Recommendation systems that provide appropriate solutions to users to reduce their decision complexity have become popular in the Internet world. Designing and evaluating such systems remain essential challenges to researchers and practitioners. Toward that end, a critical task is how to obtain user preferences. Mobile phones have become indispensable in everyday life, yet fierce market competi...

In this study, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed to select the best method for the preparation of Nateglinide (NTG)loaded nanoparticles. There are various techniques available for the development of nanoparticles like Nanoprecipitation or Solvent displacement, Ionic gelation, Solvent evaporation method etc. and choosing the best method is a crucial one. AHP is one of the widely us...

Abstract: Performance measurement has received significant interest during the present industrial scenario. Researchers are emphasizing the development of newer exotic cutting edge tools and more effective methods that can be applied to solve organisational problems. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model measure the efficiencies of a set of homogenous systems or decision making units (DMUs) by ...

The purpose of this paper is to present an alternative of a hybrid method based on Saaty’s Analytical Hierarchy Process and on the Technique for Order Preference by using the Similarity to Ideal Solution method (AHP-TOPSIS) and, based on the AHP and its use of pairwise comparisons, to extend it to a new method called α-D MCDMTOPSIS (α-Discounting Method for multi-criteria decision making-TOPSIS...

Pyramidal neurons in the piriform cortex from olfactory-discrimination-trained rats have reduced postburst afterhyperpolarization (AHP), for 3 days after learning, and are thus more excitable during this period. Such AHP reduction is caused by decreased conductance of one or more of the calcium-dependent potassium currents, I(AHP) and sI(AHP), that mediate the medium and slow AHPs. In this stud...

The ranking of Critical Success Factors (CSF) of Healthcare Management Information System (HMIS) help practitioners to identify vital factors from the trivial many that are essential for its success. The objective of this study is to rank the CSF of HMIS using a suitable Multi-Criteria Decision Making technique (MCDM). Here, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is the MCDM used to determine the rel...

We identified a new form of activity-dependent modulation of the afterhyperpolarization (AHP) in tactile (T) sensory neurons of the leech Hirudo medicinalis. Repetitive intracellular stimulation with 30 trains of depolarizing impulses at 15-s inter-stimulus interval (ISI) led to an increase of the AHP amplitude (~60% of the control). The enhancement of AHP lasted for >/=15 min. The AHP increase...

Successful strategic decisions provide the appropriate operational actions for the right markets at the correct time. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis is a generally used tool which examines strengths and weaknesses of organization or industry together with opportunities and threats of the marketplace environment. SWOT framework provides the basic outline in whic...

There are a number of decision making problems in which Geographical Information System (GIS) has employed to organize and facilitate the procedure of analyzing the problem. These GIS-based decision problems which typically include a number of different criteria and alternatives are generally analyzed by Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA).Different locations within a geographical area repre...

We accurately measured the conductance responsible for the afterhyperpolarization (medium AHP) that follows a single spike in spinal motoneurons of anesthetized cats. This was done by using the dynamic-clamp method. We injected an artificial current in the neurons that increased the AHP amplitude, and we made use of the fact that the intensity of the natural AHP current at the trough of the vol...