De La Salle University

About: De La Salle University is a education organization based out in Manila, Philippines. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Computer science. The organization has 2951 authors who have published 4374 publications receiving 49567 citations. The organization is also known as: Pamantasang De La Salle.

Automated Targeting Technique for Single-Impurity Resource Conservation Networks. Part 2: Single-Pass and Partitioning Waste-Interception Systems

Abstract: Part 1 of this pair of articles presents an automated targeting technique to identify minimum fresh resource flow rate/cost targets in a resource conservation network (RCN) with material reuse/recycle. After the potential for conservation through direct reuse/recycle is exhausted, fresh resource consumption can be further reduced by incorporating waste-interception (regeneration) processes. Hence, the proposed automated targeting technique in part 1 of this pair of articles is extended to determine the targets for RCNs with interception placement. The waste-interception systems are modeled as treatment processes with either fixed outlet concentrations or fixed impurity load removal ratios. The approach also distinguishes between single-pass and partitioning regenerators, which have different implications for RCNs. Literature examples and industrial cases are solved to illustrate the proposed approach.

Thinking styles and academic achievement among Filipino students.

Abstract: The authors' objective in this study was to determine whether the precepts of R. J. Sternberg's (1988, 1997) theory of mental self-government apply to a non-West- ern culture. They administered R. J. Sternberg and R. K. Wagner's (1992) Thinking Styles Inventory, which is based on the theory of mental self-government, to 429 Filipino uni- versity students. The results of item analysis, scale intercorrelations, and factor analysis were consistent with the general provisions of the theory. Correlational analysis between thinking styles and grade point average showed that thinking styles are related to acade- mic achievement. The results are explained with respect to the concepts and practices of Philippine culture and schools and discussed in relation to the developmental assumptions of the theory of mental self-government.