Women’s wills of the nobility are an intriguing but still largely unexplored source. This alsoapplies to from Royal Prussia, mainly because their scarce number and difficult availability.An important element when considering Prussia is specific legalsituation. Since 1599 so-called Prussian Adjustment, based on Chełmno Law, was in force,under which only movable property could be freely disposed ...

The Wills functional from the theory of lattice point enumeration can be adapted to produce the following exponential inequality for zero mean Gaussian processes: Ee sup t (X t ?(1=2) 2 t) e E sup t X t : An application is a new proof of the deviation inequality for the supremum of a Gaussian process above its mean: P (sup t X t ? E sup t X t a) e ?(1=2)a 2 == 2 ; where a > 0 and 2 = sup t 2 t .

I have previously suggested that doctors’ moral duty to respect mentally incapacitated patients’ autonomy during decision-making can be fulfilled by helping them prepare a written living will before they become incapacitated.1 Mentally incapacitated patients fall into two categories: ‘formerly-competent’ and ‘never-competent’ and only the former are capable of preparing living wills. For those ...