gsr@admu.ls - Ateneo de Manila University

JULY 2009 

Issue No. 2 

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In this issue: 

Extended abstracts of some 

theses and dissertations 

A selection of theses and 

dissertations 

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A note from the Editor 

Highlighting graduate student research 

at the Ateneo de Manila Loyola Schools 

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. 

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. 

An Evaluation of 

the Practical 

Music Course: 

Implications for 

Improving the 

Program 

Patricia Chambi Felicidad C. Soriano 

M.A. in Education, major in Educational 

Administration 

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-Process- 

Product (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 

N.F. Quimpo, ADGP 

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? 

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”. 

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. 

The AMPEQ was prepared in four versions: 

AMPEQ for PMC Students, AMPEQ for PMC 

Parents, AMPEQ for PMC Teachers, and AMPEQ 

for School Administrators. 

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. 

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: 

CONTEXT 

What are the objectives 

or expectations? 

INPUT 

How will the expectations 

or objectives be met? 

PROCESS 

What is being done and 

is it effective? 

PRODUCT 

What has been significantly 

achieved? 

CIPP COMPONENTS OF PMC 

ITEMS FOR EVALUATION 

Needs 

Assets 

Problems 

Teaching Facilities & Equipment 

Teachers & Instructional Strategies 

Curriculum & Class Format 

Performance Exposure 

Student Practice 

Parental Support 

Teacher Processes 

Student Processes 

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 NP- 

Complete, 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 

P. L. Fernandez, Jr. 

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J. P. Lota 

“… there is a need to 

… remove redundancy 

in the PhilRice 

genebank.” BINANGKURO 

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). 

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: 

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+n 3), while for 2 specific poset 

classes -- tree posets and levelled 

posets -- the run time is further 

improved to O(mn+n 2). 

3. Two data structures are formulated 

for more compactly representing 

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 

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. 

(IRGC 44326) 

BINANGKURO (96-OCM 18) 


BINANGKUDO (2003-01-01-102) 



BALIBOD (96-QZN 50) 

BULIBOD NA PUTI 

BOLIBOD (IRGC 798) 

FK 178 A (IRGC 298) 

BINATO (96-OCM 31) 

BINATO 



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) 


CAMOROS (96- OCM 54) 


DIKET (98- QUI 16) 

BINATO (2003-11-01-03) 

DINOLORES (IRGC 44403)

JULY 2009 

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%. 

500 

400 

300 bp 

200 

100 

bp 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 

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 

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. 

RM171 

RM514 

RM316 

RM312 

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 

“...after 40 years of 

dairy development, 

nutrition education, 

and advertising, the 

dairy industry still 

made a low 

contribution to [Taiwan] 

agriculture’s GDP.” 

S. L. Crutchfield 

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M. D. V. Samson 

“… an enumerative 

naming scheme, or 

nomenclature … is 

introduced for the 

elements of the 

symmetric group.” 

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. 

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 

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 

Date of 

Name Degree Title of Thesis/Dissertation Defense Adviser/s 

School of Science and Engineering 

Biology 

Llego, Eusebia B. MBIED Unraveling Bacteria and Viruses Aug. 08 E. de Guzman 

Vidal, Jonivil L. MBIED The Hidden Marvel of Eukaryotic Chromosome 

and Its Biological Complexity 

Aug. 08 C.G. Lagunzad 

Trinidad, Merlita M. * MBIED Landscape Ecology: An Evolutionary Perspective Aug. 08 C.G. Lagunzad 

Balisbis, Allan D. MBIED Leaves: Life's Energy Producer Aug. 08 V. Tolentino 

Zabate, Jovilyn C. MBIED The Amazing World of Fungi Aug. 08 E. de Guzman 

Flores, Referenda Joanna V. MS BIO Protoplast Isolation, Fusion and Regeneration of Ulva lactuca 

Linn. And Ulva reticulata Forsskal (Ulvales, Cholorophyceae) 

