Bearing capacity failure is one of the main foundation design criteria for the safety and serviceability of engineering structures. Such type of failure generally occurs due to under-estimating or inadequate geological understanding of a construction site. This study was conducted in Addis Ababa,...
The Sunnua well field is located within Uwa catchment in arid climate of Afar rift floor, Northern part of Ethiopia. It is one of the most water-stressed areas of the country, with only a short rainy period from mid-June to mid-September. Because rainfall in this region has been consistently...
The introduction of cleaner technologies through the reuse of wastewater for energy recovery can improve the environmental performance of leather industries. The polluting effects of wastewater from tanneries can be minimized by treatment of tannery effluent prior to discharge to the environment....
The main objective of this study is to determine AAU's English instructors'rnperception of usefulness of student evaluation for teacher and courserndevelopment. The study also attempts to find out factors affecting instructors'rnperception of student evaluation. In addition, it attempts to discover...
Reading is one of the key skills in language learning. Extensive readingrnapproach to teaching reading has remarkable impact in EFL context especiallyrnwhere English serves as a medium of instruction. In Ethiopia, despite thisrnreality, extensive reading receives the least attention in the teaching...
This study was carried out to see if there were gender differences in ve rbalrnparticipation in Engli sh as Foreign Language classroom group discussions atrnAdama Teachers Training College. For the study students whose four semestersrncumulative grade point average (CGPA) in Engli sh courses was...
The main purpose of the present study was to analyze the extent to which the speaking tasksrn(activities) in the currently in use Grade 12 English textbook were well structured and organizedrnin such a way that they could promote speaking skills. To this end, the speaking tasks werernidentified and...
Malaria is a major health and socio-economic problem in developing countries of the world including Ethiopia. This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of malaria infection in patients who visited Dubti Health Center for the last five years (2006 – 2010 E.C). A retrospective study was...
Malaria is a major health and socio-economic problem in developing countries of the world including Ethiopia. This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of malaria infection in patients who visited Dubti Health Center for the last five years (2006 – 2010 E.C). A retrospective study was...
Malaria is a major health and socio-economic problem in developing countries of the world including Ethiopia. This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of malaria infection in patients who visited Dubti Health Center for the last five years (2006 – 2010 E.C). A retrospective study was...
Regardless of the language, a ll children can acquire essentia l componentsrnof their respective language by about the age of three or four. However, notrna ll children can do this. Particularly, among the menta lly challengedrnpeople, Down's syndrome individuals cannot achieve this level. This...
The study area, Sebeta town and its vicinities, is characterized by recently expanding urbanization, huge industrial activities and groundwater dependent agricultural practices. All these activities have a tremendous effect on the water resource utilization and a polluting potential of the system....
In the Dawa river basin of southern Ethiopia there is a problem of locating good quantity and quality groundwater particularly in the semi-arid region. Integrated geological, hydrogeological, hydrochemical, and isotopic study together with the preliminary analysis of the river hydrograph were...
Sub grade soils and materials characterizations are the main parameter for flexible pavement both in the design and construction phases. Expansive soils in construction sites do have significant influence on planning, structural design, construction and maintenance costs, performance and...
This study covers two parts where the first part deals with groundwater potential assessment of Rebu river catchment and the second part which is the main focus of the study deals with assessment of sustainability problems of developed water supply schemes in Woliso woreda( i.e part of Rebu river...
Alteration in the hydrological system and ecological situation within CER is highly seen fromrnmid 1970s due to both anthropogenic and natural factors. Humans usually and veryrndramatically accelerate natural processes often unintentionally but usually in the coursernactivities like agriculture,...
The study area is located in the South Western sector of Ethiopia. In the Southern Nations,rnNationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR), at (latitude N 6° 18' 06" longitude E 36° 03' 19").rnIt is about 905 km far from Addis Ababa and about 120 km from Jinka town, the weir site...
This research was focused on characterizing the hydrogeology of Tegona river catchment,rnwhich is located in Bale administrative zone under the Oromia Regional State and situated atrnabout 430 km from Addis in the southeast direction. The hydrogeology and hydrochemistryrnof the area was...
Hydrochemistry and stable isotopes have been used as powerful tool in the analysis of the hydrogeological system analysis of the Abaya Chamo Lakes basin. This large basin (18,100km2) is situated in the complex volcano-tectonic terrain of the southern main Ethiopian rift with three distinct...