- A
hierarchy (from Gr****: ἱεραρχία, hierarkhia, 'rule of a high priest', from hierarkhes, 'president of
sacred rites') is an
arrangement of
items (objects...
- Maslow's
hierarchy of
needs is an idea in
psychology proposed by
American psychologist Abraham Maslow in his 1943
paper "A
Theory of
Human Motivation"...
-
field of ethology, a
dominance hierarchy (formerly and
colloquially called a
pecking order) is a type of
social hierarchy that
arises when
members of animal...
- In the
angelology of
different religions, a
hierarchy of
angels is a
ranking system of angels. The
higher ranking angels have
greater power and authority...
- The
Chomsky hierarchy in the
fields of
formal language theory,
computer science, and linguistics, is a
containment hierarchy of
classes of
formal grammars...
- In
mathematical logic, the
arithmetical hierarchy,
arithmetic hierarchy or Kleene–Mostowski
hierarchy (after
mathematicians Stephen Cole
Kleene and Andrzej...
- In
theoretical physics, the
hierarchy problem is the
problem concerning the
large discrepancy between aspects of the weak
force and gravity.
There is...
- 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...
-
slightly different hierarchies. For instance,
there is one
hierarchy which is
primarily used in
theoretical phonology,
while a
similar hierarchy is used in discourse...
- The
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is a
reference describing the
conventions used for the
layout of Unix-like systems. It has been made po****r by...
