Inside Story Research Articles

Indian Cosmetic Market and the Rise of the Brand Patanjali: An Exploratory Research

The cosmetics business is a billion-dollar industry. The youngsters, males, and rural Indians are now more beauty oriented. Earlier cosmetics were mainly focused on female consumers, but now males are equally using cosmetics and beauty products. In 21st century, there is growing awareness about health, well-being, ayurveda and yoga. These all factors led in the rise of consciousness towards herbal cosmetics. This research is an attempt to study of Indian cosmetic market and the changing trends in it. This research will also focus on the big swadeshi brand Patanjali and how it changed the cosmetic industry in India. After the research, it will be helpful to know the inside story of the Indian cosmetics market and how to better it for the future, exploratory research and secondary data used in current study to reach at conclusion.

On The Death of Saint Joseph. Notes on the book by Jan Zieliński

This article introduces French press sources discussing the painting The Death of Saint Joseph exhibited in Galerie Colbert in Paris during the summer of 1862, whose authorship was attributed at the time to Raphael. One admirer of the exhibition was Cyprian Norwid.Under the impression that he was in the presence of a Renaissance masterpiece, he wrote two touching letters to Joanna Kuczyńska, in which he shared his impressions of the exhibition. The cited sources supplement the findings contained in the book by Jan Zieliński, reveal the inside story behind the mystification, and narrate the future fate of the painting admired by the poet.

Inside story of impact investing in emerging market: A systematic review to measure the responsible and sustainable investing pattern using the ADO framework

AbstractImpact investing has emerged as a significant global phenomenon as it provides a valuable avenue for investors to shape their cognitive decision‐making ability to have a societal impact. The present study aims to review the existing literature on impact investing systematically. It tries to understand the major motivational factors that impact the investor in impact investing using the ADO framework by linking it with McClelland's Theory of Motivation, geographical areas, journal of publication, and type of research articles for impact investing, significant research gaps in impact investing, theoretical and managerial implications and future research of impact investing. PRISMA framework has been used to finalize the articles from the Scopus database. As a result, 154 articles have been identified from the year 2011 to 2024. The result identifies three motivational factors that drive the investor to invest in impact investing. It includes financial, social, and self‐actualization. The study will guide the policymaker in introducing comprehensive regulatory policies in the area of impact investing. Accordingly, tax incentives and subsidies should be granted for promoting investment in impact investing. The development of proper infrastructure for trading in impact investing needs attention.

Reflections on Living With Cancer During Fellowship

This Inside Story describes the experiences of the authors, who both received cancer diagnoses during their fellowships.

CERN at 70: the inside story

With CERN turning 70 this year, the lab’s former head of communications James Gillies reveals how his team handled unprecedented global interest in the world’s most powerful collider, which ranged from fears of killer black holes to visits from celebrities.

An inside story of the NRAO

An inside story of the NRAO

Electrical stimulation of chicken embryo development supports the Inside story scenario of human development and evolution

Animal evolution is driven by random mutations at the genome level. However, it has long been suggested that there exist physical constraints which limit the set of possible outcomes. In craniate evolution, it has been observed that head features, notably in the genus homo, can be ordered in a morphological diagram such that, as the brain expands, the head rocks more forward, face features become less prognathous and the mouth tends to recede. One school of paleontologists suggests that this trend is wired somewhere structurally inside the anatomy, and that random modifications of genes push up or down animal forms along a pre-determined path. No actual experiment has been able to settle the dispute. I present here an experiment of electric stimulation of the head in the chicken embryo which is able to enhance the magnitude of tension forces during development. This experimental intervention causes a correlated brain shrinkage and rotatory movement of the head, congruent with tissue texture, which proves that head dilation and flexure are intimately linked. Numerical modelling explains why the brain curls when it dilates. This gives support to the idea that there exists, in the texture of the vertebrate embryo, a latent dynamic pattern for the observed paleontological trends in craniates towards homo, a concept known as Inside story.

A Study of Global Trade War and Its Impact on Indian Economy

A Study of Global Trade War and Its Impact on Indian Economy

Aluminium in dermatology - Inside story of an innocuous metal.

Aluminium, the third most abundant element in the earth's crust, was long considered virtually innocuous to humans but has gained importance in the recent past. Aluminium is ubiquitous in the environment, with various sources of exposure like cosmetics, the food industry, occupational industries, the medical field, transport and electronics. Aluminium finds its utility in various aspects of dermatology as an effective haemostatic agent, anti-perspirant and astringent. Aluminium has a pivotal role to play in wound healing, calciphylaxis, photodynamic therapy and vaccine immunotherapy with diagnostic importance in Finn chamber patch testing and confocal microscopy. The metal also finds significance in cosmetic procedures like microdermabrasion and as an Nd:YAG laser component. It is important to explore the allergic properties of aluminium, as in contact dermatitis and vaccine granulomas. The controversial role of aluminium in breast cancer and breast cysts also needs to be evaluated by further studies.

