Students Awareness on Educational Tour Policies: Commission on Higher Education Memorandum Order (CMO) No. 17 Series of 2012

400 students became respondents in Higher Educational Institutions in S.Y. 2016 - 2017 with the study students’ level of awareness on the Educational Tour. The study used Descriptive – correlational design utilizing. Pearson r, Point Biserial and Eta Correlation as Statistical tools.  The findings state that most respondents answered a much aware level of awareness on the Educational Tour before, during and after the conduct of the study. Lack of money, time, safety and management deficiencies were the moderately felt problems. It concluded that the level of awareness in Educational Tour before, during then after educational tour is much aware. The Study recommends, sustainable awareness programs, inclusion of the discussion of educational tour in student, parent’s orientation and discussed in the student handbook. Constraints with educational tour be addressed before the activity, and a conduct of relevant studies regarding to educational tour be further addressed

Students’ Awareness on Educational Tour Policies Issued by the Commission on Higher Education, Philippines

oai:ojs2.riiopenjournals.com:article/77Purpose: This study explored the level of awareness of students on the educational tour policies based on the CHED memorandum order number 17 (CMO#17) of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in selected state universities in Region 8 in the Philippines. This study also assessed the constraints encountered by the students before, during, and after the educational tour. Method: Four hundred (400) students are respondents in Higher Educational Institutions in S.Y. 2016 - 2017 with the study students’ level of awareness on the Educational Tour. The study used Descriptive – correlational design utilizing Pearson r, Point Bi-serial, and Eta Correlation as Statistical tools. Results: The findings state that most respondents answered a much aware level of awareness on the Educational Tour before, during, and after the conduct of the study. Lack of money, time, safety, and management deficiencies were moderately felt problems. It concluded that the level of awareness in Educational Tour before, during then after the educational tour is much aware. Implications: The Study recommends, sustainable awareness programs, the inclusion of the discussion of educational tour in student, parent's orientation, and discussed in the student handbook. Constraints with the educational tour are addressed before the activity, and the conduct of relevant studies regarding educational tour be further addressed

The Customer-Centered B2C Literature through the Lens of Activity Theory: A Review and Research Agenda

A multitude of published research studies investigate the B2C phenomenon from the customer point of view. At this point, making sense of such a large number of studies is a difficult task. The aim of this paper is to organize the literature to provide a clear depiction of what we know and what we don\u27t know about it in order to identify specific areas where future research efforts are needed. A review of the B2C literature of the past seven years yielded 115 papers investigating the phenomenon from the user/customer perspective, 74 of these were empirical. This literature is organized according to the Activity Theory framework, allowing for an enhanced understanding of the phenomenon through a social context perspective. Future research directions are identified and discussed

Device for dispersal of micrometer- and submicrometer-sized particles in vaccum

A simple, versatile device for dispersing micrometer‐ and submicrometer-sized particles in vacuum is described. The source allows control of particle size (0.5 μm≤l≤200 μm) and particle flux density up to roughly 107 cm−2 s−1. Several types of microparticles were successfully dispersed

Creating high-quality products in open content virtual communities : a functional group perspective based on the time, interaction, and performance theory

This study examines the group input and group process factors that lead to high-quality products in open content communities. A theoretical model was developed, based on the Input-Process-Output approach of group research in social psychology and on the Time, Interaction, and Performance Theory proposed by McGrath (1991). The model tests the relationship between input variables: organizational (Organizational Support), group-related (Group Size, Shared Experience and Group Heterogeneity) and individual (Member Competency and Member Activeness); process variables: group production, group well-being and member support: and an output variable: group effectiveness. A quantitative study of the detailed activity logs of Wikipedia, an open content encyclopedia, was designed using a sample of 10,000 group tasks. A partial least squared (PLS) statistical approach was used to test the theoretical model. This study shows the synergistic and overwhelming role played by group size and shared experience on both group process variables and group effectiveness. This project provides also evidence about (1) the positive effect of group heterogeneity on group production; (2) the positive effect of organizational support and member activeness on group well-being; (3) the positive effect of member activeness on member support; and finally, (4) the positive effect of organizational support and member activeness on group effectiveness

Post Activation Potentiation of Back Squat and Trap Bar Deadlift on Acute Sprint Performance

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High critical-current density and scaling of phase-slip processes in YBaCuO nanowires

YBaCuO nanowires were reproducibly fabricated down to widths of 50 nm. A Au/Ti cap layer on YBCO yielded high electrical performance up to temperatures above 80 K in single nanowires. Critical current density of tens of MA/cm2 at T = 4.2 K and of 10 MA/cm2 at 77 K were achieved that survive in high magnetic fields. Phase-slip processes were tuned by choosing the size of the nanochannels and the intensity of the applied external magnetic field. Data indicate that YBCO nanowires are rather attractive system for the fabrication of efficient sensors, supporting the notion of futuristic THz devices.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Superconductor Science and Technolog

Disparity in the pronotal shapes between sexes in the two populations of Brontispa longissima (Gestro, 1885) from Caraga region, Philippines using landmark-based geometric morphometrics

The study was conducted to describe the disparity in the pronotal shapes of Brontispa longissima populations in Caraga region, Philippines. Relative warp analysis was utilized for quantifying the shape while Canonical Variance Analysis (CVA) was used to compare shape variation between populations. Results from MANOVA test showed that individual symmetry has high significant values (p<0.05). In terms of determining the different variations between populations, pooled males have the p value of 7.62*10^(-15) and pooled females have 8.54*10^(-6), wherein the two values display high significant scores between the two sexes. Moreover, determining the disparity of both sexes from the two geographical locations, Surigao population has the highest p value of 7.63*10^(-15) compared to Agusan population which obtained 6.072*10^(-12), manifesting that populations from the two locations vary in the shape of the pronotum. CVA scatterplot also generates population discrimination indicating the presence of sexual dimorphism in pronotal shapes, while biogeographical factor may affect the shape structure in the pronotum of B. longissima

Anthocyanins are Key Regulators of Drought Stress Tolerance in Tobacco

Abiotic stresses will be one of the major challenges for worldwide food supply in the near future. Therefore, it is important to understand the physiological mechanisms that mediate plant responses to abiotic stresses. When subjected to UV, salinity or drought stress, plants accumulate specialized metabolites that are often correlated with their ability to cope with the stress. Among them, anthocyanins are the most studied intermediates of the phenylpropanoid pathway. However, their role in plant response to abiotic stresses is still under discussion. To better understand the effects of anthocyanins on plant physiology and morphogenesis, and their implications on drought stress tolerance, we used transgenic tobacco plants (AN1), which over-accumulated anthocyanins in all tissues. AN1 plants showed an altered phenotype in terms of leaf gas exchanges, leaf morphology, anatomy and metabolic profile, which conferred them with a higher drought tolerance compared to the wild-type plants. These results provide important insights for understanding the functional reason for anthocyanin accumulation in plants under stress