Meat purchasing decisions are influenced by color more than any other quality factor when selecting beef at retail, because consumers use color as an indicator of freshness and wholesomeness. Due to this, meat retailers usually keep the meat display area well lighted to attract consumers. In...
It is an orthodox idea that teff has highest content of iron among the majority of cereal-basedrndiet, which provides almost the entire staple food consumed in Ethiopia. However, now a day itrnis proven that it is due to soil contamination. Thus, these leads to two distinctive ideas on...
Two species of Ocimum Species localiy known as 'Ajuban' and 'Besobla' are widely used inrnEthiopia for fragrance and flavour purposes respectively. Until recently the two varieties were known botanically as 0. basilicum var. thyrsiflorm and 0. ba.silicum var. basilicumrnIn this study the essential...
Iron deficiency is probably the most common nutritional deficiency present in thernworld population. Predominantly plant-based diets that are constituted ofrnwholegrain cereals and legumes contain non-heme iron that is poorly absorbed duernto susceptibility to mineral chelating agents such as...
Geogenic and anthropogenic activities are the bases for the contamination and entrance ofrnmetals into the food chain and poses health risk. Therefore, in the present work, leaching ofrnsome selected metals (Aluminium, Iron, Lead and Nickel) in traditional cooking potrnmanufactured in...
Low income developing countries have started reforming their health care deliveries and healthrncare financing systems. One of the components of health care financing reforms is cost –rnrecovery mechanism. A Bamako Initiative Revolving Drug Fund system is a cost-recoveryrnmechanism which has...
Inappropriate complementary feeding, both in quantity and quality, is a major determinant of under-nutrition. In Ethiopia, the amount of food consumed by infants and young children is lower than the theoretical gastric capacity; hence, making intake requirements even more difficult to meet. Little...
Expansive soils are soils that have a property of large volumetric changes, both shrinkage andrnswell, due to variations in their moisture content. Their bearing capacity is poor. For road tornbe constructed on such soils, the subgrade should be designed to minimize subsequentrnchanges in moisture...
BackgroundrnAbout half of the global population and over 70% of countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa rely onrnbiomass fuel as a source of household energy. Over 95% of households in Ethiopia use biomassrnfuel for cooking. Despite the prevailing major concerns among policy makers and...
Over the past few years private dairy processing industries have flourished and as a result the volume of domestic commercial pasteurized milk supplied to the urban market particularly to the capital has increased. However the chemical composition and microbial quality of these products is poorly...
A 7xW-4 M Crystal Violet tetrachloroferrate(III) extract inrnnitrobenzene has been used to construct tetrachlol~}ferrate(III)-selectivernliquid IllEITbrane electrode with a PVC support. The electrode body wasrnmade fran too concentric Pyrex glass tubes (lengths 120 mn and internalrndiameters 6 &...
Traditionally, the hot water extract of Koroso fish (Oreochromis niloticus) has been used as a nourishing tonic soup and as an aid for recovery from physical fatigue. In this study, we investigated the antifatigue effects and exercise performance endurance of mice orally administered with hot water...
Enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) is an ornamental plant in Asia, widely distributedrnin Africa and cultivated only in some regions of Ethiopia. Enset plant withstands prolongedrnperiod of drought and known for its high yielding potential. Fermentation of Enset produces arnstarchy food...
A wide range of applications of phthalocyanine complexes which ranges from medical tornindustrial makes them interesting research area now days. Their properties can be tunedrnby introducing substituents on the periphery or/and the central metal. On the basis ofrnthese; Copper (II) phthalocyanine...
A neutron star core superrnuid rotates at a di erent rate to that of the crust, while spinningrndown at the same steady-state rate as the rest of the star, because of the assumed pinningrnbetween the superrnuid vortices and the inner crust. We nd that the magnitude of thisrnrotational lag changes...
Waste disposal has become one of the major concerns for our city, Addis Ababa. Fruit peels are the major solid by-product. The dried fruit peels have a content of cellulose and hemicelluloses, which make it suitable as fermentation substrate when hydrolyzed. This thesis aims at utilizing fruit...
Thiophene-phenylene-thiophene fused heteroarene ladder-type monomeric unitrnwhich hinders “chain folding†and allows extended conjugation was synthesizedrnalong with two variants of quinoxaline-based donor-acceptor monomeric units.rnSubsequently the copolymerization between these...
Organometallic compounds are widely used as heterogenous and homogenous catalysts in the industrial productions of important chemicals and synthetic products. In many cases of such industrial transformation, metal carbenes are thought to play important roles as the active catalytic ingredients that...
Ionospheric GPS total electron content (TEC) is an important parameter to monitorrnfor possible Space Weather impacts. The e ects of solar activity on TEC at lowrnlatitude stations with geographic locations (latitude, longitude) of Addis Ababa (9:040rnN, 38:770 E) and Bahir Dar (11:60 N, 37:360 E)...
Background: Eleven million children under age of five die annually in thernworld as a whole, of which over ten million are in the developing world. Arnlarge proportion of these deaths are preventable and uncounted. To thisrnend a realistic picture of an epidemiological profile and...