Abstract It often has been an illusion that Filipinos lack indigeneity due to the ties with United States since 1898. Lost in these mists were indigenous agendas lay underneath official narratives. The article presents a background and then examines administration of Elpidio Quirino, president Philippines from 1948 1953, particularly his neutralist Pacific Pact initiative failed use military fo...

The differences in the wealth of nations have been in existence historically. The extent of inequalities has been very large and even today they do exist and hence the phenomenon is disturbing. It is an undisputed fact that population of a country does have some effect on the economic growth of a country but the extent to which the population size and composition affects the economy has been a ...

The use of computer software in the fields of engineering, technology and management has become inevitable these days. Engineering problems are tedious and time consuming to solve manually due to higher complexity. In this perspective mathematical bioscience is an emerging field that involves formulation of biological concepts in terms of equations and application of computers to solve them. Th...

Abstract Background Disentangling the dynamics of microbial interactions within communities improves our comprehension metacommunity assembly microbiota during host development and under perturbations. To assess impact stochastic variation neutral processes on structure composition disturbance, two types habitats, free-living (water), host-associated (skin gut) were experimentally exposed to ei...

Interrelationships of Meloidogyne hapla and Heterodera schachtii in combinations of several population levels and different inoculation periods were studied. Results indicated suppression of gall development of M. hapla in any treatment in which inoculations of H. schachtii preceded those of M. hapla by 10 days. This interrelationship was characterized by amensalism with M. hapla serving as an ...

BACKGROUND Specialist palliative care nurses have considerable expertise in pain management and this expertise can contribute to tension in the boundary between specialist nurses and non-specialist doctors. OBJECTIVES This article reports on how specialist palliative care nurses contribute to team talk about pain and the rhetorical strategies they use to develop their reputation and credibili...

My academic career started in agriculture, then I obtained my doctorate in the faculty of medicine, and only after this did I become aware of ecology as a science applied to fisheries. I had learned to gather data on complex problems in agriculture and medicine, analyse the data and form conclusions. When I started to study the biology of the sea in the late 1950s, it was apparent that biologic...