However, the ability to rule oneself will lie at the core of the concept, since a full account of that capability will surely entail the freedom from external manipulation characteristic of independence.
After university, she landed a much-sought-after position with the Royal Shakespeare Company, but in a characteristic display of independence, she quickly quit.
Although Kepler hoped to return to an academic post at Tübingen, there was resistance from the theology faculty; Kepler's irenic theological views and his friendships with Calvinists and Catholics were characteristic of his independence in all matters, and in this case it did not help his cause.
We define five desirable characteristics of biological parts — independence, reliability, tunability, orthogonality and composability, and review studies of small natural and synthetic biological circuits that provide insights into each of these characteristics.
Both characteristics of our method (independence of long and short term variations and absence of variance reduction) are particularly pertinent to discuss as well the long term variations of temperature as their extreme values.
They cite common characteristics -- independence of spirit, absence of the British class system, love of sports and the outdoors.
They are analogous to citizens in the political (republican) sense in that they share the characteristics of freedom, equality, and independence, and that they give themselves the law.
Shelley argues that Spain's literature is directly related to its politics and seeks to inspire her readers by outlining a national literature stretching back to Lucan which represents the best characteristics of Spanish identity: "originality", "independence", "enthusiasm", and "earnestness".
The Bayesian network is a graph-based model that statistically investigates the characteristics of dependence and conditional independence between data sets of variables (Maki et al 2004).
Simple BDIMs are based on the notion that the likelihood of duplication (birth) or elimination (death) of a domain is uniform across the genome and does not depend on the size or other characteristics of domain families (the independence assumption).
