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Criminal Law- Reckless Endangerment and Coercion- Union Officials May be Liable to Criminal Prosecution in Strike of Essential Public Employees. People v. Vizzini, 78 Misc. 2d 1040, 359 N.Y.S.2d 143 (Sup. Ct. 1974).
Defendants, officers of the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA), were charged with reckless endangerment in the second degree, attempted coercion, reckless endangerment of property, and related crimes. The basis of these charges was the five and one-half hour New York City fireman\u27s strike called by defendants despite express Taylor Law prohibitions against strikes by public employees. Defendants moved to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that a strike by firemen could not be the basis of a criminal prosecution, arguing that the Taylor Law provided the exclusive remedies and sanctions for public employee labor disputes. The New York Supreme Court denied defendants\u27 motion to dismiss, and permitted them to plead guilty to one charge of reckless endangerment
Criminal Law- Reckless Endangerment and Coercion- Union Officials May be Liable to Criminal Prosecution in Strike of Essential Public Employees. People v. Vizzini, 78 Misc. 2d 1040, 359 N.Y.S.2d 143 (Sup. Ct. 1974).
Defendants, officers of the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA), were charged with reckless endangerment in the second degree, attempted coercion, reckless endangerment of property, and related crimes. The basis of these charges was the five and one-half hour New York City fireman\u27s strike called by defendants despite express Taylor Law prohibitions against strikes by public employees. Defendants moved to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that a strike by firemen could not be the basis of a criminal prosecution, arguing that the Taylor Law provided the exclusive remedies and sanctions for public employee labor disputes. The New York Supreme Court denied defendants\u27 motion to dismiss, and permitted them to plead guilty to one charge of reckless endangerment
Simulated Economic Impact of TED Regulations on Selected Vessels in the Texas Shrimp Fishery
Shrimp fishermen trawling in the Gulf of Mexico and south Atlantic inadvertently capture and kill sea turtles which are classified as endangered species. Recent legislation requires the use of a Turtle Excluder Device(TED) which, when in place in the shrimp trawl, reduces sea turtle mortality. The impact of the TED on shrimp production is not known. This intermediate analysis of the TED regulations using an annual firm level simulation model indicated that the average Texas shrimp vessel had a low probability of being an economic success before regulations were enacted. An assumption that the TED regulations resulted in decreased production aggravated this condition and the change in Ending Net Worth and Net Present Value of Ending Net Worth before and after a TED was placed in the net was significant at the 5 percent level.
However, the difference in the Internal Rate of Return for the TED and non-TED simulations was not significant unless the TED caused a substantial change in catch. This analysis did not allow for interactions between the fishermen in the shrimp industry, an assumption which could significantly alter the impact of TED use on the catch and earnings of the individual shrimp vessel
WAYLA - Generating Images from Eye Movements
We present a method for reconstructing images viewed by observers based only
on their eye movements. By exploring the relationships between gaze patterns
and image stimuli, the "What Are You Looking At?" (WAYLA) system learns to
synthesize photo-realistic images that are similar to the original pictures
being viewed. The WAYLA approach is based on the Conditional Generative
Adversarial Network (Conditional GAN) image-to-image translation technique of
Isola et al. We consider two specific applications - the first, of
reconstructing newspaper images from gaze heat maps, and the second, of
detailed reconstruction of images containing only text. The newspaper image
reconstruction process is divided into two image-to-image translation
operations, the first mapping gaze heat maps into image segmentations, and the
second mapping the generated segmentation into a newspaper image. We validate
the performance of our approach using various evaluation metrics, along with
human visual inspection. All results confirm the ability of our network to
perform image generation tasks using eye tracking data
Knowledge and the Objection to Religious Belief from Cognitive Science
A large chorus of voices has grown around the claim that theistic belief is epistemically suspect since, as some cognitive scientists have hypothesized, such beliefs are a byproduct of cognitive mechanisms which evolved for rather different adaptive purposes. This paper begins with an overview of the pertinent cognitive science followed by a short discussion of some relevant epistemic concepts. Working from within a largely Williamsonian framework, we then present two different ways in which this research can be formulated into an argument against theistic belief. We argue that neither version work
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