In the health discipline, forecasting is gaining importance due to its capability of anticipating the spread of diseases. The Philippine government launched the dengue surveillance map to help detect the spread of the disease. However, technology-based solutions to forecast dengue cases do not exist in the country. This study aimed to forecast the possible outbreak of dengue in Ozamiz City from 2016 to 2020 using a web-based technology system that generates maps and allows the input of new records of dengue cases to update the forecasting patterns. This study utilized the Geographic Information System (GIS) to map the spread of dengue outbreak and the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) to forecast the extent of dengue occurrence. The data included in this study were the dengue cases reported in seven hospitals in Ozamiz City on a monthly basis from January 2008 up to the second quarter of 2015. Based on the collected data, dengue incidence is lower in rural than in urban barangays. However, a rapid increase in dengue incidence in rural barangays is evident in the five-year forecast. This information can aid the community in designing and implementing preventive measures to address dengue epidemics during the forecasted year or season.
Keywords : epidemics, health, map, outbreak, technology
The use of pair programming in the introductory to programming course offers an increased level of reasoning, collaboration and greater transfer of conceptfrom one student to another. The study aimed to determine the effective teamcompositions that do pair programming as pedagogy in determining work outputperformance and satisfaction. This study utilized the repeated-measures designusing personal traits such as personality, motivation and IQ in the compositionof teams. A total of 72 respondents joined the experiment grouped using thepermutation with repetition. The instruments used are standardized exams,modified questionnaires test with reliability and activities that were validatedby panel of experts. The study revealed IQ is a contributing factor in the workoutput performance and openness to experience personality shows a significantrelation to students’ satisfaction. Moreover, the pair programming increases theconfidence level of students but decreases in communication. This study foundout the need to strengthen the orientation on the importance of communicationin order to obtain successful collaboration and learning. Keywords - Information Technology Education, team compositions, team effectiveness, satisfaction, collaborative learning, descriptive-correlation method, Ozamiz City,Philippines
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