Research

As the national university, we champion and support innovative research that addresses the country’s most pressing challenges.

06 Mar 2025

Lemongrass has the potential to control the growth of fungi from skin mycoses, foodborne illnesses and opportunistic infections

Lemongrass is an abundant medicinal plant that is used as an herbal remedy for fungal infections. Despite being widespread, to...

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04 Mar 2025

UP Diliman

A hybrid Internet of Things-based smart system performs better than a purely wireless sensor in monitoring indoor hydroponics farms

Internet of Things (IoT) is a one of the technologies that are being applied to various applications and scenarios. This...

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28 Feb 2025

UP Diliman

Transforming higher education requires a more diverse and inclusive landscape especially for women and minority groups in STEAM

This research dives into how higher education can be transformed through leadership focused on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). In...

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26 Feb 2025

UP Diliman

The proposed Input-Process-Output-Outcome/Result Model evaluates the success of the Philippine Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission

The paper discusses the various institutions, laws, policies and programs of Olympic governance in the Philippines from the American era...

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25 Feb 2025

UP Diliman

Approximately 30% of older adults worldwide suffer from falls each year, making falls a critical public health issue

This study utilized baseline survey data from the Longitudinal Study of Ageing and Health in the Philippines (LSAHP) and the...

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18 Feb 2025

UP Diliman

Preventing frailty and depression may improve sleep health in those who are food insecure

Extensive research reveals the close relationship between food insecurity and the occurrence of sleep problems due to mental health. In...

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17 Feb 2025

UP Los Baños

Verb-controlled that-clauses are the most useful finite complement clauses in applied linguistics, communication, and measurement and evaluation research articles

The study cross-investigated finite complement clauses (FCCs) in qualitative (QUALI) and quantitative (QUANTI) research articles (RAs) written by Filipino academic...

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12 Feb 2025

UP Los Baños

Machine learning can identify cancerous samples with almost 100% accuracy and could thus replace the current, more traumatic screening methods

The success rate of treating colorectal cancer (CRC) can be greatly increased through the early and accurate diagnosis of the...

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11 Feb 2025

UP Diliman

Roger Felix Salditos’s writings offer a key perspective on the persistence of one of the world’s longest-running rural insurgencies

Roger Felix V. Salditos was among seven Filipino revolutionaries who were summarily executed by police and military forces in San...

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11 Feb 2025

UP Visayas

Boracay, Gigantes and Guimaras islands are in potentially sustainable status according to locals and visitors

This study considered the interaction or nexus of people and the natural resources in small island tourist destinations in the...

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10 Feb 2025

UP Diliman

Can we use acoustic indices to estimate the relative number of bird species in urban areas?

Birds are used as biological indicators of ecosystem health. They are often surveyed through point count method which requires skilled...

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10 Feb 2025

UP Diliman

Mindset and emotional resilience, known as psychological capital, can improve the overall educational experience of students and teachers

This paper delves into how the mindset and emotional resilience—referred to as psychological capital or PsyCap—of students and teachers in...

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Research

For centuries, Indigenous communities in the Philippines and around the world have used baby carriers and slings to help them care for and raise their babies. The last two decades have seen a surge in popularity for their use, now called babywearing. Babywearing has grown in popularity with more parents, regardless of their heritage, jumping onto the trend for various reasons, whether for convenience or promoting attachment between them and their children.

Perceptions persist that babywearing is an “exotic” and indulgent practice, at times even dangerous, that hampers children’s independence, and by extension, development. Considering the resurgence in the practice’s popularity in the Philippines and globally, this research investigates how, despite centuries of stigma, the practice’s survival points to everyday acts of agency at a moment when traditional practices turn into trends decontextualized from their once othered roots.

Few studies have examined the practice’s history, how its use shaped ideas of childcare, and how these ideas came to play in the country’s colonial-making. This study, the first of its kind in the Philippines, explored how colonial photographs and accounts of babywearing in the Cordillera region figured in the larger Imperial agenda.

Author: Ma. Paula Luz M. Pamintuan-Riva (Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio)

Read the full paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17585716.2025.2471139

Photo: Three boys nursing small children. Peoples of South-East Asia ’(Barton 1912). From the collection of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences МАЭ-RAS Collection И 1124-79.