In this issue:

Extended abstracts of some theses and dissertations

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A selection of theses and dissertations

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Lay-out & production: Ellenita E. Abrantes

Preparation of theses list: Evelyn F. Casaje

JULY 2009

Issue No. 2

Patricia Chambi Felicidad C. Soriano M.A. in Education, major in Educational

Administration

The intent of this research was to conduct an evaluation of the Practical Music Course or “PMC”, an applied music subject elective program created and developed by Zion’s Praise Music Inc. to make applied music education or music instrument courses available for preschool, elementary and high schools. Through PMC, the students are given the choice to master in one school year any one of the five music courses available – piano, voice, guitar, drums and violin. These music instrument courses are taught in group classes (maximum student-teacher ratio of 5:1) which are held during regular music subject time throughout the school year and culminate in yearend solo renditions and group performances as part of the subject requirement. At the time of research, PMC was actively being implemented as an elective and credited applied music subject program in five Filipino-Chinese and three Filipino private schools in Manila.

This research used Daniel Stufflebeam’s “Context

gsr@admu.ls Highlighting graduate student research

at the Ateneo de Manila Loyola Schools

-Input-Process-Product” model to evaluate the effectiveness of PMC and recommend opportunities for its improvement as an existing applied music subject program in schools. Beyond PMC, this research also intends to promote the feasibility of making music education in schools more authentic, relevant and experiential to students as a field of the performing arts. Theoretical FrameworkTheoretical FrameworkTheoretical Framework

Daniel Stufflebeam (2007) provided a conceptual structure for the comprehensive evaluation of programs known as the “Decision-Facilitation Evaluation Model” or the “Context-Input-Process-Product (CIPP)” model. Stufflebeam describes CIPP as a framework for guiding evaluations of programs, projects, personnel, products, institutions, and systems” (Belanger, 2006). Each area of the CIPP is a separate evaluation model in itself, having its own processes and decision-making criteria. Context evaluation answers the question, “What are the objectives and expectations?” Input evaluation answers the question, “How will the expectations and objectives be met?” Process evaluation answers the question, “What is being done and is it effective?” Product evaluation answers the question, “What has been significantly achieved?” (Gall, Gall & Borg 2003) Statement of the ProblemStatement of the ProblemStatement of the Problem

1. What are the perceptions and differences in (Continued on page 2)

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An Evaluation of

the Practical

Music Course:

Implications for

Improving the

Program

This second issue of gsr@admu.ls gives a listing of selected theses and dissertations submitted to various departments in the Ateneo de Manila University – Loyola Schools that were defended during the period August 1, 2008 – June 17, 2009. Presented also are abstracts of some excellent theses and one dissertation. Printed and soft copies of these works will be available in the Rizal Library when the authors submit the final revised versions of their papers. Until such time, the authors themselves must be contacted to see their papers.

N.F. Quimpo, ADGP

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the perceptions of the students, teachers, parents and school administrators on the Context, Input, Process and Product Components of the Practical Music Course?

2. What implications can be drawn from the

findings to improve the Practical Music Course program?

MethodMethodMethod

From the three longest-running PMC schools (International Christian Academy, MGC New Life Christian Academy, Makati Hope Christian School), two hundred (200) middle school and high school students, two hundred (200) parents of a different set of middle school and high school students, (30) thirty PMC teachers and seventeen (17) school administrators were selected as research subjects to answer the “AMPEQ” or “Applied Music Subject Program Evaluation Questionnaire”.

AMPEQ is a four-part rating questionnaire constructed by the researcher to evaluate PMC based on the four components of the CIPP model. Each of the four parts of AMPEQ is composed of fifteen statements that are to be rated using a five-point scale. Two open-ended questions were included at the end of each questionnaire.

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The AMPEQ was prepared in four versions: AMPEQ for PMC Students, AMPEQ for PMC Parents, AMPEQ for PMC Teachers, and AMPEQ for School Administrators. ResultsResultsResults

The students, parents, teachers and school administrators perceived that the context, input, process and product components of the Practical Music Course are functioning effectively. Findings of the study also show that the perceptions of the research subjects in all the CIPP components of PMC are the same. Implications for ImprovementImplications for ImprovementImplications for Improvement

The study revealed opportunities for further improvement of the Practical Music Course by

− increasing the student’s present level of confidence in public performance and self-expression,

CIPP COMPONENTS OF PMC

ITEMS FOR EVALUATION

CONTEXT

What are the objectives or expectations?

Needs

Assets

Problems

INPUT

How will the expectations or objectives be met?

Teaching Facilities & Equipment

Teachers & Instructional Strategies

Curriculum & Class Format

Performance Exposure

Student Practice

Parental Support

PROCESS

What is being done and is it effective?

