The purpose of this study is to investigate factors affecting student performance in Arab Open University-Kuwait branch. To achieve this objective, all graduate students during the academic year 2009-2010 were examined. The graduates were 566 students, consisting of 353 female and 213 male students. The data were analyzed by using Ordinary Least Square (OLS) multiple regressions. The outcome of the analysis revealed that the Grade Point Average (GPA) of the student is affected by age, score of the high school and nationality. In addition, the results revealed that younger students perform better than mature students and non-national students perform better than national student. The results further revealed that significant gender differences exists, female students perform better than male counterparts in line with a significant number of previous empirical studies. More importantly, the results of the analysis indicated that marital status plays a significant role in determining the student's performance by confirming that married students perform better than non-married counterparts.

Narakas classified babies with obstetric palsy into four groups: upper Erb's, extended Erb's, total palsy, and total palsy with a Horner. Over the last 15 years, it was noted at our obstetric palsy clinic that good spontaneous recovery in newborns with extended Erb's palsy (C5, C6, C7 injury) was more likely if they recovered active wrist extension against gravity before 2 months of age. A hypothesis was made that newborns with extended Erb's palsy (Narakas Group II) may be subclassified into two groups according to this 'early recovery of wrist extension.' In a retrospective study of 581 cases with strict inclusion criteria, the hypothesis was found to be true: patients with extended Erb's and 'early recovery of wrist extension' have significantly higher percentages of good spontaneous recovery of limb function than those with extended Erb's and 'no early recovery of wrist extension' (P<0.0001 by chi-squared test).

This paper investigates the impact of bank-specific determinants on bank's profitability in the Kuwaiti banking sector for the period 1993-2005. In order to achieve this purpose, a pooled annual data for seven national commercial banks is used to estimate a five variables model by the seemingly unrelated regression technique. The results indicate that equity ratio, loan-assets ratio, operating expenses ratio, and total assets explain about 67% of the variation in return on assets (ROA). However, the results indicate that loan-assets ratio, and operating expenses ratio are statistically insignificant. Accordingly, the results stress the need for improving capital adequacy and reducing the ratio of non-interest assets as a way to improve profitability. The positive impact of the size variable indicates scale efficiency meaning that there is a potential for higher profits as the size of these banks increases.

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This work attempts to identify determinants of capital structure in a sample of commercial banks listed on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets. To achieve this objective, data about were collected from 47 GCC commercial banks for the period between 2001 and 2010. We find that profitability and liquidity affect banks' capital structure decision. The major contribution of this study is that, the majority of the commercial banks' assets in GCC is financed by debts which represents more than 80 percent of the capital of the banks. This emphasizes the importance of long-term debts in commercial banks' financing in GCC.