This cross-sectional study utilized a nested concurrent design to determine the association of Filipino nurse returnees' length of stay since they returned and their social connectedness as well as the essence of communication from their perspective. The respondents, who are Filipino nurses (n = 107) who worked abroad and returned to the Philippines for good, were employed from June to July of ...

This paper presents a morphological analyzer that accepts Filipino verbs conjugated in different forms as inputs and analyzes them to produce the affixes used, the infinitive forms, and the tenses of the original input verbs. A prototype system was implemented and was fed with a file containing 1,050 Filipino verbs conjugated in various tenses using different types of affixes. The preliminary r...

As outlined in Chapter 1, intriguing differences between European Americans and Asian Americans have emerged in earlier studies of parenting. According to these studies, Asian American parents are more restrictive and control-oriented and express less overt warmth than European American parents (Bond & Wang, 1983; Chiu, 1987; Lin & Fu, 1990; Wu & Chao, 2005). However, most of the work to date h...

This study incorporates computational and perceptual methods to classify Filipino speech rhythm. Speech rhythm may be described as a language‟s distinguishing durational sound pattern, resulting from the complexity of the language‟s syllable inventory. 1 Computational methods involve the correlation of rhythm-types to acoustic features such as the vocalic and consonantal intervals, one of which...

INTRODUCTION Access to health care services is vital for every migrant's health and wellbeing. However, migrants' cultural health beliefs and views can hinder their ability to access available services. This study examined factors affecting access to healthcare services for intermarried Filipino women in rural Tasmania, Australia. METHODS A qualitative approach using semi-structured interview...

Nutritional and dietary interventions and the introduction of novel food products and ingredients require a thorough understanding of the drivers of food choice, which are embedded in local context and culture. We developed a framework of "gastronomic systems research" (GSR) to understand culture-specific consumer food choice, and contextualise it to a target population of urban, middle- to hig...

After interrogating the (non-)referential status of the Holocaust for Asians, this essay examines Frank Ephraim’s Escape to Manila and Juergen Goldhagen’s Manila Memories. In particular, cross-traumatic affiliation is studied between two groups of people: the Manilaner and the Manileños: the former were Europeans who fled Nazism and sought refuge in Manila; the latter were Filipino residents of...

Grounded in Butler’s Queer Theory, focusing on performances, this paper examined gay protagonists in the five (5) Philippine representative queer-themed English proses, which titled as follow: “The Doll” by Emigdio Alvarez-Enriquez; “The Chamber of the Sea” by Edith Tiempo; “High Fashion” by Gilda CorderoFernando; “Geyluv” by Honorio de Dios; and “The Husband” by Jaime An Lim. Specifically, the...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify the cultural values, traditions, and perceptions of diabetes risk and self-care among Filipino Americans in Hawaii with type 2 diabetes that facilitate or impede engagement in diabetes self-management behaviors and education classes. METHODS This qualitative study used 2 rounds of semistructured focus groups and interviews. Participants includ...

BACKGROUND Immigration to South Korea from neighboring Asian countries has risen dramatically, primarily due to marriage between Korean men and foreign women. Although Filipino women rank fourth among married immigrant women, little is known about the health condition of this population. This manuscript focuses on the design and methods of Filipino women's diet and health study (FiLWHEL). SUB...