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Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is still among the major health problems especially in low and middle-income countries.According to the report of the new standards for the management of acute malnutrition in Ethiopia, every month over 25,000 children with severe acute malnutrition are admitted to hospitals, if not identified early and treated properly, these children could die (WHO, 2019). Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess time to cure and its determinants among under-five children with SAM admitted to inpatient therapeutic feeding unit.The hospital record based retrospective cohort study the data for this study is from September 2017 to August 2019. The statistical method survival analysis is appropriate to assess the stated objectives of this study. Non parametric, semi parametric and AFT models are used. The estimated median survival time of the patient was 14 days (2 weeks) with inter- quartile range 1.2 to 3.3 weeks, which is the acceptable time of recovery in the therapeutic feeding centers according to the SAM management protocol. CoxPH model and common AFT models (Weibull, lognormal and log logistic) are compared with AIC. Weibull AFT model was best fitted model. The finding of the study showed that among the accounted cures was 66.7%, which was below the recommended sphere standard which should be >75%. The median length of stay for recovered children in the ITFU of 2 weeks (14 days) is acceptable recovery time.Residence, age of the children, appetite status, breast feeding status, weight, MUAC, admission types, edema status, cough, vomiting, anemia, antibiotic treatment and vitamin A are the covariates that have significant effect on time to cure from SAM of under-five children at 5% level of significance.Addressing these risk factors for cure of children is vital to decreasing the child mortality due to malnutrition., {"references":["1.\tBanbeta, A. et al. (2015). 'Modeling time-to-cure from severe acute malnutrition : application of various parametric frailty models', Archives of Public Health 2015 73:6. pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1186/2049-3258-73-6. 2.\tDesai, T. (2018). 'A study on the nutritional status of pre primary of children coming to Anganwadi in rural area of Gandhinagar district', International Journal of Home Science, 2018; 4(1), pp. 295–299. 3.\tDesyibelew, H. 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In order to ensure the achievement of organization’s goals, it should create an atmosphere of commitment and cooperation for its employees through policies that facilitate employee satisfaction. The main objective of the study is identifying factors affecting employee’s job satisfaction and supervisor performance at Debre Berhan University. In order to meet the objective of the study a sample of 272 employees have taken. And consecutive statistical methods have been used. Both descriptive and inferential group of statistical tools have been applied. The descriptive result of the study reveals that about 63.2% of the sampled employees have unsatisfied and the rest 36.8% of them have satisfied with the working condition of the university. From logistic regression analysis of job satisfaction it is evident that the way of promotion, encouragement of research work, accessibility of office, merit based job allocation, recognition for contributions, responding the need of home and facility of working materials have significant effect on employees job satisfaction at 5% level of significant. Multiple linear regression also shows that handles employees complaints, does not allow special privilege, availability of supervisor for staffs, being respectful, good leading skill, trust on clerk, and sense of responsibility have significant effect on the supervisor performance at 5% level of significance. Finally chi-square test of association of overall job satisfaction and overall supervisor performance shows that there is a strong association between job satisfaction and performance of immediate supervisors. from consecutive result of the study it is recommended that; the management of the university should improve the way of promotion for staffs based on the legislation of the university, there should be motivated encouragement and recognition for researchers so that scientific environment can be created in the compound, the university should also work hard to satisfy the need of staffs for home and the allocation of supervisors in different hierarchy should be merit based.

Student success is a critical issue facing higher education today. Schools, colleges and universities have no worth without students. Students are most essential asset for any educational institute. Less academic performance of students in universities especially in engineering colleges and its ripple effects are looming dangers for Ethiopia. The main purpose of this research is to identify and examine factors that affect students’ academic performance at DBU College of engineering. To achieve this objective a sample of 263 students have taken and self-administered questionnaires were distributed through the selected respondents. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed. From the descriptive result of the study it has shown that the average CGPA of engineering student is 2.93 with minimum of 2.00 and maximum of 3.96. From multiple linear regression result it is evident that student interest, study habit and previous background factors have a significant effect on the academic performance of students. From the result of the study it is concluded that assigning departments based on the interest of students, effective study habit and good previous background enhances the performance of engineering students. And it is recommended that Orientation and special training should be given for fresh students about effective study habit at the very beginning of the academic year, a continuous and strategic work should be done on students at the lower grades in line with engineering departments in the university, assigning of departments should be conducted based on the interest of students and finally this research should be implemented as project work to enhance the performance of engineering students.