Nov. 08 M. Chan 

Lota, Jamaica P. * MS BIO Analysis of Genetic Diversity and Redundancy 

in Rice Germplasm Collection by DNA Fingerprinting 

Coronado, Armin S. MS BIO Phylogeny of Philippine Mangroves (Family Rhizophoraceae) 

Inferred with Leaf Shape Geometry, nDNA and cpDNA 

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 

Cainto, Cecilia C. MS CH-ED The Development of Low-Cost Separation Equipments: Water 

Condenser Apparatus, Separatory Funnel and Centrifuge 

*Thesis/Dissertation rated “Excellent” 

Feb. 09 V. Panes 

Mar. 09 V. Panes 

Dec. 08 A. Guidote, Jr. 

Feb. 09 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) 

Feb. 09 N. R. Rojas 

Dimzon, Ian Ken D. MS CH Physico-Chemical and Microbiological Parameters 

in the Deterioration of Virgin Coconut Oil 

May 09 F. Dayrit 

Abenojar, Eric C. * MS CH Surface Energy Considerations of a Slider Magnetic 

Read/Write Components 

May 09 E. Enriquez 

Loable, Carole M. MS CH-Straight Carbonization of Glycerol by Pyrolysis May 09 E. Enriquez 

DISCS 

Hizon, Maria Carina S. MS CS Are We Having Fun Yet? Analyzing Interaction Logs 

to Characterize Player Affect in Games 

Nov. 08 M.M. Rodriguez 

Amarra, Anna Christine M. MS CS-II Quantifying Programming Styles to Determine Authorship 

in JAVA Programming 

Feb. 09 M.M. Rodriguez 

Tabada, Luisito I. PHD CS Performance Evaluation and Reliability Analysis 

of Buffered Switch Architectures 

Mar. 09 P. Tagle 

Bautista, Melissa A. MS CS-Straight Streamlining a Software for Pedestrian Behavior Analysis May 09 M.R. J. Estuar 

ECE 

Uy, Purisimo MS ECE Top-side Heat Dissipation on Power QFN Feb. 08 R. SJ Reyes 

Cueva, Hector I. MS ECE A Study of the Testability of Very Low Saturation 

Resistance of Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect 

Transistor 

Oct. 08 C. Co

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Date of 


Jonson, Maria Teresa C. MS ECE Characterization of the Package Resistance 

of the Loss-Free Package (LFPAK) 

Ogerio, Cristopher T. MS ECE Effective Estimation of Analog-to-Digital Converter's 

Signal to Noise Ratio Using Differential Nonlinearity 

Cabacungan, Paul M. MS ECE Clean Water Systems Using Solar Power for Off-Grid 

Communities 

School of Social Sciences 

Oct. 08 C. Co 

Nov. 08 R. SJ Reyes 

Feb. 09 N. Libatique, 

G. Tangonan, 

T. Calasanz 

Mathematics 

Miina, Karl Friedrich C. * MS MA The Equivalence of the ITO, ITO-Henstock, 

and ITO-Mcshane Integrals 

Mar. 08 E. Cabral 

Quizon, Joey G. MS MAED-I Euler's Line and Other Related Results Aug. 08 J. Marasigan, 

Q. Lee-Chua 

Ebisa, Adelfa P. MS MAED-I Centered Quadrilaterals Aug. 08 J. Sarmiento, 

C. Vistro-Yu 

Mangilaya, Rubelyn B. MS MAED-I Hidden Treasure Problems Aug. 08 F. Francisco 

Titular, Joe I. MS MAED-I On Commensurable Triangles Aug. 08 J. Sarmiento, 

E. Bautista 

Cleofe, Violeta B. MS MAED-I Circumscribable Quadrilaterals Aug. 08 E. Tuprio, C. Soto 

Samson, Michael Daniel V. * MS MA The Infinite Symmetric Group - Part II: Nomenclature Sept. 08 E. Bautista 

Cruz , Veronica D. MS MAED-I The Golden Ratio, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences 

and the Parameter-Dependent Tent Map 

Mar. 09 M.A. Aberin 

Physics 

Sugon, Quirino Jr. M. PhD PS A Geometric Algebra Approach to Geometric Optics: 

