Navigating the Scholarly Terrain:Introducing the Digital Journalism Studies Compass

This article by the Digital Journalism Editorial Team surfaces with the explicit ambition to reassess the field of Digital Journalism Studies and map a future editorial agenda for Digital Journalism. The article dissects two important and closely interrelated questions: “What is ‘digital journalism’?”, and “What is ‘digital journalism studies’?” Building on the commissioned conceptual articles and the review article also published in this issue, we define Digital Journalism Studies as a field which should strive to critically explore, document, and explain the interplay of digital and journalism, continuity and change, and further focus, conceptualize, and theorize tensions, configurations, power imbalances, and the debates these continue to raise for digital journalism and its futures. We also present a useful heuristic device—the Digital Journalism Studies Compass—anchored around digital and journalism, and continuity and change, as a guide for discussing the direction of the growing field and this journal

Navigating the Scholarly Terrain: Introducing the Digital Journalism Studies Compass

This article by the Digital Journalism Editorial Team surfaces with the explicit ambition to reassess the field of Digital Journalism Studies and map a future editorial agenda for Digital Journalism. The article dissects two important and closely interrelated questions: “What is ‘digital journalism’?”, and “What is ‘digital journalism studies’?” Building on the commissioned conceptual articles and the review article also published in this issue, we define Digital Journalism Studies as a field which should strive to critically explore, document, and explain the interplay of digital and journalism, continuity and change, and further focus, conceptualize, and theorize tensions, configurations, power imbalances, and the debates these continue to raise for digital journalism and its futures. We also present a useful heuristic device—the Digital Journalism Studies Compass—anchored around digital and journalism, and continuity and change, as a guide for discussing the direction of the growing field and this journal

Factors affecting the compliance to drug treatment regimen of clients with diabetes mellitus type 2

The study used the descriptive correlational type of research. The respondents were 50 members of Diabetic Club in Dasmarinas Health Center, RHU I chosen using purposive sampling technique. A self-made questionnaire was pre-tested to 10 diabetic clients in Barangay Esmael, Area H, Dasmarinas, Cavite to test its validity and reliability then used as the research instrument. Percentage, mean and f-test or One-Way ANOVA were used in data analysis. The following conclusions were drawn: 1) Majority of the respondents were female, 41-65 years old, were able to finish high school, married, unemployed, with a family income of P10,000 and below, with sedentary lifestyle, consult their physician irregularly and suffering from the disease for 1-3 years; 2) The factors affecting the compliance to drug treatment regimen of clients with diabetes mellitus type 2 are often affected in relation to drugs and physician; 3) The factors affecting the compliance to drug treatment regimen of clients with diabetes mellitus type 2 are not significantly related to lifestyle and disease duration. However, factors affecting the compliance to drug treatment regimen of clients with diabetes mellitus type 2 are significantly related to age, gender, civil status, educational attainment, employment, monthly family income and consultation status

FULLY AUTOMATED GIS-BASED INDIVIDUAL TREE CROWN DELINEATION BASED ON CURVATURE VALUES FROM A LIDAR DERIVED CANOPY HEIGHT MODEL IN A CONIFEROUS PLANTATION

The generation of high resolution canopy height model (CHM) from LiDAR makes it possible to delineate individual tree crown by means of a fully-automated method using the CHM’s curvature through its slope. The local maxima are obtained by taking the maximum raster value in a 3 m x 3 m cell. These values are assumed as tree tops and therefore considered as individual trees. Based on the assumptions, thiessen polygons were generated to serve as buffers for the canopy extent. The negative profile curvature is then measured from the slope of the CHM. The results show that the aggregated points from a negative profile curvature raster provide the most realistic crown shape. The absence of field data regarding tree crown dimensions require accurate visual assessment after the appended delineated tree crown polygon was superimposed to the hill shaded CHM