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Detection of Ascaris suum on Visayan warty pig Sus cebifrons in Negros Island, Philippines: A case report

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Wilfredo V. Andico Jr.
Northern Negros State College of Science and Technology, Philippines
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This paper presents a report on the occurrence, gross pathology and transmissibility of Ascaris suum on Visayan warty pig in Negros Island, Philippines. An approximately 3-year-old Visayan warty pig was presented for death examination. History revealed that the animal was rescued from the local hunters, and is enclosed in a pen with soil flooring, fed with fruits and root crops, and, without veterinary care, was given even prior to the onset of the disease. Gross pathology revealed extensive ecchymoses in the left dorso-caudal lung lobe and multifocal fibrosis on other parts. Multifocal splenic infarctions, empty stomach, and mild fibrosis in the liver parenchyma were observed. The entire small intestine displayed catarrhal enteritis, accompanied by mucosal reddening, and numerous adult stages of Ascaris suum were identified. The results of the case showed that the transmissibility of A.suum in Visayan warty pig is generally the same on what is reported on domestic pigs. Furthermore, this case poses a public health threat due to its zoonotic potential, which is of greater concern compared to the transmissibility of the parasite in domestic pigs due to the nature of living by the Visayan warty pig. As a result, various preventive measures involving innovations in agriculture in rural areas and modifications in the attitude of every person living in the vulnerable place are formulated. To the author’s knowledge, this is the first report of A.suum infection in Negros Island, Philippines, and this should raise awareness among veterinarians, animal conservationists, and public health experts to consider A. suum infection as part of differentials whenever the same case will happen.

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Analyses on three-wheeled vehicles in relation to congestion: A case study in Bishoftu City, Ethiopia

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Tenna Tesfaye Abebe, Mekete Deresso Garuno
Assosa University, Ethiopia
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Transportation engineering aims at creating the best route between two locations within three considerations: safety, time, and cost. Drivers’ behavior on roads is one of the main concerns for any traffic engineer for its effect on safety. The main objective of this topic was to investigate the impacts of Bajaj (three-wheeled vehicles) driving behavior on traffic flow and safety. The study area is located in Bishoftu City. Data were collected from a survey questionnaire, where the number distributed questionnaire was 600. The main causes of bad driving habits related to Bajaj drivers are the experience of the drivers, age of the drivers (younger drivers), low quality of license giver agencies, and road types (common road) with other vehicles. Its results were about 95% of traffic congestion caused after accidents occur at road segment rather than traffic volume occupation. This indicates that from 85% to 95% of traffic congestion was caused due to driver’s wrong driving behavior habits.

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Assessment of servant leadership and ethical climate: The case of administrators and supervisors

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Geff B. Sagala, Ismael A. Haguisan III, Ene J. Bauden
STI West Negros University, Bacolod City Philippines
University of Antique, Philippines
La Consolacion College Bacolod, Philippines
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Servant leadership and ethical climate are philosophies in which the leader’s goal is to serve humanity ethically. This study assessed the level of servant leadership and ethical climate of the administrators and supervisors in a private hospital. This descriptive comparative correlational research study surveyed 111 employees using a validated and reliable researchers-made instrument. The researchers used the mean, standard deviation, t-test, and Pearson Product Moment of Correlation Coefficient to analyze the findings. The results showed that administrators and supervisors have a high level of servant leadership and adhere to ethical practices. This implies that the supervisors were into pro-social development to perform their moral obligations in their working environment. This study also proved a positive correlation between servant leadership and ethical climate. It is therefore recommended to further promote servant leadership and practice of ethical climate in the workplace through training programs that will raise awareness about these concepts.

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Quality assurance in selected medical schools in Metro Manila Philippines: Current practices and future directions

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Nadia Rose M. Sison
Northern Negros State College of Science and Technology, Philippines
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The descriptive research looked at the Quality Assurance (QA) practices of Twenty (20) medical schools in Metro Manila, Philippines, considering their various statuses, systems, and practices. As institutions concentrate on achieving their vision and objectives, QA is essential. In addition, the Commission on Higher Education requires that all academic institutions establish QA in their operations to maintain international competitiveness. As a result, QA must be institutionalized in Philippine medical universities. Based on the findings, most medical schools established QA Departments. The accreditation office is normally situated under the President’s or Vice President’s Office for Academic Affairs. In terms of the QA organizational structure, the term “director” is assigned to the office’s head. The nature of the employment as a director necessitates the use of a plantilla item while personnel have been appointed to assist with the accreditation process. A staff was assigned to the QA Department at the majority of medical universities. Moreover, the QA department’s main responsibilities were preparing program accreditation and coordinating their departments, as well as assisting colleges with program accreditation, formative evaluation, and monitoring program accreditation standards. Since accreditation is an unavoidable QA indicator, it was recommended that university administrators must engage to accreditation in order to achieve higher SUC Levels and maintain excellence. When fully dedicated to QA, presidents must guarantee the participation of all stakeholders in all accreditation operations; and to maintain QA’s long-term viability, the organization, processes, and practices must be standardized; there may be policy campaigning for centralized QA among medical universities.

