Linear mixed-effects models are indispensable tools for analyzing balanced and unbalanced structured data in educational, medical, actuarial and social behavioral research and give us extra flexibility in developing the appropriate model for the data. This paper introduces a mixed two- way analysis of variance with fixed university effect and random time effect. The maximum likelihood estimates of the structural parameters are obtained. The proposed model is used to analyze Saudization ratios (Saudi faculty members in total)data in three public universities in Saudi Arabia.

The study sought to shed light on the financial characteristics affecting ability of going concern in Jordanian Corporations. To achieve this objective, the research used the correlation approach seeking to identify any correlation between two or more variables examined in the context of the study. The researcher divided the study into two sections; the first addressed the theoretical background of the study in which the researcher examined the concept of company going concern and the correlation between ratios and predicting companies' going concern, the importance of auditors' reports regarding the companies' going concern. The second section was experimental as the researcher used the logistic regression analysis. Results of the study indicated a significant effect for companies' liquidity and profitability on Jordanian companies' auditors' decision when reporting concerns about the going concern of the company. The study made some recommendations including the need for auditors to take other variables into consideration such as solvency and cash flows indicators when reporting concerns about the going concern of the company.

The study aimed at analyzing the use of strategic information systems (information value, modifying value, individual performance, organizational performance, and the usage of system) in crisis management in the Jordanian commercial banks. To achieve the aim of the study self administered questionnaire was designed to collect the data, and distributed to a sample of (1193) employees in the selected banks. The statistical package of social science (SPSS) was used to analyze the survey data . The most important findings of this study were as follows: There is a significant relationship between using the various dimensions of strategic information systems and the stages of crisis management, with the former explaining about 58% of the total variation in the dependent variable (crisis management). The study recommends the necessity of using Strategic Information Systems to enhance the stages of crisis management through providing the banks with databases and information systems, which are able to contain the crisis and its negative impacts before resorting to the advanced techniques of dealing with crises.

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between de facto exchange rate regimes which have been followed in the Egyptian economy and the rate of inflation in the period 1974-2007. It addressed the theoretical and empirical studies that dealt with the relationship between exchange rate regimes and inflation and reviewed the de facto exchange rate regimes in Egypt. Since 1960, Egypt had already been applying two exchange rate regimes, the first exchange rate regime was a de facto crawling band with multiple exchange rates and the presence of a parallel market exchange rate in the period 1974-1990. The second one was a moving band which began in 1991, according to the classification of Reinhart and Rogoff 2004. This paper tried to measure the relationship between the two exchange rate regimes, and the rate of inflation. The study found a significant relationship between exchange rate regimes and inflation in the period under study. The rate of inflation under the pegged moving band regime of exchange rate increased by 4.81percent annually compared to the crawling band regime of exchange rate with multiple exchange rates. The main cause of inflation in Egypt in the long term is the budget deficit, while the factors that limit inflation in the long term are spending on fixed capital formation, private consumption expenditure and government consumption expenditure.

The objective of this research is to understand how effective small and medium enterprises are in the employment of the national labor force . To do so , the research investigates the views of a sample of small and medium enterprises in Riyadh region to evaluate their role in the recruitment of employees and the obstacles that they might face. The research has come to the conclusion that a very important factor in the success of economic development is the success of small and medium projects in the employment of the national labor force , and stresses the need to focus on smaller projects in development plans, as well as concentrating efforts in the training of Saudi youth to promote their abilities and skills, and initiating innovative training tools to encourage appropriate training to facilitate the engagement of Saudi youth in the work of those projects, where most enterprises employ foreigners who may be possess less ability and knowledge.