Background: Particulate matter below 2.5 µm diameter (PMrn) is a part of air pollution thatrnhas adverse effects on health. Data on exposure to ambient PMrn2.5rn is not well monitored inrnsub-Saharan Africa due to limited resources and skilled manpower. The effect of PMrn2.5rn onrnhealth is...
Most major road networks in Ethiopia are constructed with flexible pavement, this type ofrnpavement used as the only option considered during the pavement type selection process forrnmany years. Rigid pavement structure which distributes loads to the subgrade having, as thernmain load bearing...
Building performance analysis at the design stage enables assessing the building'srnperformance and the variables that influence it. Simulating the performance of arnbuilding by visualizing how the building will react in response to excitation in a virtualrnenvironment provides designers and...
Graphs play an important role in various practical application areas from social science tornmachine learning. However, due to the irregular data access pattern of graph computation,rnthere is a major challenge in graph processing.rnThe emergence of the technology called Hybrid memory cube(HMC) has...
Background: Several evidences suggest that Cytomegalovirus (CMV) may play anetiological role insome case ofschizophrenia and bipolar disorder.Studies have reportedthat some individuals experiencing initial episodes of major mental disorders haveincreased levels of immunoglobulin G(IgG)...
Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (WASH) is a subject of intersectoral interest that engagesrndifferent governmental and non-governmental organizations. As it happens in the otherrnareas of public health, existence of parallel WASH activities makes the sector prone to thernproblems of fragmentation,...
Brief BackgroundVaginal delivery after previous one cesarean section for a non recurringindication has been described with many evidences as a safe practice and success rate of 60-80%.Hence many centers are offering VBAC for candidates leaving the century old dictum of oncecesarean always cesarean....
Phlebotomine sand flies play an important role in human diseases mainly as vectors ofrnLeishmania species, the etiologic agent of leishmaniasis. Visceral leishmaniasis is a deadlyrnvector-borne disease that causes an estimated 500 000 new cases and 59,000 deaths every yearrnglobally. The actual...
Background: It’s important to note that human factors, socioeconomic strata, labor marketrndemand and supply, policies and procedures play role in human resource management. Thernchallenges of human resource management have many dimensions stretching from recruitment tornseparation. One of...
Gravitational wave science is one of direct observation of the waves predictedrnby Einstein’s general theory of relativity and opening the exciting new field ofrngravitational wave astronomy. In this thesis work we study gravitational wavesrnand we also present some of the general relativity...
Background: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) was the leading cause of death worldwide resulting in over 7 million deaths in 2010. In 2018 CAD deaths in Ethiopia reached 7.81% of total deaths. Finding studies on CAD and deaths associated with it using risk scores in Ethiopia remains limited. ...
Coreference resolution is the process of finding an entity which is refers to the same entity in a text. Inrncoreference resolution similar entities are mention. The task of coreference resolution is clustering allrnsimilar mentions in a text based on the index of a word. Coreference resolution is...
The main purpose of the study is to propose Information Security management framework for integrated financial management information system (IFMIS). In this study, MoF was selected using purposive sampling that issues service for different financial sectors around in Addis. The target population...
Maintaining sound health and weI/being is the prime concern ojparenting el'erYlI'here. Blltrnthe 1'(>01 health situation of inionts in Finoteselam is one among the worst in the COlll7tl")'.rnMorbidity and injury remain high in this age group due to the inappropriate and less qualitv carernprol'/ded...
The study finds out that hoe-cultivation has been and continues to be therndominant system of agriculture ill Sidama. Ilowcver, at present peasants in somernparts of the Sidama have adopted plough cultivation. This study reveals thatrnirrespect ive of the farming techniques used men playa pivotal...
The Gravity recovery and climate experiment (GRACE and GRACE FO) satellite mission is veryrnimportant to monitor Groundwater storage variation where there is a limitation of in siturndata and limit of policies for sharing data like East Africa. In this study, GRACE and GRACE FOrnand GLDAS data were...
In Ethiopia, the electric sector is already experiencing considerable rising in generation of powerrnfrom renewable energy sources like the GERD. Large amounts of new generation are expected inrnthe near-term future, which will require additional distribution planning to properly integraternthese...
Datum transformation is the transformation of coordinate points from one known coordinaternreference system into another. The recent practice of geospatial data collection, management,rnand analysis in Ethiopia is in geocentric coordinates of a point defined based on a global datumrn(WGS84)....
Soil erosion is the deterioration of soil by straight forward of the physical movement of soilrnelements from a given site and the main catchment problems in the high land of Ethiopia. Thisrnresearch mainly aims to evaluate Land use and land cover change on soil erosion using RUSLErnmodel and to...
Background:Schizophrenia and bipolar disordersare serious neuropsychiatric diseases ofunknown etiology. Recent studies indicated that infectious agents such as Toxoplasmagondii may contribute to some cases of schizophreniaandother mental disorders. In thisstudy we determinedthe prevalence ofT....