Road traffic accidents are among the top le a din g causes of deaths and injuries of variousrnlevels. Ethiopia is one of the countries of the world experiencing highest rate of suchrnaccident s resulting in fatalities and various levels of injuries. Addis Ababa, the capital city ofrnEthiopia, takes...
The increase in the amount of electronic information has caused increasing needrnfor efficient information retrieval techniques. Most techniques to retrieving textualrnmaterials from databases depend on exact term match between terms in user'srnquery and terms by which documents are indexed....
This thesis discusses and presents the different methodsrnof computer assisted generation of vocabulary controlrntools, particularly thesaurus and it variations, as wellrnas their application in designing and developingrndatabases and user interfaces to support urban planningrnactivities. The...
According to the Il1Iernational E)'e Foundation (IEF) reports, there are currently about45 million visuallyrnimpaired people in the world, the vast majority of which has been living in Africa In Ethiopia, the latestrncensus indicates that there are well over half a million visually impaired...
Most system development methods, at least in principle, have two impol1ant components,rnnamely a modeling language and a process. The modeling languages are graphicalrnnotations for expressing designs and provides easy communication and documentation.rnThe process of the method shows how to do the...
One of the important tasks that we have to face in a real world application is the task ofrnclassifying par1icular situation or events as belonging to a certain class. Risk assessment inrninsurance policies is one example that can be viewed as classification problem. In order tornsolve these kinds...
Indexing in information retrieval is used to obtain a suitable vocabularyrnof index terms and optimum assignment of these terms to documents forrnincreasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the the retrieval system. Arngreat many automatic indexing models have been developed over the yearsrnin...
Information Technology (IT) has brought significant changes in the business world. Thernbusiness community in Addis Ababa can get significant benefit from the appropriate use ofrnIT. Integration of hypertext and expert systems technology has brought a new dimensionrnto modern information retrieval,...
Information Technology (IT) has brought significant changes in the business world. Thernbusiness community in Addis Ababa can get significant benefit from the appropriate use ofrnIT. Integration of hypertext and expert systems technology has brought a new dimensionrnto modern information retrieval,...
the field of T ext-To- Speech (TIS) synthesis is one in which much development and research hasrntaken place over the last few decades. As a result of advances made, many laboratory andrncommercial systems of high quality exist today.rnThis thesis is an attempt made to develop a prototype TIS...
The management process can be defined as the process ofrnplanning, organizing, staffing and controlling. Thernperformance of a business can be measured on how well thesernfunctions are being carried out . The main thing to be made isrnthat better quality information which helps management in...
Planning in general and urban-regional plan preparationrnin particular is now becoming increasingly an informationrnintensive activity so much so that the success of thernplanning exercise depends on the availability ofrnadequate, timely and reliable information. In Third Worldrncountries including...
This study presents an approach to automatic summarization of Amharic newsrntexts by extracting sentences in a give n document. The objective o f this study isrnto investigate the application of machine learning technique (naive Bayesrnmethod) to automatic summarization of Amharic news items. The...
Background: Head and neck cancer (HNC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide and its incidence is reported to be increasing both in developed and developing countries. There is lack of published data on clinicopathology and treatment patterns of head and neck cancers in Ethiopia.rnObjective:...
Introduction:-Metformin is an orally administered drug used for lowering blood glucose concentrations in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, its long term and high dose therapy is associated with vitamin B12 malabsorption. Furthermore, screening and monitoring of vitamin B12 level of...
BackgroundrnThyroid diseases are among the most common endocrine disorders worldwidernincluding in Ethiopia and Patients with thyroid diseases can present with diffuse orrnnodular thyroid enlargement. Determining the type of the lesions in a given setup hasrnparamount importance to design effective...
Background- Cancer is becoming the most challenging issue in adult and geriatrics and intervention onrnpatient therapy satisfaction is not commonly seen. The burden of cancer in morbidity and mortality isrnincreasing through time .Cancer Therapy Satisfaction Questionnaire is the most widely used...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide public health problem. Although there is a holisticrnmanagement for chronic kidney disease, people with CKD have significantly higher rates ofrnmorbidity, mortality, hospitalizations, and healthcare utilization. Evaluating the clinical outcomernand...
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health problem causing ill-health in millionsrnof the world’s population each year. The emergence of drug resistant strains is a major challengernto the TB control program. Hence, there is an urgent need for the development of new drugs andrnin...
Background; Hemodialysis is one of the renal replacement therapies, in addition to peritoneal dialysis and renal transplantation. Hemodialysis can improve morbidity and mortality in renal patients; however it has different multifactorial idiosyncratic complications that occur during the dialysis...