WILLS-CONSTRUCTION-GIFT TO EXECUTOR TO BE DISPOSED OF IN HIS DISCRETION AS A GENERAL POWER OF APPOINTMENT

Testator, after bequeathing specific legacies, gave the residue of his estate to his executor to dispose of any balance after the aforementioned gifts have been paid according to his wise discretion.\u27\u27 The executor was the husband of testator\u27s niece, one of the legatees, and he was well acquainted with testator. He declared his intention of disposing of the residue to testator\u27s nieces, for whom testator had expressed concern. The trial court held the testator had attempted to create a trust by the residuary clause, which failed for indefiniteness. On appeal, held, reversed. The testator created a general power of appointment in the executor. In re Lindston\u27s Estate, (Wash. 1949) 202 P. (2d) 259

DISCOVERY-ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE-STATEMENTS BY CLIENT TO INSURER BEFORE ATTORNEY EMPLOYED

Plaintiff, suing for personal injuries suffered in an automobile collision, sought discovery of statements made by defendant to his insurer, both before and after an attorney had been employed by the insurer pursuant to its contract with defendant. Defendant contended that such statements were within the attorney-client privilege. On appeal from an order denying discovery, held, affirmed. The statements were intended as a communication by defendant to the attorney ultimately to be retained for him by his insurer, and the insurer was the agent of defendant to transmit the statements to the attorney when selected. Hollien v. Kaye, 194 Misc. 821, 87 N.Y.S. (2d) 782 (1949)

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-DUE PROCESS-USE OF EXTRANEOUS EVIDENCE IN DETERMINING CRIMINAL SENTENCE

Petitioner was convicted of murder in the first degree with a recommendation for life imprisonment. In reliance on police and probation reports showing petitioner\u27s background which included over thirty burglaries for which he had never been arraigned and a morbid sexuality, the trial judge disregarded the jury\u27s recommendation and imposed the death sentence. Although petitioner did not have an opportunity to examine the reports prior to the sentence hearing, he was represented by counsel at the hearing and did not challenge them at that time. Petitioner contended that he had been denied due process of law because his sentence had not been based on information supplied by witnesses with whom he could be confronted. Held, due process was not violated because extraneous evidence was used to assist the judge in imposing sentence. Justices Murphy and Rutledge dissented. Williams v. People of State of New York, (U.S. 1949) 69 S.Ct. 1079

CORPORATIONS-ELECTIONS-JUDICIAL ACTIONS OF INSPECTORS OF ELECTIONS

If the modern cases are to be judged in light of what the courts say, it is probable that Judge Tilghman\u27s views are the weight of authority. While a few courts frankly admit that inspectors do act judicially at times, most of the courts continue to define the actions of the inspectors in ministerial terms. However, there are two areas within which the inspectors may exercise such unusual powers that they may be called judicial, namely, those relating to the ascertainment of (1) the validity of proxies and (2) title to stock. The scope of this comment is confined to these two areas with attention directed to the scope of the inspectors\u27 powers and the effect of their findings on the courts

Faculty Recital:Ed Livingston and Don Peterson

Capen Auditorium May 5, 1969 8:15p.m

Deep Learning Algorithms Improve Automated Identification of Chagas Disease Vectors

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Medical Entomology following peer review. The version of record is available online at: https;//doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjz065Vector-borne Chagas disease is endemic to the Americas and imposes significant economic and social burdens on public health. In a previous contribution, we presented an automated identification system that was able to discriminate among 12 Mexican and 39 Brazilian triatomine (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) species from digital images. To explore the same data more deeply using machine-learning approaches, hoping for improvements in classification, we employed TensorFlow, an open-source software platform for a deep learning algorithm. We trained the algorithm based on 405 images for Mexican triatomine species and 1,584 images for Brazilian triatomine species. Our system achieved 83.0 and 86.7% correct identification rates across all Mexican and Brazilian species, respectively, an improvement over comparable rates from statistical classifiers (80.3 and 83.9%, respectively). Incorporating distributional information to reduce numbers of species in analyses improved identification rates to 95.8% for Mexican species and 98.9% for Brazilian species. Given the ‘taxonomic impediment’ and difficulties in providing entomological expertise necessary to control such diseases, automating the identification process offers a potential partial solution to crucial challenges

Ewing Brass Quintet: Herb Koerselman, Trumpet; Kirby Reese, Trumpet; Don Peterson, Horn; Charles Stokes, Trombone; Ed Livingston, Tuba; March 27, 1977

Hayden AuditoriumSunday EveningMarch 27, 19778:00 p.m

Building SAWE Capability as an ANSI Accredited Standards Developer

This paper presents a 2014 status of the Society of Allied Weight Engineers' process towards becoming an Accredited Standards Developer (ASD) under certification by the United States American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Included is material from the committee's 2013 International presentation, current status, and additional general background material. The document strives to serve as a reference point to assist SAWE Recommended Practice and Standards developers in negotiating United States Standards Strategy, international standards strategy, and the association of SAWE standards and recommended practices to those efforts. Required procedures for SAWE to develop and maintain Recommended Practices and ANSI/SAWE Standards are reviewed

A comparison of the two approaches of the theory of critical distances based on linear-elastic and elasto-plastic analyses

The problem of determining the strength of engineering structures, considering the effects of the non-local fracture in the area of stress concentrators is a great scientific and industrial interest. This work is aimed on modification of the classical theory of critical distance that is known as a method of failure prediction based on linear-elastic analysis in case of elasto-plastic material behaviour to improve the accuracy of estimation of lifetime of notched components. Accounting plasticity has been implemented with the use of the Simplified Johnson-Cook model. Mechanical tests were carried out using a 300 kN electromechanical testing machine Shimadzu AG-X Plus. The cylindrical un-notched specimens and specimens with stress concentrators of titanium alloy Grade2 were tested under tensile loading with different grippers travel speed, which ensured several orders of strain rate. The results of elasto-plastic analyses of stress distributions near a wide variety of notches are presented. The results showed that the use of the modification of the TCD based on elasto-plastic analysis gives us estimates falling within an error interval of ±5-10%, that more accurate predictions than the linear elastic TCD solution. The use of an improved description of the stress-strain state at the notch tip allows introducing the critical distances as a material parameter