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JULY 2009
Issue No. 2
gsr@admu.ls
Highlighting graduate student research
at the Ateneo de Manila Loyola Schools
A note from the Editor
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.
This newsletter is issued by
the Office of the Associate
Dean for Graduate Programs
of the Loyola Schools.
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
Ground Floor, Kostka Hall
Loyola Schools campus
Loyola Heights
Quezon City 1108
An Evaluation of
the Practical
Music Course:
Implications for
Improving the
Program
Tel. Nos. (6-32) 426-6001
local 5141/5142
Telefax No. (6-32) 426-5937
grad@admu.edu.ph
www.ls.ateneo.edu/adgp
Patricia Chambi Felicidad C. Soriano
M.A. in Education, major in Educational
Administration
Lay-out & production:
Ellenita E. Abrantes
Preparation of theses list:
Evelyn F. Casaje
In this issue:
Extended abstracts of some
theses and dissertations
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A selection of theses and
dissertations
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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
-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 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-ProcessProduct (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 decisionmaking 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 Problem
1. What are the perceptions and differences in
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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?
The AMPEQ was prepared in four versions:
AMPEQ for PMC Students, AMPEQ for PMC
Parents, AMPEQ for PMC Teachers, and AMPEQ
for School Administrators.
Method
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”.
Results
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.
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.
Implications 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 selfexpression,
Following are the identified CIPP components for the Practical Music Course:
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?
PROCESS
What is being done and
is it effective?
Teaching Facilities & Equipment
Teachers & Instructional Strategies
Curriculum & Class Format
Performance Exposure
Student Practice
Parental Support
Teacher Processes
Student Processes
PRODUCT
What has been significantly achieved?
Impact
Effectiveness
Sustainability
Transportability
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− 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.
E-mail add: pcfsoriano@yahoo.com
On the Complexities of the Block
Sorting and Poset Cover Problems
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.
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 NPComplete, 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
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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).
J. P. Lota
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.
Analysis of Genetic Diversity and
Redundancy in Rice Germplasm
Collection by DNA Fingerprinting
Jamaica P. Lota
MS in Biology
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:
“… there is a need to
… remove redundancy
in the PhilRice
genebank.”
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 polynomialtime 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
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
Figure 1. Dendrogram resulting from
UPGMA cluster analysis of 427 rice
germplasm accessions based on data
derived from multiplex SSR-PCR.
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)
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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%.
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 growout tests will be required to further strengthen the
evidence of redundancy.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
500
400
RM171
RM514
300 bp
RM316
200
100
bp
RM312
“...after 40 years of
dairy development,
nutrition education,
and advertising, the
dairy industry still
made a low
contribution to [Taiwan]
agriculture’s GDP.”
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.
Milk and Modernization in Taiwan
(1950-1990): A Social History of the
Introduction of Milk in Taiwan
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
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
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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.
M. D. V. Samson
“… an enumerative
naming scheme, or
nomenclature … is
introduced for the
elements of the
symmetric group.”
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 selfcontained 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).
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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).
The Persistence of the Feudal:
Generic Discontinuities in Groyon's
The Sky over Dimas/The Political
Fantasy of the Landed Elite
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
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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 excentric. 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.
“… 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.”
M. G. C. Panganiban
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A selection of theses and dissertations defended in August 2008-June 2009
Name
Degree
Title of Thesis/Dissertation
Date of
Defense
Adviser/s
School of Science and Engineering
Biology
Llego, Eusebia B.
Vidal, Jonivil L.
MBIED
MBIED
Trinidad, Merlita M. *
Balisbis, Allan D.
Zabate, Jovilyn C.
Flores, Referenda Joanna V.
MBIED
MBIED
MBIED
MS BIO
Lota, Jamaica P. *
MS BIO
Coronado, Armin S.
