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 Since Coronavirus is a recent topic which is going on in discussion since last couple of months, we have been hearing various organs being affected by coronavirus. But recently, the SARS-CoV2 has been found to have effects on cardiac system. The four "common cold" human coronaviruses - HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-OC43 and HCoV-HKU1; are not associated with heart diseases. There were isolated reports of patients caused by MERS-CoV(Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome) with myocarditis and a limited number of case series of cardiac diseases in patients with SARS. Therefore, a distinctive feature of SARS-CoV 2 is more extensive cardiac involvement, which may also be a consequence of the pandemic. The features of SARS-CoV with cardiac involvement are - myocarditis, necrosis of cardiac cells, mimicking heart attack, arrhythmias, and acute or protracted heart failure (muscular dysfunction). The primary structural difference between the SARS virus and SARS-CoV 2 virus is that, SARS i

  Procrastination is the act of delaying or postponing a task or set of tasks. But the question remains.. Why do we procrastinate? To answer that, we need to understand that the main reason to procrastinate is none other than our old friend Mr, MOTIVATION. So, the amount of motivation will tell you the amount of work a person can do and the procrastination he/she can do. There is an important theory that explains how motivation can be calculated. And yes, there is a mathematical equation for motivation too. This theory is the Temporal Motivation Theory - or TMT, laid down by Dr. Piers Steel in his book The procrastination equation. The quation for motivation is -  MOTIVATION = (Expectancy * Value) / (Impulsiveness * Delay) Each of the mentioned terms above are the parameters for Procrastination.  Expectancy - how strongly you believe that you are able to complete the task. Value - rewards that you get after completing the task as well as the experience of the task; i.e. Pleasant or unp

 Do you really feel that you can analyze the amount of success you can achieve? Well.... There happened a test earlier which was aimed at estimating the success rate of children in future.  Harvard University conducted a study which aimed to estimate this same thing. Marshmallow Test - Harvard University conducted an experiment, where they brought in a batch of children and asked them about how many of them want to eat marshmallows. Everyone said Yes. Later on, they said, if you guys wait for a few hours, until we return, you all will get extra marshmallow.  The results were as expected, majority of the subjects ate marshmallows instantly, where as some of them waited and got double the amount they were to be given initially. But the study didn't end here. The study began from this point onwards. What the researchers did, was to follow up those children decade by decade and the results were astonishing. The found out that, those who took marshmallow at that instant, had the tendenc