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Showing 1 to 20 of 507 for “"possession"”.
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The fiction of adverse possession
… a trespasser. This is recognised as adverse possession and this doctrine has been established by iteration and reiteration over the long history of English land law with the sole intention of protecting the real property of the landed classes. The enduring nature of land law can also be used …
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Modeling knowledge about possession transfer
… to learn how to ground abstract notions, such as possession, in the physical world. In this work, I develop a model for the knowledge about possession transfer, which ties the abstract world to the physical world. The model grounds itself in spatial and time understanding, by making use of …
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Forget Me Not- Possession Protection Devices
… market which could simply prevent the loss of possessions in the first place. Forget Me Not accomplished this by creating a mesh network of tags using Digi Xbee 3 Zigbee 3.0 microcontrollers communicating using the Digimesh network protocol to transmit and receive signals between each other to …
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The Concept of Vacant Possession: Theory and Practice
… man or woman on the street, the term 'vacant possession' raises its head most noticeably in the residential sphere, with many everyday people buying and selling property and being obliged to give, or entitled to receive, vacant possession. Furthermore, the term is by no means limited to a …
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Descartes and Foundationalism: A Definitive Explanation for Knowledge Possession?
This thesis attempts to investigate whether Descartes’s epistemoiogy as presented in the Meditations should be interpreted in the traditional way, as an example of strong classical foundationalism or whether this traditional account needs to be revised. I will argue not only that the traditional …
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Invoking heterogeneous cultural identities through Thokoza sangoma spirit possession
This thesis has been indefinitely embargoed, as per the Senate Executive Committee decision on 10 May 2016.
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A theoretical analysis of the rule of adverse possession
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1990.
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SoK: A Practical Cost Comparison Among Provable Data Possession Schemes
<p>Provable Data Possession (PDP) schemes provide users with the ability to efficiently audit and verify the integrity of data stored with potentially unreliable third-parties, such as cloud storage service providers. While dozens of PDP schemes have been developed, no PDP schemes have been …
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Algernon Charles Swinburne: the causes and effects of his Sapphic possession
… in the 1860s as resulting in a form of “Sapphic Possession” which laid hold on Swinburne, shaped his verse, produced a provocative new poetics, and which accounted for a critical reception of his work that was both hostile and enthralled. Using biographical material and Freudian psychology, I …
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Relationship Between Attempts, Goals Scored, and Time of Ball Possession in Soccer
1 PDF file (86 leaves)
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The Irish law on adverse possession: the case for a qualified veto system
… for the reform of the Irish law on adverse possession. It explains why the doctrine, in its current state, fails to confer adequate protection on the owner against the dangers of losing title to an adverse possessor and it illustrates how the law permits 'undeserving' adverse possessors to …
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Awareness of between-ness: immaterial and material, Katami, once a possession of the deceased
… research, which is an object that was once a possession of the deceased, kept as a memento or remembrance of dead in Japanese culture. Katami represented the visualisation of the ‘between-ness’: an energy flow and interconnectedness between the deceased and the living. ‘Between-ness’ is …
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The War on Who? An Analysis of Drug Possession Arrests in Four U.S. Cities
… from disproportionate levels of arrest for drug possession. This thesis seeks to contribute to the existing understanding of inequities in drug possession arrests, especially as related to race, while explicitly addressing the role of the distribution of illicit drug use across different groups …
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Expected Possession Value: An Evaluation Framework for Decision-Making, Strategy, and Execution in Basketball
… efficacy. I construct a metric called Expected Possession Value (EPV) computed through tracking data that is then leveraged to identify scoring opportunities throughout a game. I then analyze these opportunities as instances of decision-making, quantifying how often those opportunities are …
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