Design and Development of GETMOSYS: A Plant Pathologists' Geotagging and Monitoring System for Infected Banana Plant | Chapter 4 | New Visions in Science and Technology Vol. 2

 As people come up with fresh ideas on how to use technology, it sets a new record. Some of these breakthroughs paved the way for answers to issues in a variety of industries, including agriculture. The recognised issue is that plant pathologists utilise a variety of tools, such as Google Earth and Microsoft Excel, to manage the data provided by growers, resulting in data disarray. Furthermore, dealing with a huge volume of data using the GPS coordinates as the only identifier on the map can be difficult and time-consuming when accessing the precise data or information required. To address the problems, a plant pathologist's geotagging and monitoring system for sick banana plants was established and built to solve the problem of the plant pathologist's recording, tracking the sample with illnesses in vast hectares of banana plantations. GETMOSYS is the name of the programme. The GETMOSYS programme is divided into two parts: a website intended specifically for Pathologists and a mobile app designed for farmers' grower reps. The software was developed and implemented using the predictive prototyping model as the system development method. For the software testing of the website and mobile application, black box testing was employed. Using the User Experience Questionnaire, one plant pathologist and 24 employees from a banana plantation assessed the system's usability (UEQ). The method performs exceptionally well in terms of attractiveness, perspicuity, and efficiency.

Author (S) Details

Mark Van M. Buladaco
Institute of Computing, Davao del Norte State College, Panabo City, Philippines.


Frank Lou Ubay
Institute of Computing, Davao del Norte State College, Panabo City, Philippines.


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Study on Geometric Morphometric Analysis of the Head, Pronotum and Elytra of Brontispa longissima (Gestro) Collected in Selected Provinces in the Philippines | Chapter 9 | Challenging Issues on Environment and Earth Science Vol. 2

 Background: Using Cluster Analysis, Relative Warp Analysis coupled with box plot and histograms, and Procustean Analysis, this study was conducted to explain variations in the shapes of the elytra, head, and pronotum of populations of adult Brontispa longissima (Gestro) infesting coconut farms from selected areas in the Philippines.

Form residuals captured using the landmark based geometric morphometrics approach were included in the data used in this analysis.

Objective : The goal of this study was to use Cluster Analysis, Relative Warp Analysis with box plots and histograms, and Procustean Analysis to describe variations in the shapes of the elytra, head, and pronotum of populations of adult Brontispa longissima (Gestro) infesting coconut farms from selected areas in the Philippines.

Results: Cluster analyses based on average elytra, head, and pronotum shapes indicate no clear pattern of similarity between and within five populations of B. longissima. When RWA was used to summarise variations using two relative warps in the shape of the elytra, the results revealed that RWA was only effective in summarising variations using two relative warps in the shape of the elytra, with the first two warps containing 86.29 percent of the female variations and 85.48 percent of the male variations. The first two relative warps captured less than half of the total difference in the head and pronotum. When the shapes of the frequency histograms were examined, it was discovered that they all followed a unimodal distribution. There are no clear findings in the box plots.

Only the elytra were more durable and consistent than the head and pronotum among the three characters tested, and Tandag differed from the other overlapping populations. Procustean Analyses, on the other hand, showed that both male and female elytra were more widely distributed in the posterior region. The head and pronotum coordinates were uniformly distributed. Variability was exaggerated in the right side of the elytra and the posterior sections of the head and pronotum in the overlapping consensus configurations. Females had more expansion in their elytra, while males had more compression. For males, expansion occurs in the posterior part of the elytra; however, findings revealed asymmetry in the distribution of expansion areas in the female head, with expansion occurring in the right postero-lateral aspect. Conclusion: The overall findings indicate that they may all belong to the same operational taxonomic unit, ecotype, or biotype. It's possible that geography isn't the driving force behind B. longissima population differentiation. Other critical considerations could include the type of coconut host and other environmental parameters. Future research will be needed to confirm this.

Author (s) Details

Professor Dr. Ana Marie T. Acevedo
Surigao del Sur State University, Cantilan, Surigao del Sur, Philippines.

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Determining the Conversational Leadership of School Heads and Teacher Sense of Self-Efficacy | Chapter 2 | New Horizons in Education and Social Studies Vol.2

The main objective of the study was to determine which domains of conversational leadership of school heads significantly influenced teacher self-efficacy. Quantitative non-experimental research design was used in this study following the correlational techniques to randomly selected 1,210 public school teachers in Davao Region, Philippines in school year 2015-2016. Research findings showed that school heads as perceived by their teachers have very high level of conversational leadership and teachers have very high level of self-efficacy. Furthermore, results revealed that conversational leadership of school heads and teacher self-efficacy were significantly correlated with each other. Among the six domains of conversational leadership, four domains gave significant influences on teacher efficacy, namely: Fostering innovative and capacity development; Exploring critical issues and questions; Guiding collective intelligence toward effective action; and Fostering innovative and capacity development. 

Author(s) Details

Dr. Eugenio S. Guhao, Jr.
 University of Mindanao Professional Schools, Matina, Davao City, Philippines

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