Ethiopia has a very low rural banking density and a lowest financial inclusion standingrnas mainstream financial institutions are heavily tilted towards the urban centers withrngood physical infrastructure, and leaving the rural areas underserved. On the otherrnhand, with local ownership and...
Sub-Saharan African countries faced with different economic, social, political,rnorganizational and management problems they are looking for different strategies andrnalternative resources for health service for the last decades. In our country the devastatingrnhealth condition among pastoralists...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) filllgi association of six li'uit plant speeics [Mallgijerarnilldica L. (mango), l1usa aculllinate Colla. (banana), Carica papaya L. (papaya),rnCitl'llS lilllOIl Risso. (lemon), Persea alllericana Mill. (avocado), and PsidiulII guajavarnL. (guava)] was investigated fi'om...
Water is vital for life. However, many people especially in developing countries have no access to adequate potable water services. In Ethiopia in both urban and rural areas many people do not get safe clean water. The need for clean potable water is high. Debre Zeit town has high water shortage...
This study was aimed to enhance the value of pulse based food products and estimate its suitability for manufacturing of extruded snack products. Response surface methodology (RSM) was implemented to study the effect of extrusion process parameter and to optimize proximate and mineral composition,...
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency has been considered as the most commoninherited enzymopathic disorder of the red blood cells, which affects more than 400 million people worldwide. Since the G6PD gene in human is X-linked gene more males are affected than females. G6PD deficiency...
With in the framework of any bilevel decision problem, a leader0s decision is inrnuenced byrnthe reaction of his/her follower(s). When multiple followers who may have had a share inrndecision variables, objectives and constraints are involved in a bilevel decision problem, thernleader0s decision...
Urban agriculture has food security, economic, social and environmental impacts. Thernfocus of this study was on food security of poor urban households. The purpose of thisrncomparative study was to investigate the contributions of urban agriculture in alleviatingrnurban household food insecurity...
Back ground: About forty million people live with HIV/AIDS world wide. The proportion ofrnfemales infected by HIV is increasing from time to time. Nearly 50% of the 40 million peoplernliving with HIV/AIDS are female. Rates of HIV infection among married women or those inrncommitted partnerships are...
Background - Cancer is one of the world’s major killer diseases. Cervical cancer is a disease inrnwhich the cells of the cervix become abnormal and start to grow uncontrollably, forming tumorsrnand it is the first most common cancer in women living in sub-Saharan Africa, but no more thanrn5%...
The effect of boiling, roasting and natural fermentation on anchote flour samplesrncollected from Nekemte and Dembidollo regions of western Ethiopia were studied forrntheir effects on proximate composition, antinutritional factors, physicochemical andrnfunctional properties. The moisture content of...
Yams (Dioscorea species L.) are among the most important of the tuber crops mainlyrncultivated in the tropics. They are also an important source of diosgenein, a startingrnmaterial for the industrial production of sex hormones and steroidal drugs withrnpharmaceutical properties. Despite their...
This project is based on equations that allow us to compute the value of a function recursively from a given set of values. In the main, Hartman-Grobman theorem is proved by using different lemmas and other theorems. Population modeling with difference equations by converting to discrete version is...
The general objective of this study was to investigate the role of school improvement program in enhancing quality of education at secondary schools. A mixed approach with purposive and simple random sampling techniques was used to select teachers and students from secondary schools of Arada...
The study assessed the current challenges of occupational health and safety practices andrnthe extent of occupational health hazards of the textile workers as well as the costrnimplication of these work-related incidents and diseases among ATF. Four mainrncategories of Akaki textile and garment...
This study was conducted at Finchaa Sugar Factory to determine the optimum conditions of preliming and sulphitation pH which could result in best cane juice clarification. Two cane varieties, which cover about 70 % of total cane population of the estate namely, N - 14 and NCO - 334 were selected...
Anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and Colletotrichum acutatum andrnGummy stem blight caused by Didymella bryoniae (anamorph Phoma cucurbitacearum) arernamong the most important diseases of fruit and cucurbits. Currently, the control of fruit andrnvegetable diseases relies mainly...
The problem of this qualitative study is to assess teacher perceptions of the leadershiprnpractices of female principals. The focus of this study was at the secondary school level.rnThe data were collected from the teachers about their perceptions regarding the femalernprincipals with whom they...
Pure cellulose and agricultural wastes were used as sole carbon sources for the production ofrncellulase enzymes by Trichoderma isolates in both SmF and SSF, respectively. These isolatesrn(seven) were obtained from Mycology laboratory, Faculty of Life science, Addis AbabarnUniversity. Carboxymethyl...
The Lake environment provides many goods and services depending on the different attributes of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we identified, among other things three attributes, i.e., two environmental attributes (Tilapia fish stock, Surrounding forest cover) and one monetary attribute...