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The decision of the House of Lords in J A Pye (Oxford) Ltd v. Graham [2002]3 W.L.R.221 has not only reaffirmed the importance of possession in the common law tradition as had been understood historically, but it has also explained...
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The decision of the House of Lords in J A Pye (Oxford) Ltd v. Graham [2002]3 W.L.R.221 has not only reaffirmed the importance of possession in the common law tradition as had been understood historically, but it has also explained that it is long sustained possession that is the root of a successful claim to adverse possession. It does not matter that the adverse possessor does not have an actual subjective belief that he is acting as the owner. Neither does it matter that the possessor is willing to pay for the occupation of the land, providing that there is possession which is inconsistent with the paper owner's title.
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While some early studies suggested that spirit mediums were psychiatrically ill individuals who found a culturally sanctioned role, subsequent work has found that they are generally in good physical and mental health. While the ca...
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While some early studies suggested that spirit mediums were psychiatrically ill individuals who found a culturally sanctioned role, subsequent work has found that they are generally in good physical and mental health. While the calling to be a healer often involves an initiatory illness, practitioners go on to play demanding social roles, suggesting that involvement in mediumship may be therapeutic for the practitioner. This study focuses on dang-ki healing, a form of Chinese spirit mediumship practiced in Singapore to explore whether participation in dang-ki healing is therapeutic for the mediums. We interviewed eight dang-kis from five temples about their life trajectories and assessed their mental health status with standardized psychological questionnaires. Most of the dang-kis did not appear to suffer from clinically significant emotional distress. Their narratives suggest that involvement in dang-ki mediumship may have therapeutic effects in which the embodied experience of self plays a central role. The dang-kis experienced changes in social identity, bodily experiences during spirit possession, and their overall sense of self through recurrent possession rituals. In general, the practice of spirit mediumship illustrates how the experiences and meanings of the self are constructed and reconstructed through body-world relations in ways that may confer a sense of wellness and social efficacy.
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This paper inquires into two issues of Hungarian PPs. Firstly, when Hungarian pronouns bear an oblique case, the case marker must be followed by possessive agreement. Secondly, this pronoun-case-agreement order contrasts with the ...
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This paper inquires into two issues of Hungarian PPs. Firstly, when Hungarian pronouns bear an oblique case, the case marker must be followed by possessive agreement. Secondly, this pronoun-case-agreement order contrasts with the order found in garden variety possessive structures: ordinary possessive DPs feature the order noun-agreement-case. The goal of this paper is to offer an account of these puzzling phenomena. I argue that a PP structure in which PPs are projected from a silent place noun and the Ground is merged as the possessor of place (Terzi 2005, 2008, 2010; Botwinik-Rotem 2008; Botwinik-Rotem and Terzi 2008; Pantcheva 2008; Cinque 2010a; Noonan 2010, and Nchare and Terzi 2014) allows an enlightening analysis of the appearance and position of the possessive agreement in PPs. I also discuss how certain surface differences between PPs and ordinary possessive constructions can be accounted for while maintaining the possessive analysis of PPs. By showing that a PP structure with a possessive core yields a natural account of the intricate Hungarian data, the paper strengthens the case for a possessive-based approach to PPs in Universal Grammar.
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This paper inquires into two issues of Hungarian PPs. Firstly, when Hungarian pronouns bear an oblique case, the case marker must be followed by possessive agreement. Secondly, this pronoun-case-agreement order contrasts with the ...
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This paper inquires into two issues of Hungarian PPs. Firstly, when Hungarian pronouns bear an oblique case, the case marker must be followed by possessive agreement. Secondly, this pronoun-case-agreement order contrasts with the order found in garden variety possessive structures: ordinary possessive DPs feature the order noun-agreement-case. The goal of this paper is to offer an account of these puzzling phenomena. I argue that a PP structure in which PPs are projected from a silent place noun and the Ground is merged as the possessor of place (Terzi 2005, 2008, 2010; Botwinik-Rotem 2008; Botwinik-Rotem and Terzi 2008; Pantcheva 2008; Cinque 2010a; Noonan 2010, and Nchare and Terzi 2014) allows an enlightening analysis of the appearance and position of the possessive agreement in PPs. I also discuss how certain surface differences between PPs and ordinary possessive constructions can be accounted for while maintaining the possessive analysis of PPs. By showing that a PP structure with a possessive core yields a natural account of the intricate Hungarian data, the paper strengthens the case for a possessive-based approach to PPs in Universal Grammar.
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The objects we consume increasingly exist in digital form, from audiobooks and digital photographs to social media profiles and avatars. Digital objects are often argued to be less valued, personally meaningful, and self-relevant ...
