Background: Early initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of life/birth safeguards infants from dying during the most vulnerable time in their lives. However, only 45% of newborns were put to the breast within the first ...
Background: Adverse birth outcomes are closely associated with increased fetal and neonatal mortality, morbidity, and impaired growth and cognitive development in both developing and developed countries. However, the effect ...
According to FOA (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) 2011, roughly one-third of the edible parts of food produced for human consumption, gets lost or wasted globally, which ...
Postharvest losses of tomatoes have been estimated to be more than 40%. Drying
tomatoes using the appropriate dryer and condition to the optimum storage moisture
content minimizes the postharvest loss. It has been ...
Leather making is a very long process and consists of many different chemical
and mechanical processes. The common raw materials of leather industries are
skins or hides, chemicals and water. ...
Injera is a widely consumed staple fermented food in Ethiopia and is mostly made from teff. Most
communities in Ethiopia like to consume teff injera but due to the high price of teff, only middle
and high-income ...
Injera is a thin, fermented Ethiopian traditional bread made from flour, water, and ersho
(a fluid collected from previously fermented mix) after successive fermentations. This
work investigated the effect ...
This work investigated the effect of cooking (Boiling, Steaming) and drying methods
(Oven, Solar, and FARD – Fan-assisted room drying) on the quality attributes of instant
mashed potato flakes (IMPF). The random ...
Kocho is a starchy fermented food obtained from scraping of pseudo stem and grated
corm of enset plant (Enset Ventricosum). The Objective of this study is to determine the
effect fermentation temperature and time on ...
Tej is Ethiopian traditional home made alcoholic beverage. Tej is made from honey,
gesho and water. This study focused on the effect of honey concentration and amount of
gesho on the quality of Ethiopian honey wine; ...
As to their beneficial effects, bacteria are also harmful to humans. Escher coli bacteria refers to a wide range of bacteria that can cause various diseases, including pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and diarrhea. ...
Background: - Low birth weight is associated with increased incidence of new born morbidity and mortality. Claim that babies who have a low birth weight have lower intelligence, poorly at school, and health or behavior ...
This thesis project had focused on studying of mixing ratio on properties of Agro stone caulking
materials. In the experiment fixed ratio of filler of pumice and bagasse was used. Magnesia cement
was used as binding ...
Introduction of teff (Eragrostis teff) Findings indicate that selected organic acids have
effect on the physico-chemical, proximate composition microbial load and sensory
analysis of teff injera. In proximate ...
Cement is obtained by heating a mixture of limestone with iron oxide, aluminium oxide
and silicon oxides; and grinding the resulting clinker together with calcium sulfates and
slag, limestone, ...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of polymers on the tensile adhesion
strength of cementitious tile adhesives in relation to their formulation. In Ethiopian
modern construction, ...
Teff is a cereal grain which is used to make injera, a staple food of Ethiopians. Injera with
appropriate quality and consistency is crucial that all consumers demand on the streamlined ...
Previous studies have presented the existence of degree of fermentation, quality and shelf
life problems upon Ethiopian traditional beverage tella, and adversely affect the
industrialization of tella in the beverage ...
Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is an important fruit and an excellent source of nutrients,
including vitamin C and dietary fiber. Quality characteristics of mango varieties and
related products have been ...
Maize is one of the most important staple cereals in Ethiopia. One of the challenges for maize production in the country is lack of appropriate technologies for post-harvest handling of the crop. Particularly, the storage ...