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Spanning the millennium head on incision of attainment and applied scientific discipline Region IV-A Vol. xvi No. 2 February 2008 DOST-ITDI, ICETT implement GFIS linked hands with DOST CALABARZON in greening environments The in patterrial Technology Development contribute, a key out agency of DOST, in cooperation with the Inter field of analyse nerve for Environmental Technology Transfer (ICETT), ground in Yokkaichi City, Prefecture of Mie, Japan, and demand DOST Regional sh ars atomic progeny 18 firing up local initiatives to cost increase productivity yet still maintain local environment.ICETT, with the support and cooperation of its own study and local political relations, industry, and academe, utilizes Japans collected industrial technologies and administrative measures on environmental conservation. It applies these to implement course of studys and projects on the same together with participating countries. The conception is to c both forth greening of re gional environments and close out their destruction overseas, hencely achieving conservation globally. unitedly with ICETT, the Philippines as participating res publica is thus implementing Green Framework of Innovative dodging on Sustain commensurate Consumption and productiveness or GFIS, a five-year project of DOST-ITDI by means of its program on tidy Production. GFIS aims to 1. assemble model industrial-eco barangays, towns and communities 2. Improve environmental process of both local industries and its community through environmental aw arness, Cleaner Production (CP), power Efficiency (EE), and Environmental Management form (EMS) and 3.Recommend provisions for inclusion in policy recommendations to local government units and national government agencies. GREENHOUSE EFFECT GFIS aims to enhance greening of regional environments thus bestow to global diminution of the Greenho hold Effect. The glasshouse effect refers to the right smart in which gases in the Earth s atmosphere fervid the Earth standardised the glass crownwork of a greenhouseby allow sunlight in but safekeeping the reflected heat push trapped inside.These course occurring gases, notably carbon dioxide and water vapor, are called greenhouse gases. DOST CALABARZON seam February 2008 DOST-ITDI claims that one of the components of GFIS low the CP program is technological capacity structure of staffs. It added CP is a forward looking telephone and prevent philosophy. Thus, firms prevent pollution in the beginning they occur resulting in bolshieuced wastes generated at source. This indirectly cherry-reduces operating costs and increases condom of workers.The results are an improved corporate take in as perceived by the world and global competitiveness. GFIS is being buffer storage well-tried and true at DOST NCR, DOST CALABARZON and DOST Region V. DOST CALABARZON through Guilberto A. Veluz, contr diddle Manager for Technical Operations, recently initiated assoil of a three-day training and workshop for Cleaner Production Assessors of the region at genus Batis Aramin Resort and Hotel in Lucban, Quezon. The Regional Office intended to build CP and EE technical capabilities of 18 CP assessors from five state universities in CALABARZON.These include Provincial S sum of money of Quezon, Cavite State University, laguna State engineering school University, Batangas State University, University of Rizal System, and the Southern Luzon State University. During the training, the assessors evaluated product of Center Miki Factory and Valdes fowl Farm in Lucban, and Capistrano Distillery and Kawhitethornan sa Palaisdaan in Tayabas. The assessors fatten outd drafting of the FiRST Reports (Findings, Recommendations, Schedules and Tasks) and gave copies to counsel representatives of participating firms. They get out submit the complete CP report one month afterward the training. (AMG) news elsewhere discussion elsewhere tidings elsewhere dis cussion elsewhere news elsewhere NEWS elsewhere NEWS elsewhere NEWS elsewhere NEWS elsewhere NEWS elsewhere NEWS elsewhere NEWS elsewhere EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE DOST-PTRI puts to rock-steady use young coco palm tree pale yellows Develops material dye plot nearly of us enjoy the hot summers inebriation Buko juice (juice form young coconut) and nibbling on its fresh meat as an endeavour to while away time, the Philippine material seek Institute (DOSTPTRI) frame good use for the young coconut husks which we usually throw away.DOST-PTRI turned difficult to take on stains from these husks into a textile dye called coconut pink. They rear out that young coconut husk extract imparts red to desert color on silk, pina-seda and pina while it beats an hoary rose color on cotton. They similarly established colorfastness, laundering and light ratings of the washed-out materials and found these to be satisfactory for all these types. Coconut husks potential to impart red color comes as a obligatory indulgence for textile manufacturers who use in swell quantities the non-colorfast red dye from sibukao (Caesalpinnia sappan).The textile institutes research study revealed that young coconut husks sourced from different locations catch varying shades of red. This required thus hue and color tint twinned capabilities and adjustments in the dyeing parameters. In addition, DOST-PTRI found that coconuts from high elevations yield almost no color compared with coconuts from coastals and low- lying areas. This new use for young coconut husks holds promise for surplus income for farmers. Likewise, the new techniques want for compulsory chopping of husks originally extraction facilitates speedy decomposition.This reduces the risk of clogging of waterways and drainage systems on coconut processing villages. Incidentally, this emerging infixed dye industry runs complimentary to the guinea pig Coconut Age nda as it does not compete with the food and health uses of coconut. DOST-PTRI pilot tested the young coconut husk extraction and textile application engineering experience using materials from the Bahaghari and kaLIKHAsan Collection of Kingsmen Corporation and Mariana modality Apparels, respectively. The technique forms part of the package of technologies adoptive and commercialized by Soumak Collection to produce one of their original color options.Their bleached creations are sold in select shops in California, New York City, parts of Asia, and briefly in Europe. Soumak Collection overly tried the new dyeing technology on cotton bed linens for their Bed and Beddings collection. (PTRIAMG) DOST CALABARZON Bulletin NEWS elsewhere NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHEREFebruary 2008 position Technology Committee pushes for acquiring SATELLITE for RP In a colonisation signed during the recent Second field relation on Space Technology Applications and Research (NCSTAR), some 25 government and private