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In this paper we introduce a brief review about Box-Jenkins models. These models provide a very good method to forecast for stationary and non-stationary time series. Box and Jenkins technique is used to find the best model for inflation rates in Sudan. To achieve this objective, a series of inflation rates ranged from 1998 to 2013 were obtained from the annual reports of the Central Bank of Sudan. The estimation concludes that the most proper time series model to forecast the inflation rate in Sudan is the AR (1), MA (3) model.

This paper focuses on education and economic development in Nigeria. One of the essences of education is to produce human resources that are skillful and knowledgeable; positioning man to be a critical resource upon which national economies, especially that of a developing nation like Nigeria hinge upon. In this paper, an attempt was made to correlate Nigeria’s investment in education since independence and economic development so far attained, analyze the issues and  challenges  of economic development, the current state of education in Nigeria and the way forward.

The purpose of the research work is to highlight ways of improving organisational effectiveness in Nigeria public enterprise. specifically, the study aimed to pursue the following objectives : to determine the effect of organisational culture on organisational effectiveness in  Nigeria public enterprise, to ascertain the nature of relationship between corporate ethic and organisational Effectiveness in Nigeria public enterprise, to determine the effect of strategic management on organisational effectiveness  in Nigeria public enterprise.

The article aims to enrich the development of public relations research approach. The development can be conducted by deconstructing the focus of rhetorical study: from classical rhetoric to contemporary rhetoric. Rhetoric is vital to society to exist because rhetoric is the use of symbols, conducted by individuals and organizations, to influence opinions, understanding, and actions.

The material has an important role in an engineering design field. The suitable material selection for a particular product is one of the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem depends on an aggregation representing by closeness to the ideal which is generated by compromise methods.  In order to complete the product requirements, experts need to analyze the performance of various and suitable materials with precise operations. In the competitive market, the material selection process is intricate and time consuming effort.

Fifteen years ago, for a product or a service to be eminent and in vogue, it was word of mouth; now it is word of mobile. E-Commerce is a global phenomenon, which brings people closer to the product. It’s expected that as much as 80-90 per cent of the overall e-commerce traffic in India will start flowing through mobile devices.

To target pockets where girls’ education is lagging behind, the Government of India has launched Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV). The objective of KGBV is to ensure access and provide quality education to girls from disadvantaged groups by setting up residential schools at upper primary level. The state of Assam in India was selected for the present study. Multi stage sampling design was adopted for the study. The sampling units at different stages were State, Districts and KGBVs. Primary data collection method was used in the study.

Today, schools face new and unimaginable threats to their safety.  To  improve school  safety appropriate leadership  and management  is  needed,  however  in  developing  countries  appropriate  leadership  and  management  is  not  always  present. According to the United Nations Convention of the rights of a child it states that every child has the right to be safe (Wahlström, 2011).

Family business is an important factor in economic development throughout the world, particularly in countries changing from a socialist social-economic model to a market economy model. More than ever in the Czech Republic, where free enterprise had been suppressed for decades, it is a very hot topic, because about 25 years ago new private enterprises were established in these countries, whilst the majority of them were the family type. Now is the time to transfer these companies into the hands of successors and followers of the family tradition of entrepreneurship.

From the original huge recording equipment, by now the recording work a person a computer can be completed, recording technology obtained the unprecedented development, usher in the digital age, comprehensive at present, with the progress of digital technology, digital recording technology is widely applied to many areas, this paper probes into the innovation and development of Chinese digital recording technology.