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FROM THE EDITOR

ISSN 0115-7809 Print/ISSN 2012-0818 Online

The June 2015 issue of Science Diliman features four articles on diverse topics.

Authors Anticamara,  Go,  Ongsyping, Valdecañas,  and Madrid used Underwater Visual

Census (UVC) belt transect sampling methods to systematically monitor reef f ish

diversity to be able to implement science-based reef management throughout the

Philippines. The beautiful cover was provided by the authors.  Toralba,  Quiming,

and Palacpac validated the use of chemical f ingerprinting to ensure the safety of

herbal medicines through correct authentication and identif ication.  The authors

were able to quantify the amount of quercetin present in sambong collected from

Nueva Ecija, Cotabato, and Leyte.  Authors Magdalita and Saludes recommended the

proper choice of crops to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change that may

impact on the agricultural sector and on our food security.  The crop selections can

adapt to marginal and drought-prone areas as well as in flooded areas. Authors

Gueco, Merino, and Paras studied all the possible inertia of the Hermitian  H  when

the Jordan Canonical Form of B contains only type (i) or one block of type (ii).

We requested the authors to summarize their scientif ic research for non-specialist

readers to make the papers accessible to a wider audience. We aim to inspire budding

scientists, among them junior and senior high school students, to appreciate the

impact of doing scientif ic research to the different sectors in the Philippines. I

highlighted above the practical relevance and new theoretical perspectives of the

f ive manuscripts.  The layman’s abstracts are found after the technical abstracts.

We are also inviting readers for a further discussion of the scientif ic merits of the

papers by writing letters to the Editor.

Irene M. V illaseñor, Ph.D.

                                                                         Editor-in-Chief