Clifford Groups to Poisson Brackets 

Communication 

Yu, Grace Mindy S. MA COM-I Mobile Marketing in the Philippines: An Empirical Study 

on Consumer Behavior and Motivation 

Cabañes, Jason Vincent A. MA COM-I Pinoy Postings: On the Online Cultural Identity 

Performances of Young Filipino Professionals in Singapore 

Martel, Faye M. MA COM-I Doc Youth: A Cross Media Project Proposal for the 

Filipino Youth 

Magno, Melanie M. MA COM-I Social Marketing Plan of COOP Life Insurance and Mutual 

Benefit Services' (CLIMBS) COOP Health Insurance 

Program 

Education 

Austria, Karen B. MA ED-GC Correlates of Parent and Peer Attachment of Grade Six 

Students of a Chinese Filipino School 

Militante, Edgar B. MA ED-EA Comparison of the Perceptions of Principals and Teachers 

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 

9 

Mar. 08 D. McNamarra, SJ 

Feb. 08 R.J. Solis 

Mar. 08 V. Valdez 

Mar. 08 S. Sarmenta, Jr. 

Oct. 08 J.A. Cuenco 

Nov. 08 C. Soto 

Nov. 08 R. Nicdao


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Sastre, Sr. Maria Cora P. ICM MA ED-EA Perceptions of the Administrators, the Teaching Personnel, 

and the Non-Teaching Personnel on the Environmental 

Education (EE) Program of Three Selected ICM Schools: 

Implications for Improving the Environmental Education 

(EE) Program 

Soriano, Patricia Chambi Felicidad C.* MA ED-EA An Evaluation of the Applied Music Subject Program: 

Implications for Improving the Program 

Arante, Jessica N. OSB MA ED-EA The Implementation of the Hallmarks of Benedictine 

Education in the Academic Program of Three Benedictine 

Basic Education Schools: Implications for Academic 

Program Improvement 

Japanese Studies 

Lego, Jera Beah H. MA JS Paving the Way for Overseas Self-Defense Force (SDF) 

Dispatch: Understanding Japan's Role in International 

Security 

Political Science 

Susanto, Thomas Eddy MA POS-GP-I The Multivocality of Islam and its Consequences 

on Democracy in Indonesia 

Reyes, Kathleen Joy D. MA POS-GP-I Philippine-Japan Sister City Relationships: 

Transgovernmental? 

Salvador, Anne Kristine D. 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 

Trinidad, Gino Antonio P. 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 

Aguirre, Arjan P. MA POS-GP-I The Nexus between Global Civil Society and Revolution: 

International Fellowship of Reconciliation and EDSA 1986 

Villanueva, Diega D. 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 An Inquiry into the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors 

Outside of Treatment that Affects Relapse and Abstinence 

in Filipinos with Substance Abuse Disorders 

Faustino, Gary Aguedo G. MA PSY-CP-I Developing an Instrument for Ego States Diagnosis 

in Transactional Analysis 

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 The Relationship Between Domain Stressors: With 

Work-Life Conflict and Job, Marital, and Life Satisfactions 

Among Dual Earning Couples 

Mar. 09 M.C. Gonzalez 



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 

Nov. 08 M.E.C. Liwag 

Nov. 08 L. Teh 

Feb. 09 M.R Hechanova 

Feb. 09 M.R Hechanova

JULY 2009 

Date of 


Gustilo, Maria Victoria R. * PHD PSY-CP A Multiple Case Study of the Resilience Experience 

of Persons Who Transitioned From Involuntary Job 

School of Humanities 

Loss 

Feb. 09 J. Kanapi 

de Guzman, Judith M. * MA PSY-ASP-I Positioning Theory as an Analytical Framework 

for the Study of Intergroup Conflict: The Case of the 

Sumilao March for Land 

Feb. 09 M.A Ofreneo 

Pacis, Rosemarie R. PHD PSY-CP Filipino Women's Marital Annulment Beliefs 

and the Decision-Making Process in Marital Annulment 

Feb. 09 M.E.C. Liwag 

Jimenez, Aileen Rose T. MA PSY-CP-I Interpersonal Needs and Satisfaction of Needs 

as Predictors of Loneliness Among Filipino Adolescents 

Feb. 09 E.L Alampay 

Wada, Karina Mayumi T. MA PSY-DP-I Length of Exposure to After-School Academic Tutorials: 