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Affective strategies in teaching and learning English as a Second Language (ESL)

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Nadia Rose M. Sison
Northern Negros State College of Science and Technology, Philippines
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Learning a language is both an academic and an emotional process of coming to terms with oneself and building relationships with others. This study aimed to determine the extent of affective strategies in lowering anxiety, encouraging oneself, and taking emotional temperature in teaching and learning English as a Second Language (ESL) among language students and teachers of Northern Negros State College of Science and Technology, a state college in the Philippines. This descriptive-comparative study employed validated survey questionnaires to determine the extent of affective strategies for English language teachers and students. The results showed that language teachers and students use affective strategies to lower anxiety, encourage oneself, and take emotional temperature in teaching and learning ESL. Moreover, females use affective strategies more to lower their anxiety and take emotional temperature than males, who had an average outcome. Interestingly, all year levels indicate a great extent in all three areas. Furthermore, sex and year level are significant in the use of affective strategies specifically in lowering anxiety and encouraging oneself. No significant difference was found in the extent of use of affective strategies among teachers and students. This study recommends the use of affective strategies in teaching ESL, integrated in the materials and methods to further enhance the language learning process of the students.

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Performing homework using of ICT for graphical presentation of trigonometric functions: A qualitative analysis

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Senad Orhani
Faculty of Education/University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Prishtina, Kosovo
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Trigonometry is a mathematical field whose basic concepts are sine and cosine and have many different representations, some of which are covered at length in the Kosovo curriculum in high schools. Unfortunately, many of its aspects are taught procedurally, forcing students to learn without meaning and memorize formulas. The use of ICT enables the implementation of this unconventional proposal, through a series of activities. So, modern ICT provides an excellent tool to explore many of the concepts related to trigonometry, namely the graphical representation of trigonometric functions. Therefore, this study explores some of the potential of such ICTs to influence the performance of homework on graphing trigonometric functions. Qualitative research was chosen as the methodology for this study. Whereas, for this study, the selected sample is represented by about 30 students attending the eleventh grade at the music high school “Lorenc Antoni” in Prizren/Kosovo. Data collection for this study was conducted through online portfolios and an interview. The results of this study show the positive effect that ICT had on the students’ motivation for doing homework during the graphical presentation of trigonometric functions.

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Treatment outcome and follow-up pattern of breast cancer patients with locally advanced and/or metastatic disease receiving intravenous chemotherapy during COVID-19 Pandemic: A descriptive correlational study

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Paulo Martin B. Villanueva1 Judy Ann B. Surtida, May Sabando
English as a Foreign Language Teacher, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Polytechnic State University of Bicol / Manila Doctors College of Nursing, Philippines
Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital (BRTTH), Philippines
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The study determined the impact COVID-19 pandemic on treatment outcomes and follow-up patterns of breast cancer patients at Bicol Cancer Center of Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital (BRTTH). The study utilized a retrospective and descriptive study. Of the 108 breast cancer patients, 73 or 67.59 percent had followed up as scheduled during the pandemic; while there was 35 or 32.41 percent who had delayed follow-up. Of the total number of subjects with treatment delays, there were 7 or 6.48 percent with the stable disease while 24 or 22.22 percent were already found with progressive disease. For breast cancer patients with no treatment delays, there was 71 or 65.74 percent with stable disease and 6 or 5.56 percent were found to have a progressive disease. A chi-square test of independence was performed to examine the comparison of outcomes between those with treatment delay and those with no treatment delay. The relation between these variables was significant, X2 (1, N = 108) = 49.9951, p = <0.00001. Patients with no treatment delays were more likely to have a stable disease compared to those with treatment delays. There is a high percentage of follow-ups as scheduled despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The incidence of progressive disease is higher among patients who received treatment delay as compared to those who did not have treatment delay. Patients with breast cancer who do not follow up as scheduled which causes treatment delays are at higher risk of having more severe or progressive disease.

