Missionary Society Archives and Research on Sino-Western Cultural Exchanges

Western medicine in Palestine, 1860-1940: the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society and its hospital.

This study considers the development of Western medicine in Palestine, focusing on the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society's hospital in Nazareth. This hospital-one of the earliest British medical institutions in the region-was created by the society in Palestine in 1866. R4sum4. Ce texte 6tudie le d6veloppement de la maecine occidentale en Palestine, et plus particulierement l'histoire d'une ...

Research on Missionary Kids and Families: A Critical Review

The focus on the care and feeding of missionaries and their families has dramatically increased over the past quarter century. Much of the literature in this area has emphasized the practical and clinical aspects of member care. In recent years, however, several authors have pointed to the need for more and better research to support member care efforts. Richardson (1992) cites the lack of empi...

Semantic Search on Cross-Media Cultural Archives

With the emergence and development of semantic web, traditional archive service meets a new challenge to provide more intelligent and interactive services for web users. To take good advantage of semantic web technologies, in particular ontology and semantic inference, this paper proposes a semantic search portal for cross-media cultural archives involving document, image, audio and video. With...

Cross-cultural IS research: perspectives from Eastern and Western traditions

Globalization not only affects all dimensions of organizational management, it can also impact IS research and research methods. China and other Eastern cultures are contributing the Oriental traditions to the Occidental lenses of analysis, while also providing interesting contrasts to the historical experiences in the Western world. With this backdrop, the significance of cultural issues is be...

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