Decision.The Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP, introduced by Thomas Saaty 1980, is an. Synthesizing the results, the AHP helps to capture both subjective and.Saaty The AHP: How to make a decision properties or features of the alternatives being compared, and the alternatives themselves are gradually layered in the.INTRODUCTION. The Analytic Hierarchy Process AHP is due to Saaty 1980 and is often ...

Tom Saaty developed the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) more than 25 years ago. Since then, AHP has been used by decision makers all over the world to model problems in diverse areas such as conflict analysis, marketing, R&D management, strategic planning, and public policy. Thousands of AHP papers have been published, documenting the wide applicability of the approach in ranking, selecting, e...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been considerably criticized for its possible rank reversal phenomenon. Many variants of the original AHP have been proposed to preserve rank orders. The validity of the original AHP and its variants have been a subject of long-lasting debate. In this paper we propose four criteria to evaluate the validity of AHP aggregation rules and examine three typic...

Trains of action potentials in hippocampal pyramidal neurons are followed by a prolonged afterhyperpolarization (AHP) lasting several seconds, which is attributable to the activation of a slow calcium-activated potassium current ((sI)AHP). Here we examine the location of (sI)AHP on CA1 pyramidal neurons by comparing it with two GABAergic inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs) with known somat...

Transportation Infrastructure (TI) project selection means identifying some alternative projects in order to maximize the net benefit to the organization and allocating resources only among those alternatives, within the given constraints on resources. To select the best set of proposed TI projects in an organization is difficult because there are lots of multiple factors such as project risk, ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Almond hull is produced in high amounts and mostly used as livestock feed. This study was designed to examine the impact of almond hull powder (AHP) administration on lipid profile and antioxidant activities in plasma and liver in hyperlipidemic rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS As the first step, the antioxidant capacity and radical scavenging activity of AHP were determined using c...

The purpose of this paper is to extend the theory of Hierarchies Consistency Analysis (HCA) to establish a multiple structures evaluation model for the AHP. Traditionally, the AHP process is based on a single evaluation hierarchy, according to statistics and group decision theories, a more objective evaluation will be obtained if we can compromise several estimates. We will construct several di...

Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is major method for decision making now and decision maker’s answers are strongly related to his or her cognitive abilities. Inner dependence AHP is used for cases in which criteria or alternatives are not independent enough. In the process, calculations and compositions of weights are very important steps. Using the original AHP or inner dependence AHP may caus...

Modulation of afterhyperpolarization (AHP) represents an important mechanism by which excitability of a neuron can be regulated. In the leech brain, sensitization enhances excitability of the S-cell, an interneuron thought to play an important role in this form of nonassociative learning. This increase in excitability is serotonin (5-HT) dependent, but it is not known whether changes in AHP con...

Whole cell patch and cell-attached recordings were obtained from neurons in intact ganglia of the myenteric plexus of the guinea pig duodenum. Two classes of neuron were identified electrophysiologically: phasically firing AH neurons that had a pronounced slow afterhyperpolarization (AHP) and tonically firing S neurons that lacked a slow AHP. We investigated the properties of the slow AHP and t...