Paper presented during PhilGEOS x GeoAdvances 2019, 14–15 November 2019, Manila, Philippines Abstract Tangbo River is an important resource in Cebu’s southern town of Samboan for being the site of Aguinid Falls, a known tourist destination. Monitoring the changes in the river’s riparian vegetation is important since it has impacts on its ecological role of helping maintain biodiversity and river water quality. This study aims to detect...

Paper presented during National Conference on Information Technology Education (NCITE2019) organized by the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators Foundation, Inc. (PSITE) on 17-19 October 2019 held at Father Saturnino Urios University in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte  Abstract The rise of cryptocurrency trading caused an increase in Twitter activity from field experts. Activities include sharing market predictions, opinions,...

Poster presented during the 2019 Mathematics Society of the Philippines ANNUAL CONVENTION, Greenleaf Hotel, General Santos City 27–29 May 2019 Abstract Stochastic epidemic models naturally describe the spread of disease, defining the probability of disease transmission between individuals. In this study, we formulate a stochastic model describing the dynamics of the spread of a disease in an SEIR population of finite size through a network...

Paper presented during Mindanao State University Iligan Institute Technology Department of English Research Colloquium on Social Media, (Discourse, Culture, and Language.  1-2 May 2019, MSU-IIT, Iligan City Abstract This presentation discusses how to use social media in education and conduct research about the impact of social on teaching-learning. First it presents the research on “Using Facebook as a Learning Management System in Teaching”....

Paper presented during the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA) Conference 2019, 02-04 May 2019 Abstract Since the regime of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, labor export has been institutionalized as an important economic policy in the Philippines. While there may be contrasting views among academics and analysts as to the value of the policy, the brute fact that foreign remittances have highly supported the macroeconomic...

Paper presented during the 2nd International Conference on Information Science and Systems (ICISS 2019) Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan. March 16-19, 2019 Abstract Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a type of artificial neural network commonly used in analyzing images. Images of clothes are great factors in driving the clothing industry today and trends found in the current fashion styles drive the online clothing economy. This study attempts...