Function squashing

The node uses the total input to calculate its output signal or activation, yf. This is the signal that the node sends onwards to other nodes or to the outside world. To calculate its output, the node feeds netf into an activation function or squashing function ... 

The curious name "squashing function" reflects the action of the function. Activation functions can take as input any real number between -< > and +< > that value is then squashed down for output into a narrow range, such as (0, +1) or [-1, +1). 

The relationship between the summed inputs to a neuron and its output is an important characteristic of the network, and it is determined by a transfer function (or squashing function or activation function). The simplest of neurons, the perceptron, uses a step function for this purpose, generating an output of zero unless the summed input reaches a critical threshold (Figure 7) for a total input above this level, the neuron fires and gives an output of one. 

This is illustrated for two different threshold values in Figure 2.4. Sometimes a thresholding function is referred to as a squashing function since a large input value is squashed into a small range of output values. 

To obtain pictures of the orbital ip = R0< >, we would need to combine a plot of R with that of 0, which requires a fourth dimension. There are two common ways to overcome this problem. One is to plot contour values of ip for a plane through the three-dimensional distribution as shown in Figures 3.8a,c another is to plot the surface of one particular contour in three dimensions, as shown in Figures 3.8b,d. The shapes of these surfaces are referred to as the shape of the orbital. However, plots of the angular function 0 (Figure 3.7) are often used to describe the shape of the orbital ip = RQ because they are simple to draw. This is satisfactory for s orbitals, which have a spherical shape, but it is only a rough approximation to the true shape of p orbitals, which do not consist of two spheres but rather two squashed spheres or doughnut shapes. 

SQUASH is a function that deletes a contig line by moving down all the contig lines above by one position. It prompts only for the line to delete. It does not delete any of the gels or gel lines for the deleted contig but it does reduce the number of contigs on line 1000 by 1. 

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In winter squash, ACC synthase was isolated as a 50 kDa polypeptide, but the in vitro translation product of its mRNA indicated a size of 58 kDa [59]. The molecular size calculated from the cloned cDNA also showed 58 kDa. Crude extracts contained two polypeptides of 58 and 50 kDa that reacted with antibodies, and the 58 kDa polypeptide appeared to be converted to the 50 kDa polypeptide. Since the A-terminus of the purified enzyme was blocked, Nakajima et al. [59] predicted that some 60 amino acid residues from the carboxyl end of the enzyme were removed. A possible function of the carboxyl end was examined with truncated enzymes expressed in E. coli from a cDNA (pCMW33) by successive deletion from the 3 -end of the coding sequence of the cDNA. Surprisingly, deletion of 25 residues from the carboxyl terminus increased the specific activity of the enzyme as compared with the wild type enzyme, and the specific activity continued to increase until 56 residues were deleted when it reached over 4-fold that of wild type enzyme. Removal of a further four residues drastically decreased the specific activity (Fig. 

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The salivary gland chromosome method of detecting newly induced rearrangements has been described in detail by Bauer et al, (1938), who used it to study the pattern and frequency of rearrangements induced in sperm as a function of X-ray dosage. Some improvements in techniques have occurred since the work of these investigators principally, these are (1) the use of siliconed coverslips to improve the spreading of the chromosomes as the nuclei are squashed and (2) the use of aceto-lactic-orcein... 

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