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 ...

It is essential to understand the consumption pattern of food and how it changes over time to formulate sound economic policies as well as marketing and pricing strategies. In this study, we estimate the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System with six rounds of the Family Income Expenditure Survey exploiting the conditional linearity of the demand system. We find that the Filipino diet has become...

A retrospective evaluation of attitudinal, behavioural and knowledge change among diverse stakeholder groups was conducted in Limpopo Province of South Africa to assess the effectiveness of a series of values clarification (VC) interventions. Telephone and face-to-face interview (193) results revealed that over two-thirds (70.2%) reported behavioural changes and 93.2% reported increased compass...

This paper introduces the added values and experiments of the forestry machine simulator based learning environment. The learning experiment carried out at the North Carelia College of Further Education, Valtimo in 2004 and in Tampere University of Technology. The students studied for two years based on the educational model created in the ProForSim -project. They had harvester simulators, vide...

Value–based purchasing focuses the decisions of purchasing professionals on the creation of value, rather than on the traditional objectives of cost savings and efficiency. Most of the purchasing researchers see purchasing as a strategic contributor to the added value of the organizations. But only a few contributions discuss the possible kinds of values that the purchasing department could act...

Our survey results are based on feedback from 50 publishers (both large and small) based in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, Japan and Australia. The survey’s emphasis is on web-based full text journals (frequently the electronic versions of existing peer-reviewed scholarly print journals). The core topics in the survey were selected from the vantage point of a subscription agent involved in han...

We contribute to research on visualization as an epistemic learning tool by inquiring into the didactical potential of having students visualize one phenomenon in accord with two different partial meanings of the same concept. 22 Grade 4–6 students participated in a design study that investigated the emergence of proportionalequivalence notions from mediated perceptuomotor schemas. Working as i...