The existence of a Byzantine church north of Tell Hesbh was confirmed by a sounding done in 1976 as part of the Andrews University Expedition. As a follow-up to that, Baptist Bible College of Pennsylvania sponsored a four-week expedition' to the site for the purpose of expanding the excavation of the church. The probe of 1976 had established the existence of three strata at the site: an Ayyilbi...

DEC-POMDPs provide formal models of many cooperative multiagent problems, but their complexity is NEXP-complete in general. We investigate a sub-class of DEC-POMDPs termed multiagent expedition. A typical instance consists of an area populated by mobile agents. Agents have no prior knowledge of the area, have limited sensing and communication, and effects of their actions are uncertain. Success...

The land snails collected by the 'Comisión Científica del Pacifíco' (CCP), a Spanish expedition to South and Central America from 1862-1866, are restudied and revised. The historical context of the expedition and the study of its collected material are described. Biographical data is given for the main persons involved. The land snails were previously studied by Joaquin Hidalgo between 1867 and...

Regular physiological observations were made on the members of the NorwegianBritish-Swedish Expedition 1949-52 (NBSX) to the Antarctic (Giaever, 1954) during their 2-year stay in the Antarctic as well as before they left for the south and after they returned home. The NBSX landed in the Antarctic in February 1950 and departed in January 1952. Accounts of the climate and working conditions on th...

Importing large amounts of data into databases does not always go without the loss of important information. In this work, methods are presented that aim to rediscover this information by inferring it from the information that is available in the database. From and animal specimen database, the information to which expedition an animal that was found belongs is rediscovered. While the work is i...

Mentor’s DxDesigner and Expedition schematic capture and printed circuit board tools were chosen to implement a custom high speed signal processing board containing many high pin count Field Programmable Gate Arrays and many high speed serial connections with data rates over 2 Gigasamples/sec. The methodology used to place the parts and route the board involved the interaction of both the DxDes...

Week 6 of Expedition 356 (Indonesian Throughflow) consisted of completing operations at Site U1462 (including another successful downhole logging deployment in Hole U1462C) and the start of operations at Site U1463 (proposed site NWS-2A). The science party was able to finalize all outstanding reports from Site U1461, particularly downhole logging and stratigraphic correlation, and begin finaliz...