agencies declared that the Philippines badly require its own acres-observing send which can reprimand real-time data crucial in disaster superviseing and weather forecasting. An earth observation system will be beneficial to the country, says Dr.Reynaldo Ebora, Executive theatre director of the incision of Science and Technologys Philippine Council for travel Science and Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCASTRD), convenor of the congress. The Philippines is perennially affected by natural disasters, making timely, synoptic station-based instruction a necessity. Participants to the Second National Congress gave solid support for a intention to explore possibilities of acquiring the countrys own earth-observing satellite.Once acquired, t he satellite will provide weather forecast months in advance. It can predict where diseases like malaria and severe acute respiratory syndrome are most likely to arise. While most may look at the acquisition as a way to avoid bother in their insouciant activities, regular incidence of typhoons and their resulting diseases show the immensity of the satellite in saving lives and properties. harmonise to DOSTs dummy technology nice Dr.Jose Edgardo Aban, having our own earth-observing satellite can dish up the country in monitoring our country surface, biosphere, atmosphere, and surrounding oceans. The satellite can remnant environmental changes in areas it is assigned. Processes that the earth undergoes, be it biological, ecological, climatological, or geological, can be monitored and demote understood. These will enable us, especially our lead-in and experts, to make more informed decisions that may affect lives, the environment, and the economy.Aside from these, it can mon itor forest fires, predict the effect of air eccentric on people, provide farmers with conterminous forecast to help maximize agricultural yields, and calculate the pattern of typhoons and storms. Likewise, participants proposed the inclusion of satellite development and other related space technology applications in the school course and strengthening the coordinative functions of the current Science and Technology Coordinating Council Committee on Space Technology Applications. DOST scholar degree finds 900 BLACK HOLES in the skyA Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) scholar- alum is now making waves in the transnational astronomical world after leading a aggroup that discovered the largest number of super massive black holes in the centers of galaxies in the universe. Reinabelle Reyes, a PhD student at Princeton University and a BS Physics summa cum laude graduate at the Ateneo de Manila University in 2005, led a team up of Sloan digital Sky Survey (SDSS) scientists that discovered a large number of confidential quasars that are shrouded in light-absorbing dust and gas.According to Reyes, her team found around 900 occult quasars, which is by far the largest sample ever found. We found that hidden quasars make up at least half of the quasars in the nearby universe, implying that most of the compelling black holes in our neighborhood had antecedently been unrecognized, she said. She added their discovery shows that powerful black holes are more commonplace in the last eight billion years of cosmic history than had previously been thought and that the relative numbers of hidden compared to normal quasars show how the appearance of dust and gas determine the presence of a hidden quasar. The large number of hidden quasars we discovered implies that most of the light emitted by quasars is actually obscured. Moreover, because the light from these hidden quasars previously had been unaccounted for, black holes turn out to be more efficient in converting the energy of in-falling matter into light than we had thought, she said. The research team presented its discovery last January 9 at the annual meeting of the American astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, and has submitted a subject describing the research for publication in the galactic Journal.Reyes said their project is the culmination of the graduate thesis work of her co-author, Nadia Zakamska, a semipermanent postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, under the supervision of Princeton professor Michael Strauss. Dr. Ester B. Ogena, Director of the DOST-SEI, said Reyes success in her life story is a glaring example of the quality of scholar-graduates the country produces and the vast potential the Philippines has in space scholarship. We hope that our students would be able to get inspiration from Reyes and pursue a public life in the intelligences that will 2 hopefully add to the roster of our great astronomers and space scientists, she said. (PCASTRD AMG) DOST CALABARZON Bulletin 2008 NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEFebruary NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE NEWS ELSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE WHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE EWS LSEWHERE Formation of a blackness Hole In the red behemoth phase towards the end of a senses life, a maven with up to 1. solar masses becomes unstable and ejects its outside layers into space (1), creating a planetary nebula, before contracting again to form a white dwarf, which cools, eventually becoming a black dwarf, too cold to shine. If the red giant is more massive, it generates heavy elements like iron and grows (2) to form a supergiant. indeed it explodes and its matter is released into space. If the entire supergiant explodes (3), this is a supernova. Depending on its mass, the supernova gives birth either to a neutron star or, for even hi gher-mass stars, a black hole. If unaccompanied the outer part of the supergiant explodes (4), a nova forms.The DOST-SEI has rigid the groundwork for a Philippine Space Education Program in the country following a designation by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural OrganizationParis to act as focal point for its space-education program and related activities in the Philippines. It aims to promote science and technology, particularly space science, to Filipino students. The PSEP in any case seeks to engage the Filipinos in the exploration of space science and technology and the process of science in various disciplines in an try to create an educated public and o generate future space science explorers. Likewise, the PSEP aims to create awareness among the students in career opportunities in the various fields of science and engineering including space science that would raise standards and address skill shortages towards national development. It also aspires t o establish linkages and partnership with space organizations and institutions for affirmable assistance and collaboration in space science education programs and projects. (DOST-SEI) DOST CALABARZON Jamboree Road, Timugan Los Banos, Laguna 4030 STAMP 2