by then. Geschwind, however, made me see that my two real interests — biology and the workings of the human mind — could be combined quite effectively under the same roof. It was only a glimpse of a far away horizon, but the sight was so attractive that I never looked back. If you knew what you know today, would you still pursue the same career? I would like to think so, yes, with some variatio...

The Journal of Biodiversity, Bioprospecting and Development is a good context to evaluate from a scientific point of view the importance of biodiversity and its use and effects on social development, including economic development. Humans have always used natural resources because they are part of the environment and inevitably interact with it. Foods, medicines, home all have their origin in n...

While researching spatial movements in play-scripts, we uncovered some movements that actors performed that could not be explained by the annotations or basic theatre rules. Here, we look to learn implied motion based on what the characters in the play are saying. Humans are able to do this with only being given the playscript, so how do we get a computer to do it? Several features, including n...

We consider a multi-polaron model obtained by coupling the many-body Schrödinger equation for N interacting electrons with the energy functional of a mean-field crystal with a localized defect, obtaining a highly non linear many-body problem. The physical picture is that the electrons constitute a charge defect in an otherwise perfect periodic crystal. A remarkable feature of such a system is t...

The focus of the following article is on the use of new robotic systems in the manufacturing industry with respect to the social dimension. Since “intuitive” human–machine interaction (HMI) in robotic systems becomes a significant objective of technical progress, new models of work organization are needed. This hypothesis will be investigated through the following two aims: The first aim is to ...