147 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121221094454 – Supplemental material for The magnitude of undiagnosed hypertension and associated factors among HIV-positive patients attending antiretroviral therapy clinics of Butajira General Hospital, Gurage Zone, Southern Ethiopia
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121221094454 for The magnitude of undiagnosed hypertension and associated factors among HIV-positive patients attending antiretroviral therapy clinics of Butajira General Hospital, Gurage Zone, Southern Ethiopia by Bitew Tefera Zewudie, Shegaw Geze Tenaw, Mamo Solomon, Yibeltal Mesfin, Haimanot Abebe, Zebene Mekonnen, Shegaw Tesfa, Bogale Chekole Temere, Agerie Aynalem Mewahegn, Tadele lankrew and Yihenew Sewale in SAGE Open Medicine</p
Agricultural lime value chain efficiency for reducing soil acidity in Ethiopia
No full textSoil acidity is challenging agricultural production in Ethiopia. Above 43% of the farmland is under soil acidity
problem and it leads to low crop yields and production losses. Ag-lime is widely considered as an effective
remedy for amending soil acidity. This study assesses the current structure of ag-lime value chain and its
functionality focusing on central parts of Ethiopia where lime is produced and channeled to acidity affected
areas. The study uses Ethiopia as a case study and applies qualitative methods such as key informant interviews and focus group discussions to collect data from different actors in the ag-lime value chain. Key findings indicate that both public and private ag-lime producing factories are operating below their capacity. Due to limited enabling environments, the engagement of private sector in ag-lime value chain is minimal. In addition, farmers have a good awareness of soil acidity problem on their farms, and its causes and mitigation strategies in all regions. However, the adoption of ag-lime by smallholders was minimal. Overall, the current structure of the aglime value chain appears fragmented and needs improvement. Addressing soil acidity challenge through efficient ag-lime value chain could narrow lime supply-demand mismatches and increase widespread adoption by farmers to enhance crop productivity and food security in acidity-prone areas of the country
Kierunek Wschód. Kulisy realizacji filmu "Mamo, czy kury potrafią mówić?"
No full textThe author analyses the first, unsuccessful Polish-Belarusian co-production of the Semafor Film Studio – "Mamo, czy kury potrafią mówić?". The project, which was initially planned as another, simple in terms of complexity of the studio’s film production, became one of the studio’s largest and most demanding projects. The researcher tries to shed some light on what the reasons behind this decision were. Using archive data and information obtained in the process of conducting in-depth interviews with former employees of Semafor, he places the studio in the broader landscape of film production, and indicates what factors determined the final failure of the project as a co-production with the Belarusians.The author analyses the first, unsuccessful Polish-Belarusian co-production of the Semafor Film Studio – "Mamo, czy kury potrafią mówić?". The project, which was initially planned as another, simple in terms of complexity of the studio’s film production, became one of the studio’s largest and most demanding projects. The researcher tries to shed some light on what the reasons behind this decision were. Using archive data and information obtained in the process of conducting in-depth interviews with former employees of Semafor, he places the studio in the broader landscape of film production, and indicates what factors determined the final failure of the project as a co-production with the Belarusians
Performance Measurement and Improvement for Ethiopian Tannery Industries: Case Study on Addis Ababa Tannery Share Company
No full textThe industrial strategic development plan of Ethiopia gives great emphasis to improve export-led
products to join the international market in a large scale. The strategy also promotes capital
saving and labor-intensive industrial development policy using coordinated approach (joint
forum) of supply chain management to encourage the production of value-added products. As a
predominantly agricultural economy with the largest cattle population in Africa, Ethiopia has a
strong base for semi-processed leather, finished leather and leather products. So Ethiopia’s
leather industry is in the forefront of the leather sector development within the Eastern and
Southern African region. The recent export development strategy introduced by the government
has give priority and incentive schemes for this sector. However, the challenge is how to make
best use of the country’s revealed comparative advantage to build a dynamic and competitive
sector that contributes to Ethiopia's economic growth.
Since tanning sub-sector has a great potential for rapid development of Ethiopian leather sector and
economic growth of the country, performance improvement of Ethiopian tannery industry needed.
Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to assess performance measurement and improvement
practices, determine key performance improvement areas, and make proper recommendation and
formulate performance measurement and improvement model for Ethiopian tannery industries
and case company.
