School Certification Assessment Process: Implications to Quality Assurance in the Basic Education System

The school certification assessment process plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of education provided by educational institutions. However, this process is not without its challenges. This study explores some of the key challenges faced during school certification assessments and discusses some implications for quality assurance in a developing country. A survey research design using quantitative and qualitative methods was conducted with 40 junior high school faculty, staff, and administrators from four selected Education Service Contracting (ESC)-participating schools in San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines. An e-survey questionnaire was used online through Google Forms. Findings revealed that the recertification process presents significant challenges for ESC-participating schools, and some did not achieve the certified status because they did not meet the Department of Education (DepEd) minimum standards and Private Education Assistance Committee (PEAC) certification requirements. In addition, there is a lack of government support and incentives for the schools. The study recommended specific ways to address the issues encountered. By addressing these challenges, we can enhance the effectiveness and credibility of the certification process, ultimately leading to improved educational outcomes

Job Satisfaction in the Structural Steel Detailing Industry, Philippines

Abstract Job satisfaction differs from one industry to another and more so from an individual to the other.  Thus this study examined the level of job satisfaction of the management and operational employees along intrinsic, extrinsic and general job satisfaction areas in the Structural Steel Detailing Industry, Philippines.  Specifically, this paper sought to determine 1) the significant differences on intrinsic, extrinsic and general job satisfaction when respondents are grouped along gender, age, educational attainment and tenure of work; and 2) the significant relationship between age, educational attainment, and tenure of work with job satisfaction. The latter proposed a hypothesized relationship stated as 1) the older or younger the employee, the higher or lower the job satisfaction, as the case may be; 2) the higher or the lower the educational attainment, the higher or lower the job satisfaction of the employee; and 3) the longer or the shorter the years of service to the company, the higher or the lower the job satisfaction of the employee. A survey of twenty (20) employees was conducted using the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) – Short Form to measure job satisfaction. Results showed an average job satisfaction of the employees, which means that they perceive themselves to be satisfied with their job. Further, that neither significant differences nor relationship was found on intrinsic, extrinsic and general job satisfaction when the respondents were grouped along gender, age, educational attainment and tenure of work. Essentially, findings were discussed in relation to the existing literature on the influence of demographic variables on job satisfaction.  Keywords: general job satisfaction, intrinsic, extrinsic, structural steel detailin

The effect of transverse magnetic correlations on a coupled order parameter: shifted transition temperatures and thermal hysteresis

We use a Green's function method with Random Phase Approximation to show how magnetic correlations may affect electric polarization in multiferroic materials with magnetic-exchange-type magnetoelectric coupling. We use a model spin 1/2 ferromagnetic ferroelectric system but our results are expected to apply to multiferroic materials with more complex magnetic structures. In particular, we find that transverse magnetic correlations result in a change in the free energy of the ferroelectric solutions leading to the possibility for thermal hysteresis of the electric polarization above the magnetic Curie temperature. Although we are motivated by multiferroic materials, this problem represents a more general calculation of the effect of fluctuations on coupled order parameters

The Influence of Chromophore Structure on Intermolecular Interactions. A Study of Selected Rhodamines in Polar Protic and Aprotic Solvents

We have studied the linear optical response and orientational relaxation dynamics of a family of rhodamine dyes in which there is substantial variation in the chromophore structure. For these chromophores, the identity of a substituent at the center ring (1) position mediates the linear optical response of the chromophore, and semiempirical calculations provide agreement with experimental data. This phenomenon can be understood in terms of the extent of conjugation of the chromophore ring system. The reorientation data for these chromophores in several polar protic and aprotic solvents are nominally consistent with the predictions of the modified Debye-Stokes-Einstein (DSE) model. In several cases, polar aprotic solvents are found to interact more strongly than polar aprotic solvents with the rhodamine chromophores, despite the difference in the nature of intermolecular interactions in the two types of solvents. The terminal amino functionalities on the rhodamines exhibit stronger interactions with protic solvents than the analogous chromophores that have been structurally modified to constrain amino group rotation. The data point to the importance of both sitespecific solvent-solute interactions and dipole-dipole interactions in mediating the solution phase dynamics of rhodamines

Defense-through-Deception Network Security Model: Securing University Campus Network from DOS/DDOS Attack

Denial of Service (DOS) and (DDOS) Distributed Denial of Service attacks have become a major security threat to university campus network security since most of the students and teachers prepare online services such as enrolment, grading system, library etc. Therefore, the issue of network security has become a priority to university campus network management. Using online services in university network can be easily compromised. However, traditional security mechanisms approach such as Defense-In-Depth (DID) Model is outdated in today’s complex network and DID Model has been used as a primary cybersecurity defense model in the university campus network today. However, university administration should realize that Defense-In-Depth (DID) are playing an increasingly limited role in DOS/DDoS protection and this paper brings this fact to light. This paper presents that the Defense-In-Depth (DID) is not capable of defending complex and volatile DOS/DDOS attacks effectively. The test results were presented in this study in order to support our claim. The researchers established a Defense-In-Depth (DID) Network model at the Central Luzon State University and penetrated the Network System using DOS/DDOS attack to simulate the real network scenario. This paper also presents the new approach Defense-through-Deception network security model that improves the traditional passive protection by applying deception techniques to them that give insights into the limitations posed by the Defense-In-Depth (DID) Model. Furthermore, this model is designed to prevent an attacker who has already entered the network from doing damage

Spin-canting driven Weyl physics in EuCd2_2As2_2

Though rare, magnetic Weyl semi-metals stand as the best platform to study elusive Weyl physics as they can host the minimal allowable number of Weyl points. Here we present neutron diffraction and density functional theory work elucidating the magnetic structure realized in the candidate magnetic Weyl semi-metal EuCd$_2$As$_2$ . Our work shows an unanticipated magnetic structure (magnetic space group $C2'/m'$) with an in-plane [210] moment direction and a slight out-of-plane canting. This canted structure indicates that subtle tuning (rather than a phase transition) may be able to stabilize the sought c-polarized state. Our density functional theory work shows that though Weyl physics should exist for a purely in-plane [210] structure, even a slight canting drastically alters the relevant bands leading to well defined Weyl points. Furthermore, we find that relative to the \textit{c}-polarized state the [210] order with a small canting brings the Weyl points closer to the Fermi level and thus may lead to clearer signatures of the Weyl physics.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure