SEEING EVER-SMALLER WORLDS*

Why aren't protein residue networks smaller worlds?

In this paper, in silico experiments are performed to investigate why protein residue networks (PRNs), i.e. networks induced by spatial contacts between amino acid residues of a protein, do not have shorter average path lengths (APLs) in spite of their importance to protein folding. We find that shorter average inter-nodal distances does not necessarily imply better search performance, i.e. mor...

Super-resolution optical microscopy: Seeing the smaller picture.

Heterogeneity in oscillator networks: are smaller worlds easier to synchronize?

Small-world and scale-free networks are known to be more easily synchronized than regular lattices, which is usually attributed to the smaller network distance between oscillators. Surprisingly, we find that networks with a homogeneous distribution of connectivity are more synchronizable than heterogeneous ones, even though the average network distance is larger. We present numerical computatio...

Why aren't the small worlds of protein contact networks smaller

In this paper, in silico experiments are performed to investigate why protein residue networks (PRNs), i.e. networks induced by spatial contacts between amino acid residues of a protein, do not have shorter average path lengths (APLs) in spite of their importance to protein folding. We find that shorter average inter-nodal distances does not necessarily imply better search performance, i.e. mor...

Why Seeing Is Believing: Merging Auditory and Visual Worlds

Vision may dominate our perception of space not because of any inherent physiological advantage of visual over other sensory connections in the brain, but because visual information tends to be more reliable than other sources of spatial information, and the central nervous system integrates information in a statistically optimal fashion. This review discusses recent experiments on audiovisual ...