The nutritional well being and health of all people are vital
prerequisites for the development of societies. However, malnutrition still remains a
widespread problem, and is particularly severe in developing countries ...
Angular leaf spot and floury leaf spot are the major bean diseases in hot and humid
parts of Ethiopia. Of 70 genotypes evaluated, EMP-233, EMP-212, G-10843 and Dicta-65
were consistently resistant to both diseases and ...
Background: Iodine deficiency disorder (IDD) is a serious threat to the health and well being of people residing in
goiter endemic areas.
Objective: To determine the prevalence of iodine deficiency disorders among school ...
Heavy metal contamination of water could occur anywhere at resources, course of distribution or consumption place. Precise knowledge on amount and type of water pollutants especially heavy metal are essential to protect ...
Background: Despite the fact that equity is the underlying principle of all major global health policies, difficulties
have emerged in providing proper care for the poor with the introduction of user fees for health ...
Aqueous extracts of Parthenium hysterophorus leaf and flower seriously inhibited
seed germination and seedling growth (root and shoot length) of lettuce. Extracts of the root
and stem had much less effect. Lettuce roots ...
The purpose of this study was to assess the status of quality education in terms of input,
process and output in general of secondary school of Ilubabor Zone. This study used both
quantitative and qualitative methods. ...
BACKGROUND: General anesthesia and regional anesthesia are the type of anesthesia for lower
abdominal surgery. each type of anesthesia usage depends on different factors. In Ethiopia, even though
there were many researches ...
Gadissa Berhanu; Gugsa Nemera; Desta Hiko(2005-07)
Introduction: Uterine rupture is a serious life threatening obstetric complication during child
birth. The extent to which it happened and its management outcome is unknown in NRH
Objective: - To assess incidence and ...
BACKGROUND: Parasitic infections, caused by intestinal protozoan and helminths,
affect more than two billion people worldwide (1). These infections are more prevalent
in the poorest sections of the population and ...
Dejene A. Tessema; Rachel Rosen; Rami Pedazu(2005-08)
Toxicity sensing by live microorganisms has attracted considerable attention during the last decade. These sensors exhibit a non-specific, relatively fast response to changes in water quality or to physiological stress ...
Background: Indigenous knowledge develops by indigenous people in the processes of
their interaction with their environment and the science Ethinomedicine developed
gradually having its origin in the indigenous medicinal ...
Alemseged Abdissa; Daniel Asrat; Goran Kronvall, etal(2006)
Background. Although the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in Ethiopia is one of the highest in the world,
the epidemiology of group A streptococci (GAS) in this country is little known. GAS typing is a hallmark of ...
A drug targeting both the inflammatory initiators (lipopolysaccharide; LPS) and mediators [tumor necrosis factor- (TNF- )]
should have advantage over a “single-factor targeting strategy”
in sepsis prevention trials. We ...
Eighty one isolates of Ralstonia solanacearum-like bacteria on triphenyl tetrazolium chloride
(TTC) medium were collected from different Solanaceae crops (i.e. potato, tomato and pepper
plants and potato tubers) at various ...
A drug targeting both the inflammatory initiators (lipopolysaccharide; LPS) and mediators [tumor necrosis factor- (TNF- )]
should have advantage over a “single-factor targeting strategy”
in sepsis prevention trials. We ...
This thesis examines the concepts of Information System (IS) security assurance using a
socio-technical framework. IS security assurance deals with the problem of estimating
how well a particular security system will ...
There are many factors that affect SMEs’ ability to borrow from bank. Based on facts
and data about SMEs’ financing in Chengdu city, capital of Southwestern China’s Sichuan
province, this paper is intended to investigate ...
The purpose of this study was to assess practices and challenges of handling students’ disciplinary
problems in the Government secondary Schools of Jimma Town. To identify major student-initiated
disciplinary problems ...