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The objects we consume increasingly exist in digital form, from audiobooks and digital photographs to social media profiles and avatars. Digital objects are often argued to be less valued, personally meaningful, and self-relevant than their physical counterparts and are consequently dismissed as poor candidates for possession. Yet, studies have identified highly meaningful, even irreplaceable, digital possessions. In this article, we account for these contradictory narratives surrounding digital possessions, arguing that digital objects are not inherently unsuited to possession, but rather their affordances may not align with consumers' imagined affordances (i.e., the object affordances that consumers anticipate). Drawing from a qualitative study of 25 consumers and their digital possessions, we identify three recurring types of affordance misalignment-missing affordances, covert affordances, and deficient affordances-that mediate how consumers and digital objects interact (pragmatic mediation) and, consequently, consumers' experiences of, and beliefs surrounding, digital objects as possessions (herme-neutic mediation). We demonstrate that these affordance misalignments can create obstacles to consumers' desired experiences of possession and document consumers' attempts to overcome these obstacles by employing alignment strategies, with varied behavioral outcomes. This article advances debates surrounding digital possessions and presents an enriched affordance theory lens that provides new insights into possession.
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This article explores whether cryptoassets are capable of possession. It challenges the traditional view in English law that possession does not apply to intangibles. It is argued that cryptoassets, which are intangible, are capab...
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This article explores whether cryptoassets are capable of possession. It challenges the traditional view in English law that possession does not apply to intangibles. It is argued that cryptoassets, which are intangible, are capable of possession because they are amenable to factual possession and intention to possess.
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The present studies sought to investigate the mapping relations between language and cognition by focusing on how Mandarin-speaking children acquire the mapping between their conceptual knowledge of possession and their linguistic...
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The present studies sought to investigate the mapping relations between language and cognition by focusing on how Mandarin-speaking children acquire the mapping between their conceptual knowledge of possession and their linguistic expressions of possession. Two experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 used a comprehension task to explore whether young children are able to map their knowledge of possessive constructions onto their interpretation of possessive relations. Experiment 2 employed a production task to examine whether they are able to map their knowledge of possessive relations onto their linguistic expressions of possession. The findings were that 4-year-olds exhibited correct comprehension and production of possessive DE constructions, indicating that by age 4, Mandarin-speaking children have already established the mapping between their conceptual knowledge of possession and their linguistic expressions of possession. By contrast, 3-year-olds exhibited response patterns that suggest a developmental stage where they use noun-noun compounds to represent possessive relations before they map possessive relations onto possessive constructions.
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Recent years have seen significant attention awarded to possession regains in football. This case study examines possession regain patterns of an elite English Premier League team across three seasons from the 2015-16 season to th...
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Recent years have seen significant attention awarded to possession regains in football. This case study examines possession regain patterns of an elite English Premier League team across three seasons from the 2015-16 season to the 2017-18 season (n = 106). A series of regressions are conducted in order to determine: what impact possession regains had on attacking performance, which players were most productive with possession post regains and which other factors influenced the number of successful possession regains by the subject team. Results revealed that possession regains in the opponent's half were highly significant and had a positive impact upon attacking performance (p = 0.006). Possession regains that occurred on the left-hand side of the playing field led to more productivity in front of goal (p = 0.028). The quality of the opponent was also revealed to have a significant impact upon the number of possession regains (p = 0.025). It is concluded that possession regains high up the playing field are crucial to the subject team's attacking success. Furthermore, players performing on the left side of the playing field were more productive with possession regains than those playing centrally or on the right.
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ABSTRACT. The advent of digital technology has had a profound impact on the
production and distribution of child pornography. The international trade in such
material is a major focus of law enforcement agencies around the world. ...
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ABSTRACT. The advent of digital technology has had a profound impact on the
production and distribution of child pornography. The international trade in such
material is a major focus of law enforcement agencies around the world. Central to
these efforts is the offence of ‘possession.’ However, concepts of possession in the
criminal law evolved in the context of tangible items such as drugs, and their
application to intangible data presents significant challenges. Drawing upon the laws
of Australia, Canada, England and the United States, this article analyses the con-
cept of criminal possession in a digital context. While courts and legislatures are
adapting to these new challenges, in some cases it is argued that the offence of
possession is being stretched too far. It is suggested that some of these difficulties
may be avoided by utilising an offence of ‘accessing’ child pornography.
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A natural number n is called abundant if the sum of the proper divisors of n exceeds n. For example, 12 is abundant, since 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 16. In 1929, Bessel-Hagen asked whether or not the set of abundant numbers possesses an...
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A natural number n is called abundant if the sum of the proper divisors of n exceeds n. For example, 12 is abundant, since 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 16. In 1929, Bessel-Hagen asked whether or not the set of abundant numbers possesses an asymptotic density. In other words, if A(x) denotes the count of abundant numbers belonging to the interval [1, x], does A(x)/x tend to a limit? Four years later, Davenport answered Bessel-Hagen's question in the affirmative. Calling this density Δ, it is now known that 0.24761 < Δ < 0.24766, so that just under one in four numbers are abundant. We show that A(x) - Δx < x/exp ((log x)~(1/3)) for all large x. We also study the behavior of the corresponding error term for the count of so-called α-abundant numbers.
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