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Not exact matches

According to research conducted by Henry Evans and Colm Foster, emotional intelligence experts and authors of Step Up: Lead in Six Moments That Matter, the highest performing people and highest performing teams tap into and express their entire spectrum of emotions.

But, the study's authors found that the impact of laughter on teams» performances only occurred when the humour was interactive and engaging; in instances where the humour was isolated — think somebody telling a joke and the room lapsing into awkward silence — there was no effect on performance.

Comedian Aziz Ansari teamed up with sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg to write «Modern Romance,» an in - depth investigation into the reality of what it's like to date and look for love in the digital era.

Jay Baer @jaybaer Author, Speaker and President at Convince & Convert Presenting: How to Use Customer Service to Turn People Into Brand Advocates and How to Staff Your Social Media Team in a Changing Marketplace

Perhaps it is because the author is a journalist, not someone like me, whose business it is to offer practical advice to sports parents on how not to get, as I put it in Home Team Advantage, «sucked into the crazy vortex of competitive youth sports.»

RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

The research, authored by a team of neuroscientists, found that a specific part of the hippocampus could play an important role in emotional regulation, a finding that calls into question our understanding of how exactly this part of the brain works.

A research team led by SDSU environmental health scientist and lead author Neil Klepeis, behavioral health researcher and principal investigator Melbourne Hovell, and co-investigator Suzanne Hughes recruited into the study nearly 300 families living in San Diego with at least one child aged 14 and younger and one smoker.

The team also wanted to develop a more nuanced picture, so it broke the data into a few different groups, based on the type of retraction and the author's status.

Zoe Doubleday, a marine biologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia and lead author of the study, spent months with her team poring over the available literature, persuading international colleagues to track down hard - to - get national fisheries records, and then getting those records translated into English.

Lead author Abhishek Sanyal from Prof. Pfeifer's team looked into this question.

Marine geologist Karin Andreassen at CAGE, the study's lead author, says the data could hold lessons for retreating ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland, although her team could not determine how much methane actually escaped into the atmosphere from blowouts in the distant past.

Experiments conducted by lead author Fatima Syed - Picard, Ph.D., also of Pitt's Department of Ophthalmology, and the team showed that stem cells of the dental pulp, obtained from routine human third molar, or wisdom tooth, extractions performed at Pitt's School of Dental Medicine, could be turned into corneal stromal cells called keratocytes, which have the same embryonic origin.

Furthermore, as part of this study the team demonstrated the ability to position gold nanoparticles into prescribed 2D architectures less than two nanometers apart from each other along the crystal structure — a critical feature for future quantum devices and a significant technical advance for their scalable production, said co-lead author Wei Sun, Ph.D., Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

The research team, which included Gladstone Postdoctoral Scholar Haixia Wang, PhD, the study's lead author, identified a four - molecule chemical cocktail that could guide the skin cells into becoming more like heart cells.

«This is the first real molecular insight into what is happening during limb regeneration,» says first author Scott Stewart, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, Ph.D., who led the Salk team.

The author also thanks ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal ® editorial team, especially those who contributed to the original survey in 2006, Paul Couzelis, Ph.D.; John Jakicic, Ph.D., FACSM; Nico Pronk, Ph.D., FACSM; Mike Spezzano, M.S.; Neal Pire, M.A., FACSM; Jim Peterson, Ph.D., FACSM; Melinda Manore, Ph.D., R.D., FACSM; Cary Wing, Ed.D., FACSM; Reed Humphrey, Ph.D., P.T., FACSM; and Steve Tharrett, M.S., for their very important input into the construction of the original and subsequent surveys.

After making Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh's Filth into a movie last year, director Jon S. Baird is teaming up with the famous Scottish novelist again.

It's widely known the author was less than happy with the dreadful thought of having her book adapted to a movie, and the notion of signing the rights over to Disney's team — which wanted to turn it into a musical with animation — was even less appealing.

The pack includes text and video interviews with the creative team, an introduction to the author and text, workshop exercises, rehearsal photography, and links to online resources to enable students to gain an insight into the process of developing the work from page to stage.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

They are now looking to try eLearning; however, the team lacks the ability to use authoring tools needed to convert the PTTs into effective, instructionally - sound online courses.

In some cases, though firms employ a team of eLearning developers who are skilled in the use of rapid authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline, they do not have the ability to convert hundreds of presentations into online courses quickly, at low cost.

The pack includes text and video interviews with the creative team, an introduction to the author and text, workshop exercises, rehearsal photography, and links to online resources to enable students to gain an insight into the process of developing the work from page to stage and to explore the roles in professional theatre.

