This article contains the translation into English of the main results found in the Comptes Rendus Volume of December 2000, dedicated to Wolfgang Doeblin’s sealed envelope sent to the Académie des Sciences de Paris in February 1940. The genesis of these results – both from human and scientific perspectives – is discussed, as well as their importance in our present understanding of onedimensiona...

EVALSO (Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-American Southern Observatories) is an international consortium of nine astronomical organisations, and research network operators, part-funded under the European Commission FP7, to create and exploit high-speed bandwidth connections to South American observatories. The paper, after describing the genesis of the project and the selection and construction...

The thalamus plays a central role in the genesis of both normal spindle oscillations and pathological absence seizures. Inhibitory connections between neurons of the thalamic reticular (RE) nucleus help to prevent seizures. Much modeling and experimental work has focused on the proposal that intra-RE inhibition shortens RE cell bursts, and that when prolonged bursts occur, they activate GABAB r...

The genesis of this study was several projects undertaken by the author, commencing in 2006, that identified IT as a potential source of solutions to address the challenges of environmental sustainability but that also found the issue had not engaged academic researchers in technology disciplines at a level likely to realize that potential. Work that had been undertaken, as a whole, focused on ...

Our research is focused on the study of the genesis of the creative process. With this purpose we have created a developmental computational agent, which allows us to watch the generation of the first behaviors we could consider as creative. It is very important to develop methodologies to evaluate the behaviors generated by this kind of agents. This paper represents our first effort towards th...

Among the "Great Religions" of the world may be discovered repetition and similarity, as well as, variations and significant differences. This similarity becomes clear when it is understood that of the five great religions-Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-a reduction to two may be made historically. Hinduism and Judaism may be considered the genesis of the other three: Hinduism ...

The formula N−(C+I/2) to compute the number of DoubleCut-and-Join operations needed to transform one genome into another is both simple and easy to prove. When it was published, in 2006, we omitted all details on how it was constructed. In this chapter, we will give an elementary treatment on the intuitions and methods underlying the formula, showing that simplicity is sometimes difficult to ac...