MS BIO
Unraveling Bacteria and Viruses
The Hidden Marvel of Eukaryotic Chromosome
and Its Biological Complexity
Landscape Ecology: An Evolutionary Perspective
Leaves: Life's Energy Producer
The Amazing World of Fungi
Protoplast Isolation, Fusion and Regeneration of Ulva lactuca
Linn. And Ulva reticulata Forsskal (Ulvales, Cholorophyceae)
Aug. 08
Aug. 08
E. de Guzman
C.G. Lagunzad
Aug. 08
Aug. 08
Aug. 08
Nov. 08
C.G. Lagunzad
V. Tolentino
E. de Guzman
M. Chan
Analysis of Genetic Diversity and Redundancy
Feb. 09
in Rice Germplasm Collection by DNA Fingerprinting
Phylogeny of Philippine Mangroves (Family Rhizophoraceae) Mar. 09
Inferred with Leaf Shape Geometry, nDNA and cpDNA
V. Panes
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 Feb. 09
Condenser Apparatus, Separatory Funnel and Centrifuge
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)
MS CH
Physico-Chemical and Microbiological Parameters
in the Deterioration of Virgin Coconut Oil
MS CH
Surface Energy Considerations of a Slider Magnetic
Read/Write Components
MS CH-Straight Carbonization of Glycerol by Pyrolysis
MS CS
Dimzon, Ian Ken D.
Abenojar, Eric C. *
Loable, Carole M.
Feb. 09
N. R. Rojas
May 09
F. Dayrit
May 09
E. Enriquez
May 09
E. Enriquez
Nov. 08
M.M. Rodriguez
Feb. 09
M.M. Rodriguez
DISCS
Hizon, Maria Carina S.
Amarra, Anna Christine M.
Tabada, Luisito I.
Bautista, Melissa A.
Are We Having Fun Yet? Analyzing Interaction Logs
to Characterize Player Affect in Games
MS CS-II
Quantifying Programming Styles to Determine Authorship
in JAVA Programming
PHD CS
Performance Evaluation and Reliability Analysis
of Buffered Switch Architectures
MS CS-Straight Streamlining a Software for Pedestrian Behavior Analysis
Mar. 09
P. Tagle
May 09
M.R. J. Estuar
MS ECE
MS ECE
Feb. 08
Oct. 08
R. SJ Reyes
C. Co
ECE
Uy, Purisimo
Cueva, Hector I.
*Thesis/Dissertation rated “Excellent”
Top-side Heat Dissipation on Power QFN
A Study of the Testability of Very Low Saturation
Resistance of Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect
Transistor
JULY 2009
9
Name
Degree
Title of Thesis/Dissertation
Jonson, Maria Teresa C.
MS ECE
Ogerio, Cristopher T.
MS ECE
Cabacungan, Paul M.
MS ECE
Characterization of the Package Resistance
of the Loss-Free Package (LFPAK)
Effective Estimation of Analog-to-Digital Converter's
Signal to Noise Ratio Using Differential Nonlinearity
Clean Water Systems Using Solar Power for Off-Grid
Communities
Date of
Defense
Adviser/s
Oct. 08
C. Co
Nov. 08
R. SJ Reyes
Feb. 09
N. Libatique,
G. Tangonan,
T. Calasanz
Mar. 08
E. Cabral
Aug. 08
Mathematics
Miina, Karl Friedrich C. *
MS MA
Quizon, Joey G.
MS MAED-I
The Equivalence of the ITO, ITO-Henstock,
and ITO-Mcshane Integrals
Euler's Line and Other Related Results
Ebisa, Adelfa P.
MS MAED-I
Centered Quadrilaterals
Aug. 08
Mangilaya, Rubelyn B.
Titular, Joe I.
MS MAED-I
MS MAED-I
Hidden Treasure Problems
On Commensurable Triangles
Aug. 08
Aug. 08
Cleofe, Violeta B.
Samson, Michael Daniel V. *
Cruz , Veronica D.
MS MAED-I
MS MA
MS MAED-I
Circumscribable Quadrilaterals
The Infinite Symmetric Group - Part II: Nomenclature
The Golden Ratio, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences
and the Parameter-Dependent Tent Map
Aug. 08
Sept. 08
Mar. 09
J. Marasigan,
Q. Lee-Chua
J. Sarmiento,
C. Vistro-Yu
F. Francisco
J. Sarmiento,
E. Bautista
E. Tuprio, C. Soto
E. Bautista
M.A. Aberin
PhD PS
A Geometric Algebra Approach to Geometric Optics:
Clifford Groups to Poisson Brackets
Mar. 08
D. McNamarra, SJ
Yu, Grace Mindy S.
