We present a case of well-differentiated liposarcoma (WDL) involving the right proximal arm and axilla in a 66-year-old Filipino male. The patient first noticed the lesion 18 years ago, and it subsequently slowly progressed in size. MR and CT imaging interpreted the lesion as likely being a WDL, a diagnosis that was confirmed by histology.

Type 2 is a chronic condition that affects nearly over three million Canadians, including immigrants. The timing of the first onset of diabetes has been linked to several other severe ailments such as acute retinopathy, end-renal diseases and micro and macro vascular complications. Yet, there is a dearth of empirical studies that examine the timing of the first onset of diabetes among Canadians...

This study aims to determine VARK: Teaching Strategies Used by Teachers for Learning Style and Performance of Students in Filipino. The respondents this consist two hundred (200) selected students from the tenth grade Pedro Guevara Memorial National High School academic year 2022-2023. Random sampling was used obtain total number students. research design is a descriptive method. revealed that ...

Background and aims: The aim of this study was to explore ethnic differences in demographic and socioeconomic determinants of poor physical and mental self-rated health (SRH) in the United States. Methods: We used data from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES) 2001- 2003, which included a national household probability sample of 18237 individuals including 520 Vietnamese, 5...

Diet-related chronic health conditions are prevalent in the Filipino American community; however, there is a lack of rigorously validated nutrition education evaluation tools in Tagalog for use in this population. This study aimed to develop and evaluate the face validity of a Tagalog-language food behavior checklist (FBC). A multi-step method was used, involving translation of questionnaire te...

Accounting for population genetic substructure is important in reducing type 1 errors in genetic studies of complex disease. As efforts to understand complex genetic disease are expanded to different continental populations the understanding of genetic substructure within these continents will be useful in design and execution of association tests. In this study, population differentiation (Fst...

This paper presents a template-based machine translation system that extracts templates from a given bilingual corpus, then uses these templates to perform bi-directional EnglishFilipino translations. The system extended the similarity template learning algorithm of Cicekli and Guvenir [2] by refining existing templates and deriving templates from previously learned chunks. Chunk alignment and ...

This paper presents secondary analyses of the National Health Interview Survey data focused on emergency department (ED) utilization among Asian adults residing in the United States. National Health Interview Survey data provided from survey years 2006-2013 was pooled and disaggregated by single-race Asian ethnic subgroups (Filipino, Chinese, Asian Indian, other Asian). We explored trends in re...