This research paper reviews worldwide researches that related with performance measurement
and improvement. It has been conducted in a sample of eleven Ethiopian tannery industries and
case company by using a well structured survey questions, interviews, personal observation, and
secondary data collection. The results from this research assure that the major performance
problems of tannery industries are shortage of raw materials, low skill of workers, machinery
breakage, poor resource planning, poor customer and supplier relations, and poor performance
management. Depending upon the research findings, performance measurement and
improvement model with its implementation steps is recommended as a solution
Attention-Based Long Short-Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network for Capacity Degradation of Lithium-Ion Batteries
No full textMonitoring cycle life can provide a prediction of the remaining battery life. To improve the prediction accuracy of lithium-ion battery capacity degradation, we propose a hybrid long short-term memory recurrent neural network model with an attention mechanism. The hyper-parameters of the proposed model are also optimized by a differential evolution algorithm. Using public battery datasets, the proposed model is compared to some published models, and it gives better prediction performance in terms of mean absolute percentage error and root mean square error. In addition, the proposed model can achieve higher prediction accuracy of battery end of life
A recently re-discovered Maltese-English dictionary by Salvu Mamo: Presented at Cultural and Historical Lexicography session
No full textA recently re-discovered Maltese-English dictionary by Salvu Mamo might provide an insight into the state of the Maltese language and that of the use of English at the end of the 19th century. The British had been in Malta since the beginning of the century, but their several attempts to anglicize the Maltese produced negative results. By 1880, Governor Bouverie's 1830 call that "this colony should be English, not Italian" was still on paper. For centuries Italian had been the official language of Malta, although the Maltese spoke the vernacular. In 1878 the British Government sent Patrick Keenan, the man responsible for the anglicization of Ireland, to attempt a repeat performance in Malta. His views met with fierce opposition, but it might well be that the publication by the same Mamo of an English-Maltese dictionary in 1885 was due to this campaign. This dictionary is actually dedicated to the Maltese Director of Education who was in charge of government's pro-English programme. The Maltese-English sequel never saw the light of day, and little is known about the author. He certainly did not belong to the literary circles of the time. In the early 1930s, when Maltese took the place of Italian in the Maltese educational system and in the Courts, Government acquired the manuscript from Mamo's family to serve as a basis for a Maltese-English dictionary. Actually little use seems to have been made of it, and it lay at the Department of Education till a bomb fell on the place and it was destined to be thrown away. Luckily, a teacher spotted this and other manuscripts ready to be wheel-barrowed, and picked up a few for himself. There it lay till he told me about it some 5 years ago, and was recently persuaded to have it published; not an easy task
The Elevation of Pancreatic Enzymes in Serum and Their Distribution at Different Stages of Renal Insufficiency Among Diabetic Patients Attending Goba Referral Hospital
No full textTadele Regasa,1 Yohannes Dinku,1 Bereket Gezahegn,1 Zegeye Feleke,2 Zegeye Regassa,2 Ayele Mamo,1 Tesfaye Assefa,2 Habtamu Gezahegn,1 Damtew Solomon,1 Daniel Atlaw,1 Mengistu Dessie3 1School of medicine, Madda Walabu University, Goba, Ethiopia; 2School of Health Science, Madda Walabu University, Goba, Ethiopia; 3School of Medicine, Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita Sodo, EthiopiaCorrespondence: Tadele Regasa, Tel +251922311812, Email [email protected]: Acute pancreatitis is auto-cell destruction that is manifested by increased leakage of amylase and lipase into circulation. During pancreatitis, the activity of serum amylase and lipase is elevated three times above the upper limit of the normal range. This elevation was observed in both prediabetic and diabetic patients. Severe acute pancreatitis can result in acute kidney injury and other multi-organ dysfunction, which is one of the reasons for death.Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the elevation of serum amylase and lipase and their distribution at different stages of renal insufficiency among diabetic patients.Methods: This study included 286 diabetic patients (36 type 1 and 250 type 2), and data were collected from May 1 to June 30, 2019. The study design used was an institution-based cross-sectional study. A face-to-face interview was used to collect data, and serum creatinine, amylase, and lipase levels were measured using a chemistry analyzer. For data entry and statistical analysis, respectively, Epidata software version 3.02 and SPSS version 21 were used.Results: The mean serum amylase among diabetic patients suffering from G3b and G4 was 106.79 IU/L ± 118.18 IU/L and 104.85 ± 90.42 IU/L, respectively. Their mean serum lipase activity was 105.07 IU/L ± 127.54 IU/L and 106.98 IU/L ± 88.35 IU/L, respectively. Serum lipase activity was elevated above the normal range and three times above the upper limit of the normal range with a magnitude of 11.2% and 4.2%, respectively. Similarly, 9.1% and 0.7% of diabetic patients had increased serum amylase above the normal range and three-fold above the normal range, respectively.Conclusion: As glomerular filtration decreases, particularly in moderate-to-severe chronic kidney disease, serum amylase and lipase activity rise above the upper limit.Keywords: acute pancreatitis, chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, serum amylase, serum lipas
Design And Analysis Of Shaft With Pure Aluminum And 0.75%Magnesium Alloys By Finite Element Ana
No full textIn recent decades, modern service performance demanded alloys elements with a broad bundle of
properties, which are quite dif icult to achieve using alloys elements. Now a day shaft material was
the solution to specific functions for material used in Ethiopia. In the cause, the shaft material for
steel was heavy and large dead weight lengthens the manufacturing time. These scope automotive
manufacturers to this concept reduced the weight of shaft without compromising its static and
analytical, crash-worthiness, and stif ness. That is to have a lightweight system. The main idea of
thesis was to identify minimization of weight of shaft. This shaft was lightweight, high static and
strength, high stif ness, and corrosion resistance behavior of the alloy element make them a suitable
material for the shaft as compared to p revises work of mild steel; the material has been used for the
shaft. The yield strength of a material is (2.5-250 N/2
) & (55.02-825 N/2
), the stressed
material is (102-111.1Mpa) & (115-120.25Mpa), the strained material is (4.49-3.45) & (1.816_7.2%)
for Mild steel and pure Aluminum and 0.75%Magnesium Alloy with respectively. This thesis presents
comparison of alloy material With Mild Steel and Alloys Material like Pure Aluminum and 0.75%Pure
Magnesium Alloy with a weight reduction of the shaft by analytical and static analysis has been done, using solid works softwar
Statistical Characterization of Spatial Variability for a Hydraulic Fill Slope
No full textSpatial variability of heterogeneous soils has been known widely. Eurocode 7 draws attention to spatial variability by suggesting reliability based characteristic values and statistical characterization of soil properties. This dissertation describes the statistical characterization of hydraulic sand fill in the Port of Rotterdam for the placement of LNG tanks, Gate terminal. The characterization uses the concept of the critical state approach, Casagrande (1936), based on the particular condition of the soil. In addition, the NorSand model (Jefferies, 1993) has been used to calibrate the sand used for the design of the fill using drained and undrained triaxial tests. The model involves calibration and interpretation stages, where the latter is done using Cone Penetration Test (CPT) from which a state parameter profile is generated.Geo-EngineeringGeotechnologyCivil Engineering and Geoscience
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