The Rentokil Initial team set out to find an authoring tool that their existing programs could be migrated into.

Through the story of one student, Oscar — whose educational team struggles to reintegrate him into the general classroom after his behavior has resulted in reassignment to an alternative school — the author illustrates how a commitment to inclusion can promote success for all students.

In this webinar, authors Vivian Troen and Katherine Boles share how you can transform your school's teacher teams into more effective learning communities that foster teacher leadership.

Using one case study from sports (the Vancouver Giants hockey team) and one from education (Hackney Schools Borough in London, England), the authors illustrate how the six components of uplifting leadership combine the hard and soft skills that are often set against each other in traditional leadership practice: counterintuitive thinking combined with disciplined application; dreaming with determination; collaboration with competition; metrics with meaning; pushing and pulling people into change; and long - term sustainability with short - term success.

If you're ready to become a published author and get your writing out into the world, schedule a consultation with our Self - Publishing Team today!

To engage our editorial and design team to turn your words into a work of art, we're offering this one - stop, all - in, comprehensive book publishing package for author - publishers for standard books as large as 50,000 words at the incredible price of just $ 5,500!

EverAfter authors will also benefit from the dedicated Ingram Publisher Services sales and operations teams who will sell and distribute their titles broadly into bookstores, online retailers, libraries and non-bookstore markets alike.

To engage our editorial and design team to turn your words into a work of art, we're offering an IngramSpark - author exclusive package for standard books as large as 50,000 words at the incredible price of just $ 4,950!

The alternative is where an author puts their own money into getting their work out there — the quality of which has nothing to do with what the publishing process is labeled and everything to do with the skill of the producer and their team (if any).

«My personal liaison Jen and the Web design team from Web Design Relief helped take my vision for an author website and sculpt it into a reality.

Also, the team at Reedsy have sorted the sites into tiers, based on their mailing list size and reputation, allowing authors to plan their multi-tiered promotion better.

Unless the small press has a dedicated, exceptional sales team committed to marketing your book and getting you into bookstores (which some do, so check carefully), they are unlikely to be able to market any more effectively than the author can (and often less so).

Noonan's cover features an image of Gronkowski that not only did the author not have permission to use, but also dips so far into the realm of low - class as to have a patch in honor of the team's owner's recently deceased wife located prominently on his jersey.

BookBub plans to use the funding to grow its team, to expand its reach and services into international markets, and finally to offer even more powerful tools to its member readers and authors.

Some authors could be picked up, Ogorek believes, from the ranks of writers who'd paid the publishers to produce their books under in - house self - publishing imprints: so called «farm teams» of authors willing to underwrite the costs of getting their books into print.

Each author's book that's accepted into Booktrope is then given a project page where the author will build his or her team.

-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting books for Smashwords — Research about the business side of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for bloggers to send book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)

INDUSTRY INSIDERS GIVE THEIR PREDICTIONS News Team Orna Ross, director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, predicted the industry would «see author - publishing continuing to mature in 2015 and continuing to expand into other territories».

In traditional publishing the author has a team, or at least an editor, to shape the book into the masterpiece you hope it can become.

Picking up from Tucker in that last bit about embracing differences — and knowing that the IndieReCon team is now going into a period of evaluation to map out the way forward — I might offer this, too: at our Author (R) evolution Day conference (#ARDay) in New York, debuted by O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing on February 12, it became evident that the concept of an «entrepreneurial author» may be more germane to what we're seeing now than that of an «indie» or independent or self - publishing or traditionally publishing or hybrid aAuthor (R) evolution Day conference (#ARDay) in New York, debuted by O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing on February 12, it became evident that the concept of an «entrepreneurial author» may be more germane to what we're seeing now than that of an «indie» or independent or self - publishing or traditionally publishing or hybrid aauthor» may be more germane to what we're seeing now than that of an «indie» or independent or self - publishing or traditionally publishing or hybrid authorauthor.

The winners were selected among a shortlist of talented Canadian authors, chosen by Kobo's team of booksellers, with book completion rates, customer ratings and reviews taken into consideration.

Independent authors have total control over the team they hire to transform their manuscript into a book, and the investment an author chooses to make into the quality of their book has a lot to do with the goals they've set for their book.

The Booksliced team understands and appreciates the hard work authors put into creating high - quality products for their readers while continuing to maintain affordable prices.

Interestingly, Bookouture goes to great lengths to transform authors into a «global brand» through big publisher experiences and small team creativity.

The Donald has jumped into self - publishing, teaming up with bestselling author Robert Kiyosaki to publish on their own their independently produced book about investing, Why We Want You to be Rich.