00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861938296 Buklod 20250123165050.0 g||| | || || ta 171118u20129999xx r |||| e|eng d 9789715426916 (Volume I) 9789715427067 (Volume II) 9789715427807 (Volume III) (iLib)UPBAG-00011491480 BC-63727 UP Press PhP350.00 BC-63728 UP Press PhP350.00 BC-68696 UP Press Php450.00 Prof. Junley L. Lazaga DML BAG rda eng Q 127 P5 S34 Science Philippines essays on science by Filipinos Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion, editor. Diliman, Quezon City The University of the Philippines Press [2012-] volumes 26 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Volume I. Introduction -- Part 1. Public understanding and national importance of science and technology -- Measures of scientific excellence / Caeser Saloma -- The future of RP science is bright / Gisela P. Padilla-Conception and Eduardo Padlan -- Spread the word, be in the loop: S&T funding initiatives for national development / Graciano P. Yumul Jr. -- Food for thought: feast or famine in Philippine science? / Raul Kamantigue Suarez -- Part 2. Science education, research and development, and institution building -- Biological structures: a course for all scientists and engineers-even philosophers -- Chemical education in the Philippines -- Asking good questions -- On research and publishing -- On the merits of comparison -- "Our science, their science" -- UP Marine Science Institute: a lustrous pearl of RP science -- Philippine science as world science: the case of milkfish reproduction -- Philippine Science Letters-a new science journal is launched -- Part 3. On being a scientist -- Jose Rizal's lament (A plea to present-day scientists?) -- Dr. Jose Rizal's Darwinism and scientific thought -- The scientific odyssey of Toto Olivera -- Advice for the young Filipino scientist -- The joy of discovery-and beyond -- Science directions, science careers -- Science-with a social twist -- On scientific publications-redux -- Science training abroad: Japan's Monbusho scholarship -- Reflections of a balik-scientist -- Myths in RP science -- Realities in RP science -- Part 4. Immunology, infectious diseases, and public health concerns -- Simple viruses-almost perfect -- Too clean or not too clean? (Hygiene hypothesis)-- Original (Antigenic) sin -- Are memories formed by prions? -- Part 5. Biodiversity, biotechnology, and nanotechnology for food, aquaculture, and health -- death by curse: the mystery of voodoo death in twentieth-century mind-body medicine -- Porphyra, a versatile sea vegetable -- Breast cancer and nutrition -- US finds WTMDs-weapons of tumor mass destruction -- To D or not to D: an amino acid mystery unveiled -- A summary of new molecular microbial ecology tools -- Molecular pathology and biotechnology in clinical diagnosis -- Nobel prize in medicine: genetically engineered mice -- Producing therapeutic protein in tobacco-tobacco can be good, after all -- Maoi Arroyo: bringing RP biotech to a summit -- Part 6. Philippine biodiversity, environmental and energy concerns and issues -- The centennial of the USS Albatross Philippine expedition -- How much rain does cloud seeding make? -- Extreme weather events, flooding, landslides, and related natural hazards: are we indeed prepared for disasters? -- A blue arctic ocean and a climate tipping point -- "Leapfrogging" the tricycle technology for a cleaner environment -- Lead in environmental health -- Lessons from the nectar bats of Colima, Mexico -- Carbon flows in bioenergy systems -- Carbon emissions of dating -- Energy transitions and the burden of history -- Fuels, energy carriers, and the thermodynamics of sustainable development -- Bunker fuel is not a good option for generating RP electricity -- Net metering: an excellent RP response to the crisis in electricity production -- The structural engineer's role: designing for safety and stability leads to sustainability -- Part 7. Structural biology, biophysics, bioinformatics, and system biology -- Nature experiments -- The biology of the visible and the invisible -- The new engineers -- Science with smiles -- Part 8. Mathematics, physics, and the engineering sciences -- Maxwell's demon, entropy, and the destruction of information -- Modular counting: of election dates and other patterns -- About the editor. Volume II. Introduction -- Part 1. Public understanding and the national importance of science and technology -- Basic research: foundation and microcosm of scientific development -- The "F" words and their significance to the S&T community -- The national science complex: a strategic investment for higher education -- National science complex operates technology incubation core facilities to serve the research community -- PAASE letter to President Aquino -- Why