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1. Hierarchy: A hierarchy is an ordering of persons, ideas, or constructs from less to greater importance, in a tiered organizational structure. Organizations may have a hierarchy, both formally and informally: for example, the Senate formally has no internal hierarchy, but informally ... [100%] 2023-02-27 [Sociology] [Theory of Mind]...
2. Hierarchy: A classification of certain mathematical objects according to the complexity of their definitions. The first hierarchies were constructed in descriptive set theory (see ). (Mathematics) [100%] 2024-01-10
3. Hierarchy: Hierarchy, the office of a steward or guardian of holy things, not a “ruler of priests” or “priestly ruler”, a term commonly used in ecclesiastical language to denote the aggregate of those persons who exercise authority within the Christian Church ... [100%] 2022-09-02
4. Hierarchy (mathematics): In mathematics, a hierarchy is a set-theoretical object, consisting of a preorder defined on a set. This is often referred to as an ordered set, though that is an ambiguous term that many authors reserve for partially ordered sets ... (Mathematics) [70%] 2024-01-02 [Hierarchy] [Set theory]...
5. Hierarchy theory: Hierarchy theory is a means of studying ecological systems in which the relationship between all of the components is of great complexity. Hierarchy theory focuses on levels of organization and issues of scale, with a specific focus on the role ... [70%] 2023-01-06 [Hierarchy]
6. Hierarchy theory: Hierarchy theory is a means of studying ecological systems in which the relationship between all of the components is of great complexity. Hierarchy theory focuses on levels of organization and issues of scale, with a specific focus on the role ... [70%] 2022-07-02 [Hierarchy] [Systems ecology]...
7. Hierarchy problem: In theoretical physics, the hierarchy problem is the problem concerning the large discrepancy between aspects of the weak force and gravity. There is no scientific consensus on why, for example, the weak force is 10 times stronger than gravity. (Physics) [70%] 2023-10-08 [Standard Model] [Physics beyond the Standard Model]...
8. Hierarchy of death: Hierarchy of death is a phrase used by journalists, social scientists, and academics to describe disproportionate amounts of media attention paid to various incidents of death around the world. Definitions of the hierarchy of death vary, but several themes remain ... (Classification in writing) [57%] 2023-04-16 [Cultural aspects of death] [Media coverage and representation]...
9. The Ergodic Hierarchy: The Ergodic Hierarchy (EH) is a central part of ergodic theory. It is a hierarchy of properties that dynamical systems can possess. (Philosophy) [57%] 2022-07-23
10. Hierarchy of evidence: A hierarchy of evidence is a ranking of the quality of evidence used in evidence-based medicine. There is variation among hierarchies, with more than 80 documented, but they follow a basic pattern of attempting to rank evidence based on ... [57%] 2023-02-15 [Medicine] [Philosophy of science]...
11. Hierarchy of disagreement: The hierarchy of disagreement is a concept proposed by computer scientist Paul Graham in his 2008 essay How to Disagree. Graham's hierarchy has seven levels, from name calling to "Refuting the central point". [57%] 2024-01-14 [Logic]
12. Analytic Hierarchy Process: The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a structured technique for helping people deal with complex decisions. Rather than prescribing a "correct" decision, the AHP helps people to determine one that suits their needs and wants. [57%] 2022-09-15
13. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is a reference describing the conventions used for the layout of a UNIX system. It has been made popular by its use in Linux distributions, but it is used by other UNIX variants as well. (Linux standard for directory structure) [57%] 2023-08-13 [Computer standards] [File system directories]...
14. Hierarchy of beliefs: Construction by Jean-François Mertens and Zamir implementing with John Harsanyi's proposal to model games with incomplete information by supposing that each player is characterized by a privately known type that describes his feasible strategies and payoffs as well ... [57%] 2023-10-31 [Game theory]
15. Hierarchy of Influences: In mass communication, the Hierarchy of Influences, formally known as the Hierarchical Influences Model, is an organized theoretical framework introduced by Pamela Shoemaker & Stephen D. Reese. (Social) [57%] 2023-10-03 [Mass media theories] [Media studies]...
16. Hierarchy of death: Hierarchy of death is a phrase used by journalists, social scientists, and academics to describe disproportionate amounts of media attention paid to various incidents of death around the world. Definitions of the hierarchy of death vary, but several themes remain ... (Social) [57%] 2023-08-28 [Media bias] [Social phenomena]...
17. Hierarchy of evidence: A hierarchy of evidence, comprising levels of evidence (LOEs), that is, evidence levels (ELs), is a heuristic used to rank the relative strength of results obtained from experimental research, especially medical research. There is broad agreement on the relative strength ... (Heuristic ranking science research results) [57%] 2023-12-30 [Evidence] [Evidence-based practices]...
