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Reclaiming the Promise of the Judicial Branch: Toward a More Meaningful Standard of Judicial Review as Applied to New York Eminent Domain Law
This Article asserts that the New York model of eminent domain and judicial review must be reworked to provide a meaningful balance between private property rights and concerns for public good. Part I sets forth current doctrine and procedure which New York agencies must follow when exercising the power of eminent domain. Part II explores how blight has become a standardless standard in New York. Part III examines New York courts\u27 reluctance to overturn agency decisions and the potential for abuse that this creates. Part IV examines other jurisdictions which have imposed stricter standards when examining public use. Part V proposes means by which New York can create a new standard of judicial review of agency determinations of blight
Dynamically Slow Processes in Supercooled Water Confined Between Hydrophobic Plates
We study the dynamics of water confined between hydrophobic flat surfaces at
low temperature. At different pressures, we observe different behaviors that we
understand in terms of the hydrogen bonds dynamics. At high pressure, the
formation of the open structure of the hydrogen bond network is inhibited and
the surfaces can be rapidly dehydrated by decreasing the temperature. At lower
pressure the rapid ordering of the hydrogen bonds generates heterogeneities
that are responsible for strong non-exponential behavior of the correlation
function, but with no strong increase of the correlation time. At very low
pressures, the gradual formation of the hydrogen bond network is responsible
for the large increase of the correlation time and, eventually, the dynamical
arrest of the system and of the dehydration process.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
Precursor phenomena in frustrated systems
To understand the origin of the dynamical transition, between high
temperature exponential relaxation and low temperature nonexponential
relaxation, that occurs well above the static transition in glassy systems, a
frustrated spin model, with and without disorder, is considered. The model has
two phase transitions, the lower being a standard spin glass transition (in
presence of disorder) or fully frustrated Ising (in absence of disorder), and
the higher being a Potts transition. Monte Carlo results clarify that in the
model with (or without) disorder the precursor phenomena are related to the
Griffiths (or Potts) transition. The Griffiths transition is a vanishing
transition which occurs above the Potts transition and is present only when
disorder is present, while the Potts transition which signals the effect due to
frustration is always present. These results suggest that precursor phenomena
in frustrated systems are due either to disorder and/or to frustration, giving
a consistent interpretation also for the limiting cases of Ising spin glass and
of Ising fully frustrated model, where also the Potts transition is vanishing.
This interpretation could play a relevant role in glassy systems beyond the
spin systems case.Comment: Completely rewritten. New data. New result
Deep Information Networks
We describe a novel classifier with a tree structure, designed using
information theory concepts. This Information Network is made of information
nodes, that compress the input data, and multiplexers, that connect two or more
input nodes to an output node. Each information node is trained, independently
of the others, to minimize a local cost function that minimizes the mutual
information between its input and output with the constraint of keeping a given
mutual information between its output and the target (information bottleneck).
We show that the system is able to provide good results in terms of accuracy,
while it shows many advantages in terms of modularity and reduced complexity
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