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BUPLAS, an English language performance and proficiency assessment designed by workplace assessment expert Dr. Jane Lockwood is becoming an industry standard in call centers as the only test available that assesses interactive fluency

More than a decade of research paid off! Pest resistant varieties of eggplant developed; ways to lessen use or avoidance of insecticidal spraying found; there was reduced pest population in the field; and eventually, high production yield reached.

UP Asian Center is co-organizing with the Indonesian Embassy and the UP Manila Social Science (Area Studies) program, a discussion forum on "Democracy and Political Violence: Lessons Learned from Indonesia and the Philippines" on November 3, 2009 at

INFINIT-O signs a MOA to provide its social media research services to the Business Process of the Philippines Association (BPAP).

Farmers and members of the community residing in the Cambantoc watershed of the Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve participated in a training seminar conducted by the UPLB College of Forestry and Natural Resources last June 3-4 in Sta. Cruz, Laguna.

Besides coastline protectors, mangrove forests are one of the most promising carbon sequesters, having the highest carbon net productivity among all ecosystems.

The first organic town of the Philippines and the organic farming capital of Rizal province is Baras. Baras townsfolk beam with pride when the town's center for organic products and services was launched to signal its opening last July 13, 2009.

The School of Environmental Science and Management (SESAM) has taken a proactive role in communicating environmental risks which abound in Mt. Makiling- a dormant volcano and source of landslides when Typhoon Milenyo struck Los Baños in 2006.

Increased yield, as a consequence of reduced bacterial wilt infection made up the results obtained by UPLB researchers using grafting technique in eggplant production.

In a recent study at UP Los Baños, the injection of neonicotenoid pesticides such as thiametoxam, imidachloprid and clothianidin in coconut trunks was found safe and effective in controlling the coconut leaf beetle (Brontispa longgisima).

BIOTECH's Bioremediation Research Team based in UP Los Baños is currently conducting studies to rehabilitate several contaminated sites in the country. These include an abandoned mining site at Mogpog, Marinduque, and bodies of water in Bulacan.

The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) has recently organized a group of biotechnologists and chemical engineers to conduct scientific investigations in a bid to produce ethanol from so-called 3rd generation biofuel feedstocks.

Food technologists at the University of the Philippines Los Baños have identified local squash varieties that may be used for food processing.

Biotechnologists at UP Los Baños are hard at work putting the final touches to the prototype of a wastewater treatment system that uses bacteria.

Economists at the University of the Philippines Los Baños examined the implications of using sugarcane as biofuel feedstock. Their findings show that there may be adverse effects.

UP Los Baños has developed the IPB Var 6 white corn variety which can be used for table consumption.

Writers.ph, an industry leading research company in the international market, enforces stricter quality assurance measures to weed out documents with plagiarized contents.

Writers.ph, an industry leading research company in the international market, creates job opportunities for poor but deserving students under its "Working Students Program."

The Southern Philippines Research and Extension (SOPREX) Foundation is providing free business opportunity studies on its newly launched website.

Outsourcing Opinions, the website all about business process outsourcing for both entrepreneur and business executive, starts the month of August with a week's worth of new articles on outsourcing issues and information.

Check out the articles on business process outsourcing issues and information from Outsourcing Opinions this last week of July.

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