Advances of Science and Technology

Highlands: The Ene-Chilala Watershed.- Urban Growth and Land Use Simulation using SLEUTH model for Adama City, Ethiopia.- Integration of SWAT and Remote Sensing Techniques to Simulate Soil Moisture in Data Scarce Micro-Watersheds: A case of Awramba micro-watershed in the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia.- Pilot-scale horizontal subsurface flow constructed wet-land for Removal of Chromium from Tannery Waste Water with Suitable Local Substrate material.- Assessment of Industrial Effluent Pollution on Borekena River, Kombolcha, Ethiopia.- Planning, Designing and Performance Evaluation of Micro Wave Link Case Study from Wegeda to NefasMewucha.- Enhancement of power flow with reduction of power loss through proper placement of FACTS devices based on voltage stability index.- Designing and Modeling of a Synchronous Generator Using AGC, PSS, and AVR Case study on Tis Abay II Hydroelectric Power System.- Optimal Allocation of Distributed Generation for Performance Enhancement of Distribution System Using Particle Swarm Optimization.- Mobility Prediction in Wireless Networks Using Deep Learning Algorithm.- Basic Facial Expressions Analysis on a 3D Model: Based on Action Units and the Nose Tip.- Pareto Optimal Solution for Multi-Objective Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks.- E-Learning Readiness of Technology Institutes in Ethiopian Public Universities: From the Teachers' Perspective.- Reconfigurable Integrated Cryptosystem for Secure Data Exchanges between Fog Computing and Cloud Computing Platforms.- Ethiopic Natural Scene Text Recognition Using Deep Automatic Amharic Part of Speech Tagging (AAPOST): A Comparative Approach Using Bidirectional LSTM and Conditional Random Fields (CRF) Methods.-Product design, manufacturing, and systems optimization 38 Effects of Shielded Metal Arc Welding Process Parameters on Mechanical Properties of S355JR Mild Steel.- Development and Testing of Improved Double Skirt Rocket Stove for reducing the emission level of Carbon monoxide.- Shell andTube Heat Exchanger, Empirical Modeling Using System Identification.- A Review on Design and Performance of Improved Biomass Cook Stoves.- Experimental investigation of augmented horizontal axis wind turbine.- Design and Simulation of Waste Heat Recovery System for Heavy Oil Preheating In Dashen Brewery Company.- Performance Evaluation of Motorized Maize Sheller.- Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of Red Chili Solar Cabinet Dryer.- Development and Performance Evaluation of a Solar Baking Oven.- Design and Optimization of Continuous Type Rice Husk Gas Stove.- Assessment of Quality of Sand Sources and the Effect on the Properties of Concrete (The Case of Bahir Dar and Ist Vicinities).- Fabrication and Characterization of Metakaolin Based Flat Sheet Membrane for Membrane Distillation.- The Effect of Mechanical Treatment and Calcination Temperature of Ethiopian Kaolin on Amorphous Me-takaolin Product.- nalysis of Bending and Tensile Strength of Sisal / Bamboo / PolyesterHybrid Composite.- ynamic Mechanical Properties of Kenaf, Thespesia lampas and Okra Fiber Polyester Composites.- ynthesis and characterization of betaWollastonite from limestone and rice husk as reinforcement filler for clay based ceramic tiles.- Experimental Investigation of Bending Strength of Oxytenanthera Abyssinica and Yushania Alpina Bamboos.- Plasma polymer deposition of neutral agent carvacrol on a metallic surface by using dielectric barrier discharge plasma in ambient air.