| Institute_for_Social_and_Economic_Research_and_Policy_(ISERP)_at_Columbia_University Columbia University, NY,USA. Information on centers, projects, seed grants, workshops, events, and research fellows at the Institute. |
| Ivo_Pilar_Institute_of_Social_Sciences Information about the institute, governance, activities and emloyees. Zagreb, Croatia. |
| Max_Planck_Institute_for_Human_Development A multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to the study of processes of human development and education and their evolutionary, social, historical, and institutional contexts. Features news, pub |
| Scottish_Centre_for_Research_on_Social_Justice The Scottish Centre for Research on Social Justice [SCRSJ] is based jointly at the University of Glasgow's Urban Studies Department and the Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research at the Univer |
| Stanford_IIS_Initiative_on_Distance_Learning Program created by the Institute for International Studies, Stanford University to promote the development of social science in post-Communist countries. |
| Österreichische_Kulturdokumentation A non-university institute for applied cultural research and cultural documentation based in Vienna. Site provides selected publications in PDF, links for current projects, and event information, as w |
| The_Annual_R&M_Symposium_(RAMS) Annual reliability and maintainability conference. Includes a message from the chair, on-line registration, and a program brochure. |
| ASQC_Reliability_Division The reliability part of the American Society for Quality Control, a quality improvement organization headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA. Includes general information and how to join. |
| Design_Analytx_International Provide tools to do probabalistic systems design analysis. Includes information on consultancy and seminars. |
| Electronics_Quality_and_Reliability_Center A division of Sandia National Laboratories. Includes information on the center as a whole, training offered, ways to work with the center, and related links. |
| Equipment_Reliability_Institute A specialized engineering school that focuses on solving hardware reliability problems. |
| INEEL_Center_for_Risk_and_Reliability Demonstrates improved Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) and Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) methods and tools to PRA/PSA practitioners. |
| International_Reliabilitiy_Physics_Symposium Conference in April, 2002. Includes information on hotel, tutorials, poster sessions, and a history of the event. |
| Maintenance_and_Reliability_Center An R&D group at the University of Tennessee. Includes information on their mission, internship program, staff, continuing education and related links. |
| Quanterion_Solutions Provides reliability engineering consulting services aimed at improving system reliability. |
| Reliability_Analysis_Center Offers data, information, software, and consulting in reliability, maintainability, supportability, and quality engineering. |
| Reliability_Analysis_in_Mechanical_Engineering_Design A summary and the first two chapters of a PhD thesis. |
| Reliability_Center,_Inc_ Offer root cause analysis training, reliability consulting, root cause analysis facilitations, FMEA facilitations, and reliability assessments. |
| Reliability_Direct,_Inc_ Provides e-commerce solutions for electric motor condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and reliability products as well as other centrifugal and reciprocating machinery. |
| Reliability_Engineering_Snapshot A monthly illustrated collection of actual failure analysis case studies in the fields of corrosion, lubrication, machine design, material properties, people, and vibration. |
| Reliability_Standards_and_Handbooks Contains a list of standards with their number and description. |
| Reliability_Tools Details a range of prediction and modelling programs. |
| Reliability¨Magazine A trade journal dedicated specifically to machinery reliability, the predictive maintenance industry, root cause failure analysis, reliability centered maintenance, and CMMS. |
| Reliabilityweb_com Comprehensive site containing news, reviews, directories of products and services, and related information of interest to end users and suppliers of industrial plant and machinery reliability systems |
| Relibility_Enhancment_Methodology_and_Modelling REMM, a research project investigating methods and models for enhancing aircraft electronics reliability. |
| Rome_Laboratory_Reliability_Engineer\'s_Toolkit Engineer's toolkit. Includes background information. |
| Safety-Critical_Systems_Club_/_Software_Reliability_&_Metrics_Club Non-profit organisation seeking to raise awareness and facilitate technology transfer in the field. Based in the UK. |
| SAPHIRE Risk and Safety Users Group. A low-cost probabilistic risk, safety, and reliability tool. |
| Society_for_Maintenance_&_Reliability_Professionals A not-for-profit corporation formed to network those in the maintenance profession. |
| Society_of_Reliability_Engineers_(SRE) resource providing education, social contact, and insight to foster understanding of reliability, maintainability, and life testing. |
| Statistical_Reliability A course dealing with the probability and statistics useful in reliability engineering. Includes course notes, a syllabus, plus related links. |
| Statistics_533 Reliability course (in the statistics department) at Iowa State University. |
| Weibull Reliability engineering and life data analysis resources. Includes reliability engineering theory, discussion and resources |
| Weibull_Database Includes typical failure data for various components. |
| American_Society_for_Virology A forum for investigators of human, animal, insect, plant, fungal, and bacterial viruses, whether the research involves clinical, ecological, biological, or biochemical approaches. |
| Animal_Viruses A basic guide to animal, plant, and bacterial viruses. Information on the structure and genetic material. |
| Baculovirus_com Technical knowledge, information, newsgroup, helpful in using the Baculovirus expression vector system and insect cell expression. |
| Chicken_Flu_-_Recombinant_Genes_on_the_Loose Information regarding viral genes, replication, and strain evolution. |
| The_Garry_Laboratory Information about research in the laboratory of Robert F. Garry at Tulane University School of Medicine. Includes links to publications and external sites. |
| GeneJohnson_Inc_ HIV genomic data storage and analysis systems. HIVBase allows one to organize HIV sequence data, perform complex statistical analysis, and collaborate data all in one program. |
The pages of a book are called leaves and small sheets with writing are called leaflets because more than a millennium ago, documents were written on leaves. In southern India and Southeast Asia, they were written on palm leaves. A document was called pattra, which is Sanskrit for leaf. Several leaves were strung and bound together to form a book.
And so, this web page is a leaf, a pattra, a dahon. It is my opening page to our Philippine past, ang aking dahong pambukás ng ating nakaraán.
Hello, my name is Hector Santos, I am a former aerospace computer systems engineer (no, I didn't work on weapons of mass destruction) who, like many others, was forced to change his lifestyle in 1992 when the cold war ended.
Since then, I have survived by accepting occasional computer-related work assignments. More importantly, I have found the freedom to do things for which I never had time before.
That has allowed me to spend a few years doing independent research on ancient Filipino writing systems and the way Tagalog was spoken before the advent of the Spaniards. My studies have revealed to me things I never knew and corrected some wrong impressions that I had.
I would like to share with you some of what I have learned about ancient Philippines-- the way she was before the West found her.
Our ancestors wrote messages on palm leaves and on bamboo slats. They left them on mountain trails for a passerby to deliver to the addressee in another town in case he was going that way. Now we write on computer screens and send messages around the world at the speed of light.
But it seems we know less today about our planet Earth than our ancestors did during the days of the leaves.
Please send me your comments. I would love to hear from you.
Hector Santos <hectorsan@bibingka.com> Los Angeles
Last modified: Wednesday, July 28, 1999
