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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Luzon"”.
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Toward Financial Inclusion and Female Empowerment through Microfinance Development Initiatives in Manila and Central Luzon, Philippines
… in the National Capital Region (NCR) and Central Luzon (Region II) regions of the Philippines. Microfinance in the Philippines is a tool of varied uses, implementations, and results. Those include four, in the main: pursuit of financial inclusion and empowerment, boosting women's confidence, …
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Social use and value of trade ceramics: an analysis of mortuary practices in Calatagan, southwest Luzon, the Philippines
… from seven cemeteries in Calatagan, southwest Luzon, dating between the mid-15th and mid-16th centuries. In previous studies, a key problem is the assumption of trade ceramics as only representing prestige goods, in which they are treated either as categorically distinct from local earthenwares …
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In the Image of Industry: Indigeneity and Migrant Labor in the Making of Filipino America
… peasants and indigenous groups from Northern Luzon in the 19th century. It argues that the constellation of contradictory identities that constitute the “Filipino”—the indigenous “savage” and the industrious migrant worker—across the early 20th century Pacific emerge out of archival …
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From the Foreland and Retroarc Thrust Belts to the Mantle Transition Zone: First Multi-Scale Retrodeformable Transect of the Active 90 mm/yr Taiwan Arc-Continent Collision
… presents the precollisional architecture of the Luzon arc and the thin-skinned structure and stratigraphy of the deforming arc on land. We show that the Miocene and younger northern Luzon Arc is built on Early Cretaceous Huatung Basin oceanic lithosphere of the Philippine Sea plate, which …
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Island Biodiversity and Human Palaeoecology in the Philippines: A zooarchaeological study of Late Quaternary faunas
… in the past. Using archaeofaunal material from Luzon and Palawan Islands, the study presents important fossil discoveries and palaeoecological insights into the dynamics of faunal change in the Philippines. The faunal analyses also allow the first attempt to construct Late Quaternary …
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Coastal Resource Use, Management, and Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines
… Using survey data from 40 communities in Bohol, Luzon, Mindoro Occidental, and Mindoro Oriental, marine conservation perceptions and behaviors were evaluated. Coastal resource users were found to perceive resource problems such as a decline in fish and feel that management and conservation are …
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Geographic drivers of avian diversification in the Philippine archipelago
… two small avian radiations, the Robsonius in Luzon, and Aethopyga in Mindanao, are exceptions to the paradigm that birds do not diversify within single islands. Congruence of molecular markers and plumage characters support that avian taxonomy in the Philippines is extremely conservative, and …
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Assessment of policies and socio-economic factors affecting pesticide use in the Philippines
… misuse of pesticides on vegetables in Central Luzon, Philippines. The analysis revealed an increase in pesticide misuse associated with the following factors: a high value placed on advice from a chemical company representative; membership in a cooperative, village or farmers' association; and …
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Selected topics in Limos Kalinga grammar
… Kalinga subprovince of Kalinga Apayo in northern Luzon, Republic of the Philippines. Linimos itself is spoken by about 8,000 people living in about ten villages along the lower Saltan river in the municipality of Pinokpok . The Grammar comprises an Introduction, followed by a survey of the basic …
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Dynamics and parameterization of stably stratified turbulence: implications for estimates of mixing in geophysical flows
… flows. Finally, oceanic observations from Luzon Strait and the Brazil Basin are featured to examine the relationship between LT and LO in geophysical flows where turbulence is driven by overturns that are very large by open ocean standards. LT is found to increase with respect to LO as a …
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Internal tide generation by tall ocean ridges
… generated by the ridges at Hawaii and at the Luzon Strait. Despite the assumption of two-dimensionality, there is remarkably good agreement between field data, simulations and the new theory for the magnitude, asymmetry and modal content of the internal tide at these sites. The final part of …
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Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
This thesis examines a rural Kalinga, northern Luzon, people's contemporary religious assertions and practices. In particular it explores the cosmological principles that shape much of Kalinga quotidian domestic activity. Kalinga society is configured relative to an ethicized cosmology in which …
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Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
This thesis examines a rural Kalinga, northern Luzon, people's contemporary religious assertions and practices. In particular it explores the cosmological principles that shape much of Kalinga quotidian domestic activity. Kalinga society is configured relative to an ethicized cosmology in which …
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Mission policies of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP), 1901-1980: their contribution to the regional character of the Church
… which focused church’s work in certain areas of Luzon and Mindanao, continued to impact the development of its mission in spite of the adoption of new policies in the succeeding years. This is because it was primarily developed in relation to the issue of marginality in Philippine society, a …
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Literacy remains: learning and loss in the brain drain of Filipino migrant labor
… text analysis, and observations in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines and the Midwestern region of the US, this project examines the ways that Filipino migrants, across different age groups and occupations, engage in affective literacies to survive the daily traumas of migrant life. …