Teacher Processes

Student Processes

PRODUCT

What has been signifi-cantly achieved?

Impact

Effectiveness

Sustainability

Transportability

Following are the identified CIPP components for the Practical Music Course:

P. L. Fernandez, Jr.

3 JULY 2009

Proceso L. Fernandez, Jr.

Ph.D. in Computer Science

A permutation of length n is an ordered arrangement of n elements. It is normal to consider the set [n] = {1, 2, …, n} when constructing a permutation. Such a constructed permutation belongs to the symmetric group Sn ,

the set of all permutations of [n].

As an ordered arrangement, a permutation can be used to represent an order-related structure. This can be a sequence of events, a string of images or even something as simple as an array of numbers. Using a generic representation allows a solution to one problem to become applicable to a

multitude of other problems.

In this dissertation, two difficult problems whose inputs involve permutations are explored. The first problem is the Block Sorting problem. The input is

a permutation π ∈ Sn , and the output is the minimum number of block moves required to sort π. A block within a permutation is defined as a maximal sequence of (increasing) consecutive integers. A block move relocates a single block within the permutation to produce a longer block. Figure 1 shows two different sequences of block moves that can sort the input permutation. The shortest possible such sequence gives a solution to the Block Sorting problem for the given

permutation.

On the Complexities of the Block

Sorting and Poset Cover Problems Figure 1: Two sequences of block moves that can sort

the permutation π = 7 3 4 5 1 2 6 8

This problem has been proven to be NP-Complete, and is therefore as difficult as, say, the famous Travelling Salesman Problem. No better than 2-approximations have been found for this problem. Roughly, this means that the current best heuristics can only guarantee that the output

will never be worse than twice the optimal result.

Applications of the Block Sorting problem can be found in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) as a metric for quantifying the quality of OCR procedures and in computational biology, particularly in the study of genome

rearrangements.

In this study, the following significant theoretical

results were obtained:

1. It was shown that, for a random permutation, any algorithm will (with high probability) not produce a result worse than twice the

optimal

2. It was proven that the 2-approximation ratio of Bein’s Abs-Block Deletion algorithm is

tight.

3. The theoretical lower bound for the size of the smallest block sorting sequence was

improved.

4. New optimal moves and the first (proved)

sub-optimal moves were found.

Some empirical results were also gathered for the

− providing more avenues for sharing their musical skills with other people,

− establishing better parent-teacher communication, and

− encouraging stronger parental support and consistent practice at home.

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Block Sorting problem. Most notable among these is the creation of 3 heuristics that (empirically) produce better results than the current best

approximation algorithms.

The second problem is the Poset Cover problem. The input is a set of permutations over the same set of elements, and the goal is to find a minimum set of partial order sets (posets) that characterizes

the entire input set (see Fig. 2).

Figure 2: A Poset Cover instance and solution

The Poset Cover problem finds its application in computational neuroscience, systems biology, paleontology and physical plant engineering. This problem has also been shown to be NP-Complete and no heuristic with theoretical approximate

bounds has yet been published for this problem.

Three of several main results in this dissertation

for the Poset Cover problem are the following:

1. The Poset Cover problem is shown to be NP-complete even when restricted to hammock(2,2,2)-posets. This is remarkable considering that this class is very constrained already and that, for the slightly more constrained class of kite(2)-posets, the problem has been shown to have a polynomial-

time solution.

2. Exact algorithms are presented for solving the Poset Cover problem that assumes a single poset solution. The general case (i.e., no poset class restriction) runs in an improved polynomial time of O(mn+n3), while for 2 specific poset classes -- tree posets and levelled posets -- the run time is further

improved to O(mn+n2).

3. Two data structures are formulated for more compactly representing

the input set of permutations and for improving the running time of some

algorithms.

At the end of the dissertation, a good number of recommendations were presented based on the

results gathered in this study.

Jamaica P. Lota

MS in Biology

Rice germplasm conservation is a vital activity that ensures the availability of a rich genepool for future programs to come up with improved rice varieties. However, with such resource limitations as storage space and funds for processing of materials and maintenance of facilities, there is a need to identify unique accessions and remove redundancy in the PhilRice genebank. Only a

representative of each duplicate need be stored.

A robust and unequivocal way of identifying duplicates is through DNA fingerprinting. The DNA fingerprint will show the genetic relationship among the germplasm materials and aid breeders

in choosing diverse materials for breeding.

