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EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-Chief

Marco Nemesio E. Montaño, PhD

Associate Editors

Ma. Patricia V. Azanza, PhD

Food Science & Nutrition

Jose Maria P. Balmaceda, PhD

Mathematics

Zubaida U. Basiao, PhD

Biology

Carlos Primo C. David, PhD

Earth Sciences

Joel Joseph S. Marciano, Jr., PhD

Engineering

Giovanni A. Tapang, PhD

Physics

Irene M. Villaseñor, PhD

Chemistry

Managing Editor

Violeda A. Umali, PhD

Editorial Assistant

Dercylis G. Mararac

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SCIENCE   DILIMAN
A Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

EDITORIAL  ADVISORS

Rigoberto C. Advincula, PhD

Department of Chemistry

University of Houston

radvincula@uh.edu

Alfonso M. Albano, PhD

Department of Physics

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

aalbano@brynmawr.edu

Kenneth Buckel, PhD

Food Science and Technology Group

School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering

The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

k.buckle@unsw.edu.au

Jose B. Cruz, PhD

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ohio State University

cruz@ece.osu.edu.

Flor Crisanta F. Galvez, PhD

Quality Assurance & Technical Manager

Kerry Ingredients and Flavours (Americas Region)

7989-82nd St., Delta, VC V4G 1L7, Canada

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Victor C. Gavino, PhD

Department of Nutrition

University of Montreal, Canada

victor.gavino@umontreal.ca

Kelvin S. Rodolfo, PhD

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois

krodolfo@uic.edu

Rudolf A. Roemer, PhD

Centre for Scientific Computing and Department of Physics

University of Warwick

r.roemer@warwick.ac.uk

Luis G. Sison, PhD

Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute

University of the Philippines Diliman

luis.sison@up.edu.ph

Raul K. Suarez, PhD

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology

University of California, Sta. Barbara

suarez@lifesci.ucsb.edu

The Hippopus porcellanus in Tubbataha Reefs National Park. Note the
fringing tentacles on the inhalant siphon, top photo and the shell that is
globose in shape and semicircular in outline with smooth and regularly
shaped dorsal margin, bottom photo (see Dolorosa, this issue). Photo
courtesy of R.G. Dolorosa.

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