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POSITION HIERARCHY [9 records]

Record 1 2013-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

A hierarchy of types of evidence emerges when an exhaustive review of the applicable law is made. First, regard is had to natural boundaries, being the boundaries of lakes, rivers, streams, cliffs or other identifiable topographic features. Second, regard is had to original monuments which were planted in the original survey. Next in importance and weight is evidence of the position of original monuments. The lowest items on the hierarchy are distances and measurements referred to in metes and bounds descriptions.("Law Society of Upper Canada, Real Estate and Landlord and Tenant", 1986-1987, p. 97).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

borne primitive : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Organization
DEF

Position change within the same social class.

CONT

A distinction is made between horizontal and vertical social mobility. The former refers to change of occupational position or role of an individual or a group without involving any change in its position in the social hierarchy, the latter refers essentially to changes in the position of an individual or a group along the social hierarchy... Horizontal mobility is a change in position without the change in status.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation sociale
DEF

[...] mouvement d'individus ou de groupes d'une position sociale à une autre à l'intérieur d'une même strate sociale.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Organization
CONT

A distinction is made between horizontal and vertical social mobility. The former refers to change of occupational position or role of an individual or a group without involving any change in its position in the social hierarchy, the latter refers essentially to changes in the position of an individual or a group along the social hierarchy... Vertical mobility refers to a movement of an individual or people or groups from one status to another. It involves change within the lifetime of an individual to a higher or lower status than the person had to begin with.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation sociale
CONT

La mobilité verticale peut être ascendante ou descendante. Un fils d'ouvrier qui devient haut fonctionnaire offre un exemple de mobilité verticale ascendante.

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
CONT

Another area is visual analysis and synthesis. Visual analysis is the ability to perceive and analyze specific features such as position, shape, spatial relations, and configuration. Visual synthesis is the ability to perceive individual features as a unified whole, or to place them in a hierarchy or sequence.

OBS

Visual synthesis is considered in the diagnostic of major visual deficiencies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
DEF

Aptitude d'une personne à percevoir comme un tout les différentes caractéristiques physiques et spatio-temporelles de son environnement et classer celles-ci dans un ordre hiérarchique ou dans une série ordonnée.

OBS

La synthèse visuelle fait l'objet d'une attention particulière dans un diagnostic de déficience visuelle prononcée.

Spanish

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Record 5 1996-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
DEF

A list of references which define the hierarchy within one branch of a structure network. Each reference consists of a structure identifier and an element position within that structure. If the path contains N pairs, then the first N-1 pairs identify execute structure elements. The jth such element references the structure named in the(j+1) st list element. The deepest element of the list may identify any type of structure element.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie

Spanish

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Record 6 1996-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
OBS

Source(s) : ORACLE.

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Birds
OBS

the position, rank, or peck right of the bird in the hierarchy is determined by one or a combination of factors

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
  • Oiseaux
OBS

(...) entre (...) deux individus s'établit un état de subordination Dans le cas de volailles, le vainqueur acquiert le droit de becqueter le vaincu

Spanish

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Record 8 1992-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

which can be placed in a scale; which can be given a position in a hierarchy.

CONT

This, of course, makes it extremely hard to generalize about Dickens’ fiction, and illustrates easily the fact that these texts readily support a plurality of interpretations, which need not be mutually exclusive, nor rankable in any order of preference. (Kate Flint, Dickens, The Harvester Press Ltd, Brighton, Sussex, England, 1986, p. 39.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 9 1975-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
CONT

The position of low-paid workers within the earnings hierarchy...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
CONT

... accroissement assez rapide du pouvoir d'achat, réduction sensible de la part des bas salaires dans l'ensemble des rémunérations, mais conservation presque intégrale de la hiérarchie des revenus.

CONT

Le rapport hiérarchique entre les plus hauts et les plus bas salaires donne évidemment une idée de la hiérarchie des salaires dans tel ou tel pays.

Spanish

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