This study used a multiplex panel composed of RM312, RM316, RM514 and RM 171 for the analysis of genetic diversity and identification of duplicates among the 427 rice germplasm accessions from the PhilRice genebank. A total of

Analysis of Genetic Diversity and

Redundancy in Rice Germplasm

Collection by DNA Fingerprinting

“… there is a need to … remove redundancy in the PhilRice genebank.”

BINANGKURO (IRGC 44326)

BINANGKURO (96-OCM 18)

BINANGKURO (96-OCM 19)

BINANGKUDO (2003-01-01-102)

BINANGKURO (96-OCM 37)

BINANGKURO (96-OCM 32)

BALIBOD (96-QZN 50)

BULIBOD NA PUTI

BOLIBOD (IRGC 798)

FK 178 A (IRGC 298)

BINATO (96-OCM 31)

BINATO

BINATO (96-OCM 33)

BINATO (96-OCM 46)

BASMATI C 622

BASMATI 372

BASMATI 123

AWOT

BINAGIMBIN (96- OCM 4)

BULAW (IRGC 11290)

BANGITAN (98- PAL 17)

DUMALI

BIHOD

BUSIYETAN (IRGC 11205)

BUSIYETAN (IRGC 11312)

BINAKAYO

DINORADO B 1997 DS- 136

ALABANG (354) (IRGC 3920)

DINORADO 1071 QP (DWARF)

ALABANG (528) (IRGC 3860)

MILAGROSA (M)

MILAGROSANG PUTI (97 -CAT 38)

MILAGROSA (2001-11-01-13)

CAMOROS (IRGC 19396)

CAMUROS

CAMUROS (96- OCM 2)

CAMOROS (96- QZN 52)

CAMUROS (96- OCM 48)

CAMOROS (2004-02-01-40)

CAMBODIA 3 (FC 14)

CINA MEE (IRGC 54169)

DA VAR A

BINANGKUDO (2003-01-01-112)

BINALASANG (IRGC 47149)

BASILANEN (IRGC 19384)

BINEGQIT (IRGC 11300)

DUMALI

BINOTETE (IRGC 44339)

KINANDANG PULA

KINANDA (IRGC 4015)

KINANDANG PUTI

AMBOL (IRGC 52990)

MILAGROSA (IRGC 44636)

MILAGROSA (IRGC 44635)

BINATO (96-OCM 1)

CAMOROS (96- OCM 54)

BINATO (96-OCM 39)

DIKET (98- QUI 16)BINATO (2003-11-01-03)

DINOLORES (IRGC 44403)

Figure 1. Dendrogram resulting from UPGMA cluster analysis of 427 rice germplasm accessions based on data derived from multiplex SSR-PCR.

J. P. Lota

S. L. Crutchfield

15 alleles were detected at 4 SSR loci. The polymorphism information content (PIC) values of the SSR markers were quite good, ranging from 0.459 to 0.643. A dendrogram was constructed using the Dice coefficient similarity and the UPGMA algorithm. Possible redundants were identified using bootstrap analysis, attention being given to accessions having a bootstrap value

greater than 95%.

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Figure 2. Multiplex PCR Panel 1 with RM312, RM316, RM514 and RM171 run on 8% non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel. Lane 1 100 bp DNA ladder. Lanes 2-21

amplification products using DNA from 20 replicated accessions.

300 bp

500

400

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bp

200

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

RM312

RM316

RM514

RM171

Milk and Modernization in Taiwan

(1950-1990): A Social History of the

Introduction of Milk in Taiwan

in convenience and grocery stores, and consume cheeseburgers and pizza. Milk once an obscure food came to be considered by the state as an essential food for modern people. Dairy development was initiated and supported by the state with help of US financial and technical aid. Today, the National Dietary Guidelines recommend that Taiwanese consume 1-2 servings of milk daily. It would seem Taiwan has “Got Milk”.

The study also reveals how the state’s emic cultural expressions devoted to promoting milk are in contradiction with their etic cultural expressions that limited milk production and importation. While the state promoted milk consumption (mainly powdered milk), institutionalized milk in the national nutrition programs, and determined to institutionalize dairy farming in the agriculture sector; in reality, prior to Taiwan’s modernization, dairy farming remained a livelihood project for a limited number of farmers living on marginally productive slope lands. The state intent on modernizing the agriculture system

The multiplex panel produced unique profiles of 31 out of 427 accessions, or 7.25% of the material. These accessions are therefore genetically distinct and should be maintained as part of the main collection of the genebank. Additional SSR markers and side-by-side grow-out tests will be required to further strengthen the

evidence of redundancy.

