Recent studies in African contexts have revealed a strong association between spirit possession and severe trauma, with inclusion into a possession cult serving at times a therapeutic function. Research on spirit possession in the Dominican Republic has so far not included quantitative studies of trauma and dissociation. This study evaluated demographic variables, somatoform dissociative sympto...

This Article explores issues surrounding the prosecution of child pornography possession laws based on images located in temporary Internet files. The Article begins with a technical background of both caches and the forensic examinations used by investigators. After reviewing the pertinent case law, the Article introduces the two conceptual approaches-the Present Possession approach and the Ev...

Natural resources play a fundamental role in the economy of country and create the situation to achieve the goals of sustainable society, these valuable resources have to be conserved  and used with care. Destroying the forests and rangelands will lead to a dark future full of poverty, starvation and environmental pollution. Forests and rangelands play a considerable role in reducing air pollut...

groundwater is the main source of potable water in most areas of mazandaran province, like sari and babol city. thus the safety of groundwater supplies is very important in these regions. unfortunately attention to groundwater quality has remained limited in iran. in recent years, the growth of industry, technology, population, and water use has increased the stress upon both land and water res...

The evolution of cloud computing has had a significant effect on our lives and it has brought many benefits. Cloud computing is a style of computing which is formed from the aggregation and development of technologies such as grid computing distributed computing, parallel computing and service-oriented architecture and its exciting for governments and private companies, and it has eager them to...

Cloud storage enables users to access their data anywhere and at any time. It achieves the dream of getting computing, storage and communication resources as easy as to get water and electricity. All resources can be gotten in a plug-andplay way. It has the advantages of high scalability, ease-ofuse, cost-effectiveness and simplifying infrastructure planning etc. However, the emerging use of cl...

As storage-outsourcing services and resource-sharing networks have become popular, the problem of efficiently proving the integrity of data stored at untrusted servers has received increased attention. In the provable data possession (PDP) model, the client preprocesses the data and then sends it to an untrusted server for storage, while keeping a small amount of meta-data. The client later ask...

External possession is a phenomenon where a nominal is syntactically encoded as a verbal dependent but semantically understood as the possessor of one of its co-arguments. While the general pattern is crosslinguistically very common, there is much variation in its precise syntax and semantics. In this chapter I review the classic analyses of external possession as possessor raising and possesso...