Principles : Life and Work / by Dalio, Ray, author 656003, Simon & Schuster (Online service) 656004

“…It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio—who grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood—that he believes are the reason behind his success. …”
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WHAT A MUSHROOM LIVES FOR : Matsutake and the Worlds They Make / by Hathaway, Michael J., author 656068

“…In southwest China's Himalayan forests, Hathaway spent months in two mountain communities, among ethnic Tibetans and among the Yi people, whose lives have been transformed beyond recognition by the lucrative matsutake trade. …”
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Enhancing antibody responses by multivalent antigen display on thymus-independent DNA origami scaffolds by Wamhoff, Eike-Christian, Ronsard, Larance, Feldman, Jared, Knappe, Grant A., Hauser, Blake M., Romanov, Anna, Case, James Brett, Sanapala, Shilpa, Lam, Evan C., Denis, Kerri J. St., Boucau, Julie, Barczak, Amy K., Balazs, Alejandro B., Diamond, Michael S., Schmidt, Aaron G., Lingwood, Daniel, Bathe, Mark

“…Here, we investigate thymus-independent DNA origami as an alternative material for multivalent antigen display using the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, the primary target of neutralizing antibody responses. …”
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Rapid and Scalable Production of Functional SARS-CoV-2 Virus-like Particles (VLPs) by a Stable HEK293 Cell Pool by Puarattana-aroonkorn, Sitthiphol, Tharakaraman, Kannan, Suriyawipada, Disapan, Ruchirawat, Mathuros, Fuangthong, Mayuree, Sasisekharan, Ram, Artpradit, Charlermchai

“…We employed the membrane, envelope, and highly immunogenic spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 to produce virus-like particles (VLPs) using the HEK293-F cell line as a host system with an economical transfection reagent. …”
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Controlling directed networks with evolving topologies by Li, Guoqi, Ding, Jie, Wen, Changyun, Wang, Lei, Guo, Fanghong

“…Our finding enables us to model and explain how real-world complex networks adaptively self-organize themselves to many similar subnetworks during a relatively long evolution process.…”
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A study on the impact of Panama Canal expansion on major stakeholders by Lee, Jin Yan

“…Surveys and interviews will then act as supplements to the secondary research, substantiating the findings and adding on to the current body of knowledge. …”
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Outlook for the dry bulk shipping market in the next 5 years by Sam, Dave Perry, Chang, Yvonne, Yeo, Kai Hong

“…Grain on the other hand will continue to rise in demand as long as there is growth and increased standards of living. …”
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Development of a capacitive deionization (CDI) device for water desalination by Chia, Desmond Zhi Yong

“…On matters closer to home, due to her geographical location, Singapore has long faced the challenge of obtaining fresh water for its needs. …”
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Nipah: The history, and future, of one of the world’s most lethal viruses by Viveros, Alex Gabriel

“…Pteropus fruit bats, which are native to South Asia, were identified as the natural reservoirs of the Nipah virus. Researchers have spent the last two decades studying the virus’ transmission in bats and how the virus spills over into humans. …”
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Enlightenment in The Age of Phillis — The Age of Phillis (Roundtable) by DeLucia, JoEllen

“…During one of the earliest conversations in our reading group, we spent time consid-ering the title of Jeffers’s collection, The Age of Phillis. …”
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Astray by Tan, Ken Wei Hao

“…Inspiration to do this project came fortunately with the advent of “YouTube” which had opened up my world to so much life changing content and as I was watching “The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross” something clicked in my head when he, in one episode said “I spent half my life doing someone else’s thing, painting should make you happy and if it doesn’t make you happy, you’re doing the wrong thing.” …”
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Epidemiology of injuries in street dancers by Yee, Ernest Chun Tuck

“…Conclusion: There was a positive correlation between time spent on training and injury rate. Dancers should be properly educated on the importance of warming up and dance injury prevention and management methods, to make dance a better experience for all. …”
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Evaluation of 2D and 3D glove input applied to medical image analysis by de Koning, P. J. H., Suinesiaputra, Avan., van Schooten, B. W., van der Geest, R. J., Reiber, Johan H. C., Sloot, Peter M. A., Zudilova-Seinstra, Elena V.

“…In order to determine a potential source of the difference in the task completion time between 2D and 3D input, we also investigated whether there was a significant difference between 2DOF and 6DOF input methods with regard to the time spent on task-specific basic manipulations.…”
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The potential of UHP and waterjets for additive manufacturing by Mohamed, Hashish

“…Additive manufacturing (AM) is the fastest growing manufacturing technology today with significant funds being spent on many of its aspects worldwide. However, parts made by AM may still need post processing to enhance their characteristics such as density or surface attributes. …”
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CLT for linear spectral statistics of normalized sample covariance matrices with the dimension much larger than the sample size by Chen, Binbin, Pan, Guangming

“…Let A = 1/√np(XT X−pIn) where X is a p×n matrix, consisting of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) real random variables Xij with mean zero and variance one. …”
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Flexural buckling behaviour and residual strengths of S700 high strength steel circular hollow section columns after exposure to fire by Koh, Alicia

“…The experimental study which includes the furnace tests, material tests, initial global imperfection measurements, and pin-ended column tests was conducted and reported. …”
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3D modelling using digital camera by Chong, Yeow Koon.

“…Some other trial targets that we have done includes fire station, NTU N2 building and a three pin plug. More details will be covered in chapter 2 of this report.…”
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CRISPR-DBA: a deep learning framework for uncertainty quantification of CRISPR off-target activities by Cao, X, Minary, P

The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player : Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants / by Maxwell, John C., 1947-, author 272745

“…In The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player, Maxwell outlines the successes of team players who have been: Intentional – making every action count toward a long-term goalRelational – focused on othersSelfless – willing to take a subordinate role for the sake of the teamTenacious – hardworking and optimistic in the face of setbacks. …”
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Pie crusting of ligaments by Yap, Aylsworth Kuang Sheng

“…MCL is the ligament that connects thigh bone to shin bone. It is located on the inner sides of our knee joints. …”
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