Development and its induced impacts have been affecting millions of people all over the world for many decades. Even though much has been written and documented about this issue, research regarding development is not abundant focusing on the third world. This is highly attributed to the fact that...
Most of the shear strength tests and studies done in this country particularly in Addis Ababa are using the conventional triaxial machine, which is unable to measure the matric suction of the soil. However, a few research works have recently been done on the shear strength characteristics for...
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) with wide-band code division multiple access technology (WCDMA) is a major mobile communication system deployed in Ethiopia. WCDMA is being widely deployed in urban areas of the country. Along its deployment and expansion, it is necessary to develop...
Vowel sound unit characterization is a process of studying the acoustic characteristics or behaviors of vowel speech units within different contexts. It is used to describe the phonetic and acoustic features of the respective speech units and avoid inappropriate parameter selection in concatenative...
The different ethnic groups in Ethiopia have developed their own indigenous mechanism to dealrnwith conflicts. The Oyda of southern Ethiopia are among those ethnic groups with their ownrnconflict resolution mechanism. The main purpose of this study is to explore the role ofrnindigenous institutions...
The properties of neutrino, detection of neutrino, helicity and experimentalrndetermination of helicity are discussed here. Main points on which this projectrnwork give focuses are the interaction of neutrino with matter, neutrino reactionrncross section, mean free path of neutrino, neutrino...
The major purpose of this study is to investigate the contribution of homework andrnother va riables to students' mathematics achievement. The subjects were 240rnrandomly selected yth graders (n =1 20) and 8th graders (n=1 20) from Awassa TaborrnElementary School in 1996 Eth.C. Each grade students...
Climate change has become a concern and threat to the livelihoods of billions of people around the globe in general and to millions of people in Ethiopia. It is a known fact that climate change has a direct or indirect impact on people’s livelihood. Hence, the effect of climate change...
Alternative technologies for sustainable agricultural production and ecosystem conservation study were conducted in Arsi Zone, Oromia Region. A total of 180 sample households were selected from 12 kebeles (smallest administrative unit in Ethiopia) of four weredas (districts). The households were...
This study demonstrates how linguistic disambiguation based on semantic vector analysis canrnimprove the effectiveness of an Amharic document query retrieval algorithm.rnAccurate document retrieval based on query criteria is important in every knowledge domain.rnThe ability to retrieve appropriate...
Ultraviolet radiation is the main source of energy for the photochemical reaction andrndynamics in the stratosphere and ionosphere. It is also one of the main sources of energyrnrequired for the evolution of animals and plants.rnThe method used to make people aware the risks related to UV is using...
Different research outcomes indicate that personality types and learningrnstyles playa role in determining students' academic success. Therefore,rnthe present study was aimed at the investigation of the effects of somernpersonality type and learning styles on college students' academicrnsuccess....
These days most service organizations are realizing the significance of customerrncentered philosophies. One of the key challenges for them is how they managernservice quality, which holds a great importance for customer satisfaction. Thernpurpose of this research was to identify the gap between...
In the absence of any means of livelihood, more and more people were driven to begging, somerntemporarily and some permanently. Today, as a result, begging has assumed enormous proportionsrnand for thousands it is a means of earning livelihood in urban areas in general and in Addis Ababa...
In this study, an attempt was made to investigate the impact of'rna chemistry teaching program by "Instructional FunctionsrnApproach" on student achievement. The study employed the "prerntest - post test control group experimental design" in which casernthe treatment teachers received training in...
Safety is one of the most critical factors affecting the quality of sidewalk. Sidewalk usersrnreliably recognize their risks from crime to be significantly high, discouraging many fromrnusing sidewalk. Study aims to create safe sidewalk to prevent crime the case of AMCE arearnin Addis Ababa. Its...
Merawi, Mecha wereda capital Town, which is located 540 km from Addis Ababa in North West direction on the main high way road of Addis Ababa to Bahir Dar and 30 km away from Bahir Dar in the South West direction. It was founded in 1935E.C which situated at latitude 11o24`56.36``N, longitude...
The main objective of this research was to identify and analyze the socio-cultural factors affecting girls’ participation in secondary education among the Nuer and Agnwa communities in Gambella Region. To achieve this objective, both secondary and primary data were collected and analyzed....
The development of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) was studied at two levels of grainrnbreakage (10, 50%), milled (flour) and whole grain of 20 g different grains or hosts (maize,rnbarely, wheat, sorghum, chick pea, faba bean, field pea and haricot bean) that were purchasedrnfrom Markato. These 10 and...
We study the quantum properties of the light generated by a two-level laser inrnwhich two-level atoms available in a closed cavity are pumped to the upper levelrnby means of electron bombardment. We present a brief discussion of the numberrnand coherent states for an arbitrary commutator of the...