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Showing 1 to 20 of 151 for “"Ethiopian"”.
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Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment
… was the driving force behind the creation of the Ethiopian Regiment. This paper demonstrates that the slaves themselves provided the necessary impetus for bringing about Dunmore's Proclamation of Emancipation, and that the governor simply responded to slaves’ willingness to take up arms in pursuit …
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Childcare Needs of Ethiopian Families
… study investigates the childcare experiences of Ethiopian families in a select South Dakota City. A total of 17 parents from ten families were interviewed using an interview guide. The childcare experiences of families while they were in Ethiopia and their experience in America were discussed. …
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Ethiopian Refugees' Perspectives on Health Care
… study are:<br> 1. To interview ten individual Ethiopian refugees for their perspective on experiences with the healthcare services received previous to immigration to America.<br> 2. To interview the identified individual Ethiopian refugees for their perspectives on experiences with the …
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Arc Hydro data model for Ethiopian watersheds
Ethiopia is endowed with a substantial amount of water resources. The country’s renewable surface and ground water amounts 123 and 2.6 billion cubic meters per annum, respectively, but its distribution shows high temporal and spatial variation. The Ministry of Water Resources of Ethiopia (MoWR) …
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian State and the Alexandrian See: Indigenizing the Episcopacy and Forging National Identity, 1926--1991
It analyzes how the administrative changes in the church and the political changes in the country in the 1990s affected the church, how the secession of Eritrea brought about the division of the historical church into two, the conflict and ethnic politics engulfing church leaders, the flight of …
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Somali Resistance against Ethiopian State Nationalism: A Discursive Inquiry
Since the inception of the modern Ethiopian state, the relationship between the Somali region and the central government has been defined by unequal relations underpinned by a violent legacy of imperial conquests in the process of Ethiopian state-formation in the late nineteenth century. This …
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The Origin and Petrogenesis of the Ethiopian Flood Basalts
… continental separation. The flood basalts of the Ethiopian Plateau constitute the larger part of this province and are associated with melting in the head of the Afar Plume. High-Ti picrites from the eastern part of the NW Plateau are among the earliest uncontaminated outpourings of flood …
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GEOCHEMISTRY OF LARGE EXPLOSIVE ERUPTIONS FROM THE MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT
The Main Ethiopian Rift (MER) is located in a geodynamic setting controlled by continental spreading, which has occurred since Eocene-Oligocene. In this area, the active tectonics has repeatedly favoured magma ascent along the rift axis resulting in intense volcanic activity characterized by a wide …
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Genetic variation and parentage in the Ethiopian wolf Canis simensis
The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) is among the most endangered canids in the world, with only 300-500 individuals left in the wild. The most severe threats for the remaining populations are habitat fragmentation, hybridisation with domestic dogs, and diseases (rabies and canine distemper virus). …
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Plant Species and Functional Diversity along Altitudinal Gradients, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands
… to environmental factors in the southwest Ethiopian highlands. It focuses on the classification of the vegetation into a few main plant functional response categories and relate them to environmental variables. For pattern identification and mechanistic explanations, a deconstructive …
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Beyond Resettlement: The Role of Ethiopian Refugee Diaspora in Homeland Peacebuilding
<p>The number of people forced to flee their homeland across the world is increasing at an alarming rate. As a consequence, refugees have become a growing concern among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. Although much attention has been afforded to refugee studies, the contributions of …
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Running to Labor: Ethiopian Women Distance Runners in Networks of Capital
… the first in-depth ethnographic study of young Ethiopian women seeking a career in long distance running.</p><p>Based on two years of fieldwork in Addis Ababa and surrounding areas, domestic trips to competitions and training camps around Ethiopia, an internship at an international sports agency …
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Education and the Formation of the Modern Ethiopian State, 1896--1974
This work highlights crucial developments in Ethiopian education such as the role of the Italian occupation in promoting an enhanced state-forming process and educational developments, the views of the main political actors to modern schooling, the role the Board of Education played in controlling …
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Aspects of Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection in Patients at Ethiopian Health Centers
HIV and tuberculosis (TB) remain the two most common infectious causes of death worldwide. During the recent decade antiretroviral treatment (ART) has become available for millions of people living with HIV (PLHIV) globally; yet more than half of PLHIV have not yet initiated ART. In order to …
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Whatever Happened to Respect? Values and Change in a Southwest Ethiopian (Aari) Community
… result. And I analyse the recent emergence of an Ethiopian Orthodox community in Dell as an attempt to rebuild relations centred on commensality. Primarily a contribution to the anthropology of values and the study of change, this thesis also engages with debates about Christian individualism, …
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Double Engagements: the Transnational Experiences of Ethiopian Immigrants in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area
… explores the transnational experiences of Ethiopian immigrants in the Washington metropolitan area across generational units. Much of the recent research on transnationalism has focused on the ties immigrants maintain in the sending country. This dissertation adds to this analysis by …
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Assessment of the vulnerability of Ethiopian agriculture to climate change and farmers’ adaptation strategies
This study focused on two central themes. The first addressed the vulnerability of farmers to climate change at household and regional levels. The second theme analysed determinants of adaptation measures and factors influencing the perceptions of climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. Three …
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