Continuing Education Through Modes of Learning in the Height of Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the whole world and changed the educational landscape. To develop responsive solutions and continue with its mandate, University adheres to the Flexible Learning Modality (FLM). Behind the tedious preparation, it is essential to investigate the effectiveness of its implementation. This study aims to identify further experiences and problems encountered in implementing Flexible Learning. The study utilized a convergent design mixed-method research. The research instrument was developed based on the guidelines for implementing FLM at the University. The result shows that the guidelines were mostly implemented, although there are hindrances in the full implementation. There was an inconsistent internet connection and problems acquiring advanced technology for learning. However, it is notable in the parents' comments that they are thankful to the University for finding ways for their children to continue their education amidst the pandemic

The Development of the Mindfulness for Mental Fitness Program (Mind-Fit): An Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Group Therapy Program for Anxiety and Depression among Filipino College Students

Primarily, the study was conducted to test the efficacy of a newly developed Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Group Therapy Program for Anxiety and Depression among Filipino College Students known as Mind-Fit Program. Using One Group Pretest-Posttest Design, participants underwent 5-sessions (5 weeks with 45 minutes-2 hours duration per week). Measures such as Hopkin’s Symptom Checklist (HSCL), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 10 were used as pre and post-test measures. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used to analyze the data. Results revealed on the quantitative part using paired sample t-test and Cohen’s d that there is a significant difference on the pre and post-test results on Hopkins Anxiety scale (t(5) = 17.419, p = .000) and Beck Anxiety measure (t(5) = 5.466, p = .005) with Cohen's d of 4.60 and 3.42 respectively.  Same pattern was found on the difference of pre and post test on depression measures. Statistically significant findings on both Hopkins Depression subscale (t(5) = 7.359, p = .002) and PHQ-9 measure (t(5) = 5.466, p = .005) with Cohen’s d of 4.28 and 2.13 respectively

La Consonancia Cultural, la Religion, y los Trastornos Psicologicos en una Comunidad Urbana

Consonância cultural é o grau em que os indivíduos se aproximam dos protótipos codificados nos modelos culturais. Consonância cultural baixa é associada a sofrimento psicológico. A religião pode moderar a associação entre consonância cultural e sofrimento psicológico. O Brasil apresenta uma diversidade religiosa, sendo, portanto, uma sociedade importante para examinar esta hipótese. Este estudo, realizado em Ribeirão Preto, Brasil, utilizou delineamento de métodos mistos. As medidas de consonância cultural foram derivadas de métodos etnográficos e aplicadas em um estudo de levantamento realizado com 271 participantes, selecionados de quatro estratos socias. Consonância cultural baixa mostrou-se associada a sofrimento psicológico alto em análise de regressão múltipla ( B = - 0,430, p < 0,001). Membros de igrejas protestantes pentecostais relataram menor sofrimento psicológico independente dos efeitos da consonância cultural ( B = - 0,409, p < 0,05). A religião não moderou o efeito da consonância. São discutidas as implicações desses resultados para o estudo da relação entre religião e saúde.Consonancia cultural es el grado en que individuos se acercan a prototipos codificados en modelos culturales. Consonancia cultural baja está asociada con alto nivel de trastornos psicológicos. La religión puede moderar la relación entre consonancia cultural y trastornos psicológicos. Brasil, con variación religiosa considerable, es una sociedad importante para examinar esta hipótesis. La investigación fue realizada en Ribeirão Preto, Brasil, utilizando un diseño de métodos mixtos. Medidas de consonancia cultural se obtuvieron utilizando métodos etnográficos y luego se aplican en una encuesta de 271 personas procedentes de cuatro estratos sociales. Consonancia cultural baja se asoció con una mayor angustia psicológica en el análisis de regresión múltiple ( B = -.430, p < .001). Los miembros de las iglesias protestantes pentecostales manifiestan una menor angustia psicológica independientemente del efecto de la consonancia cultural ( B = -.409, p < .05). La religión no moderó el efecto de la consonancia. Las implicaciones de estos resultados para el estudio de la relación entre religión y salud se discuten.Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals approximate prototypes encoded in cultural models. Low cultural consonance is associated with higher psychological distress. Religion may moderate the association between cultural consonance and psychological distress. Brazil, with substantial variation in religion, is an important society for the examination of this hypothesis. Research was conducted in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, using a mixed-methods design. Measures of cultural consonance were derived using ethnographic methods and then applied in a survey of 271 individuals drawn from four distinct social strata. Low cultural consonance was associated with higher psychological distress in multiple regression analysis ( B = -.430, p < .001). Members of Pentecostal Protestant churches reported lower psychological distress independently of the effect of cultural consonance ( B = -.409, p < .05). There was no buffering effect of religion. Implications of these results for the study of religion and health are discussed

