This study was conducted to find out health- seeking behavior of elderly women and their financial coping strategy in Addis Ababa. A qualitative approach was employed to collect and analyze the collected data. Accordingly, in-depth interviews were conducted with 60 elderly women. In addition, key...
Lack of access to credit is considered to be one of the major constraints the poor are confronted with when they are planning to make an investment. Hence, microfinance institutions intended to provide credit to those poor who are striving to improve their living situation but they have no access...
In societies, such as Ethiopia, where ethnically diverse people live, some conflict on identity-based cleavage is expected. Universities are one of the contexts where ethnic tensions and conflicts occur, and there is an increasing concern that they become the major battlefields for ethnic conflict...
The prevalence of stunting is the conventional anthropometric measure that reflects multifactorial social deprivation. Despite substantial reductions in recent years in Ethiopia, the prevalence of stunting in the Amhara Region remains unacceptably high, affecting 47% of children under-five. Several...
This study was intended to explore blood revenge practice and communities perception, to examine the cause, consequence, intervention mechanism, societies view and reasons for the continuation of blood revenge practice. To this end, relevant literature has been reviewed to shade light on the issue...
Chronic illness is generally long term, not curable, results in limitations in daily life. It often makes patients more dependent on their healthy family members’ care. Thus, families living with a chronic patient often experience overall altering on their personal as well as family life....
Significant increments of Large-Scale Agricultural Investments in Ethiopia were sparked in thisrnpast decade primarily ignited by the world food price crisis in 2007/8. Agricultural investmentsrncommenced following this year were hoped by both the government and investors to providerndecent...
In this thesis we have investigated impurities profiles in a semiconductor layers,rnusing Monte Carlo simulation technique in an external parabolic potential. By ignoringrnimpurity - impurity Coulomb’s interaction, first we considered impuritiesrndiffusion in the presence of external...
Organic semiconductors (OSCs) have attracted increasing interest since they havernproven to be a potential use as active material in electronic devices such as organicrnlight emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic field effect transistors (OFETs). Theyrnare composed of molecules which are held...
The thesis is focused on developing a preliminary conceptual model of Shalla geothermal prospect in the Main Ethiopian Rift (MER), Ethiopia on the bases of geological and water geochemical information. The Shalla prospect is one of the geothermal prospects in the Lakes district of the MER, which is...
Starting with a Kondo lattice model type Hamiltonian, we have studied the e_ects of impurity concen-rntration x, electric _eld, magnetic _eld, and magnetic anisotropy energy on the magnetic properties ofrnFe=GaSb diluted magnetic semiconductor. Analytical technique is employed to analyze the...
The aim of this thesis is to study the quantum properties of light produced by arnnon-degenerate three-level atom driven by strong coherent light in a cavity con-rntaining a parametric ampli er and coupled to a two-mode vacuum reservoir. Byrnusing the master equation of the system, the stochastic...
Multinuclear complexes of Zn(II) from citric acid and 2, 2’-dipyridylamine and Mn(II) from 2, 2’-dipyridylamine were successfully synthesized by template method. All complexes were particularly colored and stable to atmospheric condition. All the synthesized complexes were...
In this thesis we study various properties of composition operators acting betweenrngeneralized Fock spaces Fp'rnand Fq'rnwith weight functions ' grow faster thanrnthe classical Gaussian weight function 1rn2 jzj2 and satisfy some mild smoothnessrnconditions. Let be an analytic map on the complex...
Polynuclear coordination complexes of the two first row transition elements copper and zinc with the two ligands dimethylglyoxime and paraphenylene diamine, containing nitrogen donor atoms, have been prepared in this paper. This work concerns the synthesis and characterization of the two new...
Honey is the sweet substance made when the nectar and sweet deposits from plants are gathered, modified and stored in the honeycomb by honey bees. Pollen is the male reproductive cells of flowers. The objectives of the study were to investigate the botanical origin, physicochemical and antioxidant...
Humans have been known as the weakest link within information security chain. Organizations often face information security incidents as a result of human error mostly because they tend to emphasise and invest on technical security controls rather than the human factor. However, organizations have...
Ni (II), Cu (II) and Zn (II) complexes have been synthesized using solvo-thermal synthesis method. Divalent Ni and Cu chlorides hydrates were reacted with dimethylglyoxime and 4, 4'-bipyridine in 1:2:2 mole ratio and zinc chloride was reacted with the same ligands in 1:2:1 ratio. Methanol was used...
Recommended child feeding is not simply a mothers’ response to the metabolic demands of her child, but involves a complex web of behaviors and interactions among people including fathers, grandmothers and health workers. These interactions emanate from meanings that people hold, conditioned...
As social media has become a ubiquitous part of our daily life, questions remained to bernanswered by scholars who study social movements and new communication technologies. Thisrnthesis explored the role of social media in the mobilizations of social movements. To achieve thisrngoal, the study set...