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The effect of department heads' transformational leadership behavior and ICT integration of faculty members on research productivity at Bulacan State University utilized three standardized instruments. The first instrument on transformational leadership is highly reliable as evidenced by the Cronbach's alpha of .91. The second instrument on ICT integration was tested by [6] for its validity and reliability. Meanwhile, the questionnaire on faculty member's research productivity was adapted from [7].The major problem of the study was to appraise the impact of transformational leadership behavior and ICT integration on the research productivity of faculty members at Bulacan State University. The outcomes showed that for every unit increase in holding high performance expectations and providing intellectual stimulation can produce a .356 also .674 growth in faculty members' research efficiency. Factors such as "nature of school leadership", "modeling behavior", "providing individual support", and "strengthening school culture" likewise contributed to faculty members' research production but not to a significant level. The 10.31 F-ration obtained was found crucial with .05 alpha shows that school heads' transformational leadership behavior formed a very substantial set of predictors for the research production of faculty at Bulacan State University.

— Anxiety in speaking English language is the major factor why students are reluctant to participate in oral activities. There are relatively few studies suggesting ways how learners can cope with such phenomena. The aim of the present study is to identify whether the intervention of seminar and workshop helps in reducing English language anxiety among the forty-two (42) Grade 10 students enrolled in San Rafael National Trade School. The study employed non-randomized designed wherein observation are made before and after the intervention and it also includes descriptive and inferential statistics. The modified Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Survey is the instrument used for pre-measurement and post-measurement to determine the level of anxiety of the participants. The findings of this study show that the intervention implemented has significance difference, with a p. value of .002 in reducing the anxiety of speaking the English language.

The researchers used a cross-sectional descriptive study design. This study attempted to establish the correlation that exists among the general weighted averages, mental ability test scores and the battery test scores of all the first year teacher education students at the Bulacan State University Bustos Campus. The researchers relied heavily on questionnaire as the major instruments in gathering information from the respondents. In order to gauge the mental ability of the respondents, the MD5 Mental Ability Test which is a quick and easy test of mental ability which involves finding missing letters, numbers or words was used. Furthermore, the faculty of instruction of the College of Education of the Bulacan State University Bustos Campus A.Y. 2015-2016 came up with a 100-item questionnaire that consists of questions ranging from general education subjects and this was utilized as the battery test. The general weighted average scores were collated from the Certificate of Grades that was issued by the university registrar to each bona fide teacher education student in the university. Abstract-The researchers used a cross-sectional descriptive study design.

The Engineering students of Bulacan State University Malolos Campus are known for depriving themselves of sleep while juggling their studies and social demands leading to irregular sleep schedule and poor sleep quality. This may not be unconnected with the fact that, they feel they must always meet up with the deadlines in form of school assignments and examinations.

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This paper explains how Filipino priestly spirituality based from the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP-II) in 1991 is comprised of seven characters: 1) rooted and centered on Christ; 2) ministerial; 3) collegial; 4) lived in the spirit of the evangelical counsels of obedience, chastity, and poverty; 5) missionary; 6) Eucharistic; and 7) Marian. Of these characters, the term Marian stands out as something not directly connected to the term priest, but eventually is something that is actually most connected to all the other six characters. It is essential to discover how Marian spirituality and priestly spirituality are actually connected through the principle of discipleship. Called "the perfect disciple of Christ", the Virgin Mary is indeed seen as the remarkable example of priestly holiness. To place a feminine character to become an example for a masculine character is not a conflict between feminism and chauvinism, but a matter of faithful observance to good inspiration. The question is how does a priest become Marian? The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) advises to use the local Marian devotions around the area. Hence is a Filipino priest from Bulacan aims to be inspired by the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, a number of Marian examples would be prominent local titles that have been honored in the past in the Diocese. There four "coronadas" or Marian images that have had the honor of being crowned either by papal mandate or by episcopal decree in the past: La Virgen Inmaculada Concepcion de Malolos, Nuestra Señora de la Inmaculada Concepcion de Salambao de Obando, Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario de Fatima de la Ciudad de Valenzuela and La Purisima Concepcion de Santa Maria. These images present the case of popular Bulakeño Marian spirituality. It is the spirituality of the people, of which the present clergy is able to get inspiration to in part of the mandate of a Marian spirituality for a priest. It is a sign not of the pomposity of the celebrations, but rather the internal disposition of the priest to be a true Marian devotee.

