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...

INTRODUCTION Filipinos are the second largest Asian subgroup in the United States, but few studies have examined health and health care disparities in Filipino children. The objectives of this review are 1) to appraise current knowledge of Filipino children's health and health care and 2) to present the implications of these findings for research, clinical care, and policy. METHODS We identif...

Filipino is a changing language that poses several challenges. Our goal is to develop a bidirectional English-Filipino Machine Translation (MT) system using a hybrid approach to learn rules from examples. The first phase was an English to Filipino MT system that required several language resources. The problem lies on its dependency over the annotated grammar which is currently unavailable for ...

Because of the long colonial history of Filipinos and the highly Americanized climate of postcolonial Philippines, many scholars from various disciplines have speculated that colonialism and its legacies may play major roles in Filipino emigration to the United States. However, there are no known empirical studies in psychology that specifically investigate whether colonialism and its effects h...

Colonial mentality is a term used widely by ethnic studies scholars and by the Filipino American community to refer to a form of internalized oppression among Filipinos and Filipino Americans. The authors propose that colonial mentality is a construct that is central to the understanding of the psychology of contemporary Filipino Americans. Drawing on larger scholarship from postcolonial studie...

OBJECTIVE To compare the outcomes of patients having thyroid cancer among Filipinos vs non-Filipinos. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. SETTING High-volume tertiary referral center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. PATIENTS A total of 499 patients with thyroid cancer (36 Filipino and 463 non-Filipino) treated at Mount Sinai Hospital from January 1, 1984, to August 31, 2003, with a mi...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine information about Filipino American women's perceptions of breast cancer, the most frequently diagnosed cancer and number-one killer of Asian American women, and their experiences with screening. DESIGN A qualitative, exploratory approach with focus groups. SETTING Suburban Filipino American communities in the midwestern United States. SAMPLE 11 Filipino Am...

PURPOSE To explore the experiences of older Filipino migrants adjusting to living permanently in New Zealand. METHOD The qualitative descriptive approach taken in this study involved 17 individual face-to-face interviews of older Filipino migrants in New Zealand. RESULTS Three main themes emerged from the data. The first theme was "moving backwards and moving forward", which described how t...

This paper presents an approach to developing a cross-language information retrieval system (CLIR) whose input is a natural language query written in Filipino and the target documents are written in English and Filipino. Is it possible to apply existing approaches to CLIR to a Filipino to English system? Which linguistic resources are needed by this system?

background the incidence and mortality rates of breast cancer are high among filipino women. the lack of knowledge on preventive behavior and early detection related to breast cancer is considered a reason. conclusions women who were aware of risk factors for breast cancer possessed a higher education level and had knowledge of the association of risk factors with preventive behaviors and early...