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Communication strategies of English majors in Philippine classroom discourses: Basis for an enhancementmodule on strategic competence

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Henry E. Lemana II
English as a Foreign Language Teacher, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Both high and low language proficiency learners encounter communication issues, so they use verbal and nonverbal communication techniques to make up for communication failures brought on by performance factors or a lack of competence. This study described the communication strategies employed in the utterances of Filipino students in their classroom discourses as a basis for an enhancement module on strategic competence. Furthermore, it utilized a descriptive-quantitative approach. Third-year college students under the Bachelor in Secondary Education major in English program of four purposively selected higher education institutions in Region XII, the Philippines were the participants of the study, who were observed with video recordings. Transcription of students’ utterances provided the data for analysis through the use of the taxonomy of communication strategies. Based on the results, English majors possess strategic competence as evidenced by their use of varied communication strategies, with fillers being the most lavishly employed. However, the analysis also conveyed that students incline to overuse three communication strategies (use of fillers/hesitation devices, self-repetition, mumbling) which resulted in observable message distortions, unsuccessful information transfers, and even total communication breakdowns. The results of this study became the basis to come up with an enhancement module on the strategic competence of English majors. The findings suggest that the proposed enhancement module on strategic competence be implemented in the selected higher education institutions in the Philippines and further studies on other aspects of communicative competence (linguistic, socio-linguistic, and discourse) be conducted with a more significant sample of students taking other courses and coming from various groups and ages.

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Serbigo Serbisyo on the Go!: Online job order mobile application for non-professional workers

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Serbigo Serbisyo on the Go!: Online job order mobile application for non-professional workers
Kent Nolan P. Juliano, Wilmer Andre E. Cruzado, Kyle Daniel P. De Ramos, Mia V. Villarica
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The way we live, the way we conduct daily tasks, and the way our society are all profoundly impacted by the deep integration of technology into our daily lives. The research aims to develop and evaluate a web and mobile application that empowers vulnerable workers in the informal sector in marketing their services and locating employment opportunities, as well as offering convenience to users by connecting them with workers in the area who are qualified to manage the task at hand. The researchers were able to swiftly transform system requirements to system design and development which was carried out using the SCRUM software methodology. Black box methodology was utilized in the system testing and the Technology Acceptance Model and ISO/IEC 25010 software metrics were integrated during the evaluation phase. The system was tested in various test scenarios and revealed it was fully functional and ready for deployment. Mutually, service finders and providers of the developed mobile applications were very satisfied, acknowledging its convenience in user experience and future earning possibility it provides. The evaluation also revealed that the developed system is timely, efficient and useful especially considering the current global situation. An implementation plan, business model and financial analysis should be established to generate profit for the community.

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Support vector machine classification learning algorithm for diabetes prediction

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Renas Rajab Asaad
Department of Computer Science, College of Science, Nawroz University, Kurdistan-Region, Iraq
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The concept of instructional competence, which refers to the ability to show that one has the readiness and effectiveness of necessary skills within the teaching framework in public schools, has hardly ever been investigated. This qualitative descriptive phenomenological study aimed to discover the instructional competence of newly hired public school teachers. Through the lens of Albert Bandura’s (1997) Self-Efficacy Theory, it investigated what instructional competencies a newly hired teacher possessed that demonstrated readiness and efficacy of the required skills. The focus group discussions highlighted the crucial characteristics for improving the competencies. The results revealed six (6) emergent themes: the acquisition of baseline instructional standards, coping with the shift of instructional quality, planning for quality instruction, an initiative for instructional improvement, dealing with uncertainties, and health and well-being stability. The results highlighted that instructional competency might become self-efficient with increased experience and practice. Their prior teaching experience influenced the quality of a new teacher’s instruction.   In addition, teachers’ competencies are gradually enhanced and strengthened as they gain experience in the field. As students discover new concepts, teachers begin to hone the skills that will allow them to manage classroom instruction effectively. This study deepens the understanding of instructional competence and may enable teachers and policymakers to design and implement initiatives. Since there is strong evidence that newly hired teachers may be self-sufficient, instructional managers must assure support by creating policies and programs that bridge instructional competencies to practice. These professional development programs allow newly hired teachers eventually gain instructional competency and well-motivated public-school teaching.

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