The purpose of this study is an attempt to explore the impact of various industry marketrnstructure elements (such as: Advertising Intensity, Capital Intensity, Inventory Turnover,rnFirm Size, etc.) on profitability measurements of large and medium scale manufacturingrnindustries of Ethiopia. The...
The purpose of this study was to examine the Ethiopian Herald’s and the Daily Monitor‘s discourses towards the 2006-07 military operation of the Ethiopian defense forces against the United Islamic Courts (UIC).The study has been situated within the broader critical research paradigm....
Spectrophotometric method was developed for the determination of the amount of caffeine inrncoffee samples. The Uv/vis spectra of pure caffeine in water and dichloromethane were obtainedrnwith peak absorption at λmax 271 and 275 nm, respectively. The developed method showedrnlinearity for the...
This study assesses the overall drug use patternrn(with and without prescription) in an Addis Ababarncommunity, potential drug sources, factors associatedrnwith increased drug consumption and purchasing followingrnan illness episode. It employed a cross-sectionalrncommunity-based survey of a sample...
Addis Ababa has been subjected to different kinds of urban developments which are undertakenrnat different times: past and present. The city is now witnessing the product of these two kinds ofrnurban developments. The places created by these two urban development activities varyrnsignificantly;...
Information and communication technology has become the heInformation and communication technology has become the heart of banking industry, whilernthe banking industry is the heart of the economy. This research has considered a criticalrnliterature review of previous researchers with the objective...
A collisional radiative model is applied to study the ionization,rnrecombination, and energy loss rates of an optically thin hydrogen plasma in arnTokamak thermonuclear fusion reactor. The effective ionization andrnrecombination coefficients are found to be increasing functions of...
This thesis documents the human-wildlife interaction (Grevy’s zebra, Equus grevyi, and the local pastoralists in Chew Bahir (Chalbi) and Sarite areas, southern Ethiopia. The study tried to investigate the challenges and the underlying causes that brought Grevy’s zebra population...
The purpose of the study was to assess the influencernof ESLCE GPA and some lelected factors_on first yearrnScience Students' academic performance. The data analyzedrn. came from a random sample of one hundred and fifty studentsrnenr-olled in the Faculty of Science (AAU) as freshmen inrn1987/88....
The contribution of Micro and Small Enterprises in alleviating poverty and in initiatingrneconomic development is found tremendous. Unfortunately, the development and contribution ofrnMSEs in Bahir Dar could not be significant as expected or required. They have being facedrnfinancial and...
Due to space limitations in urban areas, deep excavation in to the ground has become a common practice worldwide. Among the conventional retaining support systems, this study is focused on secant pile walls. The secant pile methodology comprised the formation of overlapping concrete piles. The...
The dichloromethane: methanol (1:1) extract of Senna floribunda afforded two bianthraquinones:rnfloribundone-1(11) and 5, 7’- physcion – fallacinol (15) along with three commonrnanthraquinones: chrysophanol (5), physcion (8) and emodin (3). Several un-characterizedrnpigments were also...
The study investigates the relationships between physical characteristics of communal open spaces and the activities in residential environment of Gofa Mebrat-hail condominium neighbourhood, which is one of the project in Integrated Housing Development Program (IHDP) in Addis Ababa. The phenomenon...
Following reports on decreases in malaria cases and deaths recently many countries embarked on malaria elimination and some even succeeded in doing so. Ethiopia is following suit and aims to eliminate the disease in certain localities by 2020. To meet this goal continuous evaluation of...
NGO’S internal control effectiveness involves the capability of an organization to deliverrnservices to its people in the most efficient manner while ensuring high quality of its services andrnsupport. The focus of the study was guided by the following objectives; to assess...
Naturalness of synthetic speech highly depends on appropriate modeling of prosodic aspects. Mostly, three prosody components are modeled: segmental duration, pitch contour and intensity.The general goal of duration modeling is to find a computational relation between a set of affecting factors and...
Jimma is located in south-west Ethiopia and is classified as “Weyna Dega†with high degree ofrnhumidity. The topography is predominantly flat and rolling terrain. It is mainly covered with black,rngray and red colored plastic clay soils.rnIdentification of soils type, classification of...
Twenty yeasts colonies were isolated from Tela, Teji, Honey and teff dough selection forrnethanol tolerance on yeast extract peptone dextrose agar medium (YEPDA). All the isolatesrnwere first tested for carbohydrate fermentation using Durham tube fermentation method inrnyeast extract peptone...
This study seeks to identify the sources, causes, and also outcomes of the improper influences on media contents by outlining three broader levels: extra-media; organizational, and within media influences. It is carried out on two broadcasting media organizations in Ethiopia-the EBC and Sheger...
The inorganic compositions of three (Ambo, Aquaddis and Highland) brands of bottledrnmineral water and tap water samples from different sources that are consumed in AddisrnAbaba (Ethiopia) were analyzed using standard methods. FAAS was used for therndetermination of four heavy metals (Fe, Cr, Cd...