This paper examines whether the Peter Principle operates in a large hierarchical financial sector firm. We use a method that allows for variation in optimal effort over stages in the hierarchy, which suggests, at least in the organisation we study, that the mean fall in performance actually understates the effect of the Peter Principle.

black humor plays a crucial role in fulfilling langston hughes's anti-racist purposes as an integral notionin his poetry. accordingly, translation(s) of his poetry are to benefit from the same indexes onthe basis of equivalent effect principle. on this account, 33 black-humor-rich poems of hughes, translatedby ahmad shamloo, yaghma golruee and hassan fayyad, were selected to be analyzed co...

The comprehensive fracture tests of notched and unnotched beams presented in the preceding paper are evaluated to clarify the size effects and fracture energy dissipation. The test results for beams with notches of various lengths agree closely with Bažant’s Type 2 size effect law and yield the value of the initial fracture energy Gf. Since nearly complete post-peak softening load–displacement ...

Islamic arts are often identified by their abstract compositions based on geometric principles and spiritual concepts. Using artworks from different eras, this paper highlights the presence of a particular model of thought in Islamic arts in which the hierarchy of perspectival vision is abolished. The main argument is based on the ability of some artworks to be looked at from any angle while ma...

Healthy assessment weights of using of modern electronic equipment is too subjective problem, it is proposed in this paper that is based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and the method based on the theory of the D-S evidence. In solid state transmitter, for example, by analysis of working principle, from the perspective of healthy status evaluation, it will be associated with healthy status ...

In this work, the analysis of a tree-inspired fractal structure is presented. First, trajectories of points on branches of different hierarchy of a tree that oscillates freely are recorded in experiments. Then, the principle axes and ellipses of displacements are determined analytically for a sympodial fractal mechanical model. Modes of oscillations and their frequencies are found numerically f...

Relaxation in a conceptual hierarchy is proposed as a useful principle in the design of a visual recognition system. The domain of the implementation is Kanade's Origami world. The hierarchy is described along with the connection patterns that define the complete network. Advantages of this system are a uniform approach to intermediate and low level vision, inherent parallel approach and sharin...

I analyze the hierarchies of the bounded and the weak bounded forcing axioms, with a focus on their versions for the class of subcomplete forcings, in terms of implications and consistency strengths. For the weak hierarchy, I provide level-by-level equiconsistencies with an appropriate hierarchy of partially remarkable cardinals. I also show that the subcomplete forcing axiom implies Larson’s o...