This research work tries to examine the effect of strain rate on shear strength of red clay soil of rnAsela. It is attempted to identify the effect of strain rate by conducting a series of triaxial compression test and unconfined compression test on remolded soil samples. All the specimens were...
Speech synthesis is a process of making artificial speech which mainly requires computers to understand the language speaking rules. Even if there are several techniques of producing synthetic speech, it is still challenging to find one that overcomes all the limitations. One of the speech...
At present much emphasis is being placed in the use of botanical pesticide in thernprotection of storage insect pests, which have gradually been ignored and also to avoidrnproblems with insecticide resistance. Experiments were conducted to determine thernefficacy of Allium sativum L. and Citrus...
The aim of the study was to explore traditional healers’ conception and treatment practicernconcerning mental illness. To achieve this aim qualitative approach was employed because thernstudy was exploratory in nature, since much has not been done about the topic and populationrnbeing...
Despite tremendous progress in the control of the global HIV epidemic, the burden of HIV isrnstill severe in Sub-Saharan Africa. Longitudinal and survival data frequently observed togetherrnin practice and useful for analysis of HIV related data. The separate analyses of longitudinalrnand survival...
Historic resources are key ingredients in neighbourhood liveability, and quality of life. In anrnincreasingly fast-paced and ‘placeless’ form of urban development, the historic and architecturalrncharacters are essential to the identity and uniqueness of a community. This identity...
Key Wordsrnadolescent , adult, age, age grading, communicative behaviors , discourse feature, gender,rnlanguage change, natural language, religion, socioeconomic status, variant, variationrnLanguage variation due to age is a normal phenomenon but is not universally regular because thernfactors that...
Recently, Long Term Evolution (LTE) has been deployed by many operators to address the growing data needs. Ethio telecom is among those operators that have deployed LTE in Addis Ababa. As other new emerging technologies, LTE uses orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technology to...
purpose of this study was to examine the implementation of the curriculum of WaterrnTechnology stream in two selected Middle-level TVET College of Oromia Region. Tornmeet this purpose a descriptive survey research method was employed in the study. Inrnthis endeavor, data were collected through...
purpose of this study was to examine the implementation of the curriculum of WaterrnTechnology stream in two selected Middle-level TVET College of Oromia Region. Tornmeet this purpose a descriptive survey research method was employed in the study. Inrnthis endeavor, data were collected through...
Financial management practices in the faith based areas at large and in the churchesrnspecifically is not the recent development. Despite its age, the financial management practicernhas been challenged in the church because of two main reasons; the first is the source of incomernarise from...
In Ethiopia, as most developing countries there. is little information on chronicrnsuppurative otitis media. Thus, this study was conducted to establish the causative microorganismsrnin chronic suppurative otitis media among children aged 0- I 2 years and torndetermine antibiotic treatment based on...
The relationship of teachers' professional commitment and school climaternin Jimma zone government high schools was investigated in a sample ofrn153 teachers of eleven secondary schools. Two kinds of questionnaires,rnwhich focused on the three dimensions of school climate (collegialrnleadership,...
The continuous miniaturization process of computing devices featuring wireless technologies influences our everyday life. With the popularity of laptops, cell phones, PDAs, GPS devices, RFID, and intelligent electronics in the post-PC era, computing devices have become cheaper, more mobile, more...
Gesho, Rhamnus prinoides L’Herit (Rhamnaceae) is a shrub or tree which can bernup to 6 m tall. It is cultivated in Ethiopia for use as an ingredient in the making of thernhome brewed drinks-Telia and Tej.rnPhytochemical investigations of the leaves of this plant resulted in the isolation...
In this thesis tropospheric and stratospheric CO have been derived from FTIR spectrometerrnand analyzed since May 17, 2009. All the sources of error indicate that it is notrntoo much to cause signi cant error in our result. The degree of freedom (DOFs) for COrnis nearly 3 which means there are...
There is compelling evidence to indicate that the English proficiency of pre-service trainees atrnthe English Department of the Addis Ababa University is plummeting. They join university withrnsuch poor English that it is almost impossible to raise it to the required level during the threernyears...
The objective of this paper was to investigate the impact of public sector investment and final consumption expenditure on economic growth using time series data on Ethiopia (for 54 years). In addition, it intended to explore the pattern and relative impact of public and private consumption and...
In this thesis coverage and capacity comparisons of WLAN 60 GHz frequency in LOS and NLOS scenarios are done with its counterpart 2.4 and 5 GHz frequencies. In addition, in capacity comparison different number of MIMO antenna systems are also compared for those three frequencies. For coverage...
The economic effect of housing had been debatable in the past. However, recent global experiencesrnshowed that housing has significant impact on urban economy. It creates jobs for unskilled labor duringrnconstruction and stimulates income generating activities for the urban poor. The Integrated...