The Philippine Heart Association, the Philippine Lipid and Atherosclerosis Society, and the Philippine Society of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, collaborated to develop the 2015 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidemia in the Philippines (2015 CPG). These guidelines are meant to update the 2005 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Dyslipidemia in th...

This paper aims at describing the building of the online corpora on Philippine languages as part of the online repository system called Palito. There are five components of the corpora: the top four major Philippine languages which are Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano and Hiligaynon and the Filipino Sign Language (FSL). The four languages are composed of 250,000-word written texts each, whereas the FS...

The paper examined the value system in Philippine firms against the backdrop of Eastern-Western cultural dynamics in East Asia. The Asian milieu presents co-existence of cultural stasis and unease -balance and tension between Eastern values and Western ideas. Successful Asian countries demonstrated their ability to blend conflicting cultures and highlight certain values in order to promote nati...

An analysis has been made of the rupture mechanism of two earthquakes which occurred in the vicinity of the oblique collision beneath the tip of the descending Philippine Sea plate and the Pacific plate beneath Chiba, Japan. The M=6.5 1956 Chiba earthquake occurred in a dense nest of seismicity at a depth of between 70 and 80km beneath Chiba city, and may represent deformation at the tip of the...

Five species of the subgenus Galumna (Galumna) (Acari, Oribatida, Galumnidae) are registered in the Philippine oribatid mite fauna. A new species, Galumna (Galumna) makilingensissp. n., is described; it is most similar morphologically to Galumna (Galumna) tokyoensis Aoki, 1966, but differs from the latter by the morphology of porose areas Aa and Ap, rostral setae, and length of interlamellar se...

Kenneth G. Schoenly*, Joel E. Cohen, Kong Luen Heong, James A. Litsinger, Alberto T. Barrion and Gertrudo S. Arida Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA 95382, USA; Laboratory of Populations, Box 20, Rockefeller and Columbia Universities, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA; Crop and Environmental Sciences Division, International Rice Rese...

Major Shift from Subtype B to CRF01_AE Brian Schwem, PhD; Jill Itable, MD, FPCP; Patrick Ching, MD; Sharie Ganchua; Marissa Alejandria MD, MSc, FPCP, FPSMID; Jodor Lim, MD, FPCP, FPSMID; Raul Destura, MD; Edsel Maurice Salvana, MD, DTM&H; National Institutes of Health University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines; Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of...

It was truly sad that Professor Felicidad Cua Lim who was the Founding President of the Philippine Society of Allergology and Immunology (1972–1978) and the President of Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology, APAAACI (1999–2000) passed away on August 28, 2014 (Fig. 1) [1]. It was a great loss for us. All thoughts and prayers from the Asia Pacific region were with ...

The Philippine archipelago is home to a diverse array of ecosystems, organisms, peoples, and cultures. Filipino cuisine is no exception as distinct regional flavors stem from the unique food preparation techniques and culinary traditions of each region. Although Philippine indigenous foods are reminiscent of various foreign influences, local processes are adapted to indigenous ingredients and i...