BACKGROUND Osteoporosis treatment guidelines recommend calcium and vitamin D supplementation for both prevention as well as treatment, however, compliance with these guidelines is often unsatisfactory. This study investigated the opinion of Asian physicians and Asian patients regarding vitamin D and calcium and patients' use of both. METHODS Physicians selected from Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippi...

We study how student behaviors associated with engagement differ across different school settings. We present a study to investigate the variation in gaming the system and off-task behavior in schools in the USA and Philippines, using quantitative field observations on students using the same Cognitive Tutor lesson on scatterplots. We find that students in the Philippines go off-task significan...

A new species, Strongylodon juangonzalezii Hadsall, Alejado & Cajano, collected from Buenavista Protected Landscape, Mulanay, Quezon, is hereby described. The new species is remarkable for its plagiotropic dense inflorescence made up of 27-31 flowers per cluster in a lateral branch. Flowers are lilac when young, then gradually turn blue when mature. A comparison of the morphology of Strongylodo...

For decades, the Philippines could boast of being one of the most highly educated developing countries. Its enrollment rates at all levels of education were higher than those of other countries with comparable, or even higher, income levels. But no longer. Any edge that the Philippines might have had in its human capital has eroded as more developing countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, a...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, the expansion of trade relations among Asian countries and the heightened business activity of North American and European corporations in Asia have created new markets and introduced more efficient methods of managing the supply chains. The technological advances in information and communications technology have given rise to more innovative forms of business tran...

1 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia, 2 Centre for International Child Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 3 Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4 Nossal Institute for...

A new shovelnose ray, Rhinobatos whitei sp. nov., is described from material collected at fish markets of the southern Philippines. This ray was first formally indentified as an undescribed species more than a decade ago as part of a WWF funded survey of sharks and rays of the Philippines. It was considered to be most closely related to another shovelnose ray found nearby in the western North P...

The World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Physical Status: The Use and Interpretation of Anthropometry established reference anthropometric standards for the growth of healthy infants and children. As part of a prospective clinical study of dengue virus infections in infants, we measured the length and weight of healthy infants in San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines at two scheduled st...

349. Surveillance of Carbapenem Resistance and the First Case of NDM-7producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in the Philippines Andrew Chou, MD; Michael Evangelista; Arielle Kae Sulit; Brian Torres; Marylette Roa; David C. Klinzing, PhD; Lynn Zechiedrich, PhD; Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Verna and Marrs Mclean Department of Biochemis...

Mycomya Rondani specimens from the islands of South-East Asia, i.e. Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, are revised. The paper includes a key to the Mycomya species of the South-East Asian islands. The following six new species are described: M. shimai sp. n. from Java, Indonesia, M. pongo sp. n. from Sabah, Malaysia, and M. apoensis sp. n., M. nakanishii sp. n., M. paraklossi sp. n. and M...