The clay mineral composition is one of the factors that affect the physical properties of soil, and knowledge of it is required to promote a fuller understanding of the origin of these properties. The relation between the clay content and plastic and liquid limits of natural montmorillonitic and...
Nowaday, communit based rehabilitation (I BR) has been looked up on as a 'olution tornachieving practical and efficient rehabilitation approach. Keeping this in mind this researchrnwork was initiated to inve tigate the effect of CBR on families of children with menLal retardationrn(MR),rnTo meet...
In this thesis, I have explored some selected topics of Rawls’ A Theory of Justice. Rawls’ A Theory of Justice has three parts, theory, institutions and ends part. But, my work is limited to some selected topics of Rawls’ first part or theory part of his book, entitled as...
The study investigates the effectiveness of the communication messages imparted by IGAD tornimpact the conflict parties’ behaviour during the mediation process of the South Sudanrnconflict that broke out on December 15, 2013. Since, the mediation process has ended onrnAugust 17, 2015 and...
Machine Translation (MT) system development from one language to another is one of the areas in human computer interaction researches for the last half century. In this thesis the first Amharic to Ethiopian Sign Language (ESL) MT system was designed and implemented for limited vocabulary. The MT...
The value of the critical temperature Te and isotope coefficient 0: could be greatlyrnaffected by a number of factors. Among them are the presence of magnetic impurities,rnnon-magnetic impurities, disorder and defects. Following previous calculationrnof the critical temperature and isotope eflect...
The study presents analysis of woody plant diversity and structure of MenagesharnSuba Forest, in Central Highlands of Ethiopia. Seventy five quadrats each 20 m X 20 m werernlaid out along three line transects in Menagesha Suba State Forest to collect vegetation data. Arntotal of 112 woody plant...
This thesis concerns the study of the 15th c. Hayq’s manuscript of St. Paul Epistles. The manuscript consists of the 14 Epistles. Among these, the Epistle of Romans is selected. The reason why this manuscript is selected is that it has not been studied and edited and there is no published...
Background: Cervical cancer is a complication of Human Papillomavirus infection is the second most common cancer in women with 529,000 new cases each year worldwide. Eighty percent of the cases occur in low-resource countries. It is also a leading cause of mortality worldwide with 270 000 women...
The critical control points in milk handling, determination of bacterial load of milk at eachrncritical control points and farm water, isolation and identification of bacterial pathogens inrnmilk were determined from September 2003 to March 2004. A total of 178 raw milk samplesrnfrom various...
A large surface area of Ambo town is covered by expansive soils which has a tendency to undergornvolume change due to change in water content with seasonal moisture variation. Civil engineeringrnstructure constructed on such soils shows damage due to uneven movement caused by swelling...
study was conducted on the impact of climate variability on household water security and sustainablernlivelihoods in Shebel Berenta Woreda, East Gojam zone in the Amhara region. The objective is to explore andrnassess what real conditions characterize the area with regard to the water security...
Glibenclamide (GLM) is an orally active hypoglycaemic agent which belongs to sulphonylurearngroup. It controls blood glucose level primarily acting on beta cells, which are the insulinproducingrncells of pancreatic islet tissue to increase their sensitivity to glucose and to stimulate...
This study examines the determinants of health care provider choice of urban householdsrnof Ethiopia. Particularly, it investigates the effects of user fees on the demand for healthrncare by different segments of socio-economic group using multinomial logit model. Therndata source of the study is...
If God exists, why does he allow little children to die of starvation? Why does he permit the earth quake? Why does he permit the rape? Why does he let babies to be born addicted to drugs? Why does God allow millions to die at the hands of wicked dictators? Why so many suffer from arthritis,...
Background: Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV has been identified as the greatest means of HIV infection among children. Studies related to PMTCT utilization has been done in other parts of Ethiopia. However, there were no studies that have examined the magnitude and factors for utilization of...
The present study was carried out in Kaffa Zone in general and Tello Wereda inrnparticular, southwest Ethiopia. The study in wetland vegetation of the area wasrnconducted between October 2005 and June 2006. The vegetation and environmental datarnwere collected from 88 quadrats (during wet season)...
Sensor technologies have become vital today in gathering information about close by environments and its use in wireless sensor networks is getting widespread popular every day. These networks are characterized by a number of sensor nodes deployed in the field for the observation of some phenomena....
Scholars addressed the career environment in which journalists worked, delineating howrnjournalists perceived their identities through values, ethics, roles and socialization patterns.rnThe main aim of this study was to survey the socio-demographic background of journalistsrnand the professional...
Variables that determine the situation of a given economy could have short or long-run relationships. This study investigates the short and long-run relationships between the trade balance, real gross domestic product, real effective exchange rate, and inflation rate in the case of Ethiopian...