Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research

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Authors: Randy Joy Magno Ventayen

In Southeast Asia, Philippine is one of the disaster-prone countries which was hit by typhoon Lawin (international name: Haima), and Karen (international name “Sarika”) last October 2016, the two typhoon swere named as one of the strongest typhoons that hit the country and the region 1. On some numbers of tweets in social media, there are local languages posted by the local users such as Pangasinan in the Philippines. The study will be sought to answer on how to download twitter data from a specific disaster duration in the region, how to extract and identify multilingual disaster-related tweets and finally how to classify disaster and non-disaster tweets in the local language. The study of classification and extraction of disaster and emergency-related tweets is important is interesting study because the life of a person which speaks a very rare dialect is important as the same as the person speaking a major language. Based on the findings, translation of selected typhoon-related words helps to filter the multilingual tweets and classified the tweets using Naïve Bayes algorithm.

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Authors: Sally A. Jarin

This study was conducted to determine the socio-economic status of the fishermen along the river tributaries of Dagupan City and to study the environment problems affecting the fishermen along the river tributaries of Dagupan City. This study used a mixed method research design and utilized a survey questionnaire to gather response from 60 fishers selected through proportionate sampling. The fishermen along the tributaries of Dagupan City are mostly male, young adult with family of their own, attended primary education, and belong to big family size. All respondents owned houses made only of light materials. Shrimps and crabs were the most frequently caught species now compared to many small pelagic fishes before, when there were no aquaculture structures like fish pens and cages. Fishermen were limited to the ownership of passive fishing gears like gill nets, skylab, skyblue, and liftnet. Fishpen or cage structures were owned by big businessmen while the fishers served only as caretakers. The respondents are worried on the decrease of fish catch. It is recommended that the government of the City of Dagupan should continue its program in demolishing pen and cage structures to free the rivers from pollution of feed inputs. Management and economic measures should be considered in order to gain significant effect on income of the fishermen. In designing management systems which have income improvement as a goal, appropriate implementation, monitoring and evaluation initiatives should be conducted and taken cared of for sustainable income improvement of farmers in the community of Dagupan and, perhaps, wealth distribution.

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Authors: Paolo Miguel M. Vicerra1 , Joana Mae G. Salvador2 , Yedha May V. Capili3

Effects of disasters on population are crucial under global climate change. One area that is usually gravely affected by disasters in the Philippines is Marikina City, a fluvial area situated above a major fault line with a high number of residents to be affected. The local government engages residents with regular information dissemination and trainings based on national guidelines, focusing on programs for students. This study aims to appraise such program on university students regarding self-perceived knowledge of disaster preparedness, confidence on actual preparedness, and engaging performing knowledge to action. A survey implemented in this study is adapted from instrument used in studies of crisis preparation assessment and preparedness. Involved in the survey are 133 students of a public university in Marikina City. Ordered logit regression is used to test if there are differences between responses to the items. Subsequently, ten respondents were randomly selected to participate in group discussion to substantiate responses to the survey. Results show that belief in being prepared and knowing what to do is significantly different for hypothetical earthquake scenario but is not observed for typhoon scenario. Result from the discussion indicate that complacency is absent regarding typhoons because people in their age group residing in Marikina City, as well as those living in adjacent areas, have experienced it in recent years but earthquakes bring uncertainty. The findings in this study are vital toward determining methods to lessen the gap between knowledge and action to improve safety and well-being among youth population.

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Authors: Cris T. Susa (MAEd)

This study examined the relationship of work values and teaching performance of early childhood educators (n=40) in Tuguegarao City, Philippines. Specifically, the study determined the association between work values and profile and also explored how these two variables contribute to the teaching performance of the early childhood educators. The descriptive-correlational research design was utilized in the study. The study revealed that there is no significant difference in the work values of the teachers when grouped according to profile variables, implying that early childhood educators have comparable work values. Moreover, correlation indicated that generally, work value patterns of the respondents do not affect their teaching performance. Only the “teaching learning process” as a dimension of teaching performance is significantly associated to the work values of the respondents. Ultimately, the findings of the study serve as baseline data and as basis for policy-making and capability building for early childhood educators.

