The genus Acacia has a large number of species that are adapted in wide range of habitats in both tropical and temperate regions throughout the world for most of them fix nitrogen with rhizobia. However, nitrogen fixation by different species is not necessarily effective that needs compatibility of...
Acacia is a multipurpose leguminous woody plant widely distributed in a wide range ofrnhabitats because of its ability to fix nitrogen and improve soil fertility. However,rneffectiveness in nitrogen fixation is variable, due to different factors. In this study, elevenrnisolates of root nodule...
In this day, Organizations are continually facing with the need to change their structures, objectives, processes, and technologies to make changes to sustain their competitive advantage. Many have adopted enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to help do this. The enterprise resource planning...
Apparel industries must produce large quantities in shorter lead times in order to stay alive and compete in the current fashion market. Apparel production needs high level of productivity and production lines should be balanced to get shorter lead time in effective way.rnThis work aimed at...
Large number of framework of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) pillars havernbeen proposed by different authors in TPM literature. However, most of them arernbased on studies done in countries such as Japan, Italy, USA, China and India.rnThus, this study aims to evaluate selected TPM pillars...
The high-rise building construction in Ethiopia has been developed through time which in other words increases the country’s construction industry development. However, the construction of high-rise building has been handled by foreign international contractors due to low capacity of...
Ziway, is a town on the shore of Lake Ziway, a Rift Valley lake, in Oromia, Ethiopia. Lake Ziway is 62 km south of Addis Ababa. It has an elevation of 1643 meters above sea level. Geotechnical investigations show that starting from a few centimeters below the ground level to the depth of three...
The selection of safe and economical types of reinforced concrete foundation is one of the challenges for professionals in current designing practice, and this issue is more complex for foundation design for different buildings that are intended to be constructed on expansive soils of Legetafo.rnIn...
Ethiopia is a developing country with a high baker’s yeast demand for bread making and beverage industries. However, there is no baker’s yeast producing plant in the country. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess bread leavening potential of wild yeasts from teff and...
2017rnirnABSTRACTrnIn response to the emergence of P. falciparum (Pf) drug resistance, Ethiopia had changed anti-malaria treatment guidelines, from chloroquine (CQ) to sulfadoxin-pyrimethamine (SP) combination in 1998as first line drugs for the treatment of Pf malaria. The current status of...
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most important food grain sources of the livelihood farmers of the Gozamin Wereda in North-Western Ethiopia. However, the productivity of the crop is markedly low due to low soil fertility and associated low soil nutrient availability, especially nitrogen...
Engineering Geological Characterization and Possible Improvements for Sub- grade Materials, Case study of Meki-Ziway Highway, central Ethiopia rnHailu Regasa rnAddis Ababa University, 2018 . rnThe present study was conducted to characterize the subgrade of Meki-Ziway High way, which is located in...
Ethiopia is one of the most populous country in Africa with a fertility rate of 4.6 and eight percent unwanted pregnancy. This contributes for maternal mortality and child death. To make every child is wanted, family planning plays an essential role through delaying, spacing or limiting birth. But...
THE ROLE OF AREA ENCLOSURE ON THE REHABILITATION OF WOODYrnSPECIES COMPOSITION AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE INrnGRATKAHSSU FOREST OF SOUTHERN TIGRAYrnGEBREMEDHIN GEBREANENIArnAddis Ababa University January, 2018rnLand degradation has been a major environmental problem in northern highlands of...
The purpose of this study was to assess the challenges of women athlete in clubs in case of Addis Ababa first division athletics clubs. Taking this purpose as a general objective of the study, a descriptive survey research method was applied to investigate the problem. The target populations in the...
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is the world's third most important food legume both in area and production next to common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and field pea (Pisum sativum L.), grown mainly by small-scale farmers in the semi-arid tropics, West Asia and North Africa, and sub-Saharan regions,...
 rnrnrnThe entomopathogenic fungus (Beauveria bassiana) is a cosmopolitan pathogen of different insect hosts. It is used as a natural enemy to control insect pests in agricultural systems. Coffee production in Ethiopia is damaged by the coffee pest, coffee berry borer (CBB) [Hypothenemus...
The construction industry in Ethiopia has faced problems in delivering projects. Time overrun, cost overrun and insufficient quality are common for many projects. These problems are caused by a number of factors such as poor project cost estimation, price escalation of construction materials, poor...
In Addis Ababa, indiscriminant waste disposal from domestic, industrial and commercialrnsources affect the water quality of the Little Akaki River. Moreover, this situation is limiting thernusability of the River. Consequently, in many studies, the River is regarded as one of the mostrnpolluted...
Impact of Land-Use/Land-Cover Changes on Land Surface Temperature in Arsi zone, Eastern Ethiopia Morka Abebe, Msc. Thesis Addis Ababa University, May 2018 Unmanaged Land-use/land-cover change is one of the main environmental problems and challenges, which strongly influences the process of...