MA COM-I
Feb. 08
R.J. Solis
Cabañes, Jason Vincent A.
MA COM-I
Mar. 08
V. Valdez
Martel, Faye M.
MA COM-I
Mar. 08
S. Sarmenta, Jr.
Magno, Melanie M.
MA COM-I
Mobile Marketing in the Philippines: An Empirical Study
on Consumer Behavior and Motivation
Pinoy Postings: On the Online Cultural Identity
Performances of Young Filipino Professionals in Singapore
Doc Youth: A Cross Media Project Proposal for the
Filipino Youth
Social Marketing Plan of COOP Life Insurance and Mutual
Benefit Services' (CLIMBS) COOP Health Insurance
Program
Oct. 08
J.A. Cuenco
Physics
Sugon, Quirino Jr. M.
School of Social Sciences
Communication
Education
Austria, Karen B.
MA ED-GC
Militante, Edgar B.
MA ED-EA
Correlates of Parent and Peer Attachment of Grade Six
Nov. 08
Students of a Chinese Filipino School
Comparison of the Perceptions of Principals and Teachers Nov. 08
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
C. Soto
R. Nicdao
gsr@admu.ls
10
Name
Sastre, Sr. Maria Cora P. ICM
Degree
MA ED-EA
Soriano, Patricia Chambi Felicidad C.* MA ED-EA
Arante, Jessica N. OSB
MA ED-EA
Title of Thesis/Dissertation
Date of
Defense
Adviser/s
Perceptions of the Administrators, the Teaching Personnel, Mar. 09
and the Non-Teaching Personnel on the Environmental
Education (EE) Program of Three Selected ICM Schools:
Implications for Improving the Environmental Education
(EE) Program
An Evaluation of the Applied Music Subject Program:
Mar. 09
Implications for Improving the Program
The Implementation of the Hallmarks of Benedictine
Mar. 09
Education in the Academic Program of Three Benedictine
Basic Education Schools: Implications for Academic
Program Improvement
M.C. Gonzalez
Paving the Way for Overseas Self-Defense Force (SDF)
Dispatch: Understanding Japan's Role in International
Security
Mar. 09
L. Yu-Jose
Sept. 08
M. Lim
Feb. 09
L. Yu-Jose
Feb. 09
A.M. Salvador
Mar. 09
M. Lim
Mar. 09
B. Tolosa, Jr.
Mar. 09
A.G. La Viña
An Inquiry into the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors Nov. 08
Outside of Treatment that Affects Relapse and Abstinence
in Filipinos with Substance Abuse Disorders
Developing an Instrument for Ego States Diagnosis
Nov. 08
in Transactional Analysis
M.E.C. Liwag
M.C. Gonzalez
M.C. Gonzalez
Japanese Studies
Lego, Jera Beah H.
MA JS
Political Science
Susanto, Thomas Eddy
Reyes, Kathleen Joy D.
Salvador, Anne Kristine D.
Trinidad, Gino Antonio P.
Aguirre, Arjan P.
Villanueva, Diega D.
MA POS-GP-I The Multivocality of Islam and its Consequences
on Democracy in Indonesia
MA POS-GP-I Philippine-Japan Sister City Relationships:
Transgovernmental?
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
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
MA POS-GP-I The Nexus between Global Civil Society and Revolution:
International Fellowship of Reconciliation and EDSA 1986
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
Psychology
Tuliao, Antover P.
MA PSY-CP
Faustino, Gary Aguedo G.
MA PSY-CP-I
de la Cruz, Divina Anglica
MA PSY-IOP-I Stresses, Work-Life Conflcit, and Job, Life and Marital
Satisfaction Among Call Center
Ortega, Renee Ann L.
