hierarchical organization

collocation in English

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hierarchical
adjective
uk
/ˌhaɪəˈrɑː.kɪ.kəl/
us
/ˌhaɪˈrɑːr.kɪ.kəl/
arranged according to people's or things' level of importance, or relating to such ...
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organization
noun
uk
/ˌɔː.ɡən.aɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌɔːr.ɡən.əˈzeɪ.ʃən/
a group of people who work together in an organized way for a ...
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Successful parsing involves segmenting speech into phrases, assigning category labels to words, and determining syntactic dependencies andhierarchicalorganization.
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Each taxonomy is ahierarchicalorganizationof concepts in an independent subdomain of the design semantics.
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Taxonomy-based searches require thehierarchicalorganizationof domain concepts.
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On the average, thehierarchicalorganizationwould be more efficient.
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Hierarchicalorganizationin the prosodic model underlies how phonological markedness of form is determined.
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Thishierarchicalorganizationof groups of genes affected by the lesion provides the basis for pathway predictions.
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After analysing these group discussions, we are left with the impression that initiating conflict requires some kind ofhierarchicalorganizationof identifications.
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Thehierarchicalorganizationof the constituents is represented by the relative position of these constituents within a phrase.
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Family systems and psychopathology change as a result of family interventions, such as coparenting strategies, patterns of alliance, boundary differentiation, orhierarchicalorganization?
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We have seen that the stricthierarchicalorganizationmethod is based on a tree-like structure of control.
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If the new agent is subordinate to the original, then ahierarchicalorganizationwill be formed in the process.
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Both groups readily named at multiple levels, providing evidence ofhierarchicalorganizationof the lexicon.
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Preferences for ascending and descendinghierarchicalorganizationin spatial communication.
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The importance of family farms has been traditionally explained in terms of the low feasibility ofhierarchicalorganizationof agricultural production due to supervision and monitoring difficulties.
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Languages differ in their repertoire of admissible nuclei, onsets, and codas, but the basichierarchicalorganizationand the principles by which strings of segments are divided into syllables are universal.
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Changes to the classification include additional species, eliminated species and changes to thehierarchicalorganizationand composition of supraspecific groups, some as a result of molecular studies.
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Lewontin (1970) agreed with the idea of ahierarchicalorganizationof living systems and proposed that selection acts on the lower levels of the hierarchy.
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If population densities were sufficiently low that growing seasons in which irrigation water was scarce were infrequent, the system may have been managed without largescale,hierarchicalorganization.
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Any complex system will exhibithierarchicalorganization, in which dynamics at one level, including especially stability and resilience, emerge from phenomena taking place at lower levels of organization.
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