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Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology
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This is an Open Access Journal

Open Access journal
ISSN (Print) 2157-7439
Published by Walsh Medical Media

[31 journals]

Editor’s Introduction
- Abstract: Digital humanities have pushed the boundaries of scholarship in recent years. Computer-assisted methods have enabled scholars to generate insights that would not have been possible with the limited tools of an unaided human mind. An individual’s capacity for analysis is boundless, but its speed is no match to the computational quickness of a microprocessor. Such a reality is evident in this issue’s lead article.Ramon Guillermo’s “Magkunkuno ti Makina: Python Code for the Computer-Assisted Reading of Hanunuo Mangyan Ambahan” demonstrates how digital tools can open new avenues in the study of languages and literature, especially those that have a relatively small number of speakers. Using a code written in Python ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
Magkunkuno ti Makina: Python Code for the Computer-Assisted Reading of
Hanunuo Mangyan Ambahan
- Abstract: Dutch scholar Antoon Postma (1929–2016) made it his life’s mission to collect ambahan poetry from the Hanunuo Mangyan ethnolinguistic group on the island of Mindoro. The ambahan is a heptasyllabic, or seven-syllable, poetic form that is typically written using the traditional Indic-derived writing system known as the Surat Mangyan. Through his translations and anthologies, Postma (2005) played a central role in popularizing the ambahan among researchers and students of literature as well as cultivating a national audience for this poetic form.More serious students and scholars may therefore be interested in familiarizing themselves with the beautiful Surat Mangyan writing system as well as learning to read ambahan ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
“This Wonderful Telegraph”: Plants, Cables, and the Wiring of the Sulu
Sea, 1898–1903
- Abstract: Thanks to telegraphy, the Philippines was put in contact with the world in new ways.Histories of technology and technological change abound in the material and ethnographic archives of the Philippines. Sources about infrastructures such as ports, piers, bridges, roads, rails, lighthouses, and trams are available in published and manuscript form.1 What is more, tales of technology populate the world of digital collections too, and these keyword-searchable collections (e.g., Center for Research Libraries and Hathitrust) are home to countless materials that speak to the promise of Philippine studies. Yet thinking with technology as a way to map and make sense of colonial transitions, environmental changes, and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
“From Savages to Soldiers”: Igorot Bodies, Militarized Masculinity,
and the Logic of Transformation in Dean C. Worcester’s Philippine
Photographs
- Abstract: The headhunter loomed large and menacing in the American colonial imaginary of the Cordillera Central. Yet such a portrayal was malleable, and, as I demonstrate in this article, it became the basis of a visual rhetoric of transformation employed by the American colonial state in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, where the headhunter’s menace was reconfigured into military utility. This possibility of transformation was most forcefully demonstrated through the textual and photographic work of the longest-serving American colonial administrator in the Philippines, Dean Conant Worcester. In an advertising pamphlet for his film-and-lecture series, “Native Life in the Philippines,” alongside photographs of ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
American Empire in Global History ed. by Shigeru Akita (review)
- Abstract: Over the past years, scholars have found themselves engaging once more in debates on the history of America’s ascendance and dominance as a global power. Several continue to highlight principles such as democracy, liberty, and freedom and juxtapose these against European autocracy and fascism. The publication of A. G. Hopkins’s American Empire: A Global History (Princeton University Press, 2018) provides new ways of conceptualizing the American empire. In his work, Hopkins not only challenges the concept of American exceptionalism but also constructs a timeline spanning three centuries and uses a thematic approach in tracing the origins and development of the American empire. The work has elicited different ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
Sine ni Lav Diaz: A Long Take on the Filipino Auteur ed. by Parichay Patra
and Michael Kho Lim (review)
- Abstract: When Filipino director Lav Diaz received the Pardo d’Oro at the Locarno International Film Festival in the summer of 2014 for his film From What Is Before, followed by his success at the 2016 edition of the Berlin International Film Festival with A Lullaby to a Sorrowful Mystery (He won the Alfred Bauer Silver Bear.), there was an apparent momentum that had previously only existed in arthouse circles. After years of existence in the underground, Diaz’s films made their way into A-list festivals, received public recognition, and reaped rewards. And yet, it took another several years before the first substantial English-language publication on the director would be published.Sine ni Lav Diaz: A Long Take on the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier by