science alone cannot save RP -- Part 2. Science education, research & development, and institution building -- What good is science education? -- Teaching physics -- Physics-a unifying framework in the development of science and technology -- Hands-on chemistry for all -- Some lessons for graduate students -- The discoverers -- Getting your research published -- Philippine Science Letters Journal-now on its second year -- Celebrating 80 years of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton -- Part 3. On being a scientist -- Dare to be, dare to do -- Content learning and scientific reasoning -- On being a scientist in one's home country -- On the value of critical evaluation in science -- To teach or not to teach -- The "nonscientific" skills of a successful scientist -- Lessons in the conduct of science-from parents and early teachers -- 10,000 hours of practicing science -- The impact of Filipino scientists on world science -- General Antonio Luna: scientist, soldier, and revolutionary -- The genius of Leonard L. Co: the people's scientist and professor -- Physics in carouge -- Darwin and Wallace on the theory of evolution -- Why the Nobel prize remains elusive -- Part 4. Immunology, diseases, and public health concerns -- Immunosenescence-the decline of our immune system as we grow old -- Old friends hypothesis -- Catalytic antibodies: antibodies as targeting enzymes -- Antibody therapeutics -- It's not all in the genes -- Molecular diseases -- Molecular targets of cancer as basis for new drugs and immunotherapy -- Nanotechnology-a rapidly evolving frontier -- Part 5. Biodiversity and biotechnology -- The enormous consequences of microbial interactions -- Mindless talk -- Metagenomics: studying unculturable microbes -- Anticancer drugs from land and sea -- Beyond aspirin and morphine, snail toxins for pain -- Sponge microbes, snail venoms offer drug leads -- Part 6. Environment and energy -- What happens when it rains? -- Membrane separation process: a sustainable technology for water purification, industrial wastewater recycling and reuse -- Green initiatives to solve Philippine water problems: membrane science and technology for wastewater recycling and reuse -- Water resource availability as a sustainability issue -- BP oil spill: by the numbers -- Calculating the impact of human activity on the environment -- The "Grandmother hypothesis"-how lola helps ensure the survival of her apos, but what about lolo? --Resilience -- The science of pink public urinals -- Waging war against nature: the folly of engineering without understanding -- A hitchhiker's guide to a warming earth -- Philippine coral reefs-in hot water -- Metro Manila, green spaces, birds, and our survival -- Philippine deforestation: a national spoliarium -- The power of analogies -- Measuring the sustainability of energy systems -- Better off scummed! -- On the thermodynamics of algal biodiesel production systems -- Averting a bioenergy bubble -- The geological hazards of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant -- Part 7. Mathematics and systems biology -- Can plant count? -- Understanding the Filipino biological clock: chronotyping the Philippines -- About the editor. Volume III. Introduction.--Part 1. Public understanding and the national importance of science and technology.--Basic research: toward pursuing the ASEAN 2015 goals / The National Research Council of the Philippines -- Why the PHL Gov't should increase its budget for the national univerity / Chancellor Caesar Saloma -- PAASE hosts 31st APAMS on June 15-18 at National Science Complex in UP Diliman / Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion -- The practicality of science / Michael D. Purugganan -- This unscientific age? / Francis L. de los Reyes III -- Standards and innovation / Joel Q. Tanchuco -- The usefulness of haloes / Luis F. Razon.--Part 2. Science education, research & development, and institution building.--UP presidency turnover ceremonies: vision and acceptance speech of UP President Alfredo E. Pascual / UP President Alfredo E. Pascual -- The National Science Complex: its vital role in Philippine higher education and science R&D / Caesar A. Saloma -- First things first: a commentary on K to 12 / Angel C. De Dios -- Nuclei are spinning at the new UP Diliman NMR core facility / The UPD NMR Guild -- The national science consortium / Caesar A. Saloma -- Speech at the Philippine Science High School honors' convocation / Francis L. de los Reyes III -- Contributing to sustainability through knowledge generation and dissemination at DLSU Manila / Madelene A. Sta. Maria and Raymond R. Tan -- Concepcion D. Dadufalza: UP's "GE" woman / Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion.--Part 3. On being a scientist.