18. Hierarchy of death: Hierarchy of death is a phrase used by journalists, social scientists, and academics to describe disproportionate amounts of media attention paid to various incidents of death around the world. Definitions of the hierarchy of death vary, but several themes remain ... (Classification in writing) [57%] 2024-04-18 [Cultural aspects of death] [Media coverage and representation]...
19. Hierarchy (TV series): Hierarchy (Korean: 하이라키) is an upcoming South Korean teen romance television series written by Chu Hye-mi, directed by Bae Hyeon-jin, and starring Roh Jeong-eui, Lee Chae-min, Kim Jae-won, Ji Hye-won, and Lee Won-jung. Set ... (TV series) [57%] 2024-05-16 [2024 South Korean television series debuts] [Korean-language television shows]...
20. Hierarchy of precious substances: In popular culture, sets of precious substances may form hierarchies which express conventional perceived relative value or merit. Precious metals appear prominently in such hierarchies, but as they grow, gems and semi-precious materials may be introduced as part of ... (Chemistry) [50%] 2023-11-28 [Precious metals]
21. Hierarchy of the sciences: The hierarchy of the sciences is a theory formulated by Auguste Comte in the 19th century. This theory states that science develops over time beginning with the simplest and most general scientific discipline, astronomy, which is the first to reach ... (Philosophy) [50%] 2023-09-05 [Philosophical theories] [Philosophy of science]...
22. Hierarchy Open Service Interface Definition: The Hierarchy Open Service Interface Definition (OSID) is an Open Knowledge Initiative specification. OSIDs are programmatic interfaces which comprise a Service Oriented Architecture for designing and building reusable and interoperable software. [44%] 2023-01-08 [Software architecture]
23. Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System is an essay by Duncan Kennedy on legal education in the United States of America. The work is a critique of American legal education and argues that legal ... (Philosophy) [37%] 2023-12-26 [Philosophy of law]
24. Waste hierarchy: The waste hierarchy, or the hierarchy of waste management is a series of five or six options for dealing with waste. It is a more complex version of the "reduce - reuse - recycle" green arrowed triangle logo which ranks as how ... [70%] 2023-12-15 [Environmentalism]
25. Reverse hierarchy: A reverse hierarchy (or inverted pyramid) is a conceptual organizational structure that attempts to "invert" or otherwise "reverse" the classical pyramid of hierarchical organizations. In the proposed structure, key decisions are made by the employees in direct contact with customers ... [70%] 2023-12-31 [Theory of constraints]
26. Superior (hierarchy): In a hierarchy or tree structure of any kind, a superior is an individual or position at a higher level in the hierarchy than another (a "subordinate" or "inferior"), and thus closer to the apex. In business, superiors are people ... (Hierarchy) [70%] 2023-09-22 [Hierarchy] [Narcissism]...
27. Role hierarchy: In role based access control, the role hierarchy defines an inheritance relationship among roles. For example, the role structure for a bank may treat all employees as members of the ‘employee’ role. (Inheritance relationship among roles) [70%] 2023-08-21 [Computer access control]
28. Road hierarchy: The road hierarchy categorizes roads according to their functions and capacities. While sources differ on the exact nomenclature, the basic hierarchy comprises freeways, arterials, collectors, and local roads. (Hierarchy in road traffic) [70%] 2023-04-11 [Road transport] [Types of roads]...
29. Exponential hierarchy: In computational complexity theory, the exponential hierarchy is a hierarchy of complexity classes that is an exponential time analogue of the polynomial hierarchy. As elsewhere in complexity theory, “exponential” is used in two different meanings (linear exponential bounds 2 c ... [70%] 2023-07-20 [Complexity classes]
30. Exponential hierarchy: In computational complexity theory, the exponential hierarchy is a hierarchy of complexity classes, which is an exponential time analogue of the polynomial hierarchy. As elsewhere in complexity theory, “exponential” is used in two different meanings (linear exponential bounds \displaystyle{ 2 ... [70%] 2022-11-29 [Complexity classes]
31. BBGKY hierarchy: In statistical physics, the BBGKY hierarchy (Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon hierarchy, sometimes called Bogoliubov hierarchy) is a set of equations describing the dynamics of a system of a large number of interacting particles. The equation for an s-particle ... (Set of equations describing the dynamics of a system of many interacting particles) [70%] 2023-05-09 [Statistical mechanics] [Non-equilibrium thermodynamics]...
32. Chomsky hierarchy: The Chomsky hierarchy (infrequently referred to as the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy) in the fields of formal language theory, computer science, and linguistics, is a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. A formal grammar describes how to form strings from ... (Hierarchy of classes of formal grammars) [70%] 2023-12-11 [1956 in computing] [Formal languages]...
