384 research outputs found
Marguerite Inman Davis: first progressive first lady of Virginia
No full textBorn to wealth, Marguerite Inman Davis (1870-1963), daughter of a New York cotton broker of Southern lineage, grew up in the best societies of Georgia and New York and studied piano in Bonn and Paris. After her marriage to Westmoreland Davis in 1893, she continued to travel extensively in Europe and the Orient. In 1903, after she and her husband purchased the 1,500 acre Morven Park estate in Loudoun County, Virginia, Mrs. Marguerite Inman Davis assumed the life of a hostess and pursued her talents as an equestrienne and gardener.
As first lady of Virginia during World War I, Marguerite Davis consciously set an example for women·of the state and nation to enter war work. She volunteered, as president of the Woman's Munition Reserve, to sew silk bags and fill them with smokeless gun powder at Seven Pines outside Richmond. Later she helped save a peach crop from ruin during the war labor shortage. In the course of the Spanish influenza epidemic which swept Richmond between October, 1918, and November, 1919, she served as a volunteer nurse in the pneumonia ward of the John Marshall Emergency Hospital. Yet, while Marguerite Davis played the role of a modern woman and patriot, she also maintained the tradition of southern gentility and hospitality. Entertaining groups of soldiers, students, politicians, and suffragettes, she democratically made the people of the Old Dominion very much at home in the executive mansion during the Davis administration (1918-1922).
From her husband’s defeat in the 1922 senatorial primary until her death, Mrs. Davis contributed generously to many philanthropic and social causes. Unable personally to work in the war effort of World War II as she had in World War I, Marguerite Davis donated two ambulances, several pedigreed Doberman Pinschers, and invested a large part of her husband's estate in war bonds. Throughout her life, Marguerite was generous in giving scholarships to deserving Virginia students.
Mrs. Davis retired from public life after the death of her husband in 1943, and moved to her sister's home in Branford, Connecticut. She continued, however, despite her advancing age to attack the state of Virginia politics. Inflamed by the laudatory eulogies heaped upon Senator Carter Glass at his death in 1947, Mrs. Davis publicly condemned both Glass and the Byrd organization. In establishing the Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation, Marguerite Inman Davis displayed enlightened philanthropic views by providing munificently not only for ordinary scholarships but to make historic Morven Park an endowed center. She remained at Branford, Connecticut, until her death on July 15, 1963.Master of Art
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
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
Science for Success: Soybean plant population density
No full textSoybean seed costs are about 40% of the variable costs in soybean production, and optimizing seeding rate will help to produce high yields without overspending on variable costs. Generally, soybeans require higher seeding rates and more plants per acre in the Northern United States and in later-planted fields across the US. Soybean typically requires fewer plants and lower seeding rates for much of the Midwestern and Southern US when timely planting occurs.This article is published as Conley, S., D. Holshouser, M. Inman, C. Lee, L. Lindsey, M. Licht, H. Kandel, J. Kleinjan, C. Knott, S. Naeve, E. Nafziger, J. Ross, M. Singh, and R. Vann. 2021. Science for Success: Soybean plant population density. Soybean Research & Information Network, United Soybean Board. Copyright 2021 Soybean Research & Information Newtwork. Posted with permission
Science for Success: How to pick the right soybean row spacing
No full textMechanism behind narrow row yield advantages: The primary driver of the yield advantage from narrow rows is more light interception, with more sunlight driving more photosynthesis and growth. Narrow row yield advantages are typically greater with later planting dates, earlier maturing varieties, and high temperatures, all of which reduce the time from VE (emergence) to R3 (initial pod set).This article is published as Conley, S., D. Holshouser, M. Inman, C. Lee, L. Lindsey, M. Licht, H. Kandel, J. Kleinjan, C. Knott, S. Naeve, E. Nafziger, J. Ross, M. Singh, and R. Vann. 2021. Science for Success: How to pick the right soybean row spacing. Soybean Research & Information Network, United Soybean Board. Copyright 2021 Soybean Research & Information Network. Posted with permission
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.
Posted with permission
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
Omnipresence and the Location of the Immaterial
No full textI first offer a broad taxonomy of models of divine omnipresence in the Christian tradition, both past and present. I then examine the recent model proposed by Hud Hudson (2009, 2014) and Alexander Pruss (2013)—ubiquitous entension—and flag a worry with their account that stems from predominant analyses of the concept of ‘material object’. I then attempt to show that ubiquitous entension has a rich Latin medieval precedent in the work of Augusine and Anselm. I argue that the model of omnipresence explicated by Augustine and Anselm has the resources to avoid the noted worry by offering an alternative account of the divide between the immaterial and the material. I conclude by considering a few alternative analyses of ‘material object’ that make conceptual room for a contemporary Christian theist to follow suite in thinking that at least some immaterial entities are literally spatially located when relating to the denizens of spacetime
Retrieving Divine Immensity and Omnipresence
No full textThe divine attributes of immensity and omnipresence have been integral to classical Christian confession regarding the nature of the triune God. Divine immensity and omnipresence are affirmed in doctrinal standards such as the Athanasian Creed (c. 500), the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), the Council of Basel (1431–49), the Second Helvetic Confession (1566), the Westminster Confession of Faith (1647), the Second London Baptist Confession (1689), and the First Vatican Council (1869–70). In the first section of this chapter, I offer a brief historical overview of divine immensity and divine omnipresence in the Christian tradition. I then offer a brief taxonomy of contemporary models of divine omnipresence in the philosophical and theological landscape. In the second, more constructive section, I aim to gesture toward the retrieval of several classical insights regarding immensity and omnipresence that remain unexplored in contemporary analytic work
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