Mobile health (mHealth) applications attempts to capitalize on the ubiquity and exponential growt... more Mobile health (mHealth) applications attempts to capitalize on the ubiquity and exponential growth of mobile technologies for the benefit of public health, leading to a growing research interest in devising frameworks for addressing specific or general mHealth challenges. In this context, the primary goal of this paper is to present a novel smartphone-based development framework for prototyping vision-aware native mHealth applications developed using Feature Driven Development (FDD) methodology. Then, we describe a prototype mHealth educational application, ’Dibdib** Advocacy App’, for breast cancer awareness, utilizing the proposed vision-aware mHealth framework in Android platform. The results illustrate that FDD is a viable option in mHealth application development.
The first part of the study attempts to estimate the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in Ph... more The first part of the study attempts to estimate the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in Philippine agriculture using the productivity measurement procedure proposed by Dumagan and Ball (2008). Employing the superlative Törnqvist index, their technique works directly with the observed nominal values of revenues, decomposing growth in revenues into output price and output quantity growth, and then decomposing the latter into input quantity growth and a residual term representing TFP growth. The second part investigates the determinants of agricultural productivity using the panel data analytic models such as the constant coefficients, the fixed effects, and the random effects model. Applying the technique to Philippine agriculture, the growth in output prices contributed on the average 7.55 percentage points (pct.pts.) to revenue growth of 10.71 percent for the entire period. This is significantly higher than the average contribution of the growth in output quantities of 3.16 p...
There is currently a growing research interest mobile health (mHealth) application development wh... more There is currently a growing research interest mobile health (mHealth) application development which attempts to capitalize on the exponential growth of mobile technologies for the benefit of public health. This paper presents an implementation of a novel smartphone-based development framework for prototyping vision-aware native mHealth applications, in the design and development of an mHealth educational application, 'Dibdib Advocacy App', for raising breast cancer awareness in the Philippines.
This study aimed to analyze the trends and causes of productivity growth in the Philippine agricu... more This study aimed to analyze the trends and causes of productivity growth in the Philippine agriculture by estimating the total factor productivity (TFP) level and growth in the sector using the Tornqvist index number approach. Likewise, the factors causing the movements in TFP over a period of time, and the policy alternatives for increasing productivity growth were identified. The most recent agricultural data set covering 12 administrative regions and years 1974–2004 was used to determine the TFP level and growth. Results showed that output growth in Philippine agriculture was mainly driven by productivity, and minimally by the inputs of production. Productivity gaps were observed among the different regions. Central Luzon was the most productive region, whereas Bicol was the least productive. TFP growth was at its peak in the late 1970s, followed by a deceleration in the 1980s, and resurgence in the 1990s until the early part of the recent decade. The highest TFP growth rate reco...
ABSTRACT We examine the impact of public infrastructure on the productivity performance of Philip... more ABSTRACT We examine the impact of public infrastructure on the productivity performance of Philippine agriculture by applying a translog cost-based model to the regional agricultural data for years 1974–2000. From our results, public infrastructure reduces production cost, thereby enhancing productivity growth in Philippine agriculture. In terms of TFP decomposition, public infrastructure is noted to contribute significantly to productivity growth during the late 1970s, although its contribution is observed to be declining in the 1980s but recovering in the 1990s. The decline had been triggered by the reduced provision of public infrastructure. On the other hand, the improvement in its contribution in recent years has not helped reverse the overall decline of productivity growth. In this paper, we establish the importance of roads in terms of altering input demand and enhancing productivity in Philippine agriculture.
ABSTRACT We examine the impact of public infrastructure on the productivity performance of Philip... more ABSTRACT We examine the impact of public infrastructure on the productivity performance of Philippine agriculture by applying a translog cost-based model to the regional agricultural data for years 1974–2000. From our results, public infrastructure reduces production cost, thereby enhancing productivity growth in Philippine agriculture. In terms of TFP decomposition, public infrastructure is noted to contribute significantly to productivity growth during the late 1970s, although its contribution is observed to be declining in the 1980s but recovering in the 1990s. The decline had been triggered by the reduced provision of public infrastructure. On the other hand, the improvement in its contribution in recent years has not helped reverse the overall decline of productivity growth. In this paper, we establish the importance of roads in terms of altering input demand and enhancing productivity in Philippine agriculture.
