Dharyll Prince M. Abellana, Demelo M. Lao Abstract With the extensive applicability of machine learning classification algorithms to a wide spectrum of domains, feature selection (FS) becomes a relevant data preprocessing technique due to the high dimensionality of data used in these domains. While efforts have been made to study various filters for ranking features, scholars have paid little attention to developing a unified framework that can...

Marie Rose Arong IntroductionRodrigo Duterte’s candidacy may have been officially announced in lateNovember 2015 but his rise in popularity, in the Visayas at least, was aidedby the dismal performance of then President Benigno Aquino’s administration when super typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) struck the Mindanao and Visayas regions on November 7, 2013. A few days after the typhoon, Duterte visited Tacloban and offered “P8 million...

 Percival J. Forcadilla Abstract Air pollutants that are generated from indoor sources such as cigarettes, cleaning products, air fresheners, etc. impact human health. These sources are usually safe but exposure beyond the recommended standards could be hazardous to health. Due to this fact, people started to use technology to monitor indoor air quality (IAQ) but have no capability of recognizing pollutant sources. This research is an...

Brisneve Edullantes a1, Brenna Mei M. Concolis a1, Raven Quilestino-Olario a1, Dale Patrick D. Atup a, Aiza Cortes a, Aletta T. Yñiguez b Abstract Marine Heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged, discrete, and anomalously warm events, which have recently gained global attention due to their far-reaching effects and reported impacts. Although intensive studies have been carried out at global and regional scales, these events remained understudied in the...

Regletto Aldrich Imbong  Introduction The Philippine government has been relentless in its counterinsurgencycampaigns. From the colonial wars that vilified as insurgents and bandits thehonored heroes of today, up to the anti-communist and anti-secessionist civiland military efforts of the postcolonial regimes, these campaigns have not onlyrolled out large state resources but also cost lives of innocent civilians.Patterned after the United...