But competition as the essential means and ends for 'scientific excellence' is now giving way to the four cornerstone values of scientific credibility: openness, honesty, integrity and transparency (SpotOn, Digital Science, and BioMed Central 2017).
The four core cornerstone values of scientific credibility openness, transparency, honesty and integrity constitute the moral-ethical foundation of what the Open Science movement is really about.
From its very beginning, Zionism primarily espoused the idea of seizing land and forging a firm linkage between settlers and such seized land to develop and implant values in the minds of Zionist pioneers, making land the cornerstone of these values.
In fact, "Integrity without Compromise" is the cornerstone of their values at Intuit.
In primary central nervous system lymphoma, high-dose methotrexate-based chemotherapy is the cornerstone of therapy and the value of consolidation radiotherapy for patients achieving a complete response is controversial, even in younger patients who have a lower risk of neurotoxicity than older patients.
"One of the cornerstones of the value approach," said Robert G. Hagstrom, who runs a Legg Mason value fund and has written several books about Mr. Buffett's investing style, "is a tendency to give back less than the market as a whole when things get bad".
He added: "The project started by contacting members of the Jewish community from where I grew up, and evolved into travels across the world to capture orthodox Jews who, although they live thousands of miles apart, are bound together by history, tradition and a set of values that serve as the cornerstone of the lives of many who live in today's society".
"The cornerstone of our contrarian value investing philosophy is to seek companies that are financially sound but have fallen out of favor with the investing public," it said.
The cornerstone of marriage that most of us value today is the loving long term commitment two people make to each other.
"Freedom of religion is the cornerstone of what we all value as Americans," Kaur told The Huffington Post.
