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Interview With Knud Hermansen by Keven Lavery
No full textAs the son of Danish immigrants, Hermansen grew up on a dairy farm in New Jersey during the 30's and 40's. He stopped schooling to farm after 9th grade, and at 17 he enlisted in the army. He speaks about how rationing did not affect his family very much in part due to the sustainability of farm, and the rigors of boot camp, and the racial divisions of the Army when he was overseas.Mussolini, Benito; Selassie, Haile; Truman, Harry S.;World War II; Great Depression
In Debt to Heritage Denmark, Hermansen-Jensen, Nysted
No full textThis is the life story of the late Elise Hermansen Olsen, as portrayed in autobiographical materials edited admirably by her still-active husband, Dr. C. Arild Olsen. It mirrors the various interrelated ways in which Elise lived her Danish heritage - by use of the Danish language in speech and song, by a deep appreciation of that country\u27s literature, by perpetuation of its characteristic customs, and by living a life geared to its distinctive values
H. P. Hermansen Home
No full textPostcard of a two-story structure in Danevang, Texas, belonging to H. P. Jensen. A picket fence surrounds the house. Both H. P. Jensen and Mrs. H. P. Jensen stand in the front porch of their home, which is covered by a sloping roof projection creating an overhang. Additionally, there are intersecting hip roofs and a single chimney at the very top. There is a sign that hangs on the right side of the first floor that reads, "Danevang Post Office." A white sticker on the front of the photograph reads, "H. P. Hermansen was Postmaster for 35 years. He was also a weather man. He kept a record of the rainfall.
Å satse på dosenter : Et utviklingsarbeid
No full textFrom an international standpoint, the docent position in Norway is unique, insomuch as it is a top academic position equivalent to a professorship. This book combines a thorough examination of the docent’s role and place within the higher educational system with a presentation of a development project to move associate professors up the career ladder to the docent level at the University of Agder (UiA).
The first part of the book looks at the Norwegian docent in historical, current and R&D theoretical perspectives. In the second part, six docents relate their own paths to qualification for the position. Part 3 presents the rationale behind the UiA project and how it was executed and subsequently evaluated. The final part of the book analyzes the docent’s current and future challenges. Criteria for promotion and expert committee rulings are among the topics discussed.
Å satse på dosenter can be read as a practical introduction for docents on how to manage a promotion seminar, but it can also be read as a contribution to the discussion on how to improve research, teaching and communication at universities and colleges. The book will be of particular interest to docents and candidates for the docent position, members of expert committees and administrators at various levels within higher educational institutions. As a contribution to the debate on higher education’s need for different profiled positions, the book is relevant for a broader audience of researchers, politicians and public servants in Norway and the other Scandinavian countries.
The book has been edited by Carl Christian Bachke, docent emeritus at the University of Agder, and Mads Hermansen, PsyD and professor emeritus at University of Agder.publishedVersio
Ray J. Hermansen, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah\u27s World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah
No full textTranscript (48 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Ray J. Hermansen on June 2, 2004. From tape number 653 in the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History ProjectHermanson (b. 1923), the son of a Salt Lake City carpenter, recalls the difficulties of the Depression and talks about being drafted into the army in 1943. After basic training in South Carolina he was shipped overseas to England where he worked in supply and KP before being assigned to the Signal Corps. His unit landed on the continent after Thanksgiving, 1944. He was discharged in December 1945. Interviewed by Becky Lloyd. 48 pages
Wildland Urban Interface: Varied Definitions
No full textFOR225, a 4-page illustrated fact sheet by L. Annie Hermansen-Baez, Jennifer Seitz, and Martha C. Monroe, describes several common definitions of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) to assist natural resource professionals with new challenges and opportunities in the WUI. Includes references. Published by the UF Department of Wildlife Conservation and Ecology, July 2009
Wildland Urban Interface: Varied Definitions
No full textFOR225, a 4-page illustrated fact sheet by L. Annie Hermansen-Baez, Jennifer Seitz, and Martha C. Monroe, describes several common definitions of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) to assist natural resource professionals with new challenges and opportunities in the WUI. Includes references. Published by the UF Department of Wildlife Conservation and Ecology, July 2009
Finding topological structure in neural ensemble activity
No full textFinding topological structure in neural ensemble activity
Recent breakthroughs in electrophysiological recordings and calcium imaging have unlocked the potential for understanding how groups of neurons work together. However, the amount of data and the complexity of the brain elicits a need for more advanced tools to interpret the data.
