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FROM THE EDITOR

ISSN 0115-7809 Print/ISSN 2012-0818 Online

Irene M. V illaseñor, Ph.D.

                                                                         Editor-in-Chief

Welcome readers! In this July to December 2018 issue of Science Diliman, I

am pleased to present four full papers and a short communication. Authors

Anticamara and Tan re-attached coral fragments to sturdy natural substrates

such as dead massive corals. The coral fragments were an aftermath of the

devastation of coral reefs in Eastern Samar by super-typhoon Haiyan. After a

year of monitoring, 88% of the re-attached coral fragments survived, 43% of

which exhibited high growth rates. The results will help in the restoration

of damaged coral reefs and will benef it many reef f ishes. In another paper,

authors Austero and Azanza studied the composition and abundance of marine

diatoms and dinoflagellates in Cebu International Port (CIP) and Naval Supply

Depot (NSD). The results of this short-term study established baseline data

for the identif ication of potentially toxic and harmful microalgae.

Chakraborty and co-authors fabricated a stable and non-cytotoxic scaffold

consisting of a polyelectrolyte complex of two biopolymers. The properties

of the scaffold promote cell growth and facilitate the healing process of

bones and tissues. Authors Mernilo-Tutanes and Caga-anan def ined fuzzy on

ideal sets and proved a Hahn-Banach Theorem using fuzzy on ideal sets.

There is much we do not know about thoron in the environment, which

makes it opportune for author Kazuki-Iwaoka and co-authors to develop a

thoron exposure system for the validation of the use of passive detectors for

thoron measurement. The details are presented in the f ive manuscripts while

layman’s abstracts will help the non-specialists.