Obesity has been linked to several heart diseases .Unfortunately, Malaysian today are the most overweight or obese people among Asian nations. That is, half of population is overweight. These serious social consequences. Therefore, specific and actions needed reduce eliminate this threat. The rapid increase in obesity rates directed link with factors such as low physical activities, ease transp...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured decision making support tool that has been used by the Ministry of Defence and DSTA for evaluating weapon systems and platforms. Since 2005, AHP has also been adopted in the evaluation of several large-scale non-defence government tenders. As the Singapore Armed Forces transforms into a Third Generation fighting force, new technologies and co...

Managing natural resource lands requires social, as well as biophysical, considerations. Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to accurately assess and quantify changing social preferences, and to aggregate conflicting opinions held by diverse social groups. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) provides a systematic, explicit, rigorous, and robust mechanism for eliciting and quantifying subj...

Credit risk assessment for consumers has been a cornerstone of risk management in financial institutions and constitutes a component of the three pillars of Basel II. Traditionally, the concept of 5 ‘C’s was widely adopted by financial institutions as the key basis for credit risk assessment for loan applications by prospective borrowers. With the evolution of the credit risk management practic...

the decision to buy, sell, design and construct residential apartments is a complex process due to a combination of multiplequalitative and quantitative factors. it thus requires a great deal of costs and time for decision makers in this market. identifying these factors and determining the priority of them are importance for selectingan apartment. the aim of current research is to identify the...

This progress report outlines the main reasons why Saaty’s Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP, see [17] and [18]) is not a valid methodology.