Hall got one thing right: if Keaton was indeed a stoic, he was one in the classical Greek sense, of maintaining self-control and discipline as a virtue, of virtue being in inherent harmony with nature, and of virtue being the sole possible source of happiness (that of the character of Steamboat Bill, Jr., if not of Keaton himself).
Intellectual integrity may then be thought of as the over-arching virtue that enables and enhances these individual virtues by maintaining a proper balance between them.
So God not only creates every created being, but every created being that continues to exist does so in virtue of God's continuously maintaining it in existence.
Many commentators, including McLaughlin (1990), Allison (1991) and Guyer (2001, 2003a), take organisms to be mechanically inexplicable in virtue of the self-maintaining and self-producing character which distinguishes them from artifacts (see Section 3.3).
This channeling of amino acids through the CAC has been proposed to be beneficial by virtue of its capacity to maintain redox potentials and to yield high-energy phosphates.
Most of those virtues are maintained in the second part.
To maintain the virtue of good optical property and discard the dross of conventional fluorescent staining dyes, we provide a strategy for designing new fluorescent scaffolds.
The cytokines IL-4, IL-13, and thymic stromal lymphopoietin play a key role in allergic disease by virtue of their ability to initiate, maintain, and augment TH2 responses.
Robustness is a fundamental property of biological systems by virtue of which they tend to maintain their behaviour when subjected to random perturbations [ 10].
When suppressed, the strain wBol1 is maintained by virtue of its ability to induce a second phenotype, cytoplasmic incompatibility, where infected males effectively sterilize uninfected females, driving the infection frequency upward [ 7].
