and those generated from isolates (islands), more or less isolated from each other. There are many applications of the SAR: to identify, explain and compare patterns in nature, to extrapolate (upscale) species numbers and to forecast changes in species numbers – for example extinctions from habitat loss.

Key Concepts

Species‐area curves result from graphing the model, typically either the power model or the logarithmic model, fitted to species‐area data.

Isolate species–area relationships (iSARs) result from a comparison of the number of species on oceanic islands or other types of isolates, for example mountain tops (‘sky islands’) or forest remnants.

Sample‐area species–area relationships (saSARs) result by accumulating the number of species when adding new, typically continuous, sample areas (or increase the surveyed area) on mainlands (also referred to as ‘mainland SARs’).

Nested sampling areas are spatially organised so that each smaller area is completely contained within the next area, larger than the previous.

The
z
‐value is the exponent of the power‐law SAR and the most preferred SAR measurement. It is often described as the ‘slope’, because it becomes the slope in log–log space, although in reality,
z
is the rate at which the species–area curve decelerates.

Self‐similarity (or scale invariance), resulting if the species–area relationship is power law, causes the same proportional (or percentage) increase in species number for each doubling of area size. The
z
‐value controls this proportion.

Minimum‐area effects (MAEs) result from resource restrictions, when the isolate (or island) becomes too small to sustain viable populations of some species.

The equilibrium theory of island biogeography was proposed by MacArthur and Wilson in 1967 to explain species richness of oceanic islands, and also applies to other isolates.