Missionary survey as an aid to intelligent co-operation in foreign missions, by Roland Allen, and Thomas Cochrane.

http://www.archive.org/details/missionarysurvey13360gut

Using petri nets to specify and execute missions for autonomous underwater vehicles

This paper presents the design and implementation of a mission control system (MCS) for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) based on Petri nets. In the proposed approach the Petri nets are used to specify as well as to execute the desired autonomous vehicle mission. The mission is easily described using an imperative programming language called mission control language (MCL) that formally describes the mission execution thread. A mission control language compiler (MCL-C) able to automatically translate the MCL into a Petri net is described and a real-time Petri net player that allows to execute the resulting Petri net onboard an AUV are also presented

System Engineering Approach to Initial Design of LEO Remote Sensing Missions

The satellite remote sensing missions are essential for long-term research around the condition of the earth resources and environment. On the other hand, in recent years the application of microsatellites is of interest in many space programs for their less cost and response time. In microsatellite remote sensing missions there are tight interrelations between different requirements such as orbital altitude, revisit time, mission life and spatial resolution. Also, all of these requirements can affect the whole system level design characteristics. In this work, the remote sensing microsatellite sizing process is divided into three major design disciplines; a) orbit design, b) payload sizing and c) bus sizing. Finally, some specific design cases are investigated inside the design space for evaluating the effect of different design variables on the satellite total mass. Considering the results of the work, it is concluded that applying a systematic approach at the initial design phase of such projects provides a good insight to the not clearly seen interactions inside their highly extended design space

Recreations of a long vacation; or, A visit to Indian missions in Upper Canada.

Mode of access: Internet.

Sketches of the early Catholic missions of Kentucky : from their commencement in 1787, to the Jubilee of 1826-7, embracing a summary of the early history of the state, the adventures of the first Catholic emigrants, biographical notices of the early missionaries, the early history of the principal Protestant sects in Kentucky, with some account of the establishment of the episcopal see at Bardstown, of the various religious societies, and of the general state of the Catholic religion in Kentucky /

Preface dated (p. ix): Bardstown, Kentucky, Feast of Corpus Christi, 1844.

The life and opinions of the Rev. William Milne, D.D., missionary to China, illustrated by biographical annals of Asiatic missions from primitive to Protestant times. Intended as a guide to missionary spirit.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report to the Prudential Committee of a visit to the missions in the Levant /

At head of title: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Reports and papers, political, geographical, & commercial submitted to government by Alexander Burnes, Lieutenant Leech, Doctor Lord, and Lieutenant Wood, employed on missions in the years 1835-36-37 in Scinde, Affghanisthan, and adjacent countries.

"Printed by order of government."--T.p.

The Gospel adapted to the wants of the world : a sermon, preached in Providence, R.I., Sept. 9, 1840, before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at their thirty-first annual meeting.

Mode of access: Internet.

A Retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant mission to China : (now, in connection with the Malay, denominated the ultra-Ganges missions) accompanied with miscellaneous remarks on the literature, history, and mythology of China &c. /

Mode of access: Internet.

Letters on missions; addressed to the Protestant ministers of the British churches.

Mode of access: Internet.