The purpose of this study was to assess the balanced scorecard implementation on the selected sectors of Kirkos sub city. The study is of great importance to public sectors, government and other stakeholder. The study used descriptive and explanatory research method and 133 sample respondents from...
The primary purpose of this research was to study the impact of major risk factors which arernidentified particularly in high rise building construction sites. 32 high rise buildings werernevaluated using the questionnaire prepared and experts from 4 selected high rise building rnconstruction sites...
Earthmoving operations are a sizable and heavy portion of most civil construction projects.rnIt includes cyclic work, expensive fleet, and a large volume of works. Earthmoving operations arerndifficult to plan and operate because of their operation complexity, uncertainty in the operationrnprocess,...
In developing countries with deficit in infrastructure facilities, like Ethiopia, the role of roadrnnetwork expansion programs are fundamental. In line with this logic, Ethiopia is engaging in arnnumber of road construction projects under regional and federal level by implementingrnconsecutive Road...
Labour management in building construction has an essential impact on controlling manpowerrnrelated problems. Ineffective construction labour management is always a source of claims,rnconflicts, unproductivity, cost overrun, and delay affecting overall performance of thernconstruction projects...
The objective of this research is to study the role of project management technical and behavioralrncompetencies on project performance in the Ethiopian construction industry. The unique naturernof the construction industry, coupled with challenges of global competitiveness, and...
Professionals play a major role in determining the success and failure of constructionrnprojects, since they have direct involvements in every stage of the construction. Taking thatrninto consideration, this research is conducted to identify the practice of professional ethicsrnand its effect on...
Construction industry is a major player in economy of any country by generating employment, andrnwealth to the nations. The Industry also provides infrastructure which is vital for economic growthrnand provision of service. However, many projects in developing countries experience extremely...
Predicting project duration with reasonable accuracy is a formidable challenge to industryrnpractitioners and alike. Consequently, several research studies have focused on this subject, andrnthus multiple models have been developed. Notwithstanding the conflicting findings of itsrnpredictive...
The quote from Rev. Jesse Jackson, A text without a context is a pretext",rnsummarizes the reasoning behind this thesis. Capturing context in translatingrnbetween two human languages using computing machines is challenging.rnIt is more challenging when the languages di er greatly in grammar and...
This paper presents effect of preprocessing on Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) basedrnsentiment analysis for Amharic language. Sentiment analysis or opinion mining is anrnapproach used to analyze user generated textual contents to a way that is importantrnfor decision making. User generated textual...
The distribution of treated water over a water distribution system faces di erentrnlosses. In these distribution systems, a signi cant percentage of water is lost duernto leakages. There are plenty of researches that were proposed to tackle this waterrnresource wastage. Most of them, however, focus...
Audio ï¬ngerprinting is a technique used for exact identiï¬cation of an audio by extractingrnperceptually relevant audio features and transforming them into condensed reproduciblernformats. Different approaches are proposed to develop audio ï¬ngerprintingrnsystem. Based on their...
Since the invention of Gramophone by Thomas Edison in 1877, vast amountsrnof cultural, entertainment, educational and historical audio recordings havernbeen recorded and stored throughout the world. Through natural aging andrnimproper storage, the recorded signal degrades and loses its information...
Side lobe suppression is one of the most important design considerations of linear antenna arrayrnto reduce interference and wastage of radiation power. Side lobe level reduction also avoidrnindicating false target. The reduction of side lobes can be achieved by proper calibration of...
The upcoming fifth generation (5G) of mobile communication that can enhance the capacity andrndata rates attracts many attentions in recent years. One drawback of 5G technology is that it isrnmore prone to interference comparing to the other technologies. To overcome this problem 5Grninfrastructure...
The need for an internet connection is growing globally. So, day-by-day people needrnmuch higher data rate connection to meet their need but every physical resource in communicationrnlike frequency band, transmit signal strength are ï¬nite. Within the givenrnlimited resource, higher data speed...
In tanneries, the phases of conditioning and preparing the hide/skin for tanning, as well as the rntransportation and fixation of tanning substances are all carried out in aqueous media. Mostrnof the steps of these processes are carried out with fresh water. This leads to the generation ofrnhigh...
The solid wastes generated from beer industries during beer packaging in which each bottle hasrnto be labeled with a paper then turned to wastes after usage. rnIn this study repulping of waste beer label paper was carried out by repulping Heniken‘s wasternbeer label and blended it with used...
The study investigates the effect of branch expansion in microfinance profitability which is measured as a rate return on asset. The study used panel data from 24 microfinance institutions over 9 years. In particular, it employed a regression analysis and a dataset covering nine years (2010 to...