Evaluating alignments for a transportation corridor is a complex process that involves many decision makers and stakeholders. Capturing input about important considerations is vital to the process of alignment selection and is an iterative process. Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) provides a systematic methodology to compare, select, and rank multiple alternatives using disparate data sour...

Land suitability analysis is employed to evaluate the appropriateness of land for a particular purpose whilst integrating both qualitative and quantitative inputs, which can be continuous in nature. However, in agricultural modelling there is often a disregard of this contiguous aspect. Therefore, some parametric procedures for suitability analysis compartmentalise units into defined membership...

This paper introduces a novel approach to gene selection based on a substantial modification of analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The modified AHP systematically integrates outcomes of individual filter methods to select the most informative genes for microarray classification. Five individual ranking methods including t-test, entropy, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, Wilcoxon and...

In the present study, muscle tissues were obtained separately from individuals from Atlantic hairtail population (AHP), Gunsan hairtail population (GHP) and Chinese hairtail population (CHP), respectively. The seven decamer primers were used to generate the shared loci, specific, unique shared loci to each population and shared loci by the three hairtail populations. Here, averagely, a decamer ...

Group Ia afferents are activated vigorously with high-frequency tendon vibration and provide excitatory input to the agonist muscle and inhibitory input to the antagonist muscle group via inhibitory interneurons. The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether the afterhyperpolarization (AHP) time course in humans is altered in response to tendon vibration. The AHP time course is estima...

A stochastic formulation of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) using an approach based on Bayesian categorical data models has been developed. However, in categorical data models it is known that the selection of the link function may have an impact on the model estimates. In particular, the selection of the probit link implies an assumption that model error terms are normally distributed and...

This research paper aims to give a new dimension to the decision maker by proposing a hybrid model of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and preference ranking organisation method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE) in 3PL selection. It uses an integrated approach of AHP-PROMTHEE as a selection methodology to select an efficient and requisite 3PL firm for a manufacturer. A relatively new and us...

Abstract: This work presents Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method available in Geographic Information System (GIS) to identify and classify the Penang Island according to the grade of present or potential danger of land failure happening. Landslide susceptibility zonation map has been generated by considering seven factors. Sensitivity analysis was performed in detail by varying the contri...

We utilized a recently developed long-term serum-free culture system for bovine parathyroid cells to detect antibodies in seven patients with autoimmune hypoparathyroidism (AHP). Antibodies were tested by indirect immunofluorescence methods and by cytotoxicity utilizing the chromium (51Cr) release technique. Seven AHP sera caused specific lysis [57 +/- 6% release of 51Cr vs. 5 +/- 1% for 56 con...

“The theory of decision analysis (DA) is designed to help the individual make a choice among a set of prespecified alternatives” (Keeney and Raiffa 1976, vii). Simply put, the basic DA problem is, How should a decision maker select from a given set of competing alternatives that are evaluated against conflicting objectives? Because operations research (OR) is the science of decision making, OR ...