Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) is a tuber-bearing species and it is an economically important crop in tropical, sub-tropical and warm temperate regions. It is a staple root crop serving as a source of vitamins, proteins and carbohydrate. The establishment of in vitro plant regeneration...
The population status and diet of Starck’s hare Lepus starcki Petter, 1963 wasrninvestigated in the Bale Mountains National Park from June-September (wet season) andrnDecember-January (dry season) in 2006/2007. A survey of population status wasrnundertaken using distance sampling method. The...
In an attempt made to stu~ the effect of trainee academiornbackground and other related factors in the seoondaryrnschool upon performance ~, ..theT.T.I. and the curr'icularrn implications thereof, corr tion and regression methods,rnquestionnaires, and interviews were used. The study wasrnconducted...
The purpose of this study is t o evaluate the effectivenessrnof the Addis Ababa Sophomore English course in enhancing thernstudents' acquisition and u se of discourse markers in writing.rnFor the purpose of this study the Sophomore students of thernDepartment of Economic s were selected as a...
The Ethiopian highlands are a center of genetic diversity for enset, tef, sorghum, barley and finger millet. Enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) belongs to the order Sctaminae, the family Musaceae. The family is subdivided into the genera Musa and Ensete. Enset is an important staple crop...
This thesis presents a stu,ly on the nutrient requirementsrnof four barley (Hord~ vulgare L.) cultivars cultivated inrn'Nelmera.rnThe cultivars were grown in two randomized complete blocksrnin sand culture at four levels each of P (0,0.5,3 and 5.5 mg.eq),rnand Ca ( 0,F,8 and 14 mg.eq.) factorialy...
The main objective of this study is to examine whether or not high school Englishrnlanguage tests currently administered in schools adequately represent - both in content andrnin format - the practice exercises contained in the corresponding textbooks.rnSince some research works were conducted...
The principal intent of this research was to investigate classroom use of L1, in thisrncase the Oromo language, in the English classroom at Adama Teachers College. Tornthis end, a descriptive research method was employed. Fifty first year regularrndiploma students majoring in English and five...
Menagesha forest and Bihere Tsige Public Park contain diverse forms of insects. Therndiversity, distribution, frequency, abundance and habitat association of these insectsrnwere investigated using quadrate and transect walk methods during the wet and dryrnseasons.rnThe presence of 33 families of...
The purpose (objective) of this study was to examine the stream choice and perfo rmance of fe lllalernstudents in preparatory schools of East Wallaga Zone Oromia region. To achieve iii is objec tivernda ta were collected from 201 felllale stu de nts and 74 teacher respondents using instrulllen is...
The purpose (objective) of this study was to examine the stream choice and perfo rmance of fe lllalernstudents in preparatory schools of East Wallaga Zone Oromia region. To achieve iii is objec tivernda ta were collected from 201 felllale stu de nts and 74 teacher respondents using instrulllen is...
Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.), which contributes over 70 percent of the world's coffeernproductions, is characterized by a low genetic diversity, attributed to its allopolyploidy origin,rnpredominately self-pollinating nature and its recent evolution. A total of 81 wild coffee trees fromrnfour...
This thesis studies the embedment of Absurdism and Authenticityrn, philosophy in Albert Camus's The Outsider and Berhanou Dinke's I Stand Alone,rnrespectively. It' argues that each of the protagonists of the literary works experie~cesrnand corresponds to the twentieth century philosophical thoughts...
Zooplankton community grazing rates as percentage of algae cleared per dayrn(%G/d) were determined in Lake Arsedi by in-situ feeding experiments (withrnchanges in chlorophyll a concentration method) using 1 l incubation clear glassrnbottles at two sampling sites (Littoral and open water). In...
A total of 351 individuals, 226 HIV positive and 125 HIV negative, werernexamined by nutrient agar plate, Baermann method , direct fecal smear,rnconcentration method , Harada Mori filter paper and charcoal culture in thisrnstudy. Among these 139(39.6%) were positive for different type of...
Three yeast strains of saccharomyces cerevisiae, namely commercial baker’s yeast (BA), an isolate from teff dough (TE) and an isolate from tella(TL) were cultivated in the laboratory by submerged method to determine biomass yield. The biomass of these yeast strains was compared with respect...
The idea of teacher development has gained considerable attention in teacher education. Thernfact that it has been only marginally treated in the M.A TEFL research at Addis AbabarnUniversity provided the impetus to study it. The purpose of the present study was to explorernthe developmental nature...
A study was conducted on young trees of Prunus africana (Hook. f.) Kalkman,rnPodocarpus falcatus (Thunb.) Mirb., Millettia ferruginea (Hochst.) Baker, Cordiarnafricana Lam., and Croton macrostachyus Del., planted and maintained within the landrnholdings of the Center for Indigenous Trees...
The seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton in relation to some physico-chemicalrnand biological parameters were studied at a near-shore and central stations inrnLake Bishoftu from August, 2006 to May, 2007. Water transparency (ZSD) rangedrnfrom 0.50 to 1,05 and from 0.46 to 1.0 m at the Central and...
Today in Ethiopia, there is a widely heard academic commonrntalk, especially in the tertiary level of learning, about a greatrnvariation in the English language proficiency level of governmenurnand mission secondary school graduatese The degree of thisrndiffierence has not so far been...