Although traditional ferroelectric materials are usually dielectric and nonconductive, GeTe is a typical semiconductor, possessing both semiconducting properties. also widely studied thermoelectric material, whose performance has been optimized by doping with various elements. However, the impact of domains on properties remains unclear due to difficulty directly observe their evolutions under ...

This work has also been supported by predoctoral fellowships FPU19/00608 and PRE2020-091825, the PID2019-106370RBI00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 grant from Spanish Ministry of Science Innovation.

To give a consistent and more valuable feature on models, we propose that model-driven processes should be able to reuse the expert knowledge generally expressed in terms of patterns. We focus our study on a detailed design review activity, which precedes a coding stage in an object-oriented language. We make the hypothesis that design models lack in good object design practices. As we do not f...

We propose an approach to encode state diagrams with and-cross transitions. The notion of and-cross transitions is being rejected by researchers and practitioners in model-driven engineering community for reasons that include limited use-inpractice, unmanageable underlying complexity, and availability of alternative modeling solutions. In this paper, we show that and-cross transitions can be us...

While well-recognized as an important kind of ecological interaction, physical ecosystem engineering by organisms is diverse with varied consequences, presenting challenges for developing and using general understanding. Th ere is also still some uncertainty as to what it is, and some skepticism that the diversity of engineering and its eff ects is amenable to conceptual integration and general...

Spatial skills predict students’ success in STEM domains. This paper aims to better understand the difficulties of students with low spatial skills in using interactive graphical representations. I present a mediation analysis with test and log data from 117 students who worked with an intelligent tutoring system for chemistry. The analysis is based on (1) a knowledge component model that descr...

We present a method, Transient Induced Molecular Electronic Spectroscopy (TIMES), to detect protein-ligand interactions without any protein engineering or chemical modification. We developed a physics model for the TIMES signal and mathematically formulated the problem to attain physical insight of protein-ligand interactions without any disturbances by molecular probes, fluorescent labels, or ...

The structural genomics effort at the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID) requires the manipulation of large numbers of amino-acid sequences and the underlying DNA sequences which are to be cloned into expression vectors. To improve efficiency in high-throughput protein structure determination, a database software package, Gene Composer, has been developed which f...