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...

Abstract How does the press regulate itself? Through document research, key informant interviews, and participant observation, the researcher studied how the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC) promotes media self-regulation (MSR) among the Cebu press and media literacy (ML) among citizens and netizens in Cebu, a metropolis in southern Philippines. Led by civil society leaders, the editors-in-chief of Cebu newspapers, and other media leaders,...

Abstract This paper contributes to the introductory study on the sociocultural impact of immersive technology or ImT, in the form of 360 video capture and virtual reality projection. A young technology in the field of visual language, ImT challenges the supremacy of the frame in cinematic mediums—TV, video, film—and, in effect, introduces new notions in visual grammar of the multimodality of moving images, aka the kineikonic mode of media...

            The Central Visayas Studies Center was instituted in 1999 to respond to the need for inputs on decision-making on policies affecting the development of Cebu, the region, and the country as a whole; and the need to respond to the challenge of the need to stress the cultural dimension of any meaninguful effort towards self-reliance. It envisions itself to be “the main resource...

Centennial Faculty Research Symposium group photo