Relationship with Academic Performance, Academic 

Self-Efficacy, and Self-Regulated Learning Efficacy 

Mar. 09 E.L Alampay 

Supangco, Katrina Tala T. MA PSY-IOP-I Predictors of Career Success for Filipino Workers Apr. 09 M.R Hechanova 

Valle, Joanne Rachelle L. MA PSY-CP-I Death Anxiety Among Oncology Pediatric Nurses Apr. 09 M.I. Echanis-Melgar 

Sociology & Anthropology 

Gonzalez, Patricia Andrea B. MA ANTHRO The Food Art of San Miguel: Engendering Work, 

Crafting Identity 

Crutchfield, Stephanie Leigh * MS SOCDEV Milk and Modernization in Taiwan (1950-1990): 

A Social History of the Introduction of Milk in Taiwan 

Lorenzana, Agnes Marcella C. MS SOCDEV Community Mediation and the Characteristics of Disputants 

and Mediators 

11 

Aug. 08 A.M.T. Labrador 

Sept. 08 F. Zialcita 

Mar. 09 A.M. Karaos 

English 

Cruz, Edilberto C. MA LIT-ENG The Bagay Movement and the Rise of Protest Poetry 

in Filipino 

Aug. 08 D. Remoto 

Grey, Patrixia Niña MA ELLT-I Capitalizing on Comic Books in the Classroom Nov. 08 A. Loredo 

Abad, Lourdes Veronica S. MA ELLT-I An Analysis of Teachers' and Students' Perfections 

of Code-Switching in Teaching Science and Mathematics 

in a Private High School 

Feb. 09 M.L. Vilches 

Panganiban, Ma. Gabriela C. * MA LIT-ENG- 

LC 

The Persistence of the Feudal: Generic Discontinuities 

in Groyon's The Sky over Dimas/The Political Fantasy 

of the Landed Elite 

May 09 M.L. Reyes 

Filipino 

Ulit, Claudette M. MA LIT-FIL-I Ang Pagkatiwalag ng Indibidwal sa Sarili at Lipunan: 

Isang Pagsusuring Humahango sa Batayang Pananaw 

Nina Marx at Freud sa Nobelang “Ginto ang Kayumangging 

Lupa ni Dominador Mirasol” 

Feb. 09 C. Santos 

FIRE 

Villamor, Gracia V. MA TH-STUD How to Form Sound, Integrated Spirituality 

in Student - Catechists? 

Apr 09 J. Roche, SJ


Date of 


Loyola School of Theology 

Becerra Pedraza, William Fernando MA TH-STUD The Catholic Church in Dialogue: Ad Intra and Ad Extra 

and Other Essays 

Teh, Abigail R. MA TH-STUD Lady Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9: A Historical-Critical 

and Contemporary Reading Using Ricoeur's Theory 

of Metaphor 

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 

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 

Dy, Oliver G. * MA TH-STUD From Angel to Spirit: A Hermeneutical Investigation 

on Two Translations of Ignatius's Rules for Discernment 

Philosophy 

Jacinto, Jacqueline Marie D. MA PH-I The Work of Selfhood in Globalized Remediation: 

The Hermeneutics of Distanciation in Paul Ricoeur's 

Oneself as Another 

Dec. 08 A. de Castro, SJ 

Jan. 09 F.F. Ramirez, SJ 

Jan. 09 H. Schneider, SJ 

Feb. 09 F.J. Rasiah, SJ 

Mar. 09 J.M. Francisco, SJ 

Jun 09 L. Ma. Garcia

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