The Analytic Hierarchy Process (Saaty 1977, 1980) is a decision-making procedure for establishing priorities in multi-criteria decision making. Underlying the AHP is the theory of ratio-scale measures developed by psychophysicist Stanley S. Stevens (1946, 1951) in the middle of the last century. It is however well-known that Stevens’ original model was flawed in various respects. We reconsider ...

With the continuous rise in prices in fossil fuels, companies and cities in the United States have been looking at ways to decrease their reliance on traditional energy production methods and looking more at the viability of alternative energy sources. This paper uses the goal programming and AHP multi-criteria decision making methods to aid in the selection of an optimal energy portfolio or mi...

Under electronic commerce, how to raise the consumers’ degree of satisfaction and gain the consumers’ loyalty have become the key factor relating with whether e-commerce enterprise can survive, so it’s vital to evaluate status of customer satisfaction for B2C Electronic-Commerce Enterprise . According to the investigation result by internet, this paper brings forward the indicator system of cus...

BACKGROUND Regulatory decision-making involves assessment of risks and benefits of medications at the time of approval or when relevant safety concerns arise with a medication. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) facilitates decision-making in complex situations involving tradeoffs by considering risks and benefits of alternatives. The AHP allows a more structured method of synthesizing and un...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW We aim to give a systematic approach on how to assess the cause of a patient's abnormal head posture (AHP). RECENT FINDINGS Over the decades, many important clinical observers and teachers have described diagnostic techniques for patients with AHP. Recently, Wong has added a new set of office-based diagnostic criteria that expand and solidify the office assessment of AHP. ...

During development, hippocampal CA3 network generates recurrent population bursts, so-called Giant Depolarizing Potentials (GDPs). GDPs are characterized by synchronous depolarization and firing of CA3 pyramidal cells followed by afterhyperpolarization (GDP-AHP). Here, we explored the properties of GDP-AHP in CA3 pyramidal cells using gramicidin perforated patch clamp recordings from neonatal r...

In this paper, we propose two algorithms. The first supports Enhanced Best effort Quality of service Routing with Multiple and Prioritised Metrics (EBQRMPM). The second supports Enhanced Best effort Quality of service Routing with Multiple Metrics (EBQRMM). Both algorithms apply the concept of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which is a well-known model in the area of decision making with m...

Test system for Aero Hydraulic Pump (AHP) has many nonlinear characteristics. Take two control strategies, Neural Network Controller (NNC) and Passivity Based Controller (PBC), to control the speed of AHP for measuring its properties. The results gained from comparing and analyzing to these controllers show that under different outlet pressures of AHP PBC has good stability and robustness which...

Trains of action potentials in CA1 pyramidal neurons are followed by a prolonged calcium-dependent postburst afterhyperpolarization (AHP) that serves to limit further firing to a sustained depolarizing input. A reduction in the AHP accompanies acquisition of several types of learning and increases in the AHP are correlated with age-related cognitive impairment. The AHP develops primarily as the...

Previous research indicates that an age-related increase in the amplitude of the Ca2+-dependent, K+-mediated afterhyperpolarization (AHP) is related to cognitive decline. However, because the AHP is measured following completion of training, it is unclear whether the AHP amplitude is strictly dependent on biological aging or is modified by the training procedure. To address this distinction we ...