Wyoming\u27s Residential Rental Property Act-A Critical Review

Residential leases have been more or less an orphan child in the Wyoming legal structure, perhaps with understandable social and economic reason. With a small body of landlord tenant law based primarily on outdated common law principles, the protections that a tenant can expect are quite limited. The Wyoming legislature took a significant step in an attempt to deal with some of the more pressing issues presented by residential leases. In its 1999 session, it adopted, and the governor signed, an act entitled Residential Rental Property. The Act obligates landlords to provide tenants in residential rental properties with units that are in a safe and sanitary condition fit for human habitation, requires that tenants participate in the maintenance of their rental units, and provides tenants with remedies if their landlords breach their obligations under the Act. The Act also creates certain duties and procedures for landlords in refunding deposits or applying those deposits to the payment of damages caused by tenants. Finally, the Act creates a procedure for removing personal property left in the units by tenants and returning it or, in the alternative, disposing of it without liability for conversion. This Article examines the Wyoming Residential Rental Property Act in detail and concludes with recommendations that would assure tenants in Wyoming that they genuinely have an implied warranty of habitability

Electronic Real Estate Records: A Model for Action

The legal, technological, and structural components are in place to allow the legal community to embark on the process of creating a uniform real property recording act. Certain jurisdictions have started the process by adopting various provisions allowing counties to implement electronic recording systems. These provisions are, however, disparate and inconsistent. Given the inconsistencies in the manner in which the electronic recording systems are developing, national commercial and lending practices would have a difficult time attempting to comply with all the possible permutations. In the near future, Fannie Mae, the Property Records Industry Association, and the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization should set forth a single generally-accepted protocol for the format of electronic documents and electronic signatures. Thereafter, one can project a substantial and immediate push to establish electronic recording on a national scale. The promulgation of a Uniform Action electronic recording would also promote national uniformity. It would provide a framework for an enactment by each state that would assure a single national recording structure

Wyoming\u27s Residential Rental Property Act-A Critical Review

Residential leases have been more or less an orphan child in the Wyoming legal structure, perhaps with understandable social and economic reason. With a small body of landlord tenant law based primarily on outdated common law principles, the protections that a tenant can expect are quite limited. The Wyoming legislature took a significant step in an attempt to deal with some of the more pressing issues presented by residential leases. In its 1999 session, it adopted, and the governor signed, an act entitled Residential Rental Property. The Act obligates landlords to provide tenants in residential rental properties with units that are in a safe and sanitary condition fit for human habitation, requires that tenants participate in the maintenance of their rental units, and provides tenants with remedies if their landlords breach their obligations under the Act. The Act also creates certain duties and procedures for landlords in refunding deposits or applying those deposits to the payment of damages caused by tenants. Finally, the Act creates a procedure for removing personal property left in the units by tenants and returning it or, in the alternative, disposing of it without liability for conversion. This Article examines the Wyoming Residential Rental Property Act in detail and concludes with recommendations that would assure tenants in Wyoming that they genuinely have an implied warranty of habitability

ELECTRONIC REAL ESTATE RECORDS: A MODEL FOR ACTION

The legal, technological, and structural components are in place to allow the legal community to embark on the process of creating a uniform real property recording act. Certain jurisdictions have started the process by adopting various provisions allowing counties to implement electronic recording systems. These provisions are, however, disparate and inconsistent. Given the inconsistencies in the manner in which the electronic recording systems are developing, national commercial and lending practices would have a difficult time attempting to comply with all the possible permutations. In the near future, Fannie Mae, the Property Records Industry Association, and the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization should set forth a single generally-accepted protocol for the format of electronic documents and electronic signatures. Thereafter, one can project a substantial and immediate push to establish electronic recording on a national scale. The promulgation of a Uniform Action electronic recording would also promote national uniformity. It would provide a framework for an enactment by each state that would assure a single national recording structure

Current-induced spin polarization in InGaAs and GaAs epilayers with varying doping densities

The current-induced spin polarization and momentum-dependent spin-orbit field were measured in In$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As epilayers with varying indium concentrations and silicon doping densities. Samples with higher indium concentrations and carrier concentrations and lower mobilities were found to have larger electrical spin generation efficiencies. Furthermore, current-induced spin polarization was detected in GaAs epilayers despite the absence of measurable spin-orbit fields, indicating that the extrinsic contributions to the spin polarization mechanism must be considered. Theoretical calculations based on a model that includes extrinsic contributions to the spin dephasing and the spin Hall effect, in addition to the intrinsic Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling, are found to qualitatively agree with the experimental results.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figure

On the potential of time delay neural networks to detect indirect coupling between time series

Determining the coupling between systems remains a topic of active research in the field of complex science. Identifying the proper causal influences in time series can already be very challenging in the trivariate case, particularly when the interactions are non-linear. In this paper, the coupling between three Lorenz systems is investigated with the help of specifically designed artificial neural networks, called time delay neural networks (TDNNs). TDNNs can learn from their previous inputs and are therefore well suited to extract the causal relationship between time series. The performances of the TDNNs tested have always been very positive, showing an excellent capability to identify the correct causal relationships in absence of significant noise. The first tests on the time localization of the mutual influences and the effects of Gaussian noise have also provided very encouraging results. Even if further assessments are necessary, the networks of the proposed architecture have the potential to be a good complement to the other techniques available in the market for the investigation of mutual influences between time serie

NetCausality: A time-delayed neural network tool for causality detection and analysis

The analysis of causality between systems is still an important research activity, which finds application in several fields of science. The software presented is a new tool for causality detection and analysis between time series. The proposed technique is based on time-delayed neural networks (TDNN). The tool is developed in MATLAB and it comprises three main functions. The first one returns the total causality between two or more systems of equations. The second tool is used to find the ‘‘time horizon’’, id est the time delay at which the influence between the systems occurs. The last function is a causality feature detection to determine the time intervals, in which the mutual coupling is sufficiently strong to have a real influence on the target

Adaptive quasi-unsupervised detection of smoke plume by lidar

The early detection of fire is one of the possible applications of LiDAR techniques. The smoke generated by a fire is mainly compounded of CO2, H2O, particulate, and other combustion products, which involve the local variation of the scattering of the electromagnetic wave at specific wavelengths. The increases of the backscattering coefficient are transduced in peaks on the signal of the backscattering power recorded by the LiDAR system, located exactly where the smoke plume is, allowing not only the detection of a fire but also its localization. The signal processing of the LiDAR signals is critical in the determination of the performances of the fire detection. It is important that the sensitivity of the apparatus is high enough but also that the number of false alarms is small, in order to avoid the trigger of useless and expensive countermeasures. In this work, a new analysis method, based on an adaptive quasi-unsupervised approach was used to ensure that the algorithm is continuously updated to the boundary conditions of the system, such as the weather and experimental apparatus issues. The method has been tested on an experimental campaign of 227 pulses and the performances have been analyzed in terms of sensitivity and specificity