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Michael Fischer

- Verified email at yale.edu - Cited by 29869

Michael Fischer

- Verified email at bmc.org - Cited by 12164

Michael Fischer

- Verified email at uic.edu - Cited by 7242

[BOOK][B] Iran: From religious dispute to revolution

MMJ Fischer - 2003 - books.google.com
Unlike much of the instant analysis that appeared at the time of the Iranian revolution, Iran:
From Religious Dispute to Revolution is based upon extensive fieldwork carried out in Iran. …

The string-to-string correction problem

RA Wagner, MJ Fischer - Journal of the ACM (JACM), 1974 - dl.acm.org
… Wagner, Systems and Information Science Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
TN 37235; Michael J. Fischer, Project MAC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 545 …

Ethnicity and the post-modern arts of memory

MMJ Fischer - Writing culture: The poetics and politics of …, 1986 - degruyter.com
NOTE: My use of" post-modern" in this essay follows that of Jean-François Lyotard (1979): it
is that moment of modernism that defines itself against an immediate past (" post") and that is …

Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process

MJ Fischer, NA Lynch, MS Paterson - Journal of the ACM (JACM), 1985 - dl.acm.org
The consensus problem involves an asynchronous system of processes, some of which may
be unreliable. The problem is for the reliable processes to agree on a binary value. In this …

[BOOK][B] Anthropology as cultural critique: An experimental moment in the human sciences

GE Marcus, MMJ Fischer - 1999 - books.google.com
Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human
sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael MJ Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past …

[PDF][PDF] Parallel prefix computation

RE Ladner, MJ Fischer - Journal of the ACM (JACM), 1980 - dl.acm.org
The prefix problem is to compute all the products xto x2.... o xk for i~ k.~ n, where o is an
associative operation A recurstve construction IS used to obtain a product circuit for solving the …

The Desmoteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke Trial (DIAS) a phase II MRI-based 9-hour window acute stroke thrombolysis trial with intravenous desmoteplase

…, J Bogousslavsky, A Davalos, M Eliasziw, M Fischer… - Stroke, 2005 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose— Most acute ischemic stroke patients arrive after the 3-hour time
window for recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) administration. The …

Propositional modal logic of programs

MJ Fischer, RE Ladner - Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM …, 1977 - dl.acm.org
We introduce a fundamental propositional logical system for describing correctness,
termination and equivalence of programs. We define a formal syntax and semantics for the …

[HTML][HTML] FGF23 induces left ventricular hypertrophy

…, A Morales, J Scialla, M Fischer… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health epidemic that increases risk of death due
to cardiovascular disease. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an important mechanism of …

[HTML][HTML] Risk of death in elderly users of conventional vs. atypical antipsychotic medications

…, S Schneeweiss, J Avorn, MA Fischer… - … England Journal of …, 2005 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory stating
that atypical antipsychotic medications increase mortality among elderly patients. However, …