Feminist attempts to ensure rigorous legal response to sexual violence against women and children have been characterized by persistent resistence and occasional victory. Feminist reform of law seeks to enhance women’s equality by eliminating embedded legal bias and by deterring legally sanctioned violence. Hostile resistance to feminist law reform has been most clearly demonstrated both in lit...

The new wave of Asian/Asian American postcolonial, feminist scholarship provides a route to engage in critical dialogue, raising awareness that essentialist notions race, class, ethnicity, gender, and religion fail account for the complex dynamic social reality individuals with bicultural/hybrid identity face. Because psychology general integration theology particular has traditionally taken de...

The feminist paradigm has been advocated as an appropriate alternative framework for sport psychology theory and research. The current paper extends the feminist perspective to sport psychology practice, particularly to educational consultation. Application of a feminist perspective to sport psychology practice requires (a) an awareness of relevant gender scholarship and valuing of the female p...

the current research examines the role of postcolonial anddecolonization theories in the study of susan glaspell’s trifles, which hasalways been interpreted through feminism. application of postcolonial theoriesto this work is controversial; since neither the subject of the play, nor thesetting, nor the characters can be regarded as an instance of postcolonialliterature. this paper proves that ...

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) have the potential to improve surgical interventions and image-guided therapy by providing clinicians with interactive three-dimensional visualizations in all phases of treatment. However, experimental AR research applications typically focus on a single medical procedure and do not attempt to cover the whole clinical workflow from preoperative to...

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...

Background: Substance abuse disorders are associated with many serious medical and psychiatric problems. Undesirable side effects following drug-assisted treatment occur in drug abusers while sudden discontinuation of drug use can also cause unpleasant symptoms. This study hence investigated the effects of reality therapy (RT) on drug cravings and mental health among clients of therapeutic comm...

BACKGROUND Persecutory delusions may be unfounded threat beliefs maintained by safety-seeking behaviours that prevent disconfirmatory evidence being successfully processed. Use of virtual reality could facilitate new learning. AIMS To test the hypothesis that enabling patients to test the threat predictions of persecutory delusions in virtual reality social environments with the dropping of s...