Fortune 500 Companies Have Taxonomic Patterns

Post #4

Fortune 500 Companies Have Taxonomic Patterns

Donald A. Windsor

Fortune is a prominent business magazine that publishes a list of the 500 largest U.S. Corporations annually. It also publishes a list of the 500 largest Global corporations.

Both the U.S, and the Global companies have taxonomic patterns. This is important because companies face existential threats just as do biological organisms. However, companies evolve much faster. Taxonomic patterns provide a way to compare the evolution of both biological and industrial entities.

My full article is too long for a blog, but it can be obtained by clicking this link. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344058521_2020-Sep-2-F500 

If this link does not work, contact me at windsorda@roadrunner.com and I will email a copy to you as an attachment.

Reference cited:

Windsor, Donald A. Fortune 500 companies have taxonomic patterns. SciAesthetics Essays 2020 September 2: 1-8. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.32678.34887

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Bibliographies Have Taxonomic Patterns

 

Post #3

Bibliographies Have Taxonomic Patterns

Donald A. Windsor

Yes they do. Bibliographies are 3-tiered nested sets, just as are biological taxonomic families.

    Family ⊃ Genus ⊃ Species is equivalent to Subject ⊃ Source ⊃ Article.

Taxonomic patterns of biological families were covered in my two previous posts.

Sources are the equivalent of genera and articles are equivalent to species. Competition for getting articles published is as existential as is biological evolution. Taxonomic patterns reflect this equivalency.

While this concept may seem confusing, it becomes clear when examples are seen. My full article is too long for a blog, but it can be obtained by clicking this link.  

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343852100_Bibliographies_Have_Taxonomic_Patterns

Reference cited:

Windsor, Donald A. Bibliographies have taxonomic patterns. SciAesthetics Essays 2020 August: 20-26. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14592.05127

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Canonical Model for Taxonomy Based on Partition of Integers

 

Post #2

Canonical Model for Taxonomy Based on Partition of Integers

Donald A. Windsor

The canonical model for taxonomic patterns is non-probabilistic. It always produces the same patterns because it is an inherent property of our system of numbers. It is based on the partition of integers.

The full details were published in August (1), however, it is too long for a blog. It can be obtained by by clicking this link.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343524698_Canonical_model_for_taxonomy_based_on_partition_of_integers

If this link does not work, contact me at windsorda@roadrunner.com and I will email a copy to you as an attachment.

References cited:

1. Windsor, Donald A. Canonical model for taxonomy based on partition of integers. SciAesthetics Essays 2020 August: 1-19. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.30563.99362

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Post #1

Taxonomic Patterns

Donald A. Windsor

Taxonomic patterns are graphic depictions of 3-tiered nested sets in which the middle sets are represented by the number of their subsets.

        Superset ⊃ Set ⊃ Subset

In biology, a taxonomic pattern is: Family ⊃ Genus ⊃ Species

In bibliographies, a taxonomic pattern is: Author ⊃ Journal ⊃ Articles

In geography, a taxonomic pattern is: Nation ⊃ State ⊃ Counties

In poetry, a taxonomic pattern is: Poem ⊃ Word ⊃ Frequencies

Here is an example from biology. A taxonomic pattern represents every genus in a family as the number of species it contains, with the numbers ranked from the highest to the least and similar numbers placed in the same row extending to the right.

Shown below is the taxonomic pattern for the bird family Threskiornithidae (Ibises, Spoonbills) that has 33 species in 14 genera, 8 of which have multiple species and 6 of which have only 1 species (Monroe & Sibley, page 131).

    5

    4 4 4

    3 3

    2 2

    1 1 1 1 1 1

My first published article on taxonomic patterns explains them in detail. However, it is too long for a blog. It can be obtained by searching its DOI or by clicking this link.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342535123_Distribution_of_Species_among_Genera_in_Taxonomic_Families

If this link does not work, contact me at windsorda@roadrunner.com and I will email a copy to you as an attachment.

References cited:

Monroe, Burt L., Jr. ; Sibley, Charles G. A World Checklist of Birds. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1993. 394 pages.

Windsor, Donald A. Distribution of species among genera in taxonomic families. SciAesthetics Essays 2020 July: 1-8. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16192.35847

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