The Cuss that Cares? Paternalistic Cussing in Philippine President Rodrigo RoaDuterte’s Rhetoric

Ronald A. Pernia & Rogelio Alicor L. Panao Abstract This chapter offers an unconventional view of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s rhetoric by contending that his use of abusive language is a symbolic predilection by a president who is fully aware of the political implications of actions and utterances—to preach tough love to protect citizens and maintain law and order. We call this phenomenon paternalistic cussing which serves to...

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An empirical study on the use of a facial emotion recognition system in guidance counseling utilizing the technology acceptance model and the general comfort questionnaire

Dhong Fhel K. Gom-os, Kelvin Y. Yong Abstract Purpose The goal of this study is to test the real-world use of an emotion recognition system. Design/methodology/approach The researchers chose an existing algorithm that displayed high accuracy and speed. Four emotions: happy, sadness, anger and surprise, are used from six of the universal emotions, associated by their own mood markers. The mood-matrix interface is then coded as a web application....

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Immediate and delayed effects of a heatwave and Prorocentrum lima ((Ehrenberg) Stein 1878) bloom on the toxin accumulation, physiology, and survival of the oyster Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793)

Ellen Grace M. Funesto ab, Adam M. Lewis c, Andrew D. Turner c, Tom C. Cameron a, Michael Steinke a Abstract Warming could facilitate the intensification of toxic algal blooms, two important stressors for marine organisms that are predicted to co-occur more frequently in the future. We investigated the immediate and delayed effects of a heatwave and a simulated bloom (3 × 106 cells L-1) of the diarrhetic shellfish toxin...

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Fruit Classification using Colorized Depth Images

Dhong Fhel K. Gom-os Abstract Fruit classification is a computer vision task that aims to classify fruit classes correctly, given an image. Nearly all fruit classification studies have used RGB color images as inputs, a few have used costly hyperspectral images, and a few classical ML-based have used colorized depth images. Depth images have apparent benefits such as invariance to lighting, less storage requirement, better...

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On Dual B-Topological Spaces Determined by Filterbase and Some Sets in a Dual B-algebra

Jimboy Ruben AlbaracinKatrina E. Belleza Abstract This paper presents dual B-topologies that are determined by filterbase and some sets in a dual B-algebra. Also, some properties of a filterbase in a dual B-topological space are provided. In particular, a commutative dual B-topological space and a symmetric B-topological space are topological dual B-algebras. Keywords:  topological algebra, dual B-algebra, topological B-algebra, dual...

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