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What is Axon

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
The fibre that emanates from the neuron cell body or soma and that conducts action potentials to other neurons.
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Neural Networks and Their Accelerated Evolution From an Economic Analysis Perspective
Stelian Stancu (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania), Constanţa-Nicoleta Bodea (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania), Oana Mădălina Popescu(Predescu) (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania), and Alina Neamţu(Idoraşi) (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch571
Abstract
Since 1943, the neuropshychologist Warren McCulloch and the mathematician Walter Pitts published the paper “A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity” establishing the foundation of the neural networks. The transition from the biological neuron to the artificial one, from the perceptron to the multi-layer perceptron, from Hopfield networks to Kohonen networks, from bi-directional associative memories to Boltzmann machines, from basic radial functions to Hamming networks, all of these represent a strong proof of the long journey in the study of the neural networks. Using the characteristics of a neural network, an overview of the works in the neural computing are included in the paperwork, namely a taxonomy of the neural networks based on a number of criteria. The paperwork includes the conclusion of the research. at the end, possible further research directions are highlighted.
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The Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks
When a neuron fires it sends a voltage spike along a fibre known as an axon, which connects to the dendrites of other neurons at a junction called a synapse.
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Binding Neuron
A long projection of a neuron through which spikes leave the neuron and course to other neurons or muscles. At the end, has branching structure through which a single action potential produced in the neuron can be delivered to many synapses at different neurons. The strength of any action potential delivered through a branch is identical to that of initially generated spike due to active properties of excitable membrane all axons are made of.
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Improving the Information Security of Collaborative Web Portals via Fine-Grained Role-Based Access Control
Axon is a collaborative web portal that supports fine-grained access control, multiple channel publication, business workflows, and an advanced document search.
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