The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) (Saaty, 1990) has been accepted as a leading multiattribute decision model both by practitioners and academics. AHP can solve decision problems in various fields by the prioritization of alternatives. The heart of the most familiar version of the AHP is the Saaty’s eigenvector method (EM) which approximates an positive reciprocal matrix n n× ) ( ij a A = , ,...

Introduction Complex management of JIA comprises of drug treatment, physiotherapy/occupational therapy, education and counselling. It should be provided by a trained multidisciplinary team of physicians and allied health professionals (AHP). In the traditional model, nursing and physiotherapy staff competencies are limited by the leading role of physicians and support of an equally important ro...

Principal neurons in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala (LA) exhibit a continuum of firing properties in response to prolonged current injections ranging from those that accommodate fully to those that fire repetitively. In most cells, trains of action potentials are followed by a slow afterhyperpolarization (AHP) lasting several seconds. Reducing calcium influx either by lowering concentratio...

Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) involves techniques which relatively recently have received great increase in interest for their capabilities of solving spatial decision problems. One of the most frequently used techniques of MCDA is Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In the AHP, decision-makers make pairwise comparisons between different criteria to obtain values of their relative import...

This paper aims to provide an insight to managers on the availability of simple-to-use Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a practical tool for inventory management. It provides an example of the useful application of AHP in determining inventory policy for spare parts. It also presents the use of AHP as an analytic planning tool which managers could use to evaluate the feasibility of a desired...

In lobster olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs), depolarizing responses to odorants and current injection are accompanied by the development of an afterhyperpolarization (AHP) that likely contributes to spike-frequency adaptation and that persists for several seconds after termination of the response. A portion of the AHP can be blocked by extracellular application of 5 mM CsCl. At this concentrat...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that there is a wealth of academic literature that qualitatively examines the outsourcing and offshoring from a go/no go perspective. The paper examines the complex “where to outsource” question by applying a quantitative approach called Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Design/methodology/approach – The authors examine a Fortune 500 company’s real...

BACKGROUND Health-promoting lifestyles of adolescents are closely related to their current and subsequent health status. However, few studies in mainland China have examined health-promoting behaviors among university students, notwithstanding the dramatic development of higher education over the past two decades. Moreover, no study has applied a standardized scale to such an investigation. The...

The original motivation for this study was the observation in previous human experiments that the motor neuron firing frequency (recorded from the motor units in the EMG) was lower at derecruitment than that at recruitment, with slow linearly varying voluntary contractions. Are the lower firing rates at derecruitment correlated with a change in the postspike afterhyperpolarization (AHP) after p...

Acupoint herbal patching (AHP), which involves local point stimulation with a herbal medicine patch, has long been used to treat patients with asthma in East Asian countries. However, its evidence is equivocal. This systematic review aims to summarize and critically evaluate the efficacy and safety of AHP for asthma.A literature search was conducted in PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane library, and ...