Mapping the Irish Policy Space:Voter and Party Spaces in Preferential

In this note we map the Irish policy space, locating both voters and parties on the most salient policy dimensions in Ireland. Estimates of the voter locations are based on the Irish National Election Survey (INES), conducted in 2002. Estimates of the party positions are based on an expert survey of party positions conducted by the authors in late 2002. We show that respondent self-placements on a priori policy scales are highly biased and difficult to interpret, and we rely instead on building scale positions for respondents from their answers to relevant attitude questions in the INES. The results provide a methodological template for locating voters and parties in a common space – a significant problem for any analyst who wants to create an empirical elaboration of a spatial model of party competition.

Temporal behavior of the SO 1.707 micron ro-vibronic emission band in Io's atmosphere

We report observations of the ro-vibronic transition of SO at 1.707 microns on Io. These data were taken while Io was eclipsed by Jupiter, on four nights between July 2000 and March 2003. We analyze these results in conjunction with a previously published night to investigate the temporal behavior of these emissions. The observations were all conducted using the near-infrared spectrometer NIRSPEC on the W.M. Keck II telescope. The integrated emitted intensity for this band varies from 0.8 x 10^27 to 2.4 x 10^27 photons/sec, with a possible link to variations in Loki's infrared brightness. The band-shapes imply rotational temperatures of 550-1000K for the emitting gas, lending further evidence to a volcanic origin for sulfur monoxide. An attempt to detect the ro-vibronic transition of SO at 0.97 microns was unsuccessful; simultaneous detection with the 1.707 micron band would permit determination of the SO column abundance.Comment: 10 pages 4 figures. Accepted by Icarus 02/27/200

Component-resolved Near-infrared Spectra of the (22) Kalliope System

We observed (22) Kalliope and its companion Linus with the integral-field spectrograph OSIRIS, which is coupled to the adaptive optics system at the W.M. Keck II telescope on March 25 2008. We present, for the first time, component-resolved spectra acquired simultaneously in each of the Zbb (1-1.18 um), Jbb (1.18-1.42 um), Hbb (1.47-1.80 um), and Kbb (1.97-2.38 um) bands. The spectra of the two bodies are remarkably similar and imply that both bodies were formed at the same time from the same material; such as via incomplete re-accretion after a major impact on the precursor body.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in Icaru

Nam-lin Hur. Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System

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Civil War Treasures: Party Planning: St. Landry Parish, Radical Republicans, And The Vote For The 1867 Constitutional Convention

With recent Congressional primaries in the news and the mid-term elections heating up, this issue\u27s Treasures column focuses on a document of a political nature discovered as we digitized and cataloged materials as part of the digital project Free People of Color in Louisiana: Revealing an Unknown Past. In April 2013, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a grant to the LSU Libraries Special Collections to create a collaborative digital collection that would bring together archival collections related to free people of color in Louisiana and the lower Mississippi Valley held by LSU, the Historical Center at the Louisiana State Museum, The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana Research Collection at Tulane University, and the Louisiana Division of the New Orleans Public Library..