The growing industrial development is leading to the production of contaminants that are seriously affecting the ecosystem; especially pharmaceutical industry that produces residuals containing high complexity compounds, ...

Street vended foods are ready-to-eat foods and beverages. The consumption of these foods is common in Ethiopia. But, researches made in some countries show that street vended food are cause for different diseases ...

Incineration has the advantages of reducing mass and volume of the solid waste and collecting energy from the combustible content simultaneously. The main by-product of MSW incineration is bottom ash (BA). This paper ...

Background: Nowadays Bottle-feeding has become a practice in developed countries and urban communities of developing countries. There is a current shift from traditional feeding practice towards shorter breastfeeding ...

The rapidly increasing consumption on plastic products and generation of waste water sludge from textile industries is becoming a big concern for the environment. The number of industries/factories increases their ...

Volatile compounds in beer are substances that contribute significantly to the organoleptic properties of beverages and thus affect product quality both in positive and negative way. The objective of this study was ...

Background: Adolescence is a unique period of life as it is a time of intense physical, psychosocial and cognitive development. Adolescent girls’ nutrition prior to conception is one way to break the intergenerational ...

Background: Human immune deficiency virus is one of the greatest challenges to global health faced by the medical profession. HIV infection is particularly aggressive in children without access to ...

The scarcity of clean water becomes an urgent problem that we are facing. Moreover, most of the conventional water purification technologies are energy-intensive, expensive, and not environmentally friendly. As a ...

In Ethiopia one of the biggest and the most important wastewater treatment plant was located, in Addis Ababa, Kality Sub city. The treatment plant applies an activated sludge treatment method which treats a maximum ...