In this regard, topological data analysis (TDA) has proven fruitful, revealing topological and geometrical structure in spatially modulated neurons, signifying a step forward in understanding the computations performed by these cells. TDA has seen rapid development in recent years, yet, state-of the-art methods are still sensitive to the noise and size of experimental data.
Here, we investigated the use of topological tools in recorded neural data, specifically developing computational frameworks based on persistent cohomology for finding topological structure in the collective computations of neural ensembles. Through a noise-robust geodesic approximation based on a uniformity assumption, we revealed a toroidal population state space in grid cells – neurons which are highly active in spatially confined regions, forming a hexagonal pattern in a two-dimensional environment. We described the internal organization of the population activity without reference to a specific physical covariate and showed the topology to be preserved across different environments as well as in sleep. This was furthered by, in an unsupervised manner, finding and analyzing the topological structure of ensembles of entorhinal neurons in head-fixed mice, showcasing the potential of TDA in unravelling internal brain dynamics without assumptions about the function of the cells. Moreover, we suggest a novel pipeline for identifying the functional structure of neural ensembles, exploiting the duality in analyzing both spike trains and population vectors – i.e., both the rows and columns of the same matrix – which reveals complementary information.
Oppdage topologisk struktur i nevral populasjonsaktivitet
Gjennombrudd innen elektrofysiologi og kalsiumavbildning for måling av hjerneaktivitet gjør at vi i dag kan få innsikt i store komplekse nettverk av nevroner. Samtidig nødvendiggjør dette avanserte matematiske metoder og modeller for å forstå samspillet mellom nevroner og beregningene grupper av nevroner gjør.
Avhandlingen «Finding topological structure in neural ensemble activity” undersøker hvordan bruk av topologiske metoder kan påvise en topologiske struktur i nevrale populasjoner. Ved utvikling av et analyserammeverk basert på persistent kohomologi påviser arbeidet at aktiviteten til nettverket av gitterceller i hjernen til en rotte er begrenset til en torus. Det vil si at cellene danner en to-dimensjonal, periodisk beskrivelse, eller en «smultring»-lignende representasjon, av rommet rottene navigerer i. Aktiviteten i cellenettverket beholder torus-strukturen i forskjellige miljøer og under søvn.
Avhandlingen foreslår også en ny fremgangsmåte for identifikasjon av den funksjonelle strukturen til nevrale populasjoner. ved hjelp av en dualitet mellom korrelasjonsstrukturen til cellene og det rommet nevronenes fyringsaktivitet beveger seg innenfor. Arbeidet i avhandlingen viser at analyserammeverket også er appliserbart i eksperimenter gjort på hodefikserte mus, samt uten tilgang til musenes bevegelsesoppførsel. Vi kan nå si at en torus-struktur finnes i nevrale nettverk i entorhinal cortex, og overraskende nok ser vi at den påviste to-dimensjonaliteten overgår den en-dimensjonale, atferdsmessige oppførselen i eksperimentet
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Wildland-Urban Interface: Key Issues
No full textRevised! FOR-202, a 6-page fact sheet by L. Annie Hermansen-Baez, Jennifer Seitz, and Martha C. Monroe, describes key issues gleaned from a series of focus groups conducted by the U.S. Forest Service in 2000, and other related sources. Includes references. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, October 2008
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