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Changemakers in Action: Education of Women and Girls, A Global Challenge and UN Sustainable Development Goal
No full textA discussion moderated by Dr. Deborah Berhanu with Asmeret Berhe-Lumax, Gelila Bekele, and Dr. Theanne Schiro
Addis Bekele (ca. 2012)
No full textA portrait photograph of Addis Bekele. She is standing in front of a window in the Springfield College Richard B. Flynn Student Union.This is a born digital file and is only available as a .jpg image. A print copy was created and placed within Addis's file.
Investments in Land Conservation in the Ethiopian Highlands: A Household Plot-Level Analysis of the Roles of Poverty, Tenure Security, and Market Inventives
No full textLand degradation is a major problem undermining land productivity in the highlands of Ethiopia. This study explores the factors that affect farm households’ decisions at the plot level to invest in land conservation and how much to invest, focusing on the roles of poverty, land tenure security, and market access. Unlike most other studies, we used a double-hurdle model in the analysis with panel data collected in a household survey of 6,408 plots in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. The results suggest that the decisions to adopt land conservation investment and how much to invest appear to be explained by different processes. Poverty-related factors seem to have a mixed effect on both the adoption and intensity decisions. While a farmer’s adoption decision is influenced by whether or not the plot is owner-operated (a measure of risk for the immediate period), intensity of conservation is determined by expectation of the certainty of cultivating the land for the next five years (a measure of risk for the longer term), farmer’s belief of land ownership, and distance from plot to home.Ethiopia, land conservation, poverty, tenure security
A Study on linkage between financial market development and economic growth in Ethiopia
No full textThesis(Master) --KDI School:Master of Development Policy,2014masterpublishedMasresha Bekele Kinato
Value-based frameworks in consumer internet of things (Ciots): A systematic literature review
No full textDesirability of consumer internet of things products: how emerging businesses address consumer desires to improve user experiences
No full textDeveloping desirable consumer IoT products becomes the challenge for emerging businesses. Lack of clear understanding about the functions and desirability of such products has led to a lower level of consumption than was expected. The purpose of this paper is to propose a value-based framework for product desirability, and to examine value propositions in terms of product value, product features, and user experiences by considering emerging businesses. Data from 982 companies was extracted from CrunchBase. Desired value factors, and product features companies seek the most to develop desirable products were identified. Functional value was offered more frequently than emotional value or social value. Safety, interactivity, and connectivity are the most significant features considered by companies. Companies should consider the emotional and social aspects alongside the focus given to functional aspects. The proposed framework, and the results obtained could be important for companies to develop desirable products addressing consumer preferences
Pulling and Pushing Forces for ICT Use in Initial Teacher Preparation for Secondary Schools
No full textThe transformative use of ICT (information and communication technology) in the educational setting is demanding continually assessing bottlenecks and conducive conditions with the aim of consolidating the pre-conditions and to dry the drawbacks from their root. As a result, this qualitative research approach employed to explore enablers and barriers of using ICT in initial teacher preparation in the context of JU (Jimma University), Ethiopia. The study employed in-depth interviews with student teachers and teacher educators. Participants’ perception of ICT as a vehicle for quality learning and multiple access to ICT use pointed as supportive conditions. Whereas, mismatch of methodologies being used in teacher education and schools, resource constraints, marginalizing teacher education program, unsuccessful experience of learning via ICT, and lack of clear directive and expertise on the use of ICT were some of the major issues forwarded by the participants. Redesigning of the teacher education program in the way of using ICT is clearly indicated, the system that forces and reinforces the use of ICT in place is among the recommendations forwarded
Traffic congestion Dataset
No full textThe main aim of this dataset is to enable detection of traffic congestion from surveillance cameras using one-stage object detectors. The dataset contains congested and uncongested traffic scenes with their respective labels. This dataset is collected from different surveillance cameras video footage. To prepare the dataset frames are extracted from video sources and resized to a dimension of 500 x 500 with .jpg image format. To Annotate, the image LabelImg software has used. The format of the label is .txt with the same name as the image. The dataset is mainly prepared for YOLO Models but it can be converted to other models format
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Addis Ababa city plans compliance and performance evaluation
No full textAddis Ababa had a number of spatial plans prepared with intentions to solve its socioeconomic, physical and
environmental problems and to serve as road map for its multifaceted development endeavors. But these
plans were not implemented as intended; and rather unplanned interventions with harmful implications
became the norm. These practices are seldom checked or evaluated, and the influencing factors are not
examined. Existing literature give only general evaluation methods and criteria, or they deviate from the
Addis Ababa’s or similar cities’ contexts. The main objective of this research is to understand the extent to
which spatial plans were implemented and how plan quality, land management and institutional setup
influenced this practice as a way of improving spatial planning system in Addis Ababa.
Analytical models advocated by literature (highly structured, quantitative planning evaluation techniques)
are not opted as they are rarely attainable in practice for reasons of cost, time, deviation form context, and
data availability. Therefore, rapid and qualitative assessment was carried out using triangulation technique
analyzing data from four different sources: documents review, observation interviews and the researcher’s
rich experience, a reflective practice, with some degree of quantitative analysis.
Integration of conformance and performance-based evaluation approaches along with reflective practice
have been applied to understand the level of plan implementation. The overall city planning practice has
been assessed but for more focus and detailed account of the research topic, two cases (ORAAMP’s AACDP
of 2003 and Mercato LDP) have been assessed in detail as they are believed to demonstrate findings that can
help represent and generalize the hypothesis.
Assessment of the city’s planning practice revealed that the city’s planning approach has been favored and
disfavored by the dominant agrarian nature of the country on the one hand, and the dynamic environment
– political, socioeconomic, land system (the 1974 nationalization of land and the lease system after 1991)
and institutional (regionalization, decentralization and reform programs) on the other hand. The planning
approach has been mainly conditioned by imported planning practices with resistant local context and
attempts to contextualize the imported ones as can be seen in the formal/informal housing and business
conflicts. Continuity of the key tenets of different planning practices and incorporation of past legacies has
created superimposition of city structures and morphology as well as mixed planning culture.
The findings of the study also revealed that effectiveness of a plan and its implementation are conditioned
not only by the intentions and quality of the plan per se; but also, by other factors mainly land management,
governance, institutional setup, political, socioeconomic, and cultural settings. Failure to properly consider
land management system in the planning process, the weak institutional setup and its lack of sustained
system, absence of true participatory process, misguided monitoring, evaluation and accountability, the
apolitical stances practiced by professionals, the double plan system because of political interference, were
the core underlying factors for poor spatial planning system. It has been found that proper and adequate
consideration of influential contextual factors (land, institutional and political setting) will contribute to
improvement in spatial planning system. It is recommended that an improved new spatial planning system
be developed where we have interactive hierarchical plans, integrated collaborative spatial plans across
sectoral agencies, and where participatory community planning and implementation is pronounced
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