the development of technology and modern industrial foundations has faced new matters to contemporary human societies. technology is rapidly changing lifestyles, social interactions and even modern human worldview about him (her)self and existence. technology-the unavoidable reality of modern world- represented itself as a phenomenon of expanding. the modern techniques have become quite differe...

intolerance of uncertainty (iu) is increasingly conceptualized as a transdiagnostic factor underlying anxiety disorders and depression. current understanding of the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and specific obsessive compulsive symptom domains remains limited. the purpose of the present study was to explore the prevalence of obsessive compulsive beliefs and intolerance of unc...

A previously published model of the isothermal Maxwell demon as one of models of open quantum systems endowed with faculty of selforganization is reconstructed here. It describes an open quantum system interacting with a single thermodynamic bath but otherwise not aided from outside. Its activity is given by the standard linear Liouville equation for the system and bath. Owing to its selforgani...

In 1963, as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, I wrote a master's thesis on the antecedents of 1921 Kongo prophetism (ngunzisme, after the KiKongo for prophet, ngunza; "Kimbanguism," after the name of the most prominentfprophet, Simon Kimbangu). The thesis pieced together accounts of traditional and new urban cults which sought, through purification and initiation, to fashion an i...

Many species engage in adaptive niche construction: modification of the local environment that increases the modifying organism's competitive fitness. Adaptive niche construction provides an alternative pathway to higher fitness, shaping the environment rather than conforming to it. Yet, experimental evidence for the evolutionary emergence of adaptive niche construction is lacking, leaving its ...

objective: the present study aimed to investigate the metacognitive model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd), through a comparative study of thought fusion beliefs and thought control strategies between patients with ocd, depression, and normal people. methods: this is a causal-comparative study. about 20 patients were selected with ocd, and 20 patients with major depression disorder (mdd),...