American Missionaries in Yokohama

US-American Protestant Missionaries and Translation in China 1894-1911

In her article "US-American Protestant Missionaries and Translation in China 1894-1911" Mingyu Lu discusses impact of and surrounding atmosphere between Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals in translating Western texts. During the national crisis in 1894-1911, Protestant missionaries and Chinese intellectuals co-translated a large number of Western texts and adjusted their translat...

Yokohama, 236–0027

In this paper we revisit the isomorphism SU(2) ⊗ SU(2) ∼= SO(4) to apply to some subjects in Quantum Computation and Mathematical Physics. The unitary matrix Q by Makhlin giving the isomorphism as an adjoint action is studied and generalized from a different point of view. Some problems are also presented. In particular, the homogeneous manifold SU(2n)/SO(2n) which characterizes entanglements i...

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

Leprosy among foreign missionaries in Northern Nigeria.

Th e author t;, working as medical miss ionaries in the Northern Region of Nige ria, became inte rested in the occurrence of leprosy among missionariet; in tha t area after several cases had come to their attention. 'We th er efore thought that it would be of interest to gather as much information of an epidemiologic nature as could be obtained. As fa I' as we know, no previous similar study ha...