The correlation between the length of repetitive domain and mechanical properties of the recombinant flagelliform spidroin.

Spider silk is an attractive biopolymer with numerous potential applications due to its remarkable characteristics. Among the six categories of spider silks, flagelliform (Flag) spider silk possesses longer and more repetitive core domains than others, therefore performing the highest extensibility. To investigate the correlation between the recombinant spidroin size and the synthetic fiber properties, four recombinant proteins with different sizes [N-Scn-C (=1-4)] were constructed and expressed using IMPACT system.

Role of connectivity-induced weighted words in language games.

We present a modified naming game by introducing weights of words in the evolution process. We assign the weight of a word spoken by an agent according to its connectivity, which is a natural reflection of the agent's influence in population. A tunable parameter is introduced, governing the word weight based on the connectivity of agents.