Written for PSY 482.
Throughout the history of psychotherapy, exposure and response (ritual) prevention (ERP) has widely been considered the most effective treatment for patients who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) (Clark, 2005). Through the utilization of fear hierarchies that aim to desensitize feelings of anxiety and dread, ERP’s empirically...
Kenyan women exhibit a pattern of unequal access and participation to education, particularly Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) subjects and careers. This is the result of documented challenges that include cultural attitudes that overburden girls with chores to the detriment of their school work, and a preference by parents to...
This dissertation outlines two approaches for improving the efficiency and reducing the cost of photovoltaic energy generation. First, the structures of known binary copper and iron compounds are used to choose the promising compositions Fe₂XS₄ (X = Si, Ge), Cu₃TaQ₄ (Q = Se, Te), and BaCuQ'F (Q' = S, Se,...