The complexity of the construction industry due to different stakeholders’ involvement makes itrndiffer from other industry. This complexity gives rise mostly to unwanted situation like Delay andrntime Extension with their attached effects. The aim of every construction project is to meet...
In Ethiopia, public campaign on SWC practices has long history but still a day now, adopting of the new SWC technique has presented difficulty to implement at local level. This is why the thesis has dealt with problem of what make them farmers of the study areas getting confusion to participate in...
The study has attempted to unearth the challenges and prospects of institutionalizing a mediarnself-regulatory body in Ethiopia. media in-house code of conduct is also a subset of this study.rnIn addition, the study discusses how media self-regulation is strongly attached to freedom ofrnexpression....
MOIphological and isozyme diversity study of 55 emmer wheat (TriticuIII dicocculIIrn(Schrank) Schub.) populations and the associated ethnobotanical knowledge in Arsi andrnBale have been undertaken in this study. A total of 55 landrace populations (25-45 singlernplant per population which is a total...
Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) simulation has been developed forrnstudying the complex hydrological watershed and their impacts. This study wasrnconducted in Watershed of Legedadi Reservoir in North Western Shoa Zone Alelturnand Bereh district. The objective of this study was to assess the...
Background: Because of shared routes of transmission, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection isrncommon in Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected persons. HIV and HCV coinfection isrnmajor global health concern. However, limited data of this coinfection are available in Ethiopia.rnObjective: The...
In this study attempts are made to evaluate the institutional performance andrnsustainability of six MFIs employing conventional financial performance andrnsustainability indicators and non-parametric DEA-based malmquist total factorrnproductivity index model. The study period covered 2003 to 2009....
The recent discovery of superconductivity at moderately high temperature(26K to 55K)rnin doped iron-based pnictides(RnO1À€€xFxFeAs),where Rn=La,Ce,Sm,Pr,Nd.etc) havingrnlayered-structure like cuprates,has triggered challenge towards understanding the paringrnmechanism. In this work...
This thesis examines impacts of forest degradation on rural livelihoods and insurance of food security at the community level of East Wollega, Ethiopia. Furthermore, the research is also aimed at assessing of the uses and abuses of forest resources, causes of forest degradation and its impacts,...
Environmental degradation - resulting mainly from the public’s low-level of awarenessrnand usually manifested in the form of recurrent droughts - has become the majorrnchallenge to development endeavors poor countries like Ethiopia. Media outlets, inrnparticular the radio, are crucial...
Concrete, because of its versatility in use, is a major component of most of our infrastructuralrnfacilities today. The quality of concrete is affected by its constituent materials, the equipmentrnused and the workmanship in concrete production process. A better or poor concrete may bernmade of...
The Wukro-genfel-sub-basin is found in Tigray Region at distance of 829 Km fromrnAddis Ababa. Geographically, it is located in 130 55’’ 00’N_130 42’’ 50’N and 390 31’’rn00’E _390 40’’ 34’ E. The climate is...
The purpose of this study was to gain a contextual understanding of the droprnout factors in specific schools in sebeta town. The main objective of the study was tornknow the cause for drop out and what would be the possible solution to enhance thernfollowing questions. 1) What are the drops out...
The thesis deals with land governance in urban renewal induced eviction and relocation (URIER) in inner city areas of Addis Ababa. It examines the interplay of contexts, legal framework, decision making process, winners and losers of URP, relocation options and actual practices of eviction and...
One-third of the world s population uses traditional biomass for cooking, lighting andrnspace heating. The use of these forms of energy is associated with environmental asrnwell as human health impacts. Approximately 2500 million people are exposed dailyrnto emissions from biomass-burning cooking...
The existence of freedom of_ expression in general and media freedom in particular isrnone of the most important indicators of the presence of democracy in a given country.rnArticle 29 of the 1995 Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia hasrnlaid the legal structure for the...
Ethiopia has given special attention for development of the road sector. In this regard, thernEthiopian Roads Authority (ERA) has been given the responsibility to procure, regulate, andrnadminister construction works and consultancy services. For ERA, to competently dischargernthese responsibility,...
In this work we consider a model of solar energy converter which is composed of a nanoscalernphoto-electric device having two energy levels in contact with two electron reservoirrnleads at the same temperature but with different chemical potentials whose task is tornconvert radiation energy to...
In this work we consider a model of solar energy converter which is composed of a nanoscalernphoto-electric device having two energy levels in contact with two electron reservoirrnleads at the same temperature but with different chemical potentials whose task is tornconvert radiation energy to...
In the present study, an integrated geotechnical and geophysical approach was followed torncharacterize the dam foundation of TAMS Hydropower dam, situated in South-westernrnEthiopia, in Gambella National Regional State, Gambella Woreda, 721 km south-west ofrnAddis Ababa. The dam is being...