Michael Parker

Publication List Details

Period

1977 - 2007

Number

61

Co-Authors

A Broadband 8-18 GHz 4-Input 4-Output Butler Matrix (2007)

Milner, Leigh, Parker, Michael

Butler matrices can be used in antenna beam-forming networks to provide a linear phase distribution across the elements of an array. The development of an 8 to 18GHz micro-strip implementation of a...

Implications of data protection legislation for family history (2006)

Lucassen, Anneke, Parker, Michael, Wheeler, Robert

Clinical geneticists currently collect and store information on family history without explicit consent. Are they flouting the Data Protection Act? Family history is important in many areas of...

Confidentiality in Genetic Testing (2005)

Parker, Michael.

The American Journal of Bioethics - Volume 1, Number 3, Summer 2001

Disulphide Bridge Prediction using Fuzzy Support Vector Machines (2005)

Jayavardhana, Rama G. L., Shilton, Alistair, Parker, Michael, Palaniswami, Marimuthu

One of the major contributors to the native form of protien is cystines forming covalent bonds in oxidized state. The Prediction of such bridges from the sequence is a very challenging task given...

Disulphide Bridge Prediction using Fuzzy Support Vector Machines (2005)

Jayavardhana, Rama G. L., Shilton, Alistair, Parker, Michael, Palaniswami, Marimuthu

One of the major contributors to the native form of protien is cystines forming covalent bonds in oxidized state. The Prediction of such bridges from the sequence is a very challenging task given...

Disulphide Bridge Prediction using Fuzzy Support Vector Machines (2005)

Jayavardhana, Rama G. L., Shilton, Alistair, Parker, Michael, Palaniswami, Marimuthu

One of the major contributors to the native form of protien is cystines forming covalent bonds in oxidized state. The Prediction of such bridges from the sequence is a very challenging task given...

Disulphide Bridge Prediction using Fuzzy Support Vector Machines (2005)

Jayavardhana, Rama G. L., Shilton, Alistair, Parker, Michael, Palaniswami, Marimuthu

One of the major contributors to the native form of protien is cystines forming covalent bonds in oxidized state. The Prediction of such bridges from the sequence is a very challenging task given...

Disulphide Bridge Prediction using Fuzzy Support Vector Machines (2005)

Jayavardhana, Rama G. L., Shilton, Alistair, Parker, Michael, Palaniswami, Marimuthu

One of the major contributors to the native form of protien is cystines forming covalent bonds in oxidized state. The Prediction of such bridges from the sequence is a very challenging task given...

Disulphide Bridge Prediction using Fuzzy Support Vector Machines (2005)

Jayavardhana, Rama G. L., Shilton, Alistair, Parker, Michael, Palaniswami, Marimuthu

One of the major contributors to the native form of protien is cystines forming covalent bonds in oxidized state. The Prediction of such bridges from the sequence is a very challenging task given...

Genetic information: a joint account? (2004)

Parker, Michael, Lucassen, Anneke M.

Does genetic information belong to the patient from whom it was obtained or to the whole family? The way in which this unavoidable question is answered has profound implications for the future of...

Role of next of kin in accessing health records of deceased relatives (2004)

Lucassen, Anneke M., Parker, Michael, Wheeler, Robert

When potential benefits outweigh harms should clinical geneticists be given access to medical records of dead patients without relatives' consent?

Confidentiality and serious harm in genetics - preserving the confidentiality of one patient and preventing harm to relatives (2004)

Lucassen, Anneke, Parker, Michael

Genetics can pose special challenges to the principle of confidentiality within the health professional-patient relationship, since genetic information is by its nature both individual and familial....

Evolving Real-Time Systems Using Hierarchical Scheduling and Concurrency Analysis (2003)

John Regehr, Alastair Reid, Kirk Webb, Michael Parker, Jay Lepreau

We have developed a new way to look at real-time and embedded software: as a collection of execution environments created by a hierarchy of schedulers. Common schedulers include those that run...

Interactive Ray Tracing for Volume Visualization (2003)

Steven Parker, Michael Parker, Yarden Livnat, Peter-pike Sloan, Charles Hansen, Peter Shirley

We present a brute-force ray tracing system for interactive volume visualization. The system runs on a conventional (distributed) shared-memory multiprocessor machine. For each pixel we trace a ray...

Real-Time for the Real World (2002)

John Regehr, Alastair Reid, Kirk Webb, Michael Parker, Jay Lepreau

We propose a new methodology for creating embedded software that meets real-time deadlines. Our approach is a synthesis of real-time analysis and traditional systems debugging techniques, based on...

