However, the statistics represent a "racial hierarchy" shaped in part by prosecutors' unwillingness to seek the death penalty in black-on-black murder cases, rather than an unbalanced application of the law that favors black defendants, the authors wrote.
From a functional perspective, two distinctive hierarchies shape the multi-dimensionality of this architecture: a vertical hierarchy of agents and a horizontal hierarchical communication coordination platform.
Concerning the whole group of SiGe islands, a remarkable hierarchy of shapes emerges, in which steeper islands are always derived from shallower islands by adding successively steeper pedestal elements to the base of the islands.
In this study, we determined the var gene repertoires from the IT4 and HB3 isolates and provide evidence for a recombination hierarchy that shapes the evolution of the PfEMP1 virulence determinant.
Moreover, to build a mapping from the lower level to the higher level of the hierarchy, a shape similarity index (SSI) based matching mechanism is designed.
By mastering convention, Chinese have been able to, at least hypothetically, climb the hierarchy, the shape and structure of which is socially mandated.
People tend to be acutely aware of how status hierarchies are shaped within an organization.
I argue that existing class, gender, and age hierarchies have shaped how the Defilement Law has been applied locally, such that despite the stated aim of "protecting" young women, the law reinstates patriarchal privilege (especially against men of lower social class) while simultaneously increasing the regulation of adolescent female sexuality and undermining their autonomy.
Based on these shape rules in given text, the hierarchy of a shape-grammar schema in the Protégé knowledge representation tool is designed, and each shape rule is defined as an interconnecting individual (or instance) in OWL language.
However, it will be interesting to observe what level of involvement FFA's hierarchy has in shaping his decisions.