This paper compares the relative performance of local governments, business groups and non-government organizations as partners tasked to advocate the Governance for Development Index (or GOFORDEV Index). Currently tested in twelve pilot areas, the Index is a proposed measure of how well local needs for basic public services are met and provided, and the extent of democratic participatory and consultation in local public decision making processes. The scores in the Index are generated and disseminated by the local partners, who are uniformly provided with training and technical and financial support. Since they are provided with the same set of incentives, their compliance with their contractual obligations, their estimates of the scores in the Index, and their other extra activities are then compared to infer their real objectives and capabilities to be advocates of good governance.

Referred to by some philosophers as "the knot of the universe," investigations concerning human selfhood and subjectivity can help unravel questions of central contemporary relevance, such as what it is to be human in a globalized, secular world. This talk aims to unravel the concept of the self in Islamic thought through a global philosophy approach. Beginning with the Qur'an and then following the various streams of Islamic thought such as theology (kalām), philosophy (falsafa), and Sufism, this talk shows how Muslim thinkers reveal themselves to be fundamentally concerned with the problem of the human condition. Their manner of addressing this central issue from their differing perspectives devolves on the cultivation of what can be called both an anthropocentric and anthropocosmic understanding of the self that emphasizes selfknowledge, self-cultivation, and self-transformation on the one hand and a relational view of the self and the cosmos on the other.

With his latest thematic study of democratic Athens P. reassesses the argument, originally offered by Demosthenes and Plutarch and subsequently championed by A. Böckh, that the Classical Athenians were guilty of spending more on their theatrical spectacles than on their military exploits. Here, by assembling the fragmentary fifth-and fourth-century evidence and then judiciously deploying financial analyses, P. hopes to 'settle debates about public spending in classical Athens' and confirm 'the priorities that the Athenians set for their state' (p. xv). P.'s consideration of that diverse evidenceboth literary and epigraphic, and dating largely from the 420s, 370s and 330sallows him not merely to confirm (contra Böckh) that the military was far and away the Athenians' most expensive public undertaking, but also to develop a clear model of Athenian public expenditures that ancient historians will find useful both in its own right and as a catalyst for future study. Early in his introductory remarks P. sets forth a programmatic tricolon worthy of Lycurgus: 'The major public activities of the Athenian dêmos ("people") were the staging of religious festivals, the conducting of politics, and the waging of wars' (p. 1). The scholarly 'public spending debates' subsequently outlined by P. concern both the absolute and the relative levels of Athenian expenditures on such activities: was more money spent on festivals or on fighting? Was the money necessary for maintaining the democracy available domestically or only as a result of empire? Writing two centuries after Böckh and his Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener (1817) set the agenda for the modern study of Athenian finance, P. takes advantage of the additional sources at his disposal: beyond the hundreds of newly-uncovered Attic inscriptions and the text of the Aristotelian Constitution of the Athenians, he readily employs recent studies by scholars such as E. Csapo, W. Slater and P. Wilson detailing the financial as well as cultural contexts of (e.g.) the City Dionysia and the Athenian khoregia. Throughout this volume P. is scrupulous in his use of these primary and secondary sources: he readily acknowledges the conclusions reached by other scholars, the limitations of the ancient evidence and those occasions whenall too oftenhe must proceed more speculatively. Some more sceptical readers may be surprised by how adamant P. is about the dêmos' knowledge and control of Athenian finance; they will benefit from reading his arguments (pp. 16-24) and considering his cited sources, even if they still wonder exactly how well, and how often, Athenian practice followed theory. As the aforementioned tricolon suggests, the body of this volume models Athenian expenditures oni.e. provides 'costings' forfestivals (Chapter 2), democracy (Chapter 3) and war (Chapter 4). Of the remarkable number of festivals celebrated by the Athenians two were especially significant, culturally as well as financially: the annual City Dionysia and, every fourth year, the Great Panathenaia. Following in the footsteps of P. Wilson's (2008) costing of the City Dionysia (28 t. 5200 dr., with slightly more than half deriving from the baseline of private liturgical expenditures), P. begins by costing the Great Panathenaia. Drawing together the prize (c. 1,447 amphorae of sacred olive oil) and public and private liturgical contributions, P. reaches a total of 25 t. 1725 dr., oramortised over the four-year periodsome 6t. 1931 dr. annually. Ultimately P. reckons that these two festivals accounted for some 35% of Athenian festival THE CLASSICAL REVIEW