Christianity and civilization in the South Pacific : the influence of missionaries upon European expansion in the Pacific during the nineteenth century

http://www.archive.org/details/christianityandc00younuoft

The Call, qualifications and preparation of candidates for foreign missionary service : papers / by missionaries and other authorities.

http://www.archive.org/details/callqualificatio00studuoft

By the equator's snowy peak a record of medical missionary work and travel in British East Africa by E May Crawford

http://www.archive.org/details/equatorssnowype00crawuoft

The Mongol mission : narratives and letters of the Franciscan missionaries in Mongolia and China in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Translated by a nun of Stanbrook Abbey.

http://www.archive.org/details/mongolmission008646mbp

Historical sketch of the Flathead Indian nation from the year 1813 to 1890 : embracing the history of the establishment of St. Mary's Indian Mission in the Bitter Root Valley, Mont. : with sketches of the missionary life of Father Ravalli and other early missionaries : wars of the Blackfeet and Flatheads and sketches of history, trapping and trading in the early days / by Peter Ronan.

http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=16974 View document online

Western missions and missionaries : a series of letters / by P.J. de Smet.

http://www.archive.org/details/westernmissionsa00smetrich

How far to the nearest doctor? Stories of medical missions around the world, by Edward M. Dodd.

http://www.archive.org/details/howfartotheneare012020mbp

Portraits of American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii ; published by the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society.

http://www.archive.org/details/portraitsofameri00hawarich

Address to the pious and benevolent, proposing an annual subscription for the support of missionaries in the Highlands and adjacent islands of Scotland, the isles of Jersey, Guernsey, and Newfoundland, the West Indies, and the provinces of Nova Scotia and Quebec.

Reproduction of copy held by Special Collections, Bridewell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Includes both DjVu and PDF files for download. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Last letters & further records of martyred missionaries of the China Inland Mission / edited by Marshall Broomhall.

http://www.archive.org/details/lastlettersfurth00unknuoft

South and south central Africa : a record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples / by H. Frances Davidson (with photographs by the missionaries.).

http://www.archive.org/details/southsouthcentra00daviiala/

Our west China mission : being a somewhat extensive summary by the missionaries on the field of the work during the first twenty-five years of the Canadian Methodist mission in the province of Szechwan, western China.

http://www.archive.org/details/westchinamiss00unknuoft

Rule Extraction, Fuzzy ARTMAP, and Medical Databases

This paper shows how knowledge, in the form of fuzzy rules, can be derived from a self-organizing supervised learning neural network called fuzzy ARTMAP. Rule extraction proceeds in two stages: pruning removes those recognition nodes whose confidence index falls below a selected threshold; and quantization of continuous learned weights allows the final system state to be translated into a usable set of rules. Simulations on a medical prediction problem, the Pima Indian Diabetes (PID) database, illustrate the method. In the simulations, pruned networks about 1/3 the size of the original actually show improved performance. Quantization yields comprehensible rules with only slight degradation in test set prediction performance.