Application for White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) Monitoring using Edge Machine Learning

The aquaculture industry, strongly reliant on shrimp exports, faces challenges due to viral infections like the White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) that severely impact output yields. In this context, computer vision can play a significant role in identifying features not immediately evident to skilled or untrained eyes, potentially reducing the time required to report WSSV infections. In this study, the challenge of limited data for WSSV recognition was addressed. A mobile application dedicated to data collection and monitoring was developed to facilitate the creation of an image dataset to train a WSSV recognition model and improve country-wide disease surveillance. The study also includes a thorough analysis of WSSV recognition to address the challenge of imbalanced learning and on-device inference. The models explored, MobileNetV3-Small and EfficientNetV2-B0, gained an F1-Score of 0.72 and 0.99 respectively. The saliency heatmaps of both models were also observed to uncover the "black-box" nature of these models and to gain insight as to what features in the images are most important in making a prediction. These results highlight the effectiveness and limitations of using models designed for resource-constrained devices and balancing their performance in accurately recognizing WSSV, providing valuable information and direction in the use of computer vision in this domain.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, conferenc

Chagas disease transmission by consumption of game meat: systematic review Transmissão da doença de Chagas por consumo de carne de caça: revisão sistemática

ABSTRACT: Objective: To evaluate the influence of game meat consumption in Chagas disease (CD) transmission, the conditions under which it occurs and the frequency of reports in the literature. Methods: Through systematic review, databases PubMed, LILACS, MEDLINE, and SciELO were consulted, and articles written in Portuguese, English, and Spanish were included, with no limitation over publication date. We used the following descriptors: oral, transmission, meat, wild animals, hunt, carnivory, and Chagas disease. Articles that mentioned consumption of animal meat as a form of human transmission of CD were included. We used epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory evidence criteria to confirm cases. Results: Among the 298 articles identified, only six met the eligibility criteria. Only five episodes of oral transmission through wild animal meat or blood consumption were identified. However, in two of them, the possibility of vectorial transmission could not be ruled out. Most reports met the epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory evidence criteria established to support the transmission. Conclusion: Though CD transmission is uncommon, hunting and consumption of wild mammals that serve as Trypanosoma cruzi reservoirs should be discouraged in endemic countries in light of the risks inherent to these practices

EUNOIA

EUNOIA started in February 2020 with strategic plans in starting up a business. It aimed to create a product that is affordable, innovative, eco-friendly, and unique. It belonged to the accessory/bag industry. Eunoia offers tote bags for only 518 Pesos; when accessories are added, it is 618 Pesos (Power-bank included) or 678 Pesos (Alcohol Mist included). The accessories can be sold separately at 100 Pesos and 150 Pesos, respectively.EUNOIA’s product diversification, Calla Lily, is being sold for only 99 Pesos, using the vast digital platform and aims to support environmental and mental health awareness. It operated using sole proprietorship to let everyone work latest: John Benedict Young II as the Owner, John Eliquiel Jose Austria as the Operations Head, Emjel Mercado as the Marketing Head with Catherine Calixtro as the Marketing Officer and Quality Control Head, Katriel Santos as the Finance Head, and John Matthew Hilbero as the Human Resource Head. The market is vast as it is in Digital Marketing. The main competitors of EUNOIA are the 20 groups in the ABM Department. All of the total investment came from EUNOIA\u27s parents and, as of now, is at ₱ 36,000.00. EUNOIA’s expenses amounted to ₱ 71,776.50 as of March 15, 2021

