Micro-enterprise development in selected fishing communities in the province of Iloilo, Philippines

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations provided funding in support of the development of micro-enterprises in Banate Bay, Iloilo and Southern Iloilo. This project was implemented by the University of the Philippines in the Visayas in coordination with the Banate Bay Resource Management Council, Inc. and the Southern Iloilo Coastal Resource Management Council. The following micro-enterprises were developed in the various municipalities of Banate Bay and Southern Iloilo: Anilao - fish balls production; Banate - fish vending; Barotac Nuevo - shrimp paste production; Barotac Viejo - oyster and mussel culture; Guimbal - fish vending; Miagao û salt iodization; Oton - fish vending; San Joaquin - fish sauce production; Tigbauan - shrimp paste production.Fishery management

Paralegal work: a community-based approach to fisheries law enforcement ni Negros Occidental, Philippines

Fishery management, Legal aspects

The making of a diplomat : the case of the French Diplomatic and Consular Institute as an identity workspace

This article analyses the creation of the Diplomatic and Consular Institute by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and conceptualises this new professional school of diplomacy as an “identity workspace” following the analysis of a cohort’s learning experience. This article aims to spark a debate from a practice perspective on diplomatic training as offered by Ministries of Foreign Affairs in Europe

ANALYZING EXECUTIVE DECISIONMAKING PROCESSES: TILE METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION OF VISUAL MENTAL IMAGERY PROTOCOLS

Visual mental imagery protocols can provide step-by-step traces of executive decisionmaking. Sequences of drawings that externalize thought processes are often easier to analyze than transcriptions of tape recorded verbal protocols. The technique is of obvious use for investigating spatial problem solving behavior since such tasks are usually solved with sketches, drawings, or graphs; the methodology is also appropriate for abstract, non-spatial decisionmaking for which mental images often function as models that managers mentally construct and manipulate. This paper reports an application to the analysis of decisions by a high level executive: the commander of a naval task force. The study will influence both design and evaluation of the command and control systems that support tactical decision making by such commanders and their staffs, over long periods, in hostile environments under extreme stress

Notes on Finding Stories in Treeless Jungles

“The truths that we travel so far to seek are of valueonly when we have scraped them clean of all this fungus.”—Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (1961) When writing from experience, it takes more than just courage to retell a story. You face the empty page and are presented with the illusion that you can just write everything down in an essay. The temptation to give all the details—the fungus as Levi-Strauss calls them—each gesture, each sigh, how people dress, their mannerisms, and the looks on their faces. However, when the task of recreating is staring back at you, you remember that not everything should be written, not every detail deserves to be mentioned. Each page is a sacred space reserved for the most significant elements that make a piece of writing work. Hence, the importance of having a notebook. For a project in the field, anthropologists and social scientists often use field notes to chronicle their experiences for future reference and study. These raw and unrefined notes are a source of both material and inspiration. For writers, the field is not just the distant community, or the subject of a study, it can be the empty room, the cluttered desk, the smoke-filled bar, and the crowded school halls. The field that we take stories from is the world, life itself

Distributed Control to Ensure Proportional Load Sharing and Improve Voltage Regulation in Low-Voltage DC Microgrids

DC microgrids are gaining popularity due to high efficiency, high reliability, and easy interconnection of renewable sources as compared to the ac system. Control objectives of dc microgrid are: 1) to ensure equal load sharing (in per unit) among sources; and 2) to maintain low-voltage regulation of the system. Conventional droop controllers are not effective in achieving both the aforementioned objectives simultaneously. Reasons for this are identified to be the error in nominal voltages and load distribution. Though centralized controller achieves these objectives, it requires high-speed communication and offers less reliability due to single point of failure. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a new decentralized controller for dc microgrid. Key advantages are high reliability, low-voltage regulation, and equal load sharing, utilizing low-bandwidth communication. To evaluate the dynamic performance, mathematical model of the scheme is derived. Stability of the system is evaluated by eigenvalue analysis. The effectiveness of the scheme is verified through a detailed simulation study. To confirm the viability of the scheme, experimental studies are carried out on a laboratory prototype developed for this purpose. Controller area network protocol is utilized to achieve communication between the sources

Primer registro fósil de las familias Gekkonidae (Lacertilia) y Colubridae (Serpentes) en el Plioceno de Punta Nati (Menorca, Islas Baleares)

Es descriuen restes atribuïdes a les families Gekkonidae (Lacertilia) i Colubridae (Serpentes) del Pliocè de Punta Nati 2 i Punta Nati 13 (Menorca, Illes Balears). Als dos casos es tracta de les úniques citacions fòssils d'aquestes espècies anteriors a l'arribada dels humans. L'estat fragmentari de les restes adscrites a la familia Gekkonidae no permet una atribució taxonòmica més precisa. La morfologia de les restes atribuïdes a la familia Colubridae permet l'atribució a un representant del gènere Coluber, estretament emparentat amb les espècies del Miocè europeu C. dolnicensis i C. puchetti.En el presente trabajo se describen restos atribuídos a las familias Gekkonidae (Lacertilia) y Colubridae (Serpentes) del Plioceno de Punta Nati 3 y Punta Nati 12 (Menorca, Islas Baleares). En ambos casos, se trata de las únicas menciones fósiles de estas familias anteriores a la colonización de las islas por el hombre. El estado fragmentario de los restos atribuidos a la familia Gekkonidae no permite una atribución taxonómica precisa. La morfología de los restos atribuidos a la familia Colubridae permite la atribución de estos a un representante del género CoLuber, estrechamente relacionado con las especies del Mioceno europeo C. dolnicensis y C. puchetii.In this work, we describe remains of the Gekkonidae and Colubridae families from the Pliocene of Punta Nati 3 and Punta Nati 12 (Minorca, Balearic Islands). This is the first fossils record of these families before man settlement in Balearic Islands. The important fragmentation of tl1e Gekkonidae remains doest not allows us more precise taxonomical deterrnination. The remains of the Colubridae family show a clear morphology of the genus Coluber, in closed relationship with the European Miocene species C. dolnicensis and C. puchetii

Politics from the Heart: Personal Choices, the War in Mindanao, and Social Structure

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH