The Revised Philippine System of National Accounts

This article presents the revision made to the 1991 System of National Accounts that initially covered the years 1980-1987. The whole link series from 1946-1990 has been completed while the sources and methods of the revised system are still being finalized for publications.data and statistics, national account

The Revised Philippine System of National Accounts

This article presents the revision made to the 1991 System of National Accounts that initially covered the years 1980-1987. The whole link series from 1946-1990 has been completed while the sources and methods of the revised system are still being finalized for publications.data and statistics, national account

The Effect of Species Diversity and Shade on Milkweed Growth and Cardenolide Concentration

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) rely upon milkweed plants for survival, as it is the only plant upon which female monarchs oviposit and it is the sole food supply for monarch larvae. Additionally, cardenolide, a defense toxin within milkweed tissue, is sequestered by monarchs, making them unpalatable to most predators. Eastern and Western monarch populations in the United States are in sharp decline, in part due to the growing scarcity of milkweed, and reestablishing milkweed habitat is crucial to the monarch’s long-term survival. This study aimed to study the effects of plant species diversity and shade on the growth and cardenolide content of two species of milkweed common in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). Milkweed plants were grown outdoors over three summers at the University of Portland, under varying levels of plant species diversity and shade. Four growth measurements and cardenolide concentration were analyzed. Species diversity affected several growth measurements but not cardenolide concentration. Medium shade conditions resulted in increases in three growth measurements and cardenolide concentration compared to low and high shade conditions. The results suggest PNW milkweed can grow under more diverse conditions than previously known, which may be useful information for reestablishment of milkweed habitat supporting the highly imperiled Western monarch population

Miradas y tensiones en torno a la nacionalidad de personas migrantes en la atención de salud en José C. Paz

In Argentina, migratory processes have had different levels of legitimacy depending on the migrants’ countries of origin and on official and academic political discourses, which permeated public opinion through the media. The perspectives that were historically built around the “other” migrants have been reproduced and updated in various areas. We address the perspectives and tensions regarding the nationality of migrants expressed by health personnel and female migrant users of Primary Health Care Centers (CAPS) in the Municipality of José C. Paz, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina to learn how they perceive their interactions and health care. From this, we seek to unravel the logic/ s by which “differences” of nationality are marked or unmarked in different contexts. To do so, we carry out an exploratory cross-sectional and qualitative study that integrates the analysis of secondary sources with the production of primary sources (from participant observation and semi-structured interviews). In total, we conducted 23 interviews, 12 with migrant women users and 11 with workers from three Primary Health Care Centers (CAPS), during the months of February and March 2019.En Argentina, los procesos migratorios han tenido diferentes niveles de legitimación de acuerdo con los países de origen de las personas migrantes, así como por medio de discursos políticos oficiales y académicos, que permearon a la opinión pública a través de los medios de comunicación. Las miradas que se fueron construyendo históricamente en torno a los «otros» migrantes se reproducen y actualizan en diversos ámbitos. Abordamos las miradas y tensiones vinculadas a la nacionalidad de migrantes expresadas por el personal de salud y por las mujeres migrantes usuarias de centros de atención primaria de la salud (CAPS) en el Municipio de José C. Paz, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, para conocer cómo conciben sus interacciones y la atención de salud. A partir de ello buscamos desentrañar la lógica (o lógicas) por la cual se marcan o desmarcan «diferencias» de nacionalidad en distintos contextos. Para ello efectuamos un estudio exploratorio de corte transversal desde un enfoque cualitativo. Integramos el análisis de fuentes secundarias con la producción de fuentes primarias (a partir de observación participante y entrevistas semiestructuradas). En total realizamos 23 entrevistas, 12 a mujeres usuarias migrantes y 11 a trabajadores/as de tres centros de atención primaria de la salud (CAPS), durante febrero y marzo de 2019