Mobile health (mHealth) applications attempts to capitalize on the ubiquity and exponential growt... more Mobile health (mHealth) applications attempts to capitalize on the ubiquity and exponential growth of mobile technologies for the benefit of public health, leading to a growing research interest in devising frameworks for addressing specific or general mHealth challenges. In this context, the primary goal of this paper is to present a novel smartphone-based development framework for prototyping vision-aware native mHealth applications developed using Feature Driven Development (FDD) methodology. Then, we describe a prototype mHealth educational application, ’Dibdib** Advocacy App’, for breast cancer awareness, utilizing the proposed vision-aware mHealth framework in Android platform. The results illustrate that FDD is a viable option in mHealth application development.
The first part of the study attempts to estimate the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in Ph... more The first part of the study attempts to estimate the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in Philippine agriculture using the productivity measurement procedure proposed by Dumagan and Ball (2008). Employing the superlative Törnqvist index, their technique works directly with the observed nominal values of revenues, decomposing growth in revenues into output price and output quantity growth, and then decomposing the latter into input quantity growth and a residual term representing TFP growth. The second part investigates the determinants of agricultural productivity using the panel data analytic models such as the constant coefficients, the fixed effects, and the random effects model. Applying the technique to Philippine agriculture, the growth in output prices contributed on the average 7.55 percentage points (pct.pts.) to revenue growth of 10.71 percent for the entire period. This is significantly higher than the average contribution of the growth in output quantities of 3.16 p...
There is currently a growing research interest mobile health (mHealth) application development wh... more There is currently a growing research interest mobile health (mHealth) application development which attempts to capitalize on the exponential growth of mobile technologies for the benefit of public health. This paper presents an implementation of a novel smartphone-based development framework for prototyping vision-aware native mHealth applications, in the design and development of an mHealth educational application, 'Dibdib Advocacy App', for raising breast cancer awareness in the Philippines.
This study aimed to analyze the trends and causes of productivity growth in the Philippine agricu... more This study aimed to analyze the trends and causes of productivity growth in the Philippine agriculture by estimating the total factor productivity (TFP) level and growth in the sector using the Tornqvist index number approach. Likewise, the factors causing the movements in TFP over a period of time, and the policy alternatives for increasing productivity growth were identified. The most recent agricultural data set covering 12 administrative regions and years 1974–2004 was used to determine the TFP level and growth. Results showed that output growth in Philippine agriculture was mainly driven by productivity, and minimally by the inputs of production. Productivity gaps were observed among the different regions. Central Luzon was the most productive region, whereas Bicol was the least productive. TFP growth was at its peak in the late 1970s, followed by a deceleration in the 1980s, and resurgence in the 1990s until the early part of the recent decade. The highest TFP growth rate reco...
ABSTRACT We examine the impact of public infrastructure on the productivity performance of Philip... more ABSTRACT We examine the impact of public infrastructure on the productivity performance of Philippine agriculture by applying a translog cost-based model to the regional agricultural data for years 1974–2000. From our results, public infrastructure reduces production cost, thereby enhancing productivity growth in Philippine agriculture. In terms of TFP decomposition, public infrastructure is noted to contribute significantly to productivity growth during the late 1970s, although its contribution is observed to be declining in the 1980s but recovering in the 1990s. The decline had been triggered by the reduced provision of public infrastructure. On the other hand, the improvement in its contribution in recent years has not helped reverse the overall decline of productivity growth. In this paper, we establish the importance of roads in terms of altering input demand and enhancing productivity in Philippine agriculture.
ABSTRACT We examine the impact of public infrastructure on the productivity performance of Philip... more ABSTRACT We examine the impact of public infrastructure on the productivity performance of Philippine agriculture by applying a translog cost-based model to the regional agricultural data for years 1974–2000. From our results, public infrastructure reduces production cost, thereby enhancing productivity growth in Philippine agriculture. In terms of TFP decomposition, public infrastructure is noted to contribute significantly to productivity growth during the late 1970s, although its contribution is observed to be declining in the 1980s but recovering in the 1990s. The decline had been triggered by the reduced provision of public infrastructure. On the other hand, the improvement in its contribution in recent years has not helped reverse the overall decline of productivity growth. In this paper, we establish the importance of roads in terms of altering input demand and enhancing productivity in Philippine agriculture.
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