James Hammonds v. Director Pennsylvania Bureau o

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvani

The Effect of Perception on Reactions to Reapportionment

A port of the legislative reapportionment conflict in Minnesota was a product of distorted perceptions by political actors such as the Minnesota Form Bureau . The Bureau\u27s reaction to the Governor\u27s Commission on Legislative Reapportionment was o result of the impact of the Bureau\u27s ideology on its perception of the political system. The resultant failure of the Form Bureau President to serve on the Governor\u27s Commission denied that organization access to on important step in the decision-making process concerning legislative reapportionment

Isan Contant v. Field Office Director Bureau o

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvani

Increasing the Timeliness of U.S. Annual I-O Accounts

The timeliness of the U.S. input-output (I-O) accounts is a major concern for policymakers and industry analysts, as well as academics. In response, the Bureau of Economic Analysis initiated research in 2001 to identify, develop and implement an estimating method for producing more timely and reliable annual I-O accounts than are currently available. The research included reviewing the frameworks and methods currently used by other statistical agencies and academic researchers, obtaining more timely industry source data, and developing enhanced methods and processes for the automated updating and balancing of annual I-O tables. The results of this research indicate that our new automated updating and balancing method can reduce time lag for producing the annual I-O accounts from three years to one year without reducing quality. Our method is based on an adjusted RAS process that simultaneously balances the I-O table in producers’ and purchasers’ prices; uses more exogenous data; and processes tables at the most detailed level.

Abundance Patterns in Stars in the Bulge and Galactic Center

We discuss oxygen and iron abundance patterns in K and M red-giant members of the Galactic bulge and in the young and massive M-type stars inhabiting the very center of the Milky Way. The abundance results from the different bulge studies in the literature, both in the optical and the infrared, indicate that the [O/Fe]-[Fe/H] relation in the bulge does not follow the disk relation, with [O/Fe] values falling above those of the disk. Based on these elevated values of [O/Fe] extending to large Fe abundances, it is suggested that the bulge underwent a rapid chemical enrichment with perhaps a top-heavy initial mass function. The Galactic Center stars reveal a nearly uniform and slightly elevated (relative to solar) iron abundance for a studied sample which is composed of 10 red giants and supergiants. Perhaps of more significance is the fact that the young Galactic Center M-type stars show abundance patterns that are reminiscent of those observed for the bulge population and contain enhanced abundance ratios of alpha-elements relative to either the Sun or Milky Way disk at near-solar metallicities.Comment: requires iaus.cls; to appear in Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 245, 2007, M. Bureau et al. eds., in pres

Engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln

Engraved portrait of A. Lincoln, by M. W. Baldwin, 1916. Pub. by Bureau of Engraving and Printing. After a photo by A. Berger. Ref: O-42. Abraham Lincoln faces the right side of the page. Oval shaped portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The photograph is black and white. published by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (American, 1862-present), from a photograph by Matthias William Baldwin (American 1795-1866)https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-prints/1886/thumbnail.jp