Research

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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

Moving beyond the disinformation surrounding Filipino memory construction of martial law this study delves into the experiences of civilians during the height of the Muslim secessionist movement in Mindanao. Examining the case of the 1974 Battle of Jolo, this article reveals how Tausug survivors have constructed, remembered and made sense of their memories of one of the bloodiest conflicts between the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), a Muslim secessionist movement in the southern Philippines, and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) during the martial law period (1972-1986). This study argues that while many of the survivors want to forget and move on from the tragedy of war and violence, their memories reveal layers of problems faced by Muslim Mindanao in the recent decades. Some survivors are eager to document their experiences to reclaim their agency, while many of them transmit their collective memories and life lessons to the next generations of Tausug.

Reclaiming the voice of the survivors, this article will hopefully inspire more Filipinos and Bangsa Moro scholars to delve into the silenced narratives of the martial law period in Muslim Mindanao and to study how the survivors interpret their experiences in the past. This article also hopes that the government will spearhead a transitional justice approach to the 1974 Battle of Jolo to prevent similar incidents of violence in the southern Philippines from happening again.

Author: Elgin Glenn R Salomon (University of the Philippines Visayas)

Read the full paper: https://aljamiah.or.id/index.php/AJIS/article/view/62101

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