Ethics of AI in Education: Towards a Community-Wide Framework

While Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) research has at its core the desire to support student learning, experience from other AI domains suggest that such ethical intentions are not by themselves sufficient. There is also the need to consider explicitly issues such as fairness, accountability, transparency, bias, autonomy, agency, and inclusion. At a more general level, there is also a need to differentiate between doing ethical things and doing things ethically, to understand and to make pedagogical choices that are ethical, and to account for the ever-present possibility of unintended consequences. However, addressing these and related questions is far from trivial. As a first step towards addressing this critical gap, we invited 60 of the AIED community’s leading researchers to respond to a survey of questions about ethics and the application of AI in educational contexts. In this paper, we first introduce issues around the ethics of AI in education. Next, we summarise the contributions of the 17 respondents, and discuss the complex issues that they raised. Specific outcomes include the recognition that most AIED researchers are not trained to tackle the emerging ethical questions. A well-designed framework for engaging with ethics of AIED that combined a multidisciplinary approach and a set of robust guidelines seems vital in this context

Terminação nervosa das papilas filiformes, fungiformes e valadas da mucosa dorsal da língua de queixada: observação neurohistológica

The neurohistologic observations were performed using the specimens prepared by Winkelmann and Schmitt silver impregnation method. The tissues were fixed in 10% formalin solution and sections of 40µm thickness were obtained by Leica Cryostat at -30ºC. The sections of dorsal mucosa of White-lipped peccary tongue showed numerous filliform and fungiform papillae, and two vallate papillae on the caudal part. The epithelial layer revealed queratinized epithelial cells and the connective tissue papillae of different sizes and shapes. Thick nerve fiber bundles are noted into the subepithelial connective tissue of the papillae. The connective tissue of fungiform and vallate papillae contained numerous sensitive nerves fibers bundles forming a complex nerve plexus.As observações neuro-histológicas foram realizadas utilizando amostras preparadas segundo o método de impregnação por prata de Winkelmann e Schmitt. Os tecidos foram fixados em solução de formol a 10% e seções de 40µm de espessura foram obtidas em criostato Leica -30ºC. As seções da mucosa dorsal da língua de queixada revelaram numerosas papilas filiformes, fungiformes e duas papilas valadas sobre a parte caudal. A camada epitelial revelou células epiteliais queratinizadas e papilas de tecido conjuntivo de diferentes tamanhos e formas foram observadas. Espessos feixes de fibras nervosas são notados no tecido conjuntivo subepitelial das papilas. O tecido conjuntivo das papilas fungiformes e valadas contêm numerosos feixes de nervos de fibras sensíveis formando um plexo nervoso complexo

Determination of the Parity of the Neutral Pion via the Four-Electron Decay

We present a new determination of the parity of the neutral pion via the double Dalitz decay pi^0 -> e+ e- e+ e-. Our sample, which consists of 30511 candidate decays, was collected from K_L -> pi0 pi0 pi0 decays in flight at the KTeV-E799 experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. We confirm the negative pi^0 parity, and place a limit on scalar contributions to the pi^0 -> e+ e- e+ e- decay amplitude of less than 3.3% assuming CPT conservation. The pi^0 gamma* gamma* form factor is well described by a momentum-dependent model with a slope parameter fit to the final state phase space distribution. Additionally, we have measured the branching ratio of this mode to be B(pi^0 -> e+ e- e+ e-) = (3.26 +- 0.18) x 10^(-5).Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. Typographical error in radiative branching ratio (Eq. 6) correcte