Tujuan dari buku ini adalah untuk memberikan pengantar teori dan aplikasi di bidang pengambilan keputusan, terutama yang berfokus pada Analytic Hierarchy Process, suatu teknik terstruktur untuk mengatur dan menganalisis keputusan yang kompleks, berdasarkan matematika dan psikologi. Ini dikembangkan oleh Prof. Thomas L. Saaty pada tahun 1970-an dan telah dipelajari dan disempurnakan secara ekste…
Palet kaya topik yang ditetapkan dalam buku ini memberikan gambaran yang cukup luas tentang perkembangan di bidang kontrol kualitas. Dengan memberikan informasi rinci tentang berbagai aspek pengendalian mutu, buku ini dapat menjadi dasar untuk memulai kerjasama interdisipliner yang semakin menjadi bagian integral dari penelitian ilmiah dan terapan.
Selama lima dekade terakhir, kita telah menyaksikan evolusi yang luar biasa dalam pengelolaan sistem sumber daya air. Tiga karakteristik dari evolusi ini menjadi perhatian khusus: Pertama, penerapan pendekatan sistem terhadap masalah pengelolaan air yang kompleks telah ditetapkan sebagai salah satu kemajuan terpenting di bidang pengelolaan sumber daya air. Kedua, lima dekade terakhir telah memb…
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are growing exponentially. In 1993, the Yearbook of International Organizations listed 16,000 internationally recognized NGOs. By 2004, this number was 63,000. With this increase comes a staggering growth in the activities and intellectual output of NGOs working on a local and international level. As the mission of both libraries and NGOs increasingly inter…
The world in which we currently live is characterised by a multiplicity of challenges that we must face with urgency if we want to avoid future catastrophes. Those challenges, because of the globalisation of systems, have also become global challenges, and need global responses. One of the most important of those challenges faced by the current global community remains the environmental crisis,…
Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism. They address a capacious set of q…
Ce livre en libre accès explore les attentes entourant la démence, à quoi elle ressemble et comment les gens ont été traités par les autres. Il vise à sensibiliser aux différents types de démence et à leur impact sur le cerveau, le corps et l'expérience vécue, y compris l'expérience de la maladie d'Alzheimer, de la démence vasculaire, de l'atrophie corticale postérieure, de la dÃ…
This chapter explores global apparel consumption and its dependence on production supply chains in low-income countries where unsustainable and informal market practices are rampant. Recent life cycle studies of garments show that over 80 percent of environmental impact stems from the production phase of apparel. Up to 80 percent of this production is outsourced to the informal sector in develo…
After a review of the rival approaches that are used to evaluate public sector performance in general, five dimensions of EMB performance are set out which are argued to be crucial for achieving democratic ideals in an electoral democracy. The aim is to set out these dimensions, and the sources of data that can be used by researchers to assess whether they are achieved. The UK and Canada are th…
The measurement of economic entities' financial strength is one of the significant challenges of modern economic and financial research. With increased financial globalization, faster economic changes, and a new dimension of increased financial risk in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis due to its biological nature and broad scope, affecting the whole world simultaneously, the issue of…