This study conducted anthropometric measurements among 1805 Filipino workers in 31 manufacturing industries. Anthropometric data were measured for standing, sitting, hand and foot dimensions, breadth and circumference of the various body parts, and grip strength. The workplace assessment survey was also done among respondents coming from the subject population to look into the common work and h...

This study examined the perception of the typologically frequent /m/-/n/ contrast and the less common /n/-/F/ contrast in syllable-onset position. In an acoustic study of [m]], [n]], and [F]] tokens as spoken by three native speakers of Filipino (Experiment 1), both static (F2 and F3 values measured at the nasal–vowel juncture) and dynamic (rms energy change from murmur to vowel onset) measures...

This community-based participatory research, conducted in partnership between a European-American academic researcher and a professional group of Filipino nurses, aimed to determine the diabetes research priority for the Filipino community on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, and to evaluate the multi-voting technique to seek input from the community. The study design was a qualitative, cross-secti...

When comparing nutrition and health among mothers in both Japan and Philippines, it can be concluded that, in regard to nutrition, the results of the total dietary scores for mothers in divided into pregnant and after-delivery stages showed that pregnant Filipino mothers' average are lower than those of pregnant Japanese mothers. Pregnant Filipino mothers and those just after delivery to 4 mont...

In this paper, we define the task of named entity recognition, look at existing systems for named entity recognition, and discuss the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system that performs named entity recognition on Filipino texts. We also compare the results of the system with an existing named entity recognizer designed for English texts using a Filipino corpus.

In recent years, in various sectors of our society, there have been nationalist stirrings which were crystallized and articulated by the late Claro M. Recto, There were jealous demands for the recognition of Philippine sovereignty on the Bases question. There were appeals for the correction of the iniquitous economic relations between the Philippines and the United States. For a time, Filipino ...

As the Philippines celebrates its centennial of independence, it is perhaps worth remembering that it was a pair of human inventions, revolution and nationalism, that gave birth to the Filipino nation. Of this pair, nationalismlargely a New World invention but which was transmitted to Filipino patriots through European contactswas the driving force in the struggle for national identity, in an...

T.0b013e32835af7c1 Summary Aims: Classical carriers of b-thalassaemia are identified by a raised HbA2 level. Earlier studies indicated that the Filipino b-deletion has high raised HbA2 levels. The introduction of automated high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for thalassaemia screening is an important advance in technology for haematology laboratories. The BioRad Variant II Hb analyser...

Abstract In the Philippines and other developing countries, the skin whitening industry is prolific and expanding among native populations. However, this desire for white skin has dire health repercussions, both physical and psychological. Many researchers in the field of Filipino-American psychology attribute this desire for whiter skin to the American colonial rule of the Philippines, which b...

BACKGROUND The Philippines continues to overproduce nurses for export. Little first-hand evidence exists from leading organisations in the Philippines concerning their experiences and perceptions in relation to Filipino nurse migration. What are their views about health workforce migration? This paper addresses this research gap by providing a source country perspective on Filipino nurse migrat...