--Crossing borders / Raymond R. Tan -- Seven keys to establishing a successful research career in academia / Raymond R. Tan and Dominic C. Y. Foo -- Make your master's degree count! / Neil Stephen A. Lopez -- What earning a PhD degree really means / Raymond R. Tan -- On writing a scientific paper / Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion and Eduardo A. Padlan -- The PhD student as a research apprentice / Raymond R. Tan -- Becoming a science skeptic / Eduardo A. Padlan -- Incentives for doing research / Eduardo A. Padlan -- Leonardo L. Co: his research on PHL plants abbreviated, gunned down / Paciente A. Cordero Jr. -- A tribute to exemplary science teachers / Eduardo A. Padlan -- How to raise a scientist /Francis L. de los Reyes III -- The "biological imperative"-is it manifested in science, too? / Eduardo A. Padlan -- Measuring the value of scientific research / Raymond R. Tan.--Part 4. Health, disease, and medicine.--Protein, first ... and when it goes awry / Elsie C. Jimenez -- Discovery and design of medically useful molecules-from bench to bedside / Eduardo A. Padlan -- Our Filipino genome / Michael D. Purugganan -- The use of forensic DNA evidence in effective governance of the local community / Maria Corazon A. De Ungria -- The tale of insulin and the episodes of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia / Elsie C. Jimenez.--Part 5. Biodiversity, natural products, and biotechnology.--Resetting one's bearings / S. Suzanne Mingao-Licuanan -- Sponges and humans...alike in many ways / Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion -- Rising from the deep / Cecilia G. Conaco -- The complementary roles of molecules in nature / Ben O. de Lumen -- The coconut comes full circle: the tree of life rediscovered / Fabian M. Dayrit -- Channeling enzymes / Eduardo A. Padlan -- On love darts and poison darts / Elsie C. Jimenez -- Wildlife encounters / Aris A. Reginaldo.--Part 6. Environment and energy.--"Chemical cybernetics" and the problem of climate change / Raymond R. Tan -- The challenge of dealing with human fecal matter / Francis L. de los Reyes III -- How to grow a clean, green rural city in PHL: a brief story of San Fernando, La Union / Augustine Doronila -- Eden project: regaining hope for human and ecological communities drom disused mining pits / Augustine Doronila -- Environmental science in service of the poor: the science behind green Kalinga / Francis L. de los Reyes III and Jerick T. Limoanco -- The Taal fishkill: realizations and recommendations / Rey Donne S. Papa -- An unseen invasion in Philippine lakes / Rey Donne S. Papa and Dino T. Tordesillas -- Systems perspectives on disaster risk management / Joost R. Santos, Krista Danielle S. Yu, Kathleen B. Aviso, and Raymond R. Tan -- We need air (clean air!) / Eduardo A. Padlan -- It takes more than a few million pesos / Neil Stephen A. Lopez -- Algal bloom / Aristotle T. Ubando -- The role of emergy in the analysis of water consumption in an industrial complex / Mohammad Sadegh Taskiri -- An introduction to integrated biorefineries / Douglas H. S. Tay and Denny K. S. Ng -- Biokubo: the search for an alternative feedstock for biodiesel /Luis F. Razon -- A simple lesson in bioenergy arithmetic / Raymond R. Tan -- Validation and "engtanglement" in models of complex energy systems / Raymond R. Tan, Jose B. Cruz Jr., and Alvin B. Culaba -- Climate risk as a constraint on alternative energy / Raymond R. Tan.--Part 7. System biology, complexity science, mathematics, and physics.--The Neo-Darwinian synthesis and the reemergence of institutionalism in economics / Niceto S. Poblador -- Complexity and the Philippine society / Erika Fille T. Legara -- Shift work in the Philippines in the cyber age / Jingky P. Lozano-Kuhne -- Announcing an exact solution to the 3D Navier-Stokes equation / Amador C. Muriel -- PhilSHIFT: two years of working toward an understanding of the biological clock, shift work, and health of Filipinos / Gayline F. Manalang Jr.--Part 8. Population issues and economics.--Migration, remittances, and inequality / Ernesto M. Pernia -- Arguments contra and pro RH Bill / Ernesto M. Pernia -- World at 7 billion: perspective on the Philippines / Ernesto M. Pernia -- Church and state reforms needed for PHL progress / Ernesto M. Pernia -- Is labor export good policy for Philippine development? / Ernesto M. Pernia -- Faith as secular morality / Ernesto M. Pernia.--About the editor. Science Philippines. Technology Philippines. Concepcion, Gisela P. Padilla editor. FI UP UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN Q 127 P5 S34 2013 UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN Q 127 P5 S34 2012 UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN Q 127 P5 S34 2015 Book