The success factor for a manufacturing firm depends on awareness and management of its productivity level that results from measurement. This study focuses on labor productivity measurement and improvement using the Ethiopian ...

Grouted macadam is a composite material which consists of porous asphalt concrete with 25–35% air voids, in which a designed cementitious grout is filled. This research tried to design grouted macadam mixtures from local ...

Lakes are integrator of environmental changes occurring at a regional to global scale and present a high variety of behaviors on a variety of time scale. In addition, their crucial importance as water stocks and retaining ...

In this thesis the investigation of the possible use of solar energy for large scale water heating system is conducted for the following sites in Ethiopia: Addis Ababa Tannery, Dire Tannery, Modjo Tannery, and Jimma ...

Lean Service is a standardized operations service system, constituted only by client adding value tasks, focusing on explicit intangibles and looking for accomplishing expectations of quality and price. The overriding ...

A life cycle assessment (LCA) is conducted for kitchen cabinet manufacturing in Finfine Furniture Factory (3F). The LCA methodology is used to assess the environmental impacts and explore ways alleviating environmental ...

Due to the fast growing market in Android smartphone operating systems to date cyber criminals have naturally extended their target towards Google‘s Android mobile operating system. Threat researchers are reporting an ...

The problem of a concrete cross section under flexural and axial loading is indeterminate due to the existence of more unknowns than equations. Therefore proper analysis of reinforced concrete member is important for ...

Through out history engineers have been looking for ways of designing structures that are simple and would accurately model real life objects. In order to achieve this, actual structures have to be modeled in such a way ...

The issue of mode choice is probably the single most important element in transport planning and policy making. It affects the general efficiency with which we can travel in urban areas, the amount of urban space devoted ...