Stephanie L. Crutchfield M.S. in Social Development

This historical study looks at the cultural and ecological relationship that contributed to the rise of consumption and production of dairy products from 1950 -1990 in modernizing Taiwan. Pre modern Taiwan did not have dairy cows and milk was an unfamiliar food. The people on the densely populated mountainous island with only one-third arable land, adopted the rice paddy irrigation system that does not accommodate grazing cows. Studies show that 80% of the Chinese are lactose intolerant; therefore drinking milk could be hazardous to their health. Today in modern Taiwan the food culture has changed. Taiwanese sip lattes, drink milk teas, purchase fresh milk and imported dairy products

“...after 40 years of

dairy development,

nutrition education,

and advertising, the

dairy industry still

made a low

contribution to [Taiwan]

agriculture’s GDP.”

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M. D. V. Samson

as a means toward economic development made substantial investments in raising crops—especially rice and sugar—not livestock. Cropping provided the majority of calories for the general population and profit for the farmers. The state extracted direct and indirect profits from cropping that were used to support industrial development. Taiwan’s industrialization during the 1970’s resulted in agricultural adjustment problems. Crops, especially rice and sugar no longer had comparative advantage. Farmers became industrialists and were moving to the cities or running small factories on their land. The state was faced with making decisions for restructuring the agriculture sector. In order to ensure food security and make the agriculture sector more economically productive, investments were made in the livestock industry, including a substantial investment in dairy farming. At the same time modern Taiwanese consumers, now with higher incomes, demanded a variety of foods especially animal proteins. After 20 years of education on the benefits of milk, and exposure to food aid, more people were now able and willing to purchase milk. In order to allow Taiwan’s dairy farmers to compete with cheaper imported milk, the state placed a levy on imported milk, banned liquid milk imports, limited the sale of reconstituted powdered milk while creating a market for locally produced “fresh” milk. The state regulated milk prices, subsidized a school milk program to dispose of surplus milk, and gave direct and indirect subsidies to dairy farmers. Land allocation for dairy farms was limited. The rice paddy irrigation system was kept intact. It seems that Taiwan “Got Milk” but results from this study indicate that after 40 years of dairy development, nutrition education, and advertising, the dairy industry still made a low contribution to agriculture’s GDP. By 1990, milk made a low contribution toward protein and calories in the national diet. The study supports the cultural materialist theory which holds that there are limits to changing those aspects of culture that are rooted in the local habitat. The limited extent to which milk was adopted in Taiwan is related to the interplay between local milk’s high cost of production, the political economy of agriculture, the high prevalence of lactose intolerance among adults, and the tenacity with which the Chinese hold on to traditional food preferences.

The Infinite Symmetric Group - Part

II: Nomenclature

Michael Daniel V. Samson MS Mathematics

The paper is a survey of results the author has collected and verified after the publication of his undergraduate thesis in the University of the Philippines (“Part I”). Some results have been generated with the use of a computer program specifically designed to use findings from the previous paper, with the express purpose of establishing a new approach to basic problems in (abstract) algebra. Thus, a portion of the analysis in the paper is devoted to computer-scientific concerns, such as determining the efficiency, estimating resource usage and benchmarking the program, with an eye to comparison and improvement.

The author uses the algorithm described in Part I that generates all the rearrangements (permutations) of a fixed number of distinct objects to study (recursive) properties of the mathematical structure called the symmetric group - a structure which has significance in self-contained relations within a finite set or collection of entities. Specifically, an enumerative naming scheme, or nomenclature – in which each element is assigned a unique (whole) number – is introduced for the elements of the symmetric group. This system suggests a standard way of discussing these elements (a consideration missing from most discussions of this object), focusing on its advantages, such as compactness and independence from the size of the symmetric group.

The paper tackles some computer-scientific applications of the underlying structure implied by the nomenclature for algebraic purposes.

− A relationship is established between the symmetric group and computer-theoretic tree structures (often used in nonlinear data storage), implying a mathematical usage to the traversal (enumeration of all the elements) of such trees.

− Some results from using the nomenclature scheme on some basic algebraic procedures (specifically, permutation composition and subgroup generation) are discussed.

− A primary argument is made for theoretical efficiency boundaries on the efficiency of any enumerative nomenclature scheme (specifically, with respect to the process of permutation composition).

“… an enumerative

naming scheme, or

nomenclature … is

introduced for the

elements of the

symmetric group.”

M. G. C. Panganiban

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− Finally, an extension of the algorithm and nomenclature to the infinite provides a line of approach to the more abstract infinite symmetric group, providing a description of (at least some of) its elements. The study of infinite sets has been a very isolated off-shoot of set theory, that can be traced back to the time of Cantor, and the study of infinite groups has been on a parallel, similarly isolated, path. This paper tries to provide the initial bridge between the two somewhat disparate topics.

