Belinda Espiritu Abstract This paper examines the discursive themes and strategies of resistance by the Lumad, the indigenous people of Southern Philippines, and civil society groups to neoliberal hegemony, the dominance of the political-economic philosophy that champions the market as the prime regulator of economic activity, in the Lumad’s struggle for justice and their rights. The Lumad have been subject to killings of their leaders,...

Brisneve Edullantes ab, Etienne Low-Decarie a1, Michael Steinke a, Tom Cameron a Abstract Understanding the effect of temperature on growth in marine phytoplankton is crucial in predicting the biogeography and phenology of algal blooms in the warming ocean. Here, we investigated the temperature dependence of the growth of non-toxic and potentially toxic marine phytoplankton. Using non-toxic strains (Prorocentrum sp. NRR 188, Prorocentrum...

Author   Mary Gretchen ChavesSchool of Management, University of the Philippines Cebu Abstract The COVID-19 lockdowns upended business operations, impacting microenterprises which prompted the Cebu Province to implement a stimulus grant to revive existing and encourage start-up microenterprises known as the Sugbo Negosyo program. A digital card system (DCS) with a quick response (QR) code payment was utilized to facilitate the disbursement...

Aurelio Vilbar Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted higher education courses integrating face-to-face (FtF) community-based service learning into their curriculum. There is a need to transform FtF service-learning (FtF-SL) into electronic service-learning (e-SL) to promote safety. e-SL studies show positive results in academic enhancement but reveal struggles sustaining online collaboration. This paper reports the experience of graduate...

Dharyll Prince M. Abellana,1Robert R. Roxas,1Demelo M. Lao,1Paula E. Mayol,1and Sanghyuk Lee2 Abstract Combining filters in an ensemble to improve feature selection performance is a growing field in the literature. Current techniques, however, are focused on approaches that suffer from drawbacks such as sensitivity to skewed distribution, among others. To address this gap, this paper investigates the applicability of multiple criteria...