MA PSY-CP-I
L. Teh
Feb. 09
M.R Hechanova
The Relationship Between Domain Stressors: With
Feb. 09
Work-Life Conflict and Job, Marital, and Life Satisfactions
Among Dual Earning Couples
M.R Hechanova
JULY 2009
11
Name
Gustilo, Maria Victoria R. *
de Guzman, Judith M. *
Pacis, Rosemarie R.
Jimenez, Aileen Rose T.
Wada, Karina Mayumi T.
Supangco, Katrina Tala T.
Valle, Joanne Rachelle L.
Degree
Title of Thesis/Dissertation
A Multiple Case Study of the Resilience Experience
of Persons Who Transitioned From Involuntary Job
Loss
MA PSY-ASP-I Positioning Theory as an Analytical Framework
for the Study of Intergroup Conflict: The Case of the
Sumilao March for Land
PHD PSY-CP Filipino Women's Marital Annulment Beliefs
and the Decision-Making Process in Marital Annulment
MA PSY-CP-I Interpersonal Needs and Satisfaction of Needs
as Predictors of Loneliness Among Filipino Adolescents
MA PSY-DP-I Length of Exposure to After-School Academic Tutorials:
Relationship with Academic Performance, Academic
Self-Efficacy, and Self-Regulated Learning Efficacy
MA PSY-IOP-I Predictors of Career Success for Filipino Workers
MA PSY-CP-I Death Anxiety Among Oncology Pediatric Nurses
PHD PSY-CP
Date of
Defense
Adviser/s
Feb. 09
J. Kanapi
Feb. 09
M.A Ofreneo
Feb. 09
M.E.C. Liwag
Feb. 09
E.L Alampay
Mar. 09
E.L Alampay
Apr. 09
Apr. 09
M.R Hechanova
M.I. Echanis-Melgar
Sociology & Anthropology
Gonzalez, Patricia Andrea B.
MA ANTHRO
Crutchfield, Stephanie Leigh *
MS SOCDEV
Lorenzana, Agnes Marcella C.
MS SOCDEV
The Food Art of San Miguel: Engendering Work,
Aug. 08
Crafting Identity
Milk and Modernization in Taiwan (1950-1990):
Sept. 08
A Social History of the Introduction of Milk in Taiwan
Community Mediation and the Characteristics of Disputants Mar. 09
and Mediators
A.M.T. Labrador
F. Zialcita
A.M. Karaos
School of Humanities
English
Cruz, Edilberto C.
MA LIT-ENG
Grey, Patrixia Niña
Abad, Lourdes Veronica S.
MA ELLT-I
MA ELLT-I
Panganiban, Ma. Gabriela C. *
MA LIT-ENGLC
The Bagay Movement and the Rise of Protest Poetry
in Filipino
Capitalizing on Comic Books in the Classroom
An Analysis of Teachers' and Students' Perfections
of Code-Switching in Teaching Science and Mathematics
in a Private High School
The Persistence of the Feudal: Generic Discontinuities
in Groyon's The Sky over Dimas/The Political Fantasy
of the Landed Elite
Aug. 08
D. Remoto
Nov. 08
Feb. 09
A. Loredo
M.L. Vilches
May 09
M.L. Reyes
Filipino
Ulit, Claudette M.
MA LIT-FIL-I
Ang Pagkatiwalag ng Indibidwal sa Sarili at Lipunan:
Feb. 09
Isang Pagsusuring Humahango sa Batayang Pananaw
Nina Marx at Freud sa Nobelang “Ginto ang Kayumangging
Lupa ni Dominador Mirasol”
C. Santos
MA TH-STUD
How to Form Sound, Integrated Spirituality
in Student - Catechists?
J. Roche, SJ
FIRE
Villamor, Gracia V.
Apr 09
gsr@admu.ls
12
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
Lady Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9: A Historical-Critical
and Contemporary Reading Using Ricoeur's Theory
of Metaphor
Dec. 08
A. de Castro, SJ
Jan. 09
F.F. Ramirez, SJ
Teh, Abigail R.
MA TH-STUD
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
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
Philosophy
Jacinto, Jacqueline Marie D.