This paper then serves as a stepping stone to further research in various directions:

− further computer-scientific studies, up to and including a full computer algebra system (a self-contained program that solves more general problems in a branch of mathematics);

− a functional-theoretic study on the group table for permutation generation;

− a more in-depth study on structures arising from the infinite symmetric group, from the more traditional analysis of its elements (such as subgroups, cyclic subgroups, orbits).

Negros. This provisionalizing or bracketing of history in the novel, unlike other historiographic metafictional texts in the generic series such as Great Philippine Jungle Energy Cafe, State of War and Dogeaters, does not foreground any "alternative histories" of the marginal or the ex-centric. Instead, the novel withholds narrative (and historical) truth, reducing most of its narrative circumstances to gossip and speculation to humanize its protagonists - the hacendero class in Negros. It is this displacement or deviation from the emergent form of historiographic metafiction, its generic series, which engenders a diachronic differential reading that allows the novel to be construed as a symbolic act - an ideological reply or imagined solution to an actual social dilemma. Kenneth Burke defines symbolic act as a "play of emphases, in which a symbolic act is on the one hand affirmed as a genuine act, albeit on the symbolic level, while on the other it is registered as an act which is merely symbolic, its resolutions imaginary ones that leave the real untouched, suitably dramatizes the ambiguous status of art and culture". The reading of the novel in the second interpretive ground of the social makes intelligible Groyon's assimilation of two Faulknerian ideologemes, namely the white but middling patriarch's futile drive for self-creation and power through genealogy and the grand son's rejection of his birthright once he discovers the "sins of his fathers". Ideologemes, in Jameson's schema, are the indivisible units of a class discourse, inherited from older texts and re-worked into new ones, which can take the form of a philosophical belief or a pseudo-narrative. Class discourses, of which the ideologeme is the basic gesture, are necessarily dialogic in that they undermine or challenge another class' utterance while legitimizing their own. Whereas Faulkner's ideologemes challenge the dominant racial code of the American South as symbolized by the failure of the white patriarch in Absalom, Absalom! and the grandson's repudiation of his legacy in Go Down, Moses, this narrative material is neutralized by the provisionalizing impulse and co-opted by the rhetoric of the landed elite in Groyon's novel. That there was indeed a history of murder in the family is made melodramatic and titillating but, ultimately, irrelevant in the novel in its thoroughgoing fictionalizing of Negros history. The grandson in The Sky over Dimas does reject his inheritance, but unlike the effectual narrative moment in Faulkner, refuses to confront the truth about his family, his rejection impelled not by remorse but by escape and denial.

Ma. Gabriela C. Panganiban MA in Literature - English, major in Literary and Cultural Studies This ideological critique reads Vicente Groyon's The Sky over Dimas in its appropriation of historiographic metafiction and two narrative paradigms from William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Go Down, Moses. This paper argues that The Sky over Dimas's appropriation and displacement of narrative practices are symptomatic of an elitist political fantasy which naturalizes the dominant position of the hacenderos in Bacolod, and at the same time, undermines working class subjectivity. These two borrowed modes, the paper further contends, function as a symbolic act and as a class discourse, respectively, following Fredric Jameson's Marxist interpretive grounds, namely the political and the social. In the first interpretive horizon, historiographic metafiction in The Sky over Dimas is a symbolic act that articulates the political unconscious/fantasy of the landed elite while repressing their role in the perpetuation of the feudal system of sugar in

The Persistence of the Feudal: Generic Discontinuities in Groyon's The Sky over Dimas/The Political Fantasy of the Landed Elite

“… historiographic

metafiction …

articulates the political

unconscious/fantasy of

the landed elite while

repressing their role in

the perpetuation of the

feudal system of sugar

in Negros.”

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A selection of theses and dissertations defended in August 2008-June 2009

School of Science and Engineering

*Thesis/Dissertation rated “Excellent”

Date of

Name Degree Title of Thesis/Dissertation Defense Adviser/s

Biology

Llego, Eusebia B. MBIED Unraveling Bacteria and Viruses Aug. 08 E. de Guzman

Vidal, Jonivil L. MBIED The Hidden Marvel of Eukaryotic Chromosome and Its Biological Complexity

Aug. 08 C.G. Lagunzad

Trinidad, Merlita M. * MBIED Landscape Ecology: An Evolutionary Perspective Aug. 08 C.G. Lagunzad

Balisbis, Allan D. MBIED Leaves: Life's Energy Producer Aug. 08 V. Tolentino

Zabate, Jovilyn C. MBIED The Amazing World of Fungi Aug. 08 E. de Guzman

Flores, Referenda Joanna V. MS BIO Protoplast Isolation, Fusion and Regeneration of Ulva lactuca Linn. And Ulva reticulata Forsskal (Ulvales, Cholorophyceae)

