The study area is northern part of the Central Main Ethiopian rift valley bounded in west andrnnorth by Awash basin; and in east by Wabi shebele catchment. Meki and Katar are the mainrnrivers draining western and eastern part of the catchment respectively and both feed LakernZiway before outflow to...
In the Amhara region where subsistence rain-fed agriculture is the dominant sector, it needs to understand the sector’s vulnerability to climate change and variability at the community and household levels using a bottom-up approach since it helps to explore the indigenous knowledge and...
Multi-phase machine and drives is a topic of growing relevance in recent years, and it presents many challenging issues that still need further research. Numerous industrial applications, such as textile industry, paper mills, robotics and railway traction, require multi-phase electric drive.rnThis...
In this thesis the framework of Dirac equation has been exploited to make a detailedrnstudy on the relativistic bound state features of Hydrogen-like atoms. The relativisticrnenergy eigenvalues calculated in this framework show the evidence of fine structurernsplitting for various levels. The...
This study was carried out with the aim of lesions characterization, bacterial isolation and identification and viral detection from lesions of respiratory system of dromedary camels slaughtered at Addis Ababa Akaki Abattoir from December 2014 to April 2015. A total of 207 camels were inspected...
The objective of this study is to assess the regulatory framework, practices and challenges ofrnpublic procurement in selected public organizations in Ethiopia, and to see the mainrnprocurement procedures in light of public procurement practices in some East African countries.rnThe study used mixed...
In recent years, an explosion in research on pattern recognition systems using neuralrnnetwork methods has been observed. Face Recognition (FR) is a specialized patternrnrecognition task for several applications such as security: access to restricted areas,rnbanking: identity verification and...
This MSc thesis work is entitled "Characterization of Black Cotton soil from Index Properties inrnSebetta area". The study area located at 32km, Southwest of Addis Ababa in the Oromiarnregional state; covering an area of 126 km2.rnThe main objective of the study is to characterize the black cotton...
Solid waste management is both urban and rural problems. Every person is a potential generatorrnof waste. This study was focussed on Prospects and Challenges of Solid Waste Management inrnBole Sub City. The study was conducted by using both qualitative and quantitative approachrnmethodologies. To...
The purpose of this study was to assess the implementation of NFAE in Oromia Region with particularrnfocus on the case of ODA - implemented Functional Adult Literacy Program in Dalo-Mana Woreda ofrnBale Zone. This study was conducted using the review of related literature to obtain prior...
Malaria is caused by infection of red blood cells with protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The parasites are inoculated into the human host by a feeding female anopheline mosquito. The objective of this study was to map malaria risk levels associated with each area in Fentale Woreda, East...
A model for the pulsed nitrogen laser is proposed and a scaling parameters are identi edrnso as to enable to study a laser over its range of discharge modes. This result is explainedrnfor the critically damped case and the more typical case of damping factor of 0:4. Thernanalysis shows that in a...
The purpose of this research was to assess and enhance the performancernof female students towards mathematics and science subjects.rnParticipants were selected, randomly, from three high schools.327 femalernstudents of grade 9, 30 teachers, 3 directors and 9 parents, were sourcesrnof information...
Mobile terminals allow users to access services while on the move. This unique featurernhas driven the rapid growth in the mobile network industry, changing it from a newrntechnology into a massive industry within less than two decades. Handoff is the essentialrnfunctionality for dealing with the...
The main objective of this research project is to assess the role of performance audit on performancernimprovements and accountability in some of the selected audited public sectors in Oromia NationalrnRegional State. The factors used to assess performance improvement were perceptions of the...
Rapid population growth and environmental degradation coupled with mismanagement ofrnland resources in the northern parts of the country led to the adoption of resettlement as arnpolicy option to address the problem by resettling people in the southern parts of the country.rnGimbo woreda was one of...
The main purpose of this study was to assess the utilization of active learning, tornidentify factors affecting the implementation of active learning either positively orrnnegatively in terms of teachers` commitment, classroom conditions, instructionalrnfacilities and teachers training. Mixed...
This study was conducted at Kersa Malima woreda, South West Shawa Zone, Oromia Region , Ethiopia, with the aims of assessing dairy cattle feeding and production practices of smallholder farmers; assessing milk yields of dairy cows under a smallholder system; and characterizing major available feed...
In this work we consider spin-half particle with two energy levels in contact with two heatrnreservoirs and we apply magnetic eld on it whose task is to convert the input energy fromrnthe hot reservoir and from the magnetic eld to useful work. We analytically study thernoptimized quantum...
Land degradation, caused by soil erosion and LULC changes, initiated by poor utilizationrnof land resource beyond the carrying capacity to provide food and other related use hasrnan effect on socio-economic status of the northeast of Alaba. Agriculture is the solerneconomy sector for people living...