Search Results - "Girma, S"

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications for Civil Applications: A Review by Ghamari, Mohammad, Rangel, Pablo, Mehrubeoglu, Mehrube, Tewolde, Girma, Simon Sherratt, R.

“…The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly increased across a variety of applications over the past few years…”
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Effect of the enhancing nutrition and antenatal infection treatment (ENAT) intervention on birth weight in Ethiopia: a cluster randomized controlled trial by Mekonnen, Y, Wolde, E, Bekele, A, Mehari, Z, Abebe, S, Hagos, T, Tadesse, Y, Taye, T, Asire, G, Nigatu, T, Kumar, S, Girma, S, Salasibew, M

“…BackgroundThe Enhancing Nutrition and Antenatal Infection Treatment (ENAT) intervention was implemented in Ethiopia to improve newborn birth weight (BW) by…”
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An Arsenal of Multiple Antimicrobial Resistance, Toxins, and Virulence Factors in Gram-Negative Bacterial Isolates from Food - A Formidable Combination by Alemu, Ashenafi, Girma, Selfu, Mariam, Solomon H

“…Infectious diseases caused by pathogenic members of the family cause mortality and morbidity in humans. These are mediated mainly via toxins or virulence…”
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Malaria case investigation with reactive focal testing and treatment: operational feasibility and lessons learned from low and moderate transmission areas in Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Bansil, Pooja, Yeshiwondim, Asnakew K, Guinovart, Caterina, Serda, Belendia, Scott, Callie, Tesfay, Berhane H, Agmas, Adem, Bezabih, Belay, Zeleke, Melkamu T, Guesses, Girma S, Ayenew, Asmamaw L, Workie, Worku M, Earle, Duncan, Steketee, Rick W, Getachew, Asefaw

“…When malaria transmission is very low, investigation of passively detected malaria cases and reactive focal testing and treatment (FTAT) in the case and…”
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Design and Implementation of a Network Robotic Framework Using a Smartphone-Based Platform by Lim, Jongil, Tewolde, Girma S., Kwon, Jaerock, Choi, Seyeong

“…With recent advances in robotics along with sensor technologies, robots have richer features and can be used in more diverse applications. However, onboard…”
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Distributed Multi-Actuator Control for Workload Balancing in Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks by Changhua Wu, Tewolde, G. S., Weihua Sheng, Bin Xu, Yu Wang

“…This technical note presents strategies for systematic ways to control mobile actuators in distributed wireless sensor and actuator networks. The efficiency,…”
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Teachers' Willingness to Pay for Social Health Insurance and Its Determinant Factors at Harar Region, Ethiopia, 2021 by Girma, Sintayehu, Abebe, Gizachew, Tamire, Aklilu, Fekredin, Hamdi, Taye, Bedasa

“…Most developing nations lag behind in maintaining their populations' health. These nations are characterized by under-financing, low health cost protection…”
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COVID-19-Related Anxiety and Its Association with Dietary Diversity Score Among Health Care Professionals in Ethiopia: A Web-Based Survey by Alenko, Arefayne, Agenagnew, Liyew, Beressa, Girma, Tesfaye, Yonas, Woldesenbet, Yohannes Markos, Girma, Shimelis

“…The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a stressful and overwhelming situation for health care professionals (HCP), especially, who are caring…”
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Mass testing and treatment for malaria in low transmission areas in Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Scott, Callie A, Yeshiwondim, Asnakew K, Serda, Belendia, Guinovart, Caterina, Tesfay, Berhane H, Agmas, Adem, Zeleke, Melkamu T, Guesses, Girma S, Ayenew, Asmamaw L, Workie, Worku M, Steketee, Richard W, Earle, Duncan, Bezabih, Belay, Getachew, Asefaw

“…In areas with ongoing malaria transmission, strategies to clear parasites from populations can reduce infection and transmission. The objective of this paper…”
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Accelerating the performance of particle swarm optimization for embedded applications by Tewolde, G.S., Hanna, D.M., Haskell, R.E.

“…The ever increasing popularity of particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is recently attracting attention to the embedded computing world. Although PSO is…”
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Absorptive Capacity and Productivity Spillovers from FDI: A Threshold Regression Analysis by Girma, Sourafel

“…This paper explores whether the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on productivity growth is dependent on absorptive capacity using recently developed…”
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Organic and Acquisitive Growth: Re-examining, Testing and Extending Penrose's Growth Theory by Lockett, Andy, Wiklund, Johan, Davidsson, Per, Girma, Sourafel

“…Edith Penrose's theory of firm growth postulates that a firm's current growth rate will be influenced by the adjustment costs of, and changes to a firm's…”
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Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-in-differences matching approach by Girma, Sourafel, Görg, Holger

“…This paper seeks to identify the causal effect of foreign acquisitions on wages of skilled and unskilled workers, using difference-in-differences propensity…”
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Lane following and obstacle detection techniques in autonomous driving vehicles by Amaradi, Phanindra, Sriramoju, Nishanth, Li Dang, Tewolde, Girma S., Jaerock Kwon

“…This paper presents techniques developed for lane following and obstacle detection capabilities for autonomous vehicles. The proposed system is based on a…”
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Effective active learning tools for an embedded systems course by Tewolde, Girma S.

“…This paper presents tools the author uses to enhance student motivation in a microcontroller-based embedded systems course. The course is offered as part of a…”
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The political economy of financial development by Girma, Sourafel, Shortland, Anja

“…Political economy theories of financial development argue that in countries where a narrow elite controls political decisions, financial development may be…”
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Considerations in low power wireless sensor networks by Sharma, Amit, Tewolde, Girma S.

“…The wireless sensor networks (WSN) technology is becoming increasingly attractive for a wide range of real-world applications, mostly due to their shrinking…”
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What Determines Innovation Activity in Chinese State-owned Enterprises? The Role of Foreign Direct Investment by Girma, Sourafel, Gong, Yundan, Görg, Holger

“…We investigate whether inward foreign direct investment (FDI), either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese…”
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Vision based localization for multiple mobile robots using low-cost vision sensor by Seokju Lee, Tewolde, Girma S., Jongil Lim, Jaerock Kwon

“…This paper presents an efficient approach for a vision based localization of multiple mobile robots in an indoor environment by using a low cost vision sensor…”
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Knowledge and Precautionary Behavioral Practice Toward COVID-19 Among Health Professionals Working in Public University Hospitals in Ethiopia: A Web-Based Survey by Girma, Shimelis, Alenko, Arefayne, Agenagnew, Liyew

“…The novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, causes massive death, threatens the life and health of the world population. Thousands of health professionals were…”
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