Nov. 08 M. Chan

Lota, Jamaica P. * MS BIO Analysis of Genetic Diversity and Redundancy in Rice Germplasm Collection by DNA Fingerprinting

Feb. 09 V. Panes

Coronado, Armin S. MS BIO Phylogeny of Philippine Mangroves (Family Rhizophoraceae) Inferred with Leaf Shape Geometry, nDNA and cpDNA

Mar. 09 V. Panes

Chemistry

Naypes, Gloria C. MS CH-ED Analysis of the High School Student's Performance as a Standard Based Assessment Test with Implications to the Improvement of the Chemistry Program of the Immaculate Conception Academy, Greenhills

Dec. 08 A. Guidote, Jr.

Cainto, Cecilia C. MS CH-ED The Development of Low-Cost Separation Equipments: Water Condenser Apparatus, Separatory Funnel and Centrifuge

Feb. 09 A. Guidote, Jr.

Peralta, David P. * MS CH-Straight Purification, Characterization, and Kinetics of a 31.8 KDA Beta-Glucoside Active Glycosyl Hydroilase from Philippine Ginger Rhizome (Zingiber Officiale Roscoe)

Feb. 09 N. R. Rojas

Dimzon, Ian Ken D. MS CH Physico-Chemical and Microbiological Parameters in the Deterioration of Virgin Coconut Oil

May 09 F. Dayrit

Abenojar, Eric C. * MS CH Surface Energy Considerations of a Slider Magnetic Read/Write Components

May 09 E. Enriquez

Loable, Carole M. MS CH-Straight Carbonization of Glycerol by Pyrolysis May 09 E. Enriquez

DISCS

Hizon, Maria Carina S. MS CS Are We Having Fun Yet? Analyzing Interaction Logs to Characterize Player Affect in Games

Nov. 08 M.M. Rodriguez

Amarra, Anna Christine M. MS CS-II Quantifying Programming Styles to Determine Authorship in JAVA Programming

Feb. 09 M.M. Rodriguez

Tabada, Luisito I. PHD CS Performance Evaluation and Reliability Analysis of Buffered Switch Architectures

Mar. 09 P. Tagle

Bautista, Melissa A. MS CS-Straight Streamlining a Software for Pedestrian Behavior Analysis May 09 M.R. J. Estuar

ECE

Uy, Purisimo MS ECE Top-side Heat Dissipation on Power QFN Feb. 08 R. SJ Reyes

Cueva, Hector I. MS ECE A Study of the Testability of Very Low Saturation Resistance of Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor

Oct. 08 C. Co

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School of Social Sciences

Date of

Name Degree Title of Thesis/Dissertation Defense Adviser/s

Jonson, Maria Teresa C. MS ECE Characterization of the Package Resistance of the Loss-Free Package (LFPAK)

Oct. 08 C. Co

Ogerio, Cristopher T. MS ECE Effective Estimation of Analog-to-Digital Converter's Signal to Noise Ratio Using Differential Nonlinearity

Nov. 08 R. SJ Reyes

Cabacungan, Paul M. MS ECE Clean Water Systems Using Solar Power for Off-Grid Communities

Feb. 09 N. Libatique, G. Tangonan, T. Calasanz

Mathematics

Miina, Karl Friedrich C. * MS MA The Equivalence of the ITO, ITO-Henstock, and ITO-Mcshane Integrals

Mar. 08 E. Cabral

Quizon, Joey G. MS MAED-I Euler's Line and Other Related Results Aug. 08 J. Marasigan, Q. Lee-Chua

Ebisa, Adelfa P. MS MAED-I Centered Quadrilaterals Aug. 08 J. Sarmiento, C. Vistro-Yu

Mangilaya, Rubelyn B. MS MAED-I Hidden Treasure Problems Aug. 08 F. Francisco

Titular, Joe I. MS MAED-I On Commensurable Triangles Aug. 08 J. Sarmiento, E. Bautista

Cleofe, Violeta B. MS MAED-I Circumscribable Quadrilaterals Aug. 08 E. Tuprio, C. Soto

Samson, Michael Daniel V. * MS MA The Infinite Symmetric Group - Part II: Nomenclature Sept. 08 E. Bautista

Cruz , Veronica D. MS MAED-I The Golden Ratio, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences and the Parameter-Dependent Tent Map

Mar. 09 M.A. Aberin

Physics

Sugon, Quirino Jr. M. PhD PS A Geometric Algebra Approach to Geometric Optics: Clifford Groups to Poisson Brackets

Mar. 08 D. McNamarra, SJ

Communication

Yu, Grace Mindy S. MA COM-I Mobile Marketing in the Philippines: An Empirical Study on Consumer Behavior and Motivation

Feb. 08 R.J. Solis

Cabañes, Jason Vincent A. MA COM-I Pinoy Postings: On the Online Cultural Identity Performances of Young Filipino Professionals in Singapore

Mar. 08 V. Valdez

Martel, Faye M. MA COM-I Doc Youth: A Cross Media Project Proposal for the Filipino Youth

Mar. 08 S. Sarmenta, Jr.

