242 research outputs found
A Study of Henry Inman, 1837-1899
No full textHenry Inman, soldier, newspaperman, social historian, author of articles, short stories and books on frontier life, was a man of eccentric habits and various talents. A man of impulsive action and limited imagination, be completed and published some eight books dealing, for the most part, with the land he knew and loved, the American West. Divided into tour major sections, the thesis initially covered Inman’s lineal descent, education, intellectual heritage and temperament; the second part treats of his military career, his problems in dealing with a job for which he was entirely unfitted, his various courts martial and subsequent dismissal from the service of the United States Army. The third section reviews his life after his cashiering in 1872 the various literary contributions, both as a newspaper editor and contributor, and as a novelist and chronicler. It pursues investigation of Inman throughout the remainder of his life, and ends with his death and burial. The fourth section concerns itself primarily with the themes which recur throughout his writing and with the plots around which he builds his stories of fictionalized prose. The conclusion will allude rather briefly to the effect of his life and works from the standpoint of regional value
Book Review: Immersive Media and Books 2020: New Insights About Book Pirates, Libraries and Discovery, Millennials, and Cross-Media Engagement: Before and During COVID
No full textBooks exist within a connected media ecosystem, but few consumer behavior and experience studies capture the relationships between books and other media forms. In Immersive Media & Books 2020, Drs. Rachel Noorda and Kathi Inman Berens from Portland State University explore crossmedia consumer behavior for books, video games, and TV/movies—capturing behaviors both before and during COVID-19. The highlights of the report are highly distributed word-of-mouth discovery, the importance of author brand and genre, avid book engagement of Black and Latinx millennials, context-agnostic book discovery, cross-media engagement and discovery, multidimensional identities and behaviors of book pirates, multitasking as a feature of contemporary book consumption, and libraries as tools of discovery
Recent advances in acid-free dissolution and separation of rare earth elements from the magnet waste
No full textThe availability of REEs is limiting the successful deployment of some environmentally friendly and energy-efficient technologies. In 2019, the U.S. generated more than 15.25 billion pounds of e-waste. Only ~15% of it was handled, leaving ~13 billion pounds of e-waste as potential pollutants. Of the 15% collected, the lack of robust technology limited REE recovery for re-use. Key factors that drive the recycling of permanent magnets based on rare earth elements (REEs) and the results of our research on magnet recycling will be discussed, with emphasis on neodymium and samarium-based rare earth permanent magnets.This article is published as Grace Inman, Denis Prodius, Ikenna C. Nlebedim. Recent advances in acid-free dissolution and separation of rare earth elements from the magnet waste. Clean Technologies and Recycling, 2021, 1(2): 112-123.
DOI: 10.3934/ctr.2021006.
Copyright 2021 The Author(s).
DOE Contract Number(s): AC02-07CH11358.
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Psychometric properties of the Comic Style Markers – Portuguese version: applying bifactor and hierarchical approaches to studying broad versus narrow styles of humor
No full textCorresponding Author: Paulo A. S. Moreira, Instituto de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação
[Institute of Psychology and Education], Universidades Lusíada, Porto, Portugal; and Centro de
Investigação em Psicologia para o Desenvolvimento (CIPD) [The Psychology for Positive
Development Research Centre], Porto, Portugal, E-mail: [email protected].
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5454-7971Corresponding Author: Richard A. Inman, Centro de Investigação em Psicologia para o Desenvolvimento (CIPD) [The
Psychology for Positive Development Research Centre], Porto, Portugal,
E-mail: [email protected] the relevance of humor for psychosocial assessment and promoting positive functioning, it is important to understand the relationship between humor and personality. A recent framework for describing individual
differences in humor posits eight comic styles that can be measured using the
Comic Style Markers (CSM). In total, 665 Portuguese adults (Mage = 32.1 years)
completed the CSM and Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory. CFAs
supported modeling the CSM as a bifactor model. Bifactor indices suggested a
general humor factor could be interpreted as a unidimensional construct, but that
CSM items are multidimensional. A hierarchical analysis showed the styles could
be represented at several levels of abstraction. A SEM analysis suggested certain
styles had distinct associations with personality dimensions. These findings suggest that the use of certain styles (namely wit, sarcasm, and cynicism) was related
to individual differences in temperament and character beyond a person’s overall
humor potential
Out to Lunch: Saks & koehler Reply to Rudin & Imman\u27s Commentary
No full textAt several points in their comment on our article in Science (1), Rudin & Inman (2, 3) asserted or clearly implied that we had been dishonest in our presentation. In each of those instances Rudin & Inman\u27s charges are groundless, as we demonstrate below.
Had Rudin & Inman examined the actual source [see Fig. 1, right], they would have discovered that the words were indeed those of Moenssens, that they were consistent with the context in which they appeared, that Moenssens was not quoting Zain or anyone else, and that Saks & Koehler had accurately attributed the statement to its author, Andre Moenssens
Design and Analysis of Dual Pressure Probes for Predicting Turbulence-Induced Vibration in Low Velocity Flow
No full textPeer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/97074/1/AIAA2012-1881.pd
Dual Cantilever Flutter: Experimentally Validated Lumped Parameter Modeling and Numerical Characterization
No full textThis paper presents an analytical and experimental investigation of a flow-induced vibration phenomenon referred to as dual cantilever flutter (DCF). The purpose of this research is to introduce the concept of DCF and to help isolate and understand key components that cause it. If unaccounted for, vibration produced by DCF has the potential to cause catastrophic structural damage or unwanted acoustic excitation. This paper includes experimentally validated lumped parameter analytical models for fluid coupling and fluid excitation between two adjacent cantilever beams surrounded by fluid. Results of a nondimensional analysis performed with the DCF model are also given
Modern folks and folk moderns: media, modernity, and the migration of the American folk
No full textLiterary modernism and the historical study of folklore entered American cultural life at the same time as responses to similar anxieties regarding the national present. This dissertation argues that the overlap at the beginning of the twentieth-century between these seemingly contradictory movements—the “modern” looking forward and the “folk” backward—explains a broader cultural shift in American self-representation in the ensuing decades. As other scholars have shown, there is often little to distinguish the projects of early twentieth-century literary and artistic modernists from those of anthropologists and folklorists. However, as both movements developed, the notion of who and what counted as “folk” became incrementally detached from its social-scientific origins to become the stuff of myth. The formal experimentation of modernist style broke down older ideas about the “authenticity” of folk culture by showing its malleability. Popular culture inherited this deconstruction, but now, with the exigencies of the mass market in radio and film, it began to insist once again on folk authenticity and promote it as a national ideal. By the 1920s and 1930s, the folk was increasingly emptied of its ethnographic specificity and transformed into a commonly used term with little actual content. The “American folk” was born.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Brian Inman Becke
Essential Dependence, Truthmaking, and Mereology: Then and Now
No full textOne notable area in analytic metaphysics that has seen a revival of Aristotelian and scho- lastic inspired metaphysics is the return to a more robust construal of the notion of essence, what some have labelled “real” or “serious” essentialism. However, it is only recently that this more robust notion of essence has been implemented into the debate on truthmaking, mainly by the work of E. J. Lowe. The first part of the paper sets out to explore the scholastic roots of essential dependence as well as an account of truthmaking for accidental predications in terms of accidents. Along the way, the author examines the dialectical role the possibility of separated accidents in the Eucharist play with respect to developing a scholastic account of truthmaking as essential dependence. In conclusion the author utilises Aquinas’s hylomorphic ontology to suggest a new way forward for an essentialist account of truthmaking
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