http://repository.bsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/340 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:28:50 GMT 2026-04-15T23:28:50Z http://repository.bsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/690 Acceptability of Vegetable Cakes Lumiked, Melchor S. This study was conducted from May to November of 2015. The students and teachers of Tawang Elementary School and La Trinidad National High School served as the consumer-type panelists. Also, the Chef de Partait of the bakeshop section of Le Chef @ the Manor was tapped to be the expert panel. The study is an experimental type research. The general objective was to modify a cake recipe with vegetables sugar beet and zucchini. Specifically, the objectives were to determine the quality characteristics of vegetable cakes by an expert panel, determine the consumer’s acceptability of the sugar beet and zucchini cakes in terms of color, appearance, texture, flavor and overall liking when consumer-type panelists were grouped according to age and gender, determine the cost of producing the vegetable cakes, determine the nutritional facts, and identify the factors that influence the consumers in accepting the vegetable cakes. The statistical tools used for the acceptability of the vegetable cakes were t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). To compute the cost of producing the sugar beet and zucchini cakes, the formula by Department of Trade & Industry (2006) was used; direct material costs, direct labor costs, and manufacturing overhead costs were added. After adding the different costs, a profit margin was added which was based in the cost-plus pricing by Riley (2012). Finally, to compute for the price, a markup was added to all the costs then divided into the number of yields (Gonzaga et al., 2011). For both sugar beet and zucchini cakes, it has 2 treatments each. Treatment 1 for both vegetable cakes used 150 grams grated sugar beet and zucchini, while for the treatment 2 used 300 grams of the same vegetables. Based on the evaluation of the expert panel, all of the cake samples are of good quality in terms of color, appearance, texture and flavor except for sugar beet cake with 150 grams grated sugar beets had a sunken top. The following were the results on the acceptability of the consumer-type panelists as to age and gender. The age group 13-19 accepts the cake samples the most while in terms of their gender; the male group accepts the cake samples more than the female group. The cost of producing the vegetable cakes varies from one recipe to another, the reason lies on how much grated vegetable was added in the preparation. Regarding the nutritional facts of the vegetable cakes, sugar beet cake with 300 grams grated sugar beets recorded the highest in almost all of the nutrients computed for the study while zucchini cake with 150 grams grated zucchini has the lowest record in almost all of the computed nutrients. Finally, both the consumer-type and expert panelists consider nutrients and aesthetic appeal as the leading factors in accepting the vegetable cakes. Unpublished Master's Thesis Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.bsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/690 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.bsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/689 Characterization on the Usage of Cyanide in Goldmining at Selected Barangays in Itogon Benguet: A Factor Analysis Vicente, Aldrin; Nabunat, Reward This study was conducted to apply factor analysis in deriving the factors that characterize the reasons why miners use cyanide in gold processing in selected barangays in Itogon, Benguet last Febuary to March 2016. A total of 130 respondents were surveyed. In the usage of cyanide, results showed that from the 30 variables they were reduced to 4 factors. The four factors extracted were safety in using cyanide, convenience, financial/economic factors and capability of cyanide. In the effects of cyanide to human and environment, from the 15 variables they were reduced to 3 factors. The three factors included: effects of cyanide to human, effects of cyanide to environment and community, and effects of cyanide to animals. Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.bsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/689 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.bsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/632 Communication Activities of Buguias Rural Health Unit in Delivering Maternal and Child Care Services Camas, Jaquel The study focused on the Communication Activities of Buguias Rural Health Unit in delivering Maternal and Child Care Services. The study was conducted to determine the socio demographic profile of the respondents, describe the maternal and child care being implemented by the Rural Health Unit, determine the communication activities in delivering these health programs, the level of effectiveness on the communication activities used by the RHu as perceived by the respondents, the challenges encountered in the communication activities and the suggestions of the respondents for the improvement of the communication activities. The study was conducted from March to April 2016. The respondents of the study were 50 community people selected by means of accidental sampling and eight key informants. The data were gathered through survey questionnaire to the community respondents and interview for the key informants. Furthermore, the data gathered were tabulated, analyzed, and interpreted through descriptive statistics such as frequency counts, percentage and weighted mean. The results were discussed through narrative form. Majority of the respondents belong to 28 to 32 years of age, 20 are married and 38 graduated from high school. The key informants, three were married, all of them had a formal education and their ages vary from 24 to 50. Pre-natal care, post-natal care, sustainable essential intrapartum and newborn care initiatives, under five malnutrition, fully immunized child, sustainable breastfeeding and family planning are the programs under the maternal and child care that are being implemented by the Rural Health Unit. Purok class, training/seminar, home visit, IEC and bulletin (notice posting) are the communication activities being used in delivering these health programs. Interpersonal Communication (purok class, training, seminar, home visit) were the common communication activities used by the RHU as perceived effective by the respondents and the RHU personnel. No proper information dissemination and busy from farm works are the common problems of the respondents. Delayed funds by the Local Government Unit, lack of materials and poor cooperation were the top three common problems encountered by the RHU personnel in delivering the maternal and child care services. The study recommends that to maintain the awareness of the respondents, RHU personnel may conduct more trainings and seminars about different and new topic of the health programs for the respondents to be updated. The RHU personnel with the BHW staff may produce IEC materials that refer to a public health approach aiming at changing or reinforcing health-related behaviors in a target audience, concerning a specific problem and within a pre-defined period of time. Furthermore, in the implementation of the health programs midwife and RHU personnel may motivate other residences to attend and learn more about the health programs being implemented through the use of other communication strategies. Also, the RHU may also present their programs to the Local Government Unit through one-on-one communication for them to see the benefit of the program for the community people and for easy funding and to be able to provide the needs of the people. Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.bsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/632 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.bsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/357 Perception of the Students toward Betel Nut Chewing Tabbano, Jessica K The study was conducted in the different colleges of Benguet State University. Fifty students who engaged in betel nut chewing were interviewed at random upon identifying to be positive chewing betel nut. End-users of betel nut were found to be of middle age 21-25 and majorities belong to Ibaloi tribe. They were interviewed when found in cluster enjoying the sharing of the mixture preferred. Betel chewer was found to be 100% male. They were single and take the betel nut with tobacco and lime as their favorite mixture. The students do not have definite time to chew. They take it anytime when they are given the opportunity to do so. They use a bottle to spit the betel nut chewing to prevent the unsanitary appearance on the surroundings of our school. The practice significantly influenced by peers and friends who claimed to have positive refreshing effects to themselves. They ignore the adverse effect of betel nut into their health. The students detect betel nut chewing as alternate to cigarette smoking. The consumption and their expenditure revealed that student who wants to influence spend more of the expenditure while those take as for friendship purpose will spend less. Further, the availability of the betel nut commonly availed from sidewalk vendors and those students with plantation in their homeland. Unpublished Master's Thesis Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.bsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/357 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z