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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NeuroTribes : The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently / by Silberman, Steve, author 656044, Allen & Unwin (Online service) 656043

“…The narrative arc is roughly chronological, stretching across time and highlighting some of the Big Non-autistic Names in autism’s long, strange and often terrible trip: Hans Asperger, Leo Kanner, Bruno Bettelheim, Bernard Rimland, Ole Ivar Lovaas, Lorna Wing. …”
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Recent Developments in Machine and Human Intelligence / by Rajest, S. Suman, 1988-, editor 656392, Singh, Bhopendra, 1974-, editor 656393, Obaid, Ahmed J., 1983-, editor 656394, Regin, R., 1985-, editor 656395, Chinnusamy, Karthikeyan, 1973-, 656396, IGI Global Scientific Publishing (Online service) 655412

“…Establishing the means to improve performance in healthy, clinical, and military populations has long been a focus of study in the psychological and brain sciences. …”
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An immune-competent human gut microphysiological system enables inflammation-modulation by Faecalibacterium prausnitzii by Zhang, Jianbo, Huang, Yu-Ja, Trapecar, Martin, Wright, Charles, Schneider, Kirsten, Kemmitt, John, Hernandez-Gordillo, Victor, Yoon, Jun Young, Poyet, Mathilde, Alm, Eric J., Breault, David T., Trumper, David L., Griffith, Linda G.

“…However, there is no existing system for a long-term co-culture of human innate immune cells with epithelium and oxygen-intolerant commensal microbes, hindering the understanding of microbe-immune interactions in a controlled manner. …”
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Metabolic modulation to improve MSC expansion and therapeutic potential for articular cartilage repair by Tee, Ching A., Roxby, Daniel N., Othman, Rashidah, Denslin, Vinitha, Bhat, Kiseer S., Yang, Zheng, Han, Jongyoon, Tucker-Kellogg, Lisa, Boyer, Laurie A.

“…We further demonstrate that AA treatment reduced the proportion of senescent cells and cell heterogeneity also allowing for long-term expansion that led to a > 300-fold increase in yield of MSCs with enhanced chondrogenic potential compared to untreated cells. …”
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Co-seismic ruptures of the 12 May 2008, Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan : East–west crustal shortening on oblique, parallel thrusts along the eastern edge of Tibet by Liu-Zeng, J., Zhang, Z., Wen, L., Sun, J., Xing, X., Hu, G., Xu, Q., Zeng, L., Ding, L., Ji, C., Hudnut, K. W., van der Woerd, J., Tapponnier, Paul

“…The Ms 8.0, Wenchuan earthquake, which devastated the mountainous western rim of the Sichuan basin in central China, produced a surface rupture over 200 km-long with oblique thrust/dextral slip and maximum scarp heights of ~ 10 m. …”
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Direct seeding of mass-cultured coral larvae is not an effective option for reef rehabilitation by Edwards, Alasdair J., Guest, James R., Heyward, Andrew J., Villanueva, Ronald D., Baria, Ma. Vanessa, Bollozos, Iris S. F., Golbuu, Yimnang

“…While some studies have shown positive short-term effects on settlement, to date, none have examined the long-term effects of larval seeding for a broadcast-spawning coral. …”
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Hydrated eutectic electrolyte with ligand-oriented solvation shell to boost the stability of zinc battery by Han, Mingming, Huang, Jiwu, Xie, Xuesong, Li, Tian Chen, Huang, Jiangtao, Liang, Shuquan, Zhou, Jiang, Fan, Hong Jin

“…An electrolyte cation additive strategy provides a versatile route for developing high-energy and long-life aqueous zinc-ion hybrid capacitors. However, the mechanisms of energy storage and Zn anode protection are still unclear in Zn-based systems with dual-ion electrolytes. …”
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Visual analytics for massive urban public transport data by Zeng, Wei

“…Hence, studying PTS is highly beneficial to both individuals as well as a city as a whole, and it has long been a hot topic in transport research. However, many conventional transport researches have long been relying on simulation and survey data, making the results less of conviction. …”
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Spatial and temporal distributions of water physicochemical properties, sediment quality and sedimentation in Sembrong Reservoir by Baharim, Nor Bakhiah

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Guaranteeing safe drinking water services for public schools in Kenya: a costed professional service delivery model for Kitui County by Nyaga, C, Hope, R, Charles, K, Nowicki, S, Katuva, J, Mugo, P, Hoque, S, Olago, D, Thomas, M, Mumma, A

“…Since 2016, FundiFix has been supported by the Water Services Maintenance Trust Fund (WSMTF) designed explicitly to subsidize long-term maintenance services in rural areas. Through results-based contracts guaranteeing service levels, corporates have provided funds to progressively pay for most of the operational costs. …”

Immune Checkpoint Blockade sensitivity and Progression-Free Survival associates with baseline CD8+ T cell clone size and cytotoxicity by Watson, R, Tong, O, Taylor, C, Kumar Sharma, P, Verge De Los Aires, A, Mahe, E, Ruffieux, H, Nassiri, I, Middleton, M, Fairfax, B

“…Cytotoxic effector clones were more likely to persist long-term following ICB and overlapped with public tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte clonotypes. …”

A Performance Analysis between Conventional and Shariah Private Retirement Scheme in Malaysia (S/O 14551) by Sofi, Mohd Fikri

“…However, the difference in return performance can be found significant in long term cumulative return within 4 years of conventional fund operating since inception. …”
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Investigating students’ perceptions of online learning by Hamizah, Zahari, Siti Ainun Jariyah, Hassan

“…Because of the global pandemic, many colleges and Universities have been forced to go online and no one knows how long the pandemic will last, and hence the teaching style has been switched to online mode (Gopal, Singh & Aggarwal, 2021). …”
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Enhanced operating temperature in terahertz quantum cascade lasers based on direct phonon depopulation by Khalatpour, Ali, Tam, Man Chun, Addamane, Sadhvikas J, Reno, John, Wasilewski, Zbignew, Hu, Qing

“…Room temperature operation of terahertz quantum cascade lasers (THz QCLs) has been a long-pursued goal to realize compact semiconductor THz sources. …”
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Low voltage CMOS operational amplifier design towards maximum CMR by Tan, Chee Lam.

“…These battery-operated devices must last sufficiently long for them to be viable as a product. All these point to a need to reduce the supply voltage of electronic circuits, in particular, the operational amplifier which is a well-known and widely used building block for analogue circuits.…”
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The other side of sojourn : Tamil Muslim women’s oral history on late 20th century male migration by Banu, Fanzura

“…This paper’s findings are that long term male migration did indeed provide opportunities for women to take up what were traditionally masculine roles when they were faced with absence of remittance or irregular communication. …”
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Development of a general-purpose motion control systems for robots and vehicles by Pang, Ching Hui

“…As the current motion control system in the market can only be used by professional, this project aim to introduce the function of voice command to enable the motion control system to be used by anyone as long as they speak the common language, that is English. …”
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The motivation of SPH journalists. by Chiam, Esther Shuen Ning., Teo, Hwee Nak.

“…Generally, journalists are motivated more by “intrinsic” factors than by hygiene factors such as stress, pay and long hours. Hygiene factors are perceived to be part and parcel of the profession. …”
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Translanguaging in translation as resistance : 《M40》by 谢裕民 by Ho, Zhi Hui

“…There has long been debate about whether translated works should be, in Lawrence Venuti’s words, “foreignised” or “domesticated”. …”
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