The Philippine algae industry is a multi-billion dollar industry that requires restructuring to further gain global market share. Through the development of new algal bioproducts by strategically repositioning and enabling collaboration with existing industries, the Philippine algal industry aims to enhance its economic status. The decentralized locations of regions in the Philippines make it challenging to select a potential site for the industry. A decision support system is proposed to aid the industry for site selection that evaluates the different regions based on environmental impact, costs, social aspects, and industry presence. In addition, the site assessment considers the viewpoints of the various stakeholders to arrive at a sound and just decision. Thus, a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) method is employed to include the uncertainty in the subjectivity in the viewpoints of different stakeholders such as the academe, the government, and the industry. In addition, the FAHP approach is capable of combining both qualitative and quantitative data. The combined results revealed the level of importance of the main criteria with a combined weight of 43% for the environmental impact, 22% for the costs, 21% for the social aspects, and 14% for the industry presence. The disparity of priorities was observed among the stakeholders where the industry chose costs at 29% above other criteria when compared to the government and the academe which chose environmental impact at 44% and 40%, respectively, among other criteria. The highly preferred sites for the Philippine algae industry were Calabarzon, Northern Mindanao, Western Visayas, and Central Luzon due to the good potential labor force, presence of industries, and available resources in the regions. In order to achieve a harmonious prioritization of criteria among the stakeholders, policies on the encouragement of public investment on regions with marginal income must be considered.

Albeit the potent association between nutrition and health has been repeatedly corroborated in the field of nutrition science through evidence-based approaches, the prevalence of inadequate nutrition among Filipino households is still too high. Therefore, the goal of this study was to pinpoint nutrition challenges faced by Filipino young adults and evaluate whether a personalized nutrition knowledge-based system is a potential nutrition intervention tool. A mixed-methods needs analysis approach was operated to arrive at a panoramic profile of a nutrition knowledge-based system through the participation of respondents in an online survey (n = 85) and focus groups (n = 4). The assessment was grounded from the influencing factors of health and nutritional status such as food selection, nutrition barriers, poor eating habits, nutrition knowledge, and with the inclusion of nutrition application for technical feedback. The findings exploited the fact that people do not track what they eat, let alone the nutrients it contained, which eventually leads to undereating or overeating. There was also a commonness in lack of nutrition knowledge to make healthier food choices. Fortunately, the willingness of participants to point their directions towards a healthier lifestyle through the use of a nutrition knowledge-based system was evident. The paper then concluded with recommendations for future studies and how its findings might be utilized for the development of a personalized nutrition system.

Blood banking is the process of collecting, separating and warehousing blood. There are numerous file-based repositories of blood bank management that exist for storing data for blood bank ecosystem such as hospitals and centers. This functions for maintaining the information of donors, availability of blood, and transaction information. Currently, these systems are effort intensive, costly, and failed to achieve efficiency in terms of its filtering mechanism which makes repository penetrating faster and reliable. This paper introduces a new design for blood banking ecosystem with proper filtering solution using frame-based approach. The system has three major features: (1) blood camp setup module, (2) stocks management module which includes the blood donation and blood releasing, and (3) the filtering system module which shows the nearest blood camp with the available blood type based on the patients’ needs. Also, with the use of frame-based approach as filtering method, the system is more efficient and reliable compared to other blood banking repository systems. The system’s functionality was tested for its efficiency, usability, and reliability and the results are revealed in the survey. Conclusions and future work were also provided in this paper.

The blockchain phenomena is no longer about Bitcoin or cryptocurrency, it is beyond a common protocol to make it nearly impossible to create fraudulent transaction. Blockchain based architecture overall performance is subjected to storage expenses with high computational cost. This paper designed a new consensus protocol for Blockchain using Content Addressable Pattern with the adaptation of modified SHA256 algorithm. Although government, business and other entities interest of adapting blockchain to their processes, the complexity issues and operational cost is still a challenge to date. With the newly design consensus protocol the process of validating the transaction that involves tedious mining or solving cryptographic puzzles has been eliminated and move towards using signature to authenticate the transaction. Concatenation of all these elements is a generated hash value using modified SHA256. Since the hash is secured, the transaction is secured. Thus, the implementation of off-chain chanel instead of global consensus addresses the complexity and high computational cost of blockchain technology.

Online-based technology in relation to the investment system for poultry and swine in the Philippines is not well known. Thus, study aimed to develop a Web-based Investment System that would help investors look for the best poultry and/or swine farm which could generate better investment returns. An Investor – Farmer matching system with decision process was developed using a user-friendly online interface for Pork Producers Federation of the Philippines Incorporated (formerly National Federation of Hog Raisers Inc. or NFHFI). This will contain a dashboard on the system administrator side that would reflect the overall performance and financial standing of participating livestock farms as well as comprehensive dashboard for investors which would display the historical and current investment data of every investor account. Main functions of the system include account management, enhanced decision making, maximizing the profit through Return on Investment analysis based on farmers’ production data and profile. One-on-one interviews, focused groups and direct observations will be employed to collect primary data required for the system development. The effectiveness of the system and client satisfaction were discussed and presented after months of deployment in PPFPI website.

