Research Archives - /category/update-online/research-highlights/ University of the Philippines Diliman Mon, 01 Apr 2024 05:21:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-upd-favicon-32x32.png Research Archives - /category/update-online/research-highlights/ 32 32 Moving toward a socially sustainable Philippines /moving-toward-a-socially-sustainable-philippines/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 01:46:34 +0000 /?p=49177 The Philippines needs to strengthen its existing support programs, such as those for indigenous people (IP), women, and climate change resilience, to step closer to social sustainability, according to Louise Cord, PhD. Cord is the World Bank global director for social sustainability and inclusion in the World Bank鶹Ƶ sustainable development practice. Cord said social sustainability […]

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]]> Guitar lessons for restoring hand functions /guitar-lessons-for-restoring-hand-functions/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 02:45:52 +0000 /?p=48824 Guitar exercises are viable augmentative treatments for those with hand impairments brought about by a chronic stroke. This was the conclusion reached by the researchers of GTARA (Grip/Grasp Training with Active Range of Motion Activities Using Guitar): Guitar Lessons for Restoring Hand Function Among Patients With Unilateral Hand Impairment From Chronic Stroke (GTARA). “Ang pag-aaral […]

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]]> Learning new stories to live by /learning-new-stories-to-live-by/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:11:19 +0000 /?p=48307 Arran Stibbe, PhD, said the Philippines should protect its language diversity and its many traditional and indigenous cultures. An ecolinguist and a professor in ecological linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire, UK, Stibbe said the country鶹Ƶ languages and cultures contain ecological wisdom. In the study Traditional Ecological Knowledge Versus Ecological Wisdom: Are They Dissimilar in […]

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]]> Humanities Diliman (July-December 2023) issue now online /humanities-diliman-july-december-2023-issue-now-online/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 07:21:36 +0000 /?p=47974 The UP Diliman Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development (OVCRD), in a recent email to UPDate Online, announced the online release of Humanities Diliman Vol. 20, No. 1, the publication鶹Ƶ July-December 2023 issue. In her editor鶹Ƶ note, Jordana L. Pison, PhD wrote, “We close 2023 with an issue that brings together contributions […]

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]]> UP prof鶹Ƶ study on cave art published by Scientific Reports /up-profs-study-on-cave-art-published-by-scientific-reports/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 07:38:02 +0000 /?p=47620 The research Unraveling the Skills and Motivation of Magdalenian Artists in the Depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain) co-authored by Juan Rofes, PhD, recently landed on the pages of Scientific Reports, the online, open-access, peer-reviewed part of Nature Portfolio, covering studies on natural sciences, psychology, medicine, and engineering. Rofes is an associate professor at the […]

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]]> UN now uses UPD researchers’ MVI /un-now-uses-upd-researchers-mvi/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:01:30 +0000 /?p=46030 The World鶹Ƶ Mangroves 2000-2020, the 2023 report of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), used the Mangrove Vegetation Index (MVI) developed by UP Diliman (UPD) researchers as its mapping methodology. The report is about global and regional estimates of the area covered by mangrove forests, including area changes between 2000 and 2020. […]

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]]> Understanding and preserving Baybayin /understanding-and-preserving-baybayin/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:52:33 +0000 /?p=45613 Early this year, three scientists from the Institute of Mathematics (IM) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Science (CS) made national headlines with their study, Block-level Optical Character Recognition [OCR] System for Automatic Transliterations of Baybayin Texts and Using Support Vector Machine (Block-level OCR System). Rodney Pino, Renier Mendoza, PhD, and Rachelle Sambayan, PhD, […]

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]]> UPD physicist understands Weyl fermions’ behavior through Einstein鶹Ƶ theory /upd-physicist-understands-weyl-fermions-behavior-through-einsteins-theory/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 03:19:18 +0000 /?p=45282 A group of international researchers that included Gennevieve Macam, PhD, an associate professor of physics at the National Institute of Physics of the UP Diliman College of Science (CS) recently discovered that the behavior of Weyl fermions can be understood through the use of Albert Einstein鶹Ƶ ideas on causality. Weyl fermions are exotic subatomic particles […]

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]]> DLingg鶹Ƶ Otto Scheerer honored /dlinggs-otto-scheerer-honored/ Wed, 30 Aug 2023 08:46:01 +0000 /?p=45109 The Department of Linguistics (DLingg) of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) went all out to pay tribute to Otto Johns Scheerer, its first professor emeritus, with a journal launch and two public lectures. At the Paglulunsad at Paglalayag 2023 on Aug. 18, the department officially launched the latest issue […]

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]]> Tabon Cave finds: Prehistoric SEA fiber technology /tabon-cave-finds-prehistoric-sea-fiber-technology/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 05:45:15 +0000 /?p=44124 Earliest pieces of evidence of basket and tie manufacturing on stone tools were recently found in Tabon Cave in Palawan by researchers from UP Diliman (UPD) and the National Museum. In the paper The Invisible Plant Technology of Prehistoric Southeast Asia, the researchers reported “the discovery of a use-wear pattern characteristic of thinning plant fibers […]

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]]> Latest Humanities Diliman issue now online /latest-humanities-diliman-now-online-4/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:51:49 +0000 /?p=44084 Humanities Diliman (Vol. 20, No. 1) is now available online. In her note, editor Ruth Jordana L. Pison, PhD, wrote, “This issue features studies addressing a range of cultural practices and textualizations that require different methodological stances and critical tools for reading.” The journal鶹Ƶ January to June 2023 issue contains seven articles written by scholars […]

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]]> Earliest fiber technology found in Tabon Cave /earliest-fiber-technology-found-in-tabon-cave/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:16:01 +0000 /?p=43656 Earliest pieces of evidence of basket and tie manufacturing on stone tools were recently found in Tabon Cave in Palawan by researchers from UP Diliman (UPD) and the National Museum. The pieces of evidence found date back to 39,000 to 33,000 years ago, determined through cutting-edge microscopic analyses.  In correspondences with UPDate Online, Hermine Xhauflair, […]

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