Research

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23 Jan 2025

UP Diliman

The “Churning of the Sea of Milk” focuses on a traumatic history, climate damage and efforts to preserve cultural heritage

“The Churning of the Sea of Milk” is a story of a young Filipino scholar who is backpacking in Siem...

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22 Jan 2025

UP Manila

Women experienced higher levels of psychological distress than men during the Covid-19 pandemic

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had a deleterious impact on human health since its beginning in 2019. The purpose of this...

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21 Jan 2025

UP Diliman

Adolescents tend to focus on photos and facial features when judging strangers’ trustworthiness on social media

In our social interactions, we make quick and fairly accurate impressions of other people. Of great importance is identifying who...

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20 Jan 2025

UP Los Baños

The novel Gerilya demonstrates how literature can help us understand political struggles

In this article, I analyze Norman Wilwayco’s award-winning novel Gerilya (2008) and its representation of the revolution. I argue that...

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15 Jan 2025

UP Diliman

Using a multimodal approach in teaching literacy to Deaf college students enhances their comprehension

This study explored the perceptions of five Deaf college students regarding the use of a multimodal approach in teaching literacy....

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12 Dec 2024

UP Diliman, UP Manila

A virtual reality therapy game for persons with dementia in the Philippines was developed and tested

Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) had rapidly gained interest as part of the technological evolution in healthcare. Because...

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06 Dec 2024

UP Cebu

The Philippines may have limited engagement with cause-and-effect concepts in social sciences

This paper examines the role of causal inference in the on-going methodological debate in political science research. Here, we critically...

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05 Dec 2024

UP Diliman

Advising in Language Learning complements the Flipped Classroom in teaching foreign language

The Flipped Classroom Approach is a novel methodology used in language learning. In this set-up, students are tasked to study...

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04 Dec 2024

UP Open University

Artificial intelligence allows detection of heart problems using only sound

This paper explores a new way to detect heart disease by using sound. Just like a doctor listens to your...

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03 Dec 2024

UP Diliman

Public school teachers in the Philippines perform various tasks that can be considered health work

While the chronically overburdened state of public school teachers in the Philippines is well-established, little is known about how they...

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19 Nov 2024

UP Manila

BPO workers are prone to physical and mental stress which could cause other health problems

This study looked at how to keep people healthy and safe while working in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry...

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22 Oct 2024

UP Diliman

An active learning system which generates training sequences comparable to randomly labeled video sequences has potential use in vehicle tracking

The development of an efficient and reliable transport system has a direct impact on the economy of the country. One...

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Research

Roger Felix V. Salditos was among seven Filipino revolutionaries who were summarily executed by police and military forces in San Jose town, Antique, in the central Philippine island of Panay in 2018. Better known by the pen names Mayamor and Maya Daniel, which he used to sign his paintings and poetry, Salditos was a revolutionary intellectual who spent the better part of his life as a cadre of the Communist Party of the Philippines since he left the seminary in 1979. This article examines the underground literary and political writings of Salditos to help illuminate the long history of agrarian class struggles of peasants and Tumandok indigenous peoples in one of the Philippines’ top food-producing regions. His narratives highlight the role of Panay as the only place where the Huk peasant rebellion took root outside Luzon in the 1950s, recalling important episodes of revolutionary contestations in the island amid changing conditions under the Marcos dictatorship and the class offensive of neoliberalism. Despite their partisan character and focus on the local and the superstructural, Salditos’s writings provide an important perspective on the persistence of one of the world’s longest-running rural-based insurgencies, notwithstanding the end of the classical era of peasant wars of the twentieth century and shifting spaces for agrarian contestations in the new century.

Author: Karlo Mikhail I. Mongaya (Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman)

Read the full paper: https://doi.org/10.1177/22779760241226810