Kristian Karlo Saguin (review)
- Abstract: Laguna Lake, with its vast area equivalent to almost half of the total lake area in the Philippines and with its potential to provide multiple services to the lakeshore communities and the adjacent National Capital Region, is expectedly an extensively researched subject in both the natural and social sciences. However, what makes this book by Kristian Karlo Saguin an indispensable addition to an already huge body of Laguna Lake scholarly literature is the historical accounts of the complex and, in many ways, conflicting interconnectedness between stakeholders and the natural environment that brings them blessings as well as curses. Spanning about a decade, work on this book commenced as Saguin’s dissertation ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
Púgot: Head Taking, Ritual Cannibalism, and Human Sacrifice in the
Philippines by Narciso C. Tan (review)
- Abstract: Púgot: Head Taking, Ritual Cannibalism, and Human Sacrifice in the Philippines is a groundbreaking book that highlights the great similarities among the country’s diverse ethnolinguistic groups through the very practices that were in part used to justify colonization, first by the Spaniards starting in the sixteenth century and then by the Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. The author, Narciso C. Tan, is an independent scholar whose work-related travels to different countries in Asia and Africa appear to have significantly influenced his comparative approach to Philippine studies. Such an approach is utilized to great effect in the book but is often lacking in other works about this ethnolinguistically ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
What Kapitan Tiago Served and Padre Damaso Ate: Studies on Jose Rizal, His
World, and His Works by Jose Victor Z. Torres (review)
- Abstract: Nearly seventy years after the passage of Republic Act No. 1425, better known as the Rizal Law, which requires the teaching of José Rizal’s life and works in tertiary schools, the course remains a challenging task for many teachers. With the changes found in the present era, particularly those in the expansion of modern technology and new learning environments, reaffirming and sustaining the relevance of Rizal’s life and works to a younger generation present a hurdle not easily surpassed. This book is a response to this challenge of teaching the life and works of Rizal. As a history professor, public historian, and multi-awarded writer, author Jose Victor Z. Torres has effectively demonstrated the importance of ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
Catalino Arévalo, SJ: 1925–2023
- Abstract: Catalino Arévalo, SJ, took his graduate degrees in theology at Weston College in the US (1951–1955) and at the Gregorian University in Rome (1959). His scholastic training, influenced by pre-Second Vatican Council theology, did not easily coincide with the developments brought about by the said council (1962–1965) and his succeeding experiences in the Philippines during his ministry. The interfacing of his educational background with a new context brought about a crisis in Arévalo, but he faced it with creativity and grace. He regarded pre-Second Vatical Council theology—which was more scholastic, abstract, and based on a priori concepts—as an “absolute system” and viewed that of the Second Vatical Council, an ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
Cynthia Nograles Lumbera: 1946–2022
- Abstract: I first met Cynthia “Shayne” Lumbera in 1991 at the office of the Ateneo de Manila English department, which was then at the third floor of Kostka Hall. She was the chair of the department, and I was applying for a part-time teaching position. Although I had taken numerous literature classes during my undergraduate years and had been very familiar with the English department doyen and doyennes—Fr. Joseph Galdon, Soledad Reyes, Doreen Fernandez, Edna Manlapaz, Susan Evangelista—I had never crossed paths with Shayne till then.Shayne would become to me, in the years after that first meeting in 1991, a very strong presence: graduate-school teacher, colleague, collaborator in many a department project, comrade at the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00
Samuel K. Tan: 1933–2022
- Abstract: There is truth to the cliché that one does not know the value of someone until he/she has passed on. This reality became so real when we—I, as president of the Philippine Historical Association, and the president of the Philippine National Historical Society (PNHS)—were looking for a scholar who would write an annotated bibliography on the history of Muslims in the Philippines for a particular project. The demise of Dr. Samuel K. Tan has left a stark void in the historiography of Muslims in our country. Luckily or fortunately, this void is filled by the body of works that Dr. Tan has bequeathed us.I first met Tan as a young faculty member of the Department of History at the University of the Philippines (UP) ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-08-09T00:00:00-05:00