33. Settlement hierarchy: {{Multiple issues| A settlement hierarchy is a way of arranging settlements into a hierarchy based upon their population or some other criteria. The term is used by landscape historians and in the National Curriculum for England. (Classification system for human settlements) [70%] 2023-10-31 [Hierarchy]
34. Data hierarchy: Data hierarchy refers to the systematic organization of data, often in a hierarchical form. Data organization involves characters, fields, records, files and so on. [70%] 2022-08-12 [Data modeling]
35. Settlement hierarchy: A settlement hierarchy is a way of arranging settlements into a hierarchy based upon their size. The term is used by landscape historians and in the National Curriculum for England. (Classification system for human settlements) [70%] 2024-02-01 [Town and country planning in the United Kingdom] [Hierarchy]...
36. Moral hierarchy: A moral hierarchy is a hierarchy by which actions are ranked by their morality, with respect to a moral code. It also refers to a relationship – such as teacher/pupil or guru/disciple – in which one party is taken to ... (Philosophy) [70%] 2024-01-09 [Concepts in ethics] [Morality]...
37. Case hierarchy: In linguistic typology, the case hierarchy denotes an order of grammatical cases. If a language has a particular case, it also has all cases lower than this particular case. [70%] 2024-01-10 [Linguistic typology] [Grammatical cases]...
38. Projective hierarchy: In the mathematical field of descriptive set theory, a subset \displaystyle{ A }[/math] of a Polish space \displaystyle{ X }[/math] is projective if it is \displaystyle{ \boldsymbol{\Sigma}^1_n }[/math] for some positive integer \displaystyle{ n }[/math]. Here \displaystyle{ A ... (Descriptive set theory concept) [70%] 2022-12-05 [Descriptive set theory]
39. Role hierarchy: In role based access control, the role hierarchy defines an inheritance relationship among roles. For example, the role structure for a bank may treat all employees as members of the ‘employee’ role. [70%] 2023-05-16 [Computer access control]
40. Reverse hierarchy: A reverse hierarchy (or inverted pyramid) is a conceptual organizational structure that attempts to "invert" or otherwise "reverse" the classical pyramid of hierarchical organizations. In the proposed structure, key decisions are made by the employees in direct contact with customers ... [70%] 2023-05-11 [Theory of constraints]
41. Memory hierarchy: In computer architecture, the memory hierarchy separates computer storage into a hierarchy based on response time. Since response time, complexity, and capacity are related, the levels may also be distinguished by their performance and controlling technologies. (Computer architecture) [70%] 2023-05-08 [Computer architecture] [Computer data storage]...
42. BBGKY hierarchy: Bogolyubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon hierarchy A chain of an infinite number of integro-differential evolution equations for the sequence of distribution (correlation) functions describing all possible states of a many-particle system. For systems of finitely many particles the ... (Mathematics) [70%] 2023-09-18
43. Street hierarchy: The street hierarchy is an urban planning technique for laying out road networks that exclude automobile through-traffic from developed areas. It is conceived as a hierarchy of roads that embeds the link importance of each road type in the ... (Urban planning restricting through traffic of automobiles) [70%] 2023-10-06 [Hierarchy] [Urban planning]...
44. Chomsky hierarchy: The Chomsky hierarchy, sometimes known as the Chomsky-Schützenberger hierarchy, is a hierarchy of formal grammatical systems for describing various classes of languages; the hierarchy can apply to both human and computer languages. This hierarchy was first published in 1956 ... [70%] 2023-02-24 [Linguistics] [Computer Science]...
45. Borel hierarchy: In mathematical logic, the Borel hierarchy is a stratification of the Borel algebra generated by the open subsets of a Polish space; elements of this algebra are called Borel sets. Each Borel set is assigned a unique countable ordinal number ... [70%] 2023-09-16 [Descriptive set theory] [Mathematical logic hierarchies]...
46. Command hierarchy: A command hierarchy is a group of people who carry out orders based on others' authority within the group. It can be viewed as part of a power structure, in which it is usually seen as the most vulnerable and ... (Group of people who carry out orders based on others authority within the group) [70%] 2023-02-16 [Networks]
47. Combinatorial hierarchy: The combinatorial hierarchy is a mathematical structure of hierarchical sets of bit-strings generated from an algorithm based on "discrimination" (or equivalently XOR). Discovered by Frederick Parker-Rhodes, the hierarchy gives the physical coupling constants from a simple aphysical model. (Physics) [70%] 2023-12-18 [Mathematical physics] [Quantum mechanics]...