Flipping Ethnologia Europaea

Flipping HCI

This paper presents the results of two studies involving “flipping the classroom”. Teaching material was delivered via interactive “e-lectures”, allowing face-to-face sessions to focus instead on practice. The e-lectures were designed according to standard usability principles coupled with recent research into the effect of interactivity on learning. The effectiveness of the use of e-lectures w...

Flipping Pebbles

We are trying to understand exactly how complicated these orbits are. A moment’s thought reveals that the toggle operation is reversible, so the orbit of any sequence must be a cycle. A few computational experiments suggest that the length of the cycle associated with a sequence of length n is about 2 and thus has exponential length. This leads to a natural computational question that we will r...

Flipping Riboswitches

Riboswitches are common cis-acting regulatory elements in bacteria. They are made of nascent RNA that changes its conformation in response to direct binding of cognate metabolites. The publication of five high-resolution crystal structures provides a comprehensive view of how riboswitches sense their ligands and points to new challenges in this emerging field.

Fauna Europaea – Orthopteroid orders

Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all extant European terrestrial and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at the level of countries and major islands (west of the Urals and excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project comprises about 230,000 taxonomic nam...

Collective Coin Flipping