1 REGIONAL GEOLOGY 2 The northern California Coast Ranges are composed the Franciscan Complex, a penetratively 3 sheared set of metasedimentary rocks forming an accretionary prism. The Franciscan complex is 4 subdivided into three broad belts that young to the west: the Eastern, Central and Coastal belts, 5 reflecting the cumulative accretion of oceanic sediments to western North America (McLau...

In order to prevent possible loss of life and property, existing building stocks need be assessed before an impending earthquake. Beyond the examination large stocks, rapid evaluation methods are required because even one utilizing detailed vulnerability assessment is computationally expensive. Rapid visual screening (RVS) used screen classify buildings in earthquake-prone zones prior or after ...

We study different types of aggregation operators and the decision making process with minimization of regret. We analyze the original work developed by Savage and the recent work developed by Yager that generalizes the MMR method creating a parameterized family of minimal regret methods by using the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator. We suggest a new method that uses different types of...

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This paper reports a new idea-screening method for new product development (NPD) with a group of decision makers having imprecise, inconsistent and uncertain preferences. The traditional NPD analysis method determines the solution using the membership function of fuzzy sets which cannot treat negative evidence. The advantage of vague sets, with the capability of representing negative evidence, ...

In this paper, we evaluate the application of a sensitivity analysis to help fine-tuning a fuzzy controller for a biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal (BNPR) plant. The Morris Screening method is proposed and evaluated as a prior step to obtain the parameter significance ranking. First, an iterative procedure has been performed in order to find out the proper repetition number of the elem...