Estrés y el afrontamiento diádico en la relación marital

Dyadic stress and coping is a significant subject of study in the field of psychology by the negative consequences on the physical and mental health of spouses. However, this topic is absent in the psychological literature of Puerto Rico. This study proposes to analyze the causes, the coping strategies and their effect on the marital relationship from the theoretical model of Bodenmann. A questionnaire was applied to 311 married persons selected by availability. The questionnaire included a mixed format of questions covering issues related to the causes of stress, the effect of marital stress, and coping strategies among others. The economic situation was identified to be among the main causes of stress in marriage, where it is coped with in various ways at the individual level. It is recognized that it is vital to communicate this experience in the couple to maintain the welfare of the relationship. Also, stress is an element that can impair the quality of marriage and consequently lead to its dissolution. Future studies that study stress in relation to conflict and marital satisfaction are recommended.El estrés y el afrontamiento diádico es una tema en el campo de la psicología que resulta significativo por las consecuencias negativas que tiene sobre la salud física y mental de los cónyuges. Sin embargo, es un tema ausente en la literatura psicológica de Puerto Rico. Por lo que, se propuso estudiar las causas, las estrategias de afrontamiento y su efecto en la relación marital desde el modelo teórico de Bodenmann (2005).  Se aplico un cuestionario a 311 personas casadas seleccionadas por disponibilidad. El cuestionario comprendía un formato mixto, de preguntas que abarcaban aspectos relacionados a las causas del estrés, el efecto del estrés en el matrimonio, estrategias de afrontamiento entre otros aspectos. Entre las causas principales para sentir estrés en el matrimonio se obtuvo la situación económica, enfrentando el estrés a nivel individual de diversas maneras. Se reconoce que es vital comunicar sobre esta vivencia a la pareja para mantener el bienestar de la relación. Asimismo, que el estrés es un elemento que puede deteriorar la calidad de matrimonio y como consecuencia provocar la disolución del mismo. Se recomienda futuros estudios en los que se estudie el estrés en relación al conflicto y la satisfacción marital.

Fog computing for sustainable smart cities: a survey

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to connect billions of smart objects to the Internet, which can bring a promising future to smart cities. These objects are expected to generate large amounts of data and send the data to the cloud for further processing, specially for knowledge discovery, in order that appropriate actions can be taken. However, in reality sensing all possible data items captured by a smart object and then sending the complete captured data to the cloud is less useful. Further, such an approach would also lead to resource wastage (e.g. network, storage, etc.). The Fog (Edge) computing paradigm has been proposed to counterpart the weakness by pushing processes of knowledge discovery using data analytics to the edges. However, edge devices have limited computational capabilities. Due to inherited strengths and weaknesses, neither Cloud computing nor Fog computing paradigm addresses these challenges alone. Therefore, both paradigms need to work together in order to build an sustainable IoT infrastructure for smart cities. In this paper, we review existing approaches that have been proposed to tackle the challenges in the Fog computing domain. Specifically, we describe several inspiring use case scenarios of Fog computing, identify ten key characteristics and common features of Fog computing, and compare more than 30 existing research efforts in this domain. Based on our review, we further identify several major functionalities that ideal Fog computing platforms should support and a number of open challenges towards implementing them, so as to shed light on future research directions on realizing Fog computing for building sustainable smart cities

3D modelling of angiogenesis and vascular tumour growth

This paper was presented at the 3rd Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF2011), which was held at the Makedonia Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki in Greece. The conference was organised by Brunel University and supported by the Italian Union of Thermofluiddynamics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Thessaly, IPEM, the Process Intensification Network, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Heat Transfer Society, HEXAG - the Heat Exchange Action Group, and the Energy Institute

Possible Association of Two Stellar Bowshocks with Unidentified <i>Fermi</i> Sources

The bowshocks of runaway stars had been theoretically proposed as gamma-ray sources. However, this hypothesis has not been confirmed by observations to date. In this paper, we present two runaway stars (λ Cep and LS 2355) whose bowshocks are coincident with the unidentified Fermi gamma-ray sources 3FLG J2210.1+5925 and 3FGL J1128.7-6232, respectively. After performing a cross-correlation between different catalogs at distinct wavelengths, we found that these bowshocks are the most peculiar objects in the Fermi position ellipses. Then we computed the inverse Compton emission and fitted the Fermi data in order to test the viability of both runaway stars as potential counterparts of the two high-energy sources. We obtained very reasonable values for the fitted parameters of both stars. We also evaluated the possibility for the source 3FGL J1128.7-6232, which is positionally coincident with a H II region, to be the result of background cosmic-ray protons interacting with the matter of the cloud, as well as the probability of a pure chance association. We conclude that the gamma rays from these Fermi sources might be produced in the bowshocks of the considered runaway stars. In such a case, these would be the first sources of this class ever detected at gamma rays.Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísica