Abdullah Munsyi and the missionaries

Missionaries and Cannibals in the Causal Calculator

A knowledge representation formalism is \elaboration tolerant" to the extent that it is convenient to modify a set of facts expressed in the formalism to take into account new phenomena or changed circumstances. John McCarthy illustrated this idea by deening 19 elaborations of the Missionaries and Cannibals Problem. We argue that, to a certain degree, the goal of elaboration tolerance is met by...

Muslims, Missionaries and Warlords in Northwestern China

Missionaries of science: the Rockefeller Foundation and Latin America

sexual activity both resulted from meat-eating. In the early days of this century, a similar debate turned on human dietary standards and the relative importance of protein and as yet unidentified trace nutrients. Finally, of course, the troubled postwar episode of the worldwide protein shortage shifted the level of controversy from the laboratory into the realms of application and policy. Expe...

Benefits of bilingualism: Evidence from Mormon missionaries

Several studies have argued that learning a foreign language has the potential to increase the general cognitive ability and test scores of students. In this analysis, the Mormon missionary program is used to test whether or not students who were assigned to learn a foreign language performed better in college. The results indicate that the increase in GPA due to serving a Mormon mission is the...

A survey of the health of British missionaries.

The results of medical examinations carried out on 212 missionary personnel from one missionary society returning on leave to the UK are presented. The great majority of missionaries worked in developing countries. They served in 27 countries altogether and for a total of 488 person years. The commonest illnesses reported overseas were malaria (87.3 per 1000 person years at risk), diarrhoea (63...