104 research outputs found
Undersowing Vetch in sorghum for intensifying existing production systems
No full textFinal dataset from agronomic experiment in Gumara Maksegnit (2016), as elaborated by GARC researchers in charge for this trial (Alemu Tarekegn and Yengusie Demsew). Please contact author and contact person at ICARDA to obtain more detailed metadata or to propose collaboration
Adaptability of Different Sweet Lupin Varieties for Feed production
No full textFinal dataset from agronomic experiment in Gumara Maksegnit (2016), as elaborated by GARC researchers in charge for this trial (Alemu Tarekegn and Yengusie Demsew). Please contact author and contact person at ICARDA to obtain more detailed metadata or to propose collaboration
REST API : Implementation with Flask-Python
Full text linkAuthor Musse Alemu
Year 2014
Supervisor Mattila Erkki
Commissioned by Oy Aurora Data and Systems Ltd.
Title of thesis REST API
No. of pages + app. 44 + 2
Communication between various systems is common in the technology world. Thus, this thesis report discussed one of the popular means of communication, REST API. Additionally, it described the six basic constraints of REST conjointly to HATEOAS constraint. Furthermore, it observed all the good advantages REST API has over SOAP. Moreover, it demonstrated practical implementation of Restful web services.
The report started to discuss from the bigger picture, software architecture, and continued down to API level. Besides, it clearly documented how REST architectural principles are applied in API level. Moreover, it demonstrated the implementation of REST API using Flask-Python micro framework. As a result, the report used classical approach to introduce REST API.
Accordingly, in this report solid theoretical explanation is covered. Moreover, a step-by-step guide for practical use of RESTful web service also shown. Therefore, it suggested all the good reasons why REST is needed as a standard to be a means of communication between systems
Book Review: An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata
No full textThis slim volume is a recent release in the long-running Chandos Information Professional Series. Author Getaneh Alemu has an international work history, and is currently cataloguing and metadata librarian at Southampton Solent University in the United Kingdom. Co-author Brett Stevens is a lecturer in the School of Creative Technologies a few miles down the road at the University of Portsmouth
Adoption of agricultural technologies visa vis agricultural extension in Ethiopia: Theoretical tenets and empirical evidences
No full textThe author explains different Adoption estimation methods, gives examples about Adoption levels on the field in Ethiopia, discusses Factors affecting adoption, compares Adoption and yield gaps and issues the Implications for research and development during his presentation
Women’s Access to and Utilization of Sanitation and their Determinant Factors in Some Selected Rural Areas of East Gojjam Zone, North West Ethiopia
Full text linkThis study aimed to examine women’s sanitation access and utilization level and their determinants in some selected rural areas of East Gojjam Zone. The research employed cross sectional study design and data was collected from 380 women selected through multistage cluster sampling technique. Proportional odds model and partial proportional odds model were used to estimate the association between different factors and women’s sanitation access and utilization level. The result indicated that out of 380 sampled women, about 42.6% have high sanitation access compared with 34.7% medium and 22.6% low respectively. Despite this however; about 50.9% respondents have low sanitation utilization suggesting a mismatch between sanitation access at household level and women’s utilization status. Household size, access to sanitation facilities, and knowledge about the benefit of latrine utilization were found to be statistically significant determinants of women’s sanitation utilization while marital status, district, household income, participation in women health development team, and dependency ratio were found to be determinants of sanitation access. The study suggests that besides promotions to increase sanitation facility availability, monitoring on the utilization of the facilities need to be strengthened. Income creation capacity of women and their households should be strengthened as well
Women’s Access to and Utilization of Sanitation and their Determinant Factors in Some Selected Rural Areas of East Gojjam Zone, North West Ethiopia
Full text linkThis study aimed to examine women’s sanitation access and utilization level and their determinants in some selected rural areas of East Gojjam Zone. The research employed cross sectional study design and data was collected from 380 women selected through multistage cluster sampling technique. Proportional odds model and partial proportional odds model were used to estimate the association between different factors and women’s sanitation access and utilization level. The result indicated that out of 380 sampled women, about 42.6% have high sanitation access compared with 34.7% medium and 22.6% low respectively. Despite this however; about 50.9% respondents have low sanitation utilization suggesting a mismatch between sanitation access at household level and women’s utilization status. Household size, access to sanitation facilities, and knowledge about the benefit of latrine utilization were found to be statistically significant determinants of women’s sanitation utilization while marital status, district, household income, participation in women health development team, and dependency ratio were found to be determinants of sanitation access. The study suggests that besides promotions to increase sanitation facility availability, monitoring on the utilization of the facilities need to be strengthened. Income creation capacity of women and their households should be strengthened as well
Are Agricultural Extension Packages What Ethiopian Farmers Want?: A Stated Preference Analysis
No full textWorking Papers in Economics no. 172, August 2005, Department of Economics, Göteborg University
Towards a conceptual framework for user-driven semantic metadata interoperability in digital libraries: A social constructivist approach
Full text linkPurpose – With the aim of developing a conceptual framework which aims to facilitate semantic metadata interoperability, this paper explores overarching conceptual issues on how traditional library information organization schemes such as Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs), taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies on the one hand versus Web 2.0 technologies such as social tagging (folksonomies) can be harnessed to provide users with satisfying experiences. Design/methodology/approach –This paper reviews works in relation to current metadata creation, utilization and interoperability approaches focusing on how a social constructivist philosophical perspective can be employed to underpin metadata decisions in digital libraries. Articles are retrieved from databases such as EBSCO host and Emerald and online magazines such as D-Lib and Ariadne. Books, news articles and blog posts that are deemed relevant are also used to support the arguments put forward in this paper. Findings – Current metadata approaches are deeply authoritative and metadata deployments in digital libraries tend to favour an objectivist approach with focus on metadata simplicity. It is argued that unless information objects are enriched with metadata generated through a collaborative and user-driven approach, achieving semantic metadata interoperability in digital libraries will remain difficult. Practical implications – In this paper, it is indicated that the number of metadata elements (fields) constituting a standard has a direct bearing on metadata richness, which in turn directly affects semantic interoperability. It is expected that this paper will contribute towards a better understanding of harnessing user-driven metadata. Originality/value – As suggested in this paper, a conceptual metadata framework which is underpinned by a social constructivist approach substantially contributes to semantic interoperability in digital libraries
Applying an ecological model for library development to build literacy in rural Ethiopian communities
No full textThe recent IFLA (2013) statement on The Role of Libraries and Development asserts the key role of access to information and the work of librarians as agents for development. This paper describes a training program for community librarians in rural Ethiopia that aligns with these roles. Structured in an ecological framework of library programs (Asselin & Doiron, 2013), this one and a half year program convened fifty librarians from across all regions of the country to learn how to design their own programs, to be responsive to their particular contexts, enable inclusion, build partnerships and to serve as action researchers. Throughout the program, librarians documented ways they attained a set of seven standards to support the literacy and learning for all members of their community. A new initiative in preschool literacy and producing and using digital texts is introduced as heralding a major role for community libraries in national directives. The paper concludes with discussion of the challenges facing these progressive libraries and the need to recognize the complex balance required to establish a strong network of such community libraries, each having both an individual and regional/national identity
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