Magno, Melanie M. MA COM-I Social Marketing Plan of COOP Life Insurance and Mutual Benefit Services' (CLIMBS) COOP Health Insurance Program

Oct. 08 J.A. Cuenco

Education

Austria, Karen B. MA ED-GC Correlates of Parent and Peer Attachment of Grade Six Students of a Chinese Filipino School

Nov. 08 C. Soto

Militante, Edgar B. MA ED-EA Comparison of the Perceptions of Principals and Teachers of Schools from Cluster IV in the Division of Laguna on the Ideal and Actually Performed Leadership Roles of Public High School Principals, School Year 2006-2007: Implications for Identifying Ideal Leadership Roles of These Principals

Nov. 08 R. Nicdao

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Date of

Name Degree Title of Thesis/Dissertation Defense Adviser/s

Sastre, Sr. Maria Cora P. ICM MA ED-EA Perceptions of the Administrators, the Teaching Personnel, and the Non-Teaching Personnel on the Environmental Education (EE) Program of Three Selected ICM Schools: Implications for Improving the Environmental Education (EE) Program

Mar. 09 M.C. Gonzalez

Soriano, Patricia Chambi Felicidad C.* MA ED-EA An Evaluation of the Applied Music Subject Program: Implications for Improving the Program

Mar. 09 M.C. Gonzalez

Arante, Jessica N. OSB MA ED-EA The Implementation of the Hallmarks of Benedictine Education in the Academic Program of Three Benedictine Basic Education Schools: Implications for Academic Program Improvement

Mar. 09 M.C. Gonzalez

Japanese Studies

Lego, Jera Beah H. MA JS Paving the Way for Overseas Self-Defense Force (SDF) Dispatch: Understanding Japan's Role in International Security

Mar. 09 L. Yu-Jose

Political Science

Susanto, Thomas Eddy MA POS-GP-I The Multivocality of Islam and its Consequences on Democracy in Indonesia

Sept. 08 M. Lim

Reyes, Kathleen Joy D. MA POS-GP-I Philippine-Japan Sister City Relationships: Transgovernmental?

Feb. 09 L. Yu-Jose

Salvador, Anne Kristine D. MA POS-GP-I The Emergence of Policy Networks in Influencing the Philippine Overseas Employment Program: A Case Study of Overseas Filipino Workers in Saudi Arabia

Feb. 09 A.M. Salvador

Trinidad, Gino Antonio P. MA POS-GP-I On Ideational Shifts and Interests-Based Calculations: (Re)Constructing the Narrative of the Philippine Catholic Church's Participation in the Philippine's (Re)Democratization

Mar. 09 M. Lim

Aguirre, Arjan P. MA POS-GP-I The Nexus between Global Civil Society and Revolution: International Fellowship of Reconciliation and EDSA 1986

Mar. 09 B. Tolosa, Jr.

Villanueva, Diega D. MA POS-GP-I Building the Future of Philippine Disaster Risk Management: A Comparative Analysis of DRM Government Agencies in the United States and the Philippines

Mar. 09 A.G. La Viña

Psychology

Tuliao, Antover P. MA PSY-CP An Inquiry into the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors Outside of Treatment that Affects Relapse and Abstinence in Filipinos with Substance Abuse Disorders

Nov. 08 M.E.C. Liwag

Faustino, Gary Aguedo G. MA PSY-CP-I Developing an Instrument for Ego States Diagnosis in Transactional Analysis

Nov. 08 L. Teh

de la Cruz, Divina Anglica MA PSY-IOP-I Stresses, Work-Life Conflcit, and Job, Life and Marital Satisfaction Among Call Center

Feb. 09 M.R Hechanova

Ortega, Renee Ann L. MA PSY-CP-I The Relationship Between Domain Stressors: With Work-Life Conflict and Job, Marital, and Life Satisfactions Among Dual Earning Couples

Feb. 09 M.R Hechanova

11 JULY 2009

School of Humanities

Date of

Name Degree Title of Thesis/Dissertation Defense Adviser/s

Gustilo, Maria Victoria R. * PHD PSY-CP A Multiple Case Study of the Resilience Experience of Persons Who Transitioned From Involuntary Job Loss

