The aim of study was to assess the overall performance of Bedene Alemtena small scale irrigation scheme using internal and external performance indicators. Primary data were collected from three farmers’ field situated at the upper, middle, and downstream of the main canal. Discharge measurements and soil sample analysis were conducted, and secondary data were collected from Halaba Kullito Bureau of Agriculture. CROPWAT 8.0 computer model was used to calculate the crop water requirements. From t...

Hydrology  Agricultural Engineering  Environmental Sciences 

The paper investigates the effects of modern farm technology adoption such as improved seed, fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide on both crop yield and downside risk exposure in Ethiopia. This study employed a two-stage approach to estimate a production function, and computed the mean and the production risk factors (both variance and skewness) from a production function using Antle’s moment-based approach. The empirical results indicated that adoption of improved seed, family labor, agriculture...

Development Economics 

Since Aristotle’s response to Plato’s attack on poetic imitation as being twice removed from reality, the concept of mimesis has pervaded the drama. Aristotle’s all arts, epic, tragic, comic and dithyrambic, regardless of their different media, subject matter, and manner of imitation, involve mimesis. Aristotle argued that mimesis provided fictional distance from the things being presented on stage, and allowed the audience to get emotionally involved leading them to catharsis, the purgation of ...

Literature 

Based on the equity market return in the US, UK, Hong Kong and Japan, this study examines the spillover effects among these markets. VAR models, Granger causality tests, impulse response functions, GARCH (1, 1) models and GARCH BEKK models are conducted in this study. The conclusion of the empirical result is twofold, for the VAR models, past performance of the US market is always affecting the market return in the UK, Hong Kong and Japan. Connection in East Asian market and connection of Japane...

Business Finance and Investment 

Whenever a new form of communication appears on the scene, it immediately becomes the object of discussion. This has been going on since the first penny press edition in 1834, whereas today discussions are carried out with reference to the Internet. The stability with which mass-media have faced different criticism can be well understood thanks to the functionalist analysis which considers the media as a social system working within an external system made up of a set of cultural and soci...

Education  Linguistics 

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) transplantation has emerged as a promising treatment for various central nervous system diseases. However, oxidative stress results in poor survival of transplanted BMSCs in injury central nervous system (CNS). Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) has been reported to have anti-apoptotic properties in serial of cells in oxidative stress. This study was designed to investigate protective effect and potential mechanisms of bFGF against hydrogen peroxide ...

Cell Biology 

The powder protein is mostly used as the main dietary by bodybuilders for improving exercise training. This research studied the effect of the powder protein intake on serum total protein and creatinine concentrations, and urine pH and protein of three different groups. The serum total protein concentration has no relationship with the amount of powder protein intake and cannot be affected by it. But the serum creatinine concentration has a direct relationship with the amount of powder protein i...

Food Science & Technology 

Uncertain renewal reward process, of which the interarrival times and rewards (or costs) are regarded as uncertain variables, is an important branch of Liu’s uncertainty theory. At present, there is a lack of strict proof for the elementary theorem. Therefore, the paper gives its strict proof with two lemmas by some techniques.

Mathematical Analysis 

This paper studied the revisions to Einstein’s theory of relativity, introduced the concept of “size mass” and put forward the new relativity mass-velocity formula; and then it put forward Liu’s Cosmological Model, analyzed the nascence, birth and development of the universe, obtained the Universe Moving Equations, and calculated the present universe’s parameters; and it analyzed the conditions that a celestial body occurs the similar big bang and the model that the Galaxy occurred the second bi...

Special Theory of Relativity  Theoretical Physics 

Objective: To observe the effect of liquefying the necrotic tendons of diabetic foot and promotion of wound healing using the treatment of Huafu Zaisheng. Methods: 98 patients suffering from diabetic foot were randomly divided into Huafu Zaisheng group (35 cases), Huafu group (32 cases), Zaisheng group (31 cases), and then had eroded debridement timely for its wounds. Since then, different methods and drugs applied to deal with the wound, observe the liquefaction time and detachment time of the ...

Diabetes & Endocrinology  Infectious Diseases  Surgery & Surgical Specialties