From a centralized, hierarchical organization, it became a highly decentralized structure, with regional branches as the dominant actors.

Since most of the Klan's members were veterans, they were used to the hierarchical structure of the organization, but the Klan never operated under this centralized structure.

A hierarchical database model is a data model in which the data is organized into a tree like structure.

A hierarchical organization is an organizational structure where every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity.

Visualization of Nearby Large Scale Structures Fairall, A. P., Paverd, W. R., Ashley, R. P. Hierarchical structure and dynamics of voids arXiv 1203.0248

It's a top down hierarchical structure where people wait for government agents to come and this is not effective. And the government doesn't have enough resources.

Governments have traditionally been very hierarchical, but the information revolution is affecting the structure of organizations. Hierarchies are becoming flatter and embedded in fluid networks of contacts.

Nigeria applauded the creation of the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa and hoped that it would be given the hierarchical structure and staffing needed to operate effectively.

The most encompassing view is that of the political economy school, which argues that health inequalities are determined by capitalist economies hierarchical structure and the associated political choices about resource distribution.

But, while Al Qaeda maintained its ideology after 9 11, its organization changed dramatically. From a centralized, hierarchical organization, it became a highly decentralized structure, with regional branches as the dominant actors.

There were never hierarchical levels or state headquarters.

Flat List

Nor should it be restricted to hierarchical bureaucratic organizations.

New Flat Package List

The world is flat!

Overview While the hierarchical database model structures data as a tree of records, with each record having one parent record and many children, the network model allows each record to have multiple parent and child records, forming a generalized graph structure.

He lives in a flat.

How is your new flat?

Hierarchical variables are similar to objects with properties in many object oriented languages.

The Fragility of a Flat World

Each time, his performance was flat.

It is now widely known that the US government, perhaps partly unconsciously, embraced a deeply distorted image of al Qaeda that portrayed it as a hierarchical organization with a seamless command structure the prototype of a foe that the American army could attack and destroy.

This theory of motor action is based on the organization of cortical columns, which progressively integrate from simple sensory input into a complex afferent signals, or from complex motor programs to simple controls for each muscle fiber in efferent signals, forming a similar hierarchical structure.

A Flat World and a Round Ball

Sami has a little flat in Cairo.

But I've fallen flat on my face.

They're eminently qualified to make flat screen TVs.

They've been making flat screen monitors for years.

The rear tire of my bicycle is flat.

The base is horizontal and flat to within .

Also, motion is generally limited to flat surfaces.

But it is puzzling only if we characterize Asia as being multi polar rather than hierarchical.

The first science of cosmology that was anything like science was Aristotelian science, and that was hierarchical.

People used to think that the earth was flat.

According to Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, hierarchical, command and control approaches simply do not work anymore.

The change wrought by 68 affected, above all, traditional culture, hidebound moralism, and the principle of hierarchical authority.

National consciousness, dramatically different from the fundamentally religious, hierarchical consciousness that it replaced, shapes how we live today.

Yet defense spending across Europe remains flat or in decline.

Here, incomes and value added per employee remained largely flat.

In that case, the flat world could become a desert.

The patient lies with back flat on operating room bed.

Grain was grown in the nearby flat zones and valleys.

Eugenie Scott called them an example of extreme Biblical literalist theology The earth is flat because the Bible says it is flat, regardless of what science tells us .

The rigidly hierarchical forces of the establishment are insecure and fearful of what will happen after the king dies.

Relational databases have often replaced legacy hierarchical databases and network databases because they are easier to understand and use.