This project is to make a decision based Virtual Reality Film that focuses on leadership, and a website for the client. The purpose is to help and support Kaya Natin Youth Leadership Academy in improving leadership qualities, critical thinking skills and their understandings of the teachings in the academy. By creating this interactive film, the proponents would like to let the viewers grasp the purpose of good leadership and how it would help their view as a leader. The film will be created using multiple software for animating and developing the VR set up, while the website will be created using coding editors and web designing software. This project will improve the proponents’ skills in animation, editing, web designing, and VR developing. The creation of this project and website will help in support for the improvement of the youth's understanding of the importance of leadership and its purpose in life.

With the consent of Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), this project aims to provide a more efficient method of communication between inmates and their visitors and an improved scheduling system for online visitation. The project focuses on creating an application that will allow inmates and relatives to communicate via e-mail and video call. However, inmates and relatives must agree to the policy that their conversations will be under the surveillance of BJMP for security purposes. In order to develop the system, the developers used programming languages like PHP, SQL, and Java. The development of the system was done through scrum methodology since this is the most suitable approach for the developers. After developing the system, the developers were able to see how their system functions. Data regarding the functionality, usability, reliability, performance, and security of the system was gathered using questionnaires from 50 respondents who were composed of six BJMP officers, 24 FEU Tech students, and 20 people who are related with someone inside a jail. The developers learned that the system can still be improved in terms of reliability and usability because these are the factors that gathered an average score in their tally of answers from respondents. The developers recommend to future researchers that are going to tackle this kind of research to focus more on the efficiency of the system. The developers also recommend to provide more security features to further improve the security of the project.

Data analysis is an integral part of research. Most researchers examine their results by using graphs, tables, charts, and figures. These methods are effective, but knowledge transfer is limited because it only depends on what the authors or researchers have presented. The need to scrutinise further the given data is essential. One way of addressing this problem is to utilise a graphical user interface (GUI), wherein a user can manually choose some parameters of an extensive dataset to display and analyse. In this paper, the results of the four variants of clustering techniques, namely the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), K-Power Means (KPM), and Kernel-Power Density-Based Estimation (KPD), in grouping the wireless multipath propagations, are evaluated through the use of a GUI. The accuracy performance of each clustering algorithm can be obtained by choosing in the GUI the corresponding channel scenario that the user would like to investigate. A deeper analysis of the clustering characteristics can also be done by selecting other parameters in the GUI. This selection gives a better understanding of the behaviour of each clustering technique and provides an effective way of presenting and analysing the different sets of data.

The intensity of urban flooding area due to rapid urbanization in Metro Manila has been worsening over the years caused by the torrential rains brought by the Southwest Monsoon. To further characterize the impact of land use change influenced by urbanization, we compared the flood map generated from two periods (Year 200 & Year 2020) using a two-dimensional hydrodynamic modelling simulated in FLO-2D software. In our simulations, we assigned roughness coefficient values to corresponding land use category derived from an earlier study in the area previously spearhead by JICA in 2001. Each model will incorporate the implemented Year 2000 land use and the projected Year 2010 land use classification respectively, which were used in this earlier study. Meanwhile, both models will use the same sets of parameters for the simulation: IFSAR-derived DEM elevation model and a rainfall event with 10-yr return period. The area of interest of this study is located near Valenzuela-Obando-Meycauayan (VOM) with its boundaries defined from the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority. The flood simulations conducted do not take into consideration in existing flood control measures such as drainage systems and floodwalls to minimize the complexity of the model. The results are evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively. According to the results, the impact of the land use change on flood formation in most areas are insignificant due to a low degree of land use change. However, there has been substantial impact on flooding in specific areas where there is a major change in the land use. For further studies, we recommend the use of a longer land use change period and the consideration of more varied and precise Manning’s n-values.

This paper illustrates the impacts of mining disaster after more than 20 years. A two – day rapid assessment was carried out at Mogpog and Boac River catchment in Marinduque Island in March 2019. The target site included Maguilaguila Pit that connects the river catchment and formerly used as mining wastes pit. This is to understand the impacts of 1993 and 1996 mining disasters in the Boac-Mogpog river basin at Marinduque, Philippines. The island of Marinduque has been considered as among the top ten most vulnerable islands in the country due to its environmental condition and geographical location which affected the island demography. The island has suffered the impacts of one of the country’s biggest mining disasters. The instruments used to conduct rapid site assessment were SciAps X-300 Handheld X-ray Fluorescence (XRF), Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Model DJI Mavic Air, Google Earth, Hannah Multiparameter HI 9811-5 with HI 1285-5 probe and HI 70007, 70031, 70032 and 700661 solutions. The DJI Mavic Air captured images of Mogpog and Boac River catchment which helped direct the research team to take the right sampling locations. The DJI Mavic Air captured site images of the two rivers as dead rivers and use as land transportation route during dry season. The Google Earth captured the historical images of the target areas. The recorded data showed that the pit and nearby river water is acidic with pH equivalent to 2.9 and 4.1, respectively. The range of concentration of total dissolved solids in Mogpog and Boac river water was 100–1360 and 160–1150 ppm, respectively. The recorded concentration of iron near the pit was 125,587 ppm, and chromium concentration range was 80–99 ppm. The concentration of copper and manganese in the sediments was 5 and 158 times higher (respectively) than the 1998 detected concentrations. Based on the recorded data and images, the Maguilaguila pit, Boac and Mogpog River catchment need immediate attention. It could be concluded that based on the recent assessment results, leaks at the pit are likely. Also, the combination of areal-aerial and ground technique produced two – day rapid site assessment for areas contaminated by mine tailings. The information could aid in preparing prompt action and setting strategies that are helpful in carrying out risk reduction programs in the island.