good papers are usually recognized quickly by the scientific community, often achieving citation rates higher than those of high-impact journals. Furthermore, the strict page limits of high-impact journals can force authors to omit valuable information [1], sometimes reducing the reach and citation rate of a paper. A rejection also forces a scientist to spend time revising and resubmitting, ins...

One of life’s inevitable disappointments—one felt often by scientists and artists, but not only by them—comes from expecting others to share the particularities of one’s own sense of awe and wonder. This truth came home to me recently when I picked up Michael Guillen’s fine book Five Equations That Changed the World (4) and discovered that my equation—the one that shaped my scientific career—wa...

With the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, concerns related to panic and increasing anxiety have been multiplying by each passing day. Consequently, schools, colleges, educational institutions, workplaces shut since mid March, 2020 in India. This study attempted find psychological repercussions on academic performance university students while focusing upon finding obsession level COVID-19. The exhi...

The last few decades of the twentieth century witnessed the body moving from no one’s particular concern to virtually everyone’s preoccupation – including historians. Roy Porter writing on the history of the body in the revised second edition of Peter Burke’s New Perspectives on Historical Writing declared that “body history” had become the “historiographical dish of the day” (Porter, 2001, 236...

R research has shown that managers in publicly traded companies facing earnings pressure—the pressure to meet or beat securities analysts’ earnings forecasts—may make business decisions to improve short-term earnings. Analysts’ forward-looking performance forecasts can serve as powerful motivation for managers, but may also encourage them to undertake short-term actions detrimental to future co...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has produced a global mental health crisis and many individuals have obsessive thoughts worry about COVID-19 which may, both directly indirectly, relate to more general anxiety. This study explored anxiety sensitivity mindful awareness as mediators in the relationship between obsession College student participants (N = 172) completed Obsession with scale, Anx...

Objective: Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is chronic psychiatric disorder with high rate of relapse during the course of illness. It is not well known which factors contribute for the chronicity of the illness, mainly because there are confounding factors as the medication effect. In this study we compared the difference of neurocognitive functions of the first-episode, medication-naive OC...