Browsing by Author "Girma, Dawit"

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    Designing a Web-Based Nutritional Decision Support system for Diabetic Patients
    (Addis Ababa University, 2016-06) Girma, Dawit; Besha, Tibebe (PhD)
    Nutritional decision support system is a system that facilitates not only diabetic patients but also anyone in their day to day life by advising them with what nutritional decisions they should be making and what kind of food and drink they should really take or avoid. Medical nutritional therapy is important in preventing diabetics, managing existing diabetics or at least slowing the rate of development of diabetic complications to this end. The main objective of this Project is to design a Web-Based nutritional decision support system for diabetic patients. The project used a survey method combined with a design approach followed byanobject-oriented system development methodology. For data collection interview and document analysis was done. Different unified modeling language tools such as use case, class, activity and deployment diagramswere used to design the system. The project was conducted from December 2015 to June 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Since there was no previously designed nutritional decision support systems for diabetic patients in Ethiopia this project is a starting point for the improvement of managing diabetes through nutrition. The project has laid down a platform for using nutritional guidelines. Every contents developed have been selected to match the lifestyle and food types of every Ethiopian where there foods can be found in any market available. The contents were then translated to Amharic and the designed interface was in Amharic. Furthermore the system also has a registration form where a patient fills his personal information to register and ask a certified dietitian what he feels is missing from the website.Afterwhich the dietitian will respond to his queries according to the patient’s personal information. It also provides news about diabetes and also provides details about diabetes mellitus illness like causes Information is a critical component in managing health through nutrition As a resulta proper and standardized way of delivering nutritional recommendations can improve communications among the Diabetes patients and Dietitians and help them obtain the right kind of information to enable themselves manage and controlling their nutrition intake. Therefore this project provides the perfect platform to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Keywords: Nutritional Decision Support System; Diabetic patients; Web-Based System
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    Literary Features of Medieval Ethiopian Hagiographies: With Reference to Giidlii Krestos Samra
    (Addis Ababa University, 2012-05) Girma, Dawit; Mengistu, Dr. Melakneh
    The purpose of this study was to investigate the literary elements in the medieval Ethiopian hagiographies, Gadla Krestos Samra in focus. It was also intended to endorse whether these texts qualify in literary features. Accordingly, the literary elements and techniques were examined in the study. Since the study is done on a text, Qualitative research method was applied. In this thesis, I develop the analysis of elements and techniques of a novel. This research produced a number of key findings. The results show that the text Gadla Krestos Samra has contained the literary features. The text has good plot structure; the five elements within a plot are performed well following Freytag's structure of a plot. The narrative is filled with various conflicts which add aesthetics to the plot. Causality and suspense are also there to make the plot astonishing. Lots of characters are acted in the narrative and well characterized. The story sets in a specific temporal and spatial position. It is narrated in a third person limited omniscient perspective. Moreover, the narrative is constructed in well arranged figures of speech, simile, metaphor, symbolism, and others are there. Obviously it has ' themes. Techniques of a novel, foreshadowing, dialogue and description are on the other hand revealed in the study. The principal conclusion drawn from this research was that irrespective of the reality of the stories for followers , it qualifies the prominent literary features; as to the finding of the research I c!a argue that the text is a religious fiction. It was recommended that interested researchers should explore this untouched field which is rich for any kir,d of literary study.