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Authors: Alliyah Marie Oteyza, Brian Emil Balmoria, Meagan Sabularse

Communication is essential in people’s daily lives wherein they communicate to express what they feel and opinions, share their knowledge to other people and when employers are talking to their subordinates and clients. In business world, Communication plays a vital role in the organization because it is the center of the management process (Barnard, 1983) so a good and successful organization can be determined through the effectiveness of communication between employees. Through successful communication, their vision, mission, goals and objectives can be achieved as long as the messages are perceived correctly and accurately from the sender up to the receiver. The purpose of this study was to know how effective the communication among university employees which are determined through communication climate, message content, channel, timing and feedback. The respondents of the study were the eighty-four (84) university employees of Polytechnic University of the Philippines that were selected through convenience sampling.. Therefore, the communication effectiveness of the eighty-four (84) university employees are high which implies that they have good relationship, the messages are perceived correctly which are signs of good organizational and communication structure.

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Authors: Raymund B. Moreno (DBM)

- This research was conducted to determine the chemical composition of pandesal bread produced from wheat and milkfish flour mixtures. This study also aimed to investigate the sensory level of acceptability of pandesal bread produced from wheat and milkfish flour mixtures as to appearance, aroma, taste, texture and general acceptability in 0%, 5%, 10% and 15% proportions of milkfish flour. Based on the findings of the study, the percentage of most acceptable treatment which is 95 % wheat flour with 5 % milkfish flour were; moisture content, crude protein, total fat, ash, carbohydrate and energy were 21.3, 10.9, 5.72, 1.58, 60.5 g/100 g. and 337 Kcal/100 g. respectively. In terms of appearance, aroma, texture, flavor, and general acceptability, significant differences were determined in the level of sensory acceptability of pandesal bread produced from wheat and milkfish flour mixtures with different proportions. The findings of this study also showed that there is a relation as to the proportional percentage of the different treatments in the sensory acceptability of the bangus pandesal – the lower the percentage of the milkfish flour added, the higher is the sensory acceptability of the finished product in terms of texture, taste and the general acceptability as a whole. As a recommendation, the results of adding milkfish flour into pandesal bread will be made the baseline database, using the information obtained, as a useful point of reference for further studies and to improve existing products and food processes, as well as for the development of new ones.

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Authors: Juanita M. Costillas1 , Eleazar E. Labata2 , Ramel E. Claros3

This study created a model of instructional competence (IC), with leadership practices (LP) as predictors, of faculty designated with administrative functions of the university. It was conducted in a recognized state university in the Philippines. It has the characteristics, status, and mandates of a typical university in the country. There were 65 out of 97 (64%) faculty-respondents selected through purposive sampling with at least one-year experience of handling administrative functions. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, partial component analysis, and regression analysis. The findings of this study enable the researchers to come up with a modified five practices of exemplary leadership (MFPEL) written as indexes which lead to the creation of Leadership by Heart model. The MFPEL includes the index of Modeling by Heart, index of Encouragement and Innovation, index of Taking Risk but Inspired a Shared Vision, index of Encourage the Heart and index of Enable others to Act from the Heart. Also, among the five components of the MFPEL, only modeling by heart, taking a risk but inspire a shared vision and enable others to act by heart account significantly on the variations in IC at different levels.

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Authors: Analyn V. Inarda (DPA)

This study dealt on the concerns and consequences of training experiences using the 44 core faculty of business. This research primarily examined the number of trainings attended and its relationship to the performances of the faculty. It employed descriptive method with quantitative and qualitative approaches. Triangulation was used in gathering data. The study found out that training attended by faculty in terms of instruction, research, extension, and production was inadequate and if given so, most of them are in service. A significant relationship resulted among instruction, research and production training attended and the performance. However, relationship between trainings attended in extension and their performance has not been established. Yet, study cannot readily conclude that training is the only factor to consider improving the performance of the faculty. On the other hand, the usefulness of the trainings attended has displayed to the extent of only being informed and most probably did not results to numerous outputs in research, extension and production. Finally, several problems have been revealed vis-à-vis training experiences of faculty of business for the last three years.