Feb. 09 J. Kanapi

de Guzman, Judith M. * MA PSY-ASP-I Positioning Theory as an Analytical Framework for the Study of Intergroup Conflict: The Case of the Sumilao March for Land

Feb. 09 M.A Ofreneo

Pacis, Rosemarie R. PHD PSY-CP Filipino Women's Marital Annulment Beliefs and the Decision-Making Process in Marital Annulment

Feb. 09 M.E.C. Liwag

Jimenez, Aileen Rose T. MA PSY-CP-I Interpersonal Needs and Satisfaction of Needs as Predictors of Loneliness Among Filipino Adolescents

Feb. 09 E.L Alampay

Wada, Karina Mayumi T. MA PSY-DP-I Length of Exposure to After-School Academic Tutorials: Relationship with Academic Performance, Academic Self-Efficacy, and Self-Regulated Learning Efficacy

Mar. 09 E.L Alampay

Supangco, Katrina Tala T. MA PSY-IOP-I Predictors of Career Success for Filipino Workers Apr. 09 M.R Hechanova

Valle, Joanne Rachelle L. MA PSY-CP-I Death Anxiety Among Oncology Pediatric Nurses Apr. 09 M.I. Echanis-Melgar

Sociology & Anthropology

Gonzalez, Patricia Andrea B. MA ANTHRO The Food Art of San Miguel: Engendering Work, Crafting Identity

Aug. 08 A.M.T. Labrador

Crutchfield, Stephanie Leigh * MS SOCDEV Milk and Modernization in Taiwan (1950-1990): A Social History of the Introduction of Milk in Taiwan

Sept. 08 F. Zialcita

Lorenzana, Agnes Marcella C. MS SOCDEV Community Mediation and the Characteristics of Disputants and Mediators

Mar. 09 A.M. Karaos

English

Cruz, Edilberto C. MA LIT-ENG The Bagay Movement and the Rise of Protest Poetry in Filipino

Aug. 08 D. Remoto

Grey, Patrixia Niña MA ELLT-I Capitalizing on Comic Books in the Classroom Nov. 08 A. Loredo

Abad, Lourdes Veronica S. MA ELLT-I An Analysis of Teachers' and Students' Perfections of Code-Switching in Teaching Science and Mathematics in a Private High School

Feb. 09 M.L. Vilches

Panganiban, Ma. Gabriela C. * MA LIT-ENG-

LC

The Persistence of the Feudal: Generic Discontinuities in Groyon's The Sky over Dimas/The Political Fantasy of the Landed Elite

May 09 M.L. Reyes

Filipino

Ulit, Claudette M. MA LIT-FIL-I Ang Pagkatiwalag ng Indibidwal sa Sarili at Lipunan: Isang Pagsusuring Humahango sa Batayang Pananaw Nina Marx at Freud sa Nobelang “Ginto ang Kayumangging Lupa ni Dominador Mirasol”

Feb. 09 C. Santos

FIRE

Villamor, Gracia V. MA TH-STUD How to Form Sound, Integrated Spirituality in Student - Catechists?

Apr 09 J. Roche, SJ

12 gsr@admu.ls

Date of

Name Degree Title of Thesis/Dissertation Defense Adviser/s

Loyola School of Theology

Becerra Pedraza, William Fernando MA TH-STUD The Catholic Church in Dialogue: Ad Intra and Ad Extra and Other Essays

Dec. 08 A. de Castro, SJ

Teh, Abigail R. MA TH-STUD Lady Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9: A Historical-Critical and Contemporary Reading Using Ricoeur's Theory of Metaphor

Jan. 09 F.F. Ramirez, SJ

Alvarez, Francis D. MA TH-STUD Catechesis 2.0: Experimental Catechetical Modules Inspired by Three Insights from the New Testament and Intended to Challenge Preparatory Programs for the Sacraments of Initiation

Jan. 09 H. Schneider, SJ

Goebel, Udo PHD TH A Renewed Understanding of Martin Luther and Ignatius of Loyola from the Perspective of their Response to the Crisis of Authority in the Middle Ages

Feb. 09 F.J. Rasiah, SJ

Dy, Oliver G. * MA TH-STUD From Angel to Spirit: A Hermeneutical Investigation on Two Translations of Ignatius's Rules for Discernment

Mar. 09 J.M. Francisco, SJ

Philosophy

Jacinto, Jacqueline Marie D. MA PH-I The Work of Selfhood in Globalized Remediation: The Hermeneutics of Distanciation in Paul Ricoeur's Oneself as Another

Jun 09 L. Ma. Garcia