The current integrated geological and geophysical investigations were conducted in Kurar Kebele of Dejen Wereda, Central Ethiopia, to map the subsurface geological features, delineate and characterize the landslide affected sections and generate inputs assisting to recommend possible mitigation measures. To deal with this problem electrical resistivity sounding, seismic refraction methods were applied along with geological mapping and assessment of landslide prone areas. The study results rev...

The paleomagnetic investigation was located in the area of Saha and surrounding area, central Afar. The paleomagnetic samples were collected from nine lava flow unit outcrop of basalt (Gulf basalt) which exposed Saha and surrounding area (Central Afar). Five to nine samples were collected from each lava flow. The specimens conducted to partial demagnetize by using Alternating field (AF) and Thermal (TH) demagnetization techniques, as well as magnetize by Impulse magnetizer techniques (IM...

Groundwater is a valuable and important natural resource in the world and it is the most fundamental for the growth and development of one country. However estimating the potential of groundwater potential and its recharge zone has still uncertainty due to the nature of groundwater. Therefore, this study aims to use the timely and cost effective remote sensing and geographical information system (GIS) methods for delineating, classify groundwater potential, and recharge zone in the Middle Awa...

Erta’Ale lava lake is located at the center of the Erta’Ale volcanic range in the northern afar depression. Erta’Ale is known by its two active lava lake situated at northern and central part of the caldera. The thesis generally considered the compositional variation of the Erta’Ale lava through time. Field investigation, petrographic and whole rock geochemical studies have been applied to meet the objectives. The lava of Erta’Ale volcano has MgO content ranging from (4.56-6.36 wt%) and SiO2 ...

Morphological analysis is a very critical issue especially for natural language processing related tasks on inflectional languages. This thesis work gives the implementation details of the development of morphological analyzer for Af-Somali, which is an inflectional language. A detailed computational analysis of Af-Somali morphology such as formalization of alternation and morphotactic rules for Af-Somali is worked out in order to create the morphological analyzer. In the implementation of th...

The diversity and ecology of fungi in general and macrofungi in particular, have been largely neglected in Ethiopia. In this context, this research aimed at providing documentation and analysis of wild mushroom diversity along with the ethnomycological knowledge associated with wild edible and medicinal mushrooms. Mushroom samples were collected from 48 plots (30 m × 30 m) of three different habitat type (forest, grazing land and farming area) over three years (2012 – 2014) from two stu...

This study attempts to examine the effects of HD stigma on the psychosocial world of survivors and family members. Data were collected from 60 survivors (30F&30M) and 60 family members (30F &30M) residing in three different sites in Addis Ababa by means of structured interview schedules. Qualitative research method (case studies) also used to gather in depth individual data. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t- test. The result revealed that the survivo...

The major purpose of the study was to undertake the assessment on the objective condition of primary education, there by to identify the problems that a ffect the effort to universalize primary education and to outline measures to be taken to strengthen the progress of the goal set to be met by 2015. Based on t his, a na lyzin g the status of primary education with respect to Oromia region, is very important to decide up on future goals which are intended to meet. Particularly to provid...

This st udy attempted at examining the practice of internal quality assessment and its challenges and prospects in Ethiopian HErs wi th pal1icular reference to Arba Minch University. To thi s end, 'Mixed Research Design' was employed to grasp the general picture of the situation. Qualitative data were obtained via ten (10) interviews with the management of the University and HERQA and two (2) FGDs with instructors and students representatives. Questionnaires were used to gather data fi'o...

This research was undertaken to assess the situations of PWDs before and after they have received CBR services at Ledeta Sub-city. As the primary objective of CBR is to ensure the equal participation and the right to use the community resources, the study tried to assess the impact of the rehabilitation on the social and psychological situations, their independent living through income generation schemes, mobility skills and participation in the program. To do this, 16 participants were ...

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, including Ethiopia. It an affordable cheap source of protein, one of the export commodities for cash and plays important role in soil amelioration. However, currently its average national yield is 1...

In Ethiopia, public campaign on SWC practices has long history but still a day now, adopting of the new SWC technique has presented difficulty to implement at local level. This is why the thesis has dealt with problem of what make them farmers of the study areas getting confusion to participate in what kind of soil and water conservation practices. To obtain the intended objectives of the study; mixed approach i.e. the research was used both deductive and inductive approach to answer the rese...

Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench], a cereal crop of family Poaceae, is believed to be originated in Ethiopia and Sudan. It is an important food security crop mainly in semi arid and tropical parts of the African countries. Although many morphological and molecular diversity studies reveal the existence of genetic variations with sorghum populations, their distribution within basic races were not considered. Hence, the present study aimed to analyze the extent and distribution of gen...

The oly'eclh e.\ of this slUdy were to im estigate the relationship between adolescent self-efficacy, se(f-esteem, aggression, gender and their academic performance. The data were gathered through three Likert type scales (se(fefficacy, se(f-esteelJl, and aggression) and data on their academic pel/orl11ance , l"ere collected from the record offices of their respected schools. A totaf of 286 (225 male and 61 females) high school adolescent students ranging from 15 to 1 year' of age af/en...

Service quality has become predominant part of all advanced organization's strategic plan. Higher attention on service quality has resulted in increasing and profit of organizations. Higher education possesses all the characteristics of service industry such as intangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy. According to some scholars, the strategic success of a service organization depends on its ability to consistently meet or exceed customer service expectations. It...

Background:Platelet abnormality is one of the most commonly identified hematological abnormality in preeclampsia.Preeclampsia is a major obstetric problem and cause of maternal mortality especially in developing countries. However, platelet parameter of preeclamptic women is not well recognized as a tool for prediction and prognosis of preeclampsia in Ethiopia. Objectives: To evaluate the role of platelet parameters in prediction of preeclampsia at Ayder comprehensive specialized and Mek...

In many culture, traditional medicine used as one of primary health care refined over hundreds or even thousands of years. Historians from all around the world have produced evidence to show that apparently all primitive peoples used traditional medicine often in sophisticated way. In Ethiopia up to 80% of the population uses traditional medicine due to the cultural acceptability of healers and local pharmacopeias, the relatively low cost of traditional medicine and difficult access to modern...

1.1 Background Cancer is one of the Leading cause of morbidity and mortality all over the world. According to WHO report there are about 14 million new cases were reported on 2012. Globally cancer is a second leading cause of death and 8.8 million deaths was recorded in 2015 that means about 1.6 deaths is due to cancer. Cancer cause an estimated 70% in low and middle-income countries the major reason in high mortality in low income country could be delay in presentation, Unable to get diagno...