In this process, sigmoidal membership functions (i.e., monotonically decreasing and monotonically increasing), user-defined linear membership functions, two crisp membership functions, are specified for selected landslide criteria (see Fig. 7).
This eastward Manifest Destiny seemed for years an inexorable and predictable process, with membership in the European Union followed by entry into the euro currency zone.
As Mr Nay Chi Win argues, "this is a bottom-up process, the membership coming up with ideas".The leadership, too, has been involved in training.
The process towards membership of the EU has already been delayed by Serbia's ongoing reluctance to arrest and hand over Bosnian war leader Ratko Mladic to the international war crimes tribunal.
The pattern of intensive reform to qualify, followed by a let-up in the process once membership is achieved, is too common to be mere happenstance.Olli Rehn, the enlargement commissioner, concedes sadly that "after a country has a seat round the table, it is much harder to apply pressure to it".
"The difference in the process of membership is quite different too.
Hart then declared that the process for membership would be revised at the next Supreme Convention, but died before he could see it take place.
The points fitting process for membership functions gave us certain freedom as to the election of the most appropriate one available to us from the MATLAB repertoire.
That all this took place as Turkey's full membership process with the EU process has stagnated and as the US is more or less clueless about the significance of 2013 as the "year of the Kurds" also adds to the paradoxes.
