Purdue University

About: Purdue University is a education organization based out in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Heat transfer. The organization has 73219 authors who have published 163563 publications receiving 5775236 citations. The organization is also known as: Purdue & Purdue-West Lafayette.

The all-pay auction with complete information

Abstract: In a (first price) all-pay auction, bidders simultaneously submit bids for an item. All players forfeit their bids, and the high bidder receives the item. This auction is widely used in economics to model rent seeking, RD asymmetric equilibria imply higher expected revenues than the symmetric equilibrium.

Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid

Abstract: Modern electronic devices and novel materials often derive their extraordinary properties from the intriguing, complex behavior of large numbers of electrons forming what is known as an electron liquid. This book provides an in-depth introduction to the physics of the interacting electron liquid in a broad variety of systems, including metals, semiconductors, artificial nano-structures, atoms and molecules. One, two and three dimensional systems are treated separately and in parallel. Different phases of the electron liquid, from the Landau Fermi liquid to the Wigner crystal, from the Luttinger liquid to the quantum Hall liquid are extensively discussed. Both static and time-dependent density functional theory are presented in detail. Although the emphasis is on the development of the basic physical ideas and on a critical discussion of the most useful approximations, the formal derivation of the results is highly detailed and based on the simplest, most direct methods.

Identification of MRF4: a new member of the muscle regulatory factor gene family.

Abstract: We have identified a rat cDNA encoding MRF4, a new member of the muscle regulatory factor gene family that includes MyoD1, myogenin, and Myf-5. MRF4 encodes a predicted 27-kD protein that contains a conserved helix-loop-helix motif, which is a common feature of this gene family. Northern analyses indicate that MRF4 is expressed solely in skeletal muscle tissue but is not detected in most embryonic muscle cell lines. Transfection of MRF4 into C3H10T1/2 fibroblasts produces stable myogenic lineages at frequencies that are equal to or greater than those obtained when MyoD1 or myogenin are introduced into these cells. Expression of the MRF4 cDNA leads to expression of the endogenous MyoD1 and myogenin genes, although C3H10T1/2 cells expressing MyoD1 or myogenin cDNAs do not express MRF4. Interestingly, the endogenous MyoD1 and myogenin genes are negatively regulated by serum and by purified growth factors since MRF4-transfected C3H10T1/2 cells activate MyoD1 and myogenin expression only in mitogen-depleted, differentiation-induced muscle cultures. The myofiber-specific expression pattern of MyoD1 and myogenin in these cells suggests that the primary role for this muscle regulatory factor gene family may be in regulating specific terminal differentiation events that are crucial for normal skeletal muscle development.

Determination of jet energy calibration and transverse momentum resolution in CMS

Abstract: Measurements of the jet energy calibration and transverse momentum resolution in CMS are presented, performed with a data sample collected in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36pb−1. The transverse momentum balance in dijet and γ/Z+jets events is used to measure the jet energy response in the CMS detector, as well as the transverse momentum resolution. The results are presented for three different methods to reconstruct jets: a calorimeter-based approach, the ``Jet-Plus-Track'' approach, which improves the measurement of calorimeter jets by exploiting the associated tracks, and the ``Particle Flow'' approach, which attempts to reconstruct individually each particle in the event, prior to the jet clustering, based on information from all relevant subdetectors