Is every reaction a blood transfusion reaction? An inside story

Abstract An adverse reaction is an undesirable response or effect in a patient temporally associated with the administration of blood or blood component. In January 2019, a 55-year-old female patient was transfused packed red blood cell (PRBC) to correct anemia. The patient complained of chills within 5 min, so transfusion was stopped and patient’s blood samples and blood bag were sent to blood center for a reaction workup. The second transfusion was attempted the next day with leukoreduced PRBC, but the patient complained of chills again and hence transfusion was stopped. On 3rd day, transfusion was reattempted with all precautions in the presence of transfusion medicine specialist and the patient again complained of chills. When asked in detail, patient said that she could feel cold blood going through her arm, which made her feel cold. The patient was given additional blankets and her room warmed and transfusion was reattempted after 30 min and completed uneventfully. Medical education has raised the vigilance of physicians regarding adverse reactions but has also created an unwanted alarm, which is difficult to pacify. This leads to relating any discomfort patient experiences during transfusion with an adverse transfusion reaction.

2024 The Big One

It’s a massive year for Intertraffic with its flagship Amsterdam show set to be the largest ever. We get the inside story from the organisers

Whistleblower Memoirs: Deconstructing Data Consultants’ Insider Stories

Whistleblowers have been instrumental in revealing the massive investments in state-sponsored and corporate digital surveillance and disinformation. Their personal accounts of what went on behind the scenes are usually presented in popular books marketed as offering insider stories. By interrogating the recapitulations of veteran data consultants, our article is interested in the way in which whistleblowers configure their role and place themselves in the context of their story in terms of agency and accountability. We examine and compare three recollections: Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record, Christopher Wylie’s Mindf*ck, and Brittany Kaiser’s Targeted. Our analysis shows how these high-profile memoirs offer a look that is both intimate and distant. They at once promise to get close to and even behind what has escaped public scrutiny and in return try to dissociate themselves from their former trade. Their position of privileged precarity, which results from the casualization of digital labor, allows these data consultants to quickly become insiders while staying uncomfortable with many of the taken-for-granted ideological convictions and organizational orders. Rationalizing their involvement as disoriented diligence affords the whistleblowers the capacity to craft a story of enchantment, delusion, and subsequent awakening. Both their experiences and their position enable these disenthralled renegades to style themselves as honest moral arbiters in service of the public interest and brokers of exclusive knowledge.

Max Fisher (2022). The chaos machine: The inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world. Little Brown & Co.

Max Fisher (2022). The chaos machine: The inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world. Little Brown & Co.

Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played by Jeff Fletcher (review)

Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played by Jeff Fletcher (review)

Introducing Inside Story, a New Section for JAMA Internal Medicine

Introducing Inside Story, a New Section for JAMA Internal Medicine

The Effects of Organizational Scandals on the Desirability of Public Organizations as Places to Work: Evidence From the VA Waitlist Scandal

Public administration scholars have extensively explored organizational scandals through two lenses: (1) inside stories of organizational scandals examining the main causes of scandals and (2) the effects of scandals on trust in government, trust in governmental officials, and public financing. Yet, we know little about how organizational scandals affect government employees’ work attitudes. Understanding how public employees react to organizational scandals deserves scholarly attention because public employees not only execute their agencies’ key functions and programs but are involved in actively addressing the organization's failures. To address this gap, we apply a quasi-experimental approach using the 2014 Department of Veterans Affairs waitlist scandal, with a specific focus on the effects of the scandal on employee job satisfaction and perceived organizational attractiveness. Empirical results using the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey from 2011 to 2017 show that the organizational scandal had a negative effect on both outcomes.

REVIEW: SAS exposé a masterclass in investigative journalism

Crossing The Line: The inside story of murder, lies and a fallen hero, by Nick McKenzie. Sydney: Hachette Australia. 2023. 454 pages. ISBN 9780733650437
 I WILL forever remember choking on my morning coffee when I read The Age on 8 June 2018. Nick McKenzie and Chris Master’s article detailing the alleged war crimes in Afghanistan of a highly decorated Australian war hero was confronting, to say the least. ‘This is crazy brave,’ I remember thinking. ‘I really hope they’ve done their homework.’

Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach Syrian-Israeli Peace

Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach Syrian-Israeli Peace

Slow cooked

This lively autobiography details Marion Nestle’s life-long engagement with food, particularly the tumultuous politics that inevitably accompany this central aspect of human life. As the founder of the interdiscipline of food studies, she describes her early life in academia, her work with the federal government and her appointment as a professor at New York University (NYU). Food studies scholars and practitioners will be fascinated by her insider stories of creating the field – from acquiring financial backing and finding qualified faculty to attracting students and bringing food influencers onside. To paraphrase Wendell Barry, eating is a political act, and no-one brings that to life more acutely than Marion Nestle.

Between and Betwixt the Other Theatre and the Theatre of the Other:

This article deals with the legendary figure of Eugenio Barba as a paradigmatic case to demonstrate the difference between the other theatre and the theatre of the other. Its main objective is to discuss the juxtaposition of performativity as (re)presenting, showing, and self-awareness by narrating the myth of Barba. The argument is presented through six interconnected caveats: the legend and its myth; The Moon rises from the Ganges: the story inside the myth; the critique of western civilization: an insider's story of self-reflexivity; the other theatre is not the theatre of the other; the life-world of the myth of Barba; and finally, performing otherness, othering performance. The article is addressed mainly but not exclusively to readers with a background in cultural anthropology, performance studies, theater studies, hermeneutics, phenomenology, history of civilization, literary theory, colonialism, and representation of the other.