Coffee is the second important raw material within the international trade, thernmost important foreign exchange supplier for many agricultural orientedrncountries, and the most popular drink. Assessment of the caffeine level is crucialrnto coffee quality.rnAn HPLC-UV method with microwave assisted...
For soils to be suitable in civil engineering projects, they must meet existing local requirements for index properties in addition to certain strength criteria. Typically, specification limits these properties to some threshold values, which in most cases are project specific. Some lateritic...
The study is intended to investigate the major determinants of life insurance demandrnin Ethiopia. The study focuses on the relationship of life insurance with six selectedrnindependent variables (income, inflation, real interest rate, level of education, lifernexpectance and dependence ratio). The...
Culturally, elder abuse in Ethiopia is not perceived as a serious problem. InrnEthiopia, there are no data on the extent or types of elder abuse. To increasernunderstanding of the issue, a phenomenological study was conducted based on the livedrnexperiences of 15 elders (9 women, 6 men) in Ethiopia...
Pile foundations are widely used in different construction site, to support loads from superstructures. Study on predicting bearing capacity and other parameters of pile foundations is still attracting interests of geotechnical researchers. Besides the laboratory or field tests, finite element...
This study examines the bank-specific, industry-specific and macro-economic factorsrnaffecting bank profitability for a total of eight commercial banks in Ethiopia, covering thernperiod of 2000-2011. To this end, the study adopts a mixed methods research approachrnby combining documentary analysis...
A tetradentate Schiff base ligand was formed by the 1:2 molarrncondensation of Ethylenediamine and Ninhydrin and Characterized byrnelemental analysis, IR and UV-Vis. Spectra. Its Ni(II) complex wasrnsynthesized and characterized by analytical studies, molar conductivity,rnmagnetic susceptibility,...
The economic importance of copyright law for the copyright owner is unquestionable. The copyright owners have been abused their right of using their intellectual property as they deserve. Looking their right is violated copyright owners didn’t sit idle; actions have been taken by the owners...
Soil investigation program is necessary to provide information for design and construction and environmental assessment. rnAmbo is located at a distance of 112kms from Addis Ababa. Ambo is serving as the main town of west shoa zone of Oromia region. In the town many constructions were under taken,...
A floristic description and ethnobotanical study of the < naturahvegetation . was carried out . betweenrnSeptember 5, 2005 and June, 2006 in the Babile Elephant Sanctuary ( BES), which was established inrn1970, in the semi-arid region of Ethiopia. Stratified sampling design was used and 75 quadrats...
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most widely distributed and has the broadest range ofrngenetic resources. In Ethiopia, the yield of common bean is extremely low mainly due to nitrogenrndeficiency and also little information is available regarding diversity of rhizobia nodulating...
Samples were collected from the three sites: Sendafa, DebternIlerhan and Fiche to study changes induced by "Guie" practice. 'l'hernchemical and physical changes as well as the growth of barley inrnthese soils was compared for the three sites.rnThe laboratory study involved the determinations for...
Eight families consisting of 24 genera and 63 species of amphibians have been recordedrnin Ethiopia, and out of these 40% are endemic. Little is dealt about the ecology andrnbehaviour of amphibians, and karyotypes of amphibians in Ethiopia had not beenrnstudied prior to this study. Chromosome...
In the face of antimalarial drug resistance, there is need to develop more effectivernantimalarial drugs that are inexpensive. In this respect, traditional medicinal plant-basedrnantimalarial products are more preferable candidates. In this study, the seeds of Dodonaearnangustifolia and the leaves...
Kocho and Bulla are starchy foods obtained from fermenting edible part of the leaf sheath and corm of enset plant (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.), Cheesman). In the present study the level of selected metals (Na, Mg, Mn, Ni, Pb, K, Ca, Fe, Zn, Cu, Co, Cr, Cd) in Kocho and Bulla sampled from different...
The study was carried out in the Web Valley of the Bale Moulltaills National Park, Ethiopiarnfrom November 2001 to October 2002. The study focused on the ecology of domestic dogrn(Canis familiaris) to determine the potelllial effects of the domestic dog on the elldemic andrnendangered Ethiopian...
The release mechanisms, of the two organophosphorusrninsecticides, malathion and chlorpyrifos, were studied fromrnthe polymer films prepared in the Laboratory. Furthermore,rnthe behaviour of the release of chlorpyrifos from therngranular commercial sample was also studied.rnThus, the diffusion of...
Five tea clones of the C. assamica variety grown in Wushwush tea plantation farms, Ethiopiarnwere analyzed for their contents of essential, non-essential and toxic metals (K, Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn,rnCu, Zn, Na, Cd and Pb) by atomic absorption flame emission spectroscopy. Among thernmacronutrient metals, K...
Five tea clones of the C. assamica variety grown in Wushwush tea plantation farms, Ethiopiarnwere analyzed for their contents of essential, non-essential and toxic metals (K, Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn,rnCu, Zn, Na, Cd and Pb) by atomic absorption flame emission spectroscopy. Among thernmacronutrient metals, K...
The kinetics of dissociation of pentacyano paranitrosophenolrnand 4-nitroso N,N'-dimethyl aniline ferrate(II}rncomplexes was studied under three different conditions:rni) substitution of PNP and PNA with excess pyridine, ii} acidrncatalysed substitution of PNP and PNA and iii) Hg(II)...