Pro/con ethics debate: Should mechanical ventilation be continued to allow for progression to brain death so that organs can be donated? (2002)

Parker, Michael, Shemie, Sam D

Abstract Organ transplants continue to redefine medical frontiers. Unfortunately, current demand for organs far surpasses availability, waiting lists are long and many people die before the organ...

Interactive Ray Tracing (2002)

Steven Parker, Michael Parker, Yarden Livnat, Peter-pike Sloan, Charles Hansen, Peter Shirley

this paper, we present interactive volume visualization schemes that use ray tracing as their basic computation method

Working towards ethical management of genetic testing (2002)

Parker, Michael, Lucassen, Anneke

Developments in genetic testing and increased public awareness of inherited disease have led to increasing interest in and concern about the ethical issues raised by clinical genetics. We looked at...

Memory System Support for Irregular Applications (2001)

John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, Mark Swanson, Lixin Zhang, Erik Brunv, Al Davis, ...

Because irregular applications have unpredictable memory access patterns, their performance is dominated by memory behavior.

Impulse: Building a Smarter Memory Controller (2001)

John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, Leigh Stoller, Mark Swansony, Lixin Zhang, Erik Brunv, ...

Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through configurable...

Interacting with Gigabyte Volume Datasets on the (2001)

Steven Parker, Peter Shirley, Yarden Livnat, Charles Hansen, Peter-pike Sloan, Michael Parker

We present a parallel ray tracing program that computes isosurfaces of large-scale volume datasets interactively. The system is shown for the gigabyte Visible Woman dataset.

Impulse: Building a Smarter Memory Controller (1999)

John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, Leigh Stoller, Mark Swansony, Lixin Zhang, Erik Brunv, ...

Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through configurable...

Interacting with Gigabyte Volume Datasets on the Origin 2000 (1999)

Steven Parker, Peter Shirley, Yarden Livnat, Charles Hansen, Peter-pike Sloan, Michael Parker

We present a parallel ray tracing program that computes isosurfaces of large-scale volume datasets interactively. The system is shown for the gigabyte Visible Woman dataset. I. INTRODUCTION Many...

Impulse: Building a Smarter Memory Controller (1999)

John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, Leigh Stoller, Mark Swanson, Lixin Zhang, Erik Brunv, ...

Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through configurable...

Interactive Ray Tracing for Volume Visualization (1999)

Steven Parker, Michael Parker, Yarden Livnat, Peter-pike Sloan, Charles Hansen, Peter Shirley

We present a brute-force ray tracing system for interactive volume visualization. The system runs on a conventional (distributed) shared-memory multiprocessor machine. For each pixel we trace a ray...

Interactive Ray Tracing for Volume Visualization (1999)

Steven Parker, Michael Parker, Yarden Livnat, Peter-pike Sloan, Charles Hansen, Peter Shirley

We present a brute-force ray tracing system for interactive volume visualization. The system runs on a conventional (distributed) shared-memory multiprocessor machine. For each pixel we trace a ray...

Interactive Ray Tracing for Volume Visualization (1999)

Steven Parker, Michael Parker, Yarden Livnat, Peter-pike Sloan, Charles Hansen, Peter Shirley

We present a brute-force ray tracing system for interactive volume visualization. The system runs on a conventional (distributed) shared-memory multiprocessor machine. For each pixel we trace a ray...

A Nonhuman Primate Model for Aerosol Infection With Western Equine Encephalitis Viruses (1998)

Reed, Douglas S., Larsen, Thomas, Wilhelmsen, Catherine, Pratt, William, Lind, Cathleen, Parker, Michael

While Western Equine Encephalitis Viruses produce an incapacitating but rarely fatal illness in humans when resulting from a mosquito bite, laboratory accidents suggest a 40 % mortality rate when...

Impulse: Building a Smarter Memory Controller (1998)

John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, Leigh Stoller, Mark Swanson, Lixin Zhang, Erik Brunv, ...

Impulse is a new memory system architecture that adds two important features to a traditional memory controller. First, Impulse supports application-specific optimizations through configurable...

Memory System Support for Irregular Applications (1998)

John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, Mark Swanson, Al Davis, Michael Parker, Lambert Schaelicke, ...

Because irregular applications have unpredictable memory access patterns, their performance is dominated by memory behavior. The Impulse configurable memory controller will enable significant...

Impulse: An Adaptable Memory System (1998)

John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, Leigh Stoller, Mark Swanson, Lixin Zhang, Erik Brunv, ...

This paper presents the Impulse adaptable memory system, which allows applications to make efficient use of cache space and bus bandwidth. Impulse has a configurable memory controller that allows...

Memory System Support for Irregular Applications (1998)

John Carter, Wilson Hsieh, Mark Swanson, Al Davis, Michael Parker, Lambert Schaelicke, ...

Because irregular applications have unpredictable memory access patterns, their performance is dominated by memory behavior. The Impulse configurable memory controller will enable significant...

A model for computation of attached flow in a subsonic submerged turbulent jet (1977)

Parker, Michael.

Typescript (photocopy) Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-267)

The Effects of the Tax-Benefit System on UK Unemployment: A Microeconomic Analysis

Michael Beenstock, Michael Parker

Using data from the 1981 Family Expenditure Survey we estimate a logit model for the choice between unemployment and employment, using explanatory variables such as tax and social security benefit...

Individual and Bivalent Vaccines Based on Alphavirus Replicons Protect Guinea Pigs against Infection with Lassa and Ebola Viruses

Pushko, Peter, Geisbert, Joan, Parker, Michael, Jahrling, Peter, Smith, Jonathan

Lassa and Ebola viruses cause acute, often fatal, hemorrhagic fever diseases, for which no effective vaccines are currently available. Although lethal human disease outbreaks have been confined so...

Pro/con ethics debate: Should mechanical ventilation be continued to allow for progression to brain death so that organs can be donated?

Parker, Michael, Shemie, Sam D

Organ transplants continue to redefine medical frontiers. Unfortunately, current demand for organs far surpasses availability, waiting lists are long and many people die before the organ they...

Role of next of kin in accessing health records of deceased relatives

Lucassen, Anneke M, Parker, Michael, Wheeler, Robert

When potential benefits outweigh harms should clinical geneticists be given access to medical records of dead patients without relatives' consent?

Genetic information: a joint account?

Parker, Michael, Lucassen, Anneke M

Does genetic information belong to the patient from whom it was obtained or to the whole family? The way in which this unavoidable question is answered has profound implications for the future of...

Implications of data protection legislation for family history

Lucassen, Anneke, Parker, Michael, Wheeler, Robert

Clinical geneticists currently collect and store information on family history without explicit consent. Are they flouting the Data Protection Act?

Homology Model of the GABAA Receptor Examined Using Brownian Dynamics

O'Mara, Megan, Cromer, Brett, Parker, Michael, Chung, Shin-Ho

We have developed a homology model of the GABAA receptor, using the subunit combination of α1β2γ2, the most prevalent type in the mammalian brain. The model is produced in two parts: the...

Individual and Bivalent Vaccines Based on Alphavirus Replicons Protect Guinea Pigs against Infection with Lassa and Ebola Viruses

Pushko, Peter, Geisbert, Joan, Parker, Michael, Jahrling, Peter, Smith, Jonathan

Lassa and Ebola viruses cause acute, often fatal, hemorrhagic fever diseases, for which no effective vaccines are currently available. Although lethal human disease outbreaks have been confined so...

Pro/con ethics debate: Should mechanical ventilation be continued to allow for progression to brain death so that organs can be donated?

Parker, Michael, Shemie, Sam D

Organ transplants continue to redefine medical frontiers. Unfortunately, current demand for organs far surpasses availability, waiting lists are long and many people die before the organ they...

Role of next of kin in accessing health records of deceased relatives

Lucassen, Anneke M, Parker, Michael, Wheeler, Robert

When potential benefits outweigh harms should clinical geneticists be given access to medical records of dead patients without relatives' consent?

Genetic information: a joint account?

Parker, Michael, Lucassen, Anneke M

Does genetic information belong to the patient from whom it was obtained or to the whole family? The way in which this unavoidable question is answered has profound implications for the future of...

Homology Model of the GABAA Receptor Examined Using Brownian Dynamics

O'Mara, Megan, Cromer, Brett, Parker, Michael, Chung, Shin-Ho

We have developed a homology model of the GABAA receptor, using the subunit combination of α1β2γ2, the most prevalent type in the mammalian brain. The model is produced in two parts: the...

Implications of data protection legislation for family history

Lucassen, Anneke, Parker, Michael, Wheeler, Robert

Clinical geneticists currently collect and store information on family history without explicit consent. Are they flouting the Data Protection Act?

Valid Consent for Genomic Epidemiology in Developing Countries

Chokshi, Dave A, Thera, Mahamadou A, Parker, Michael, Diakite, Mahamadou, Makani, Julie, Kwiatkowski, Dominic P, ...

Drawing on experience gained from ongoing research in Mali, this paper describes practical ethical challenges relating to the achievement of valid consent in genomic epidemiology.

UK Privatisation: Retrospect and Prospect

Clare Spottiswoode, Eileen Marshall, Michael Parker, Frank Cronin

This collection of papers originated in a workshop held on 3 November 1999 at the Surrey Energy Economics Centre (SEEC), University of Surrey, on the subject of UK Energy Privatisation: Retrospect...

Commentary on "True